Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 15 Editor's Choice: 1
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About Time
[Read the article: Who would the GOP rather face?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thank god someone has simply and purely stated what the elephant in the room has been roaring all along....That for a McCain-Clinton election '08, there is a sound and well rehearsed strategy long in place by the GOP. I've even caught wind of an entire "swiftboat book," about Hillary, just waiting in the wings of some conservative-supporting publishing house for the 11th hour.
It is bad enough McCain gets a free ride while the two Dems are swinging at one another. But it is morally inexcusible and would be forever unforgivable, (and let's not forget plain STUPID,) to mount the November ammo, care of the very candidates opposing the GOP. I have absolutely no doubt that if our party leaders do not intervene soon and if, in this incredibly optimistic climate, we end up being forced to witness the self destruction and loss of The Democratic party in "08, the slow and painful self implosion of the Bush administration will pale in comparison in the history books.
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138 IQ
[Read the article: How the press failed on Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That's me. 138 IQ. Not huge, but not bad.
So, can someone explain how dozing off in the wee hours of Nov 6th, 2000, I already knew everything? In disbelief, watching the election results skid into a carefully manipulated chaos, I had about 5 minutes of a "This can't happen here" type of denial before the truth seeped in. And if someone, some "thing" is powerful enough to hijack an election, then they, "it," will do anything it wants to from this point on. And lie about it. It was at that point, the powers that be in Washington lost any credability they'd had.
Every tragic and pathetic consequence that has followed is just more of the same. Some worse, some less. I must tell you that waiting for the media to catch up as little as it has, has been the most excruciating, frustrating act of pained patience I have ever been forced to demonstrate. Right up until this absolute circus of a media-frenzied, horse and pony-show election, which fits right in.
As long as recognized crooks and lies and thugs are continually patronized by the press, I don't see much hope for the moral climate of my country. If a spineless media refuses to ask the types of questions that hold people truly accountable, I'd prefer they didn't waste my reading time and "ask" these people anything at all.
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Well Done!..(Is what we'll all be, without a plan.)
[Read the article: Obama and Clinton plan to cool it]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If we'd only listened to Buckminster Fuller in 1976, we'd be way ahead of Germany by now. President Carter had us cutting gasoline usage down to damn near a third with his automobile guidelines. How in the hell did we get here from so far ahead? Very disheartening.
Thanks so much for the information. I also read the afore Vanity Fair piece someone mentioned, and haven't much faith in a "Clinton-successful" implementation here.
I have no doubt who is a better global diplomat, and if anyone has been watching BBC World News, they may even now of a small place halfway across the world named "Obama," who is charmingly exhibiting posters of our own, and watching our election with great interest....
Barack Obama is a heavily progressive thinker, armed with a backround to better understand, appreciate, communicate and eventually unite different cultures.
And another thing. He never speaks about his accomplishments, of which there are surprisingly several in justice, security,. whereas I just need to vent...I am beginning to grow weary of this alledged "mouthpiece of experience," about which I am dissappointed in fact-checking, and from which much air seems to leak.
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Too Much Faith?
[Read the article: Moving beyond Obama and race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How extremely unfortunate that Ms. Walsh is most decidedly correct about the damage done concerning all the recent Obama race hype. But for me, the unfortunate part of the whole mess has nothing whatsoever to do with anything Mr. Obama has said or not said, or how he has said it.
Most unfortunately, race is and always has been, a no-win topic, and in this messy, partisan-propelled Rev. Wright aftermath, I fear Obama took on an impossible option. The opposition has always pressed the issue that he is too idealistic a candidate, to the point of naivety. I have vehemently defended the fact that some fresh idealism is exactly what is needed to gently lift us up from the bottomless pit of cynasism Washington has become.
My fear here is that in all good intention, Barack Obama just thinks too well of the people he wishes to govern, that in what I can only call a naive act, he has tragically put much more of his faith in them to understand than they deserve. One moment after a speech about staring down the "elephant in the room' so to speak, and frankly discussing race in the open as we all do behind closed doors, he got attacked for using the phrase, "typical white person", even if it was using his grandmother as an example. I think it's a given that he loved his grandmother. Don't we get the feeling the whole point of the speech has been lost? But then, maybe I'm having too much faith in the metal capacity of the masses too....
This country has gotten more generally, plain dumb and unevolved in the last 10 years than I can say. I have witnessed a burgeoning stupidity of the masses that is far more terrifying to me than any evil leader or war could ever be. Let's face it. People don't read as much, don't educate themselves as much....C- students are becoming presidents..And, most media, well....Most people are better informed about Britney Spears than anything else. And another elephant....Blatant racism often runs hand in hand with ignorance. Lately, the greatest polarization I see in America, is not black vs white, Dem vs Rep, but is educated vs uneducated. And as much as Obama and I would like to believe otherwise , these are 2 groups that sadly, will never, ever see eye to eye.