Letters to the Editor
EMStoveken
Published Letters: 392 Editor's Choice: 44
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Wobbity-Wobbity (the sound one's head makes when being rapidly shaken in disbelief)
[Read the article: Ann Coulter: Almost a "great American"?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"But I think especially because Ann Coulter said nice things about me, I think she's closely approaching that level of being a great American."
I will full grant that Duncan Hunter was making a sad pathetic attempt at humor in this line, but it was so ineptly executed that I'll still rip him a new one over this.
Is it just me or was Liz Edwards trashing Coulter for bringing down the level of discourse in America by siting Coulter's oh-so-clever/edgy "faggot" joke and other junior high cafeteria tactics?
He calls Coulter an articulate speaker, when she is the most ridiculously juvenile hate monger/liberal baiter out there. People do not accuse conservatives of speaking in a mean way, just the deranged harpy Coulter. And it's almost always the Conservatives that are waving their right to free speech around.
Liberal Democrats rarely say anything interesting, inflamatory or forward enough to warrant such justification.
So the bumbling defense of Coulter does nothing but insult actual conservative speakers. He misappropriates the whole use of "free speech" justification, then makes a ridiculously lame joke where in he calls a woman who admits to idolizing Joseph McCarthy a great American because she said nice things about him?!?!?!!
I repeat my initial reaction to this lunatic:
Wobbity-Wobbity
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Ok fine, BUT...
[Read the article: Bush: My decision was the right decision]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...if the President acknowledges that the verdict was correct, that Scooter perjured himself and obstructed Justice, shouldn't it be of paramount importance to this "law and order" president that the lies told be corrected and the justice obstructed be reached?
Forget the commuting of the sentence, that's actually sub-par for the course.
Let's focus on his acknowledgement that the Vice President's Chief of Staff LIED to Congress and the FBI! He knows it. He acknowledges it. He does not care. This is the most dangerous thing about this entire debacle. Again, he does not care about Congress' oversight duty. He holds utter contempt for the American people and the Democratic process.
If he is not called out on this fact, it will be just another step towards totalitarianism; another precedent for the revoltution to undo when he cancels the elections next year.
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Too true . . .
[Read the article: Bush and Cheney walk, too]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think it would be interesting to see if one could get arrested for reading the Declaration of Independence out loud within a hundred yards of the White House or Capital.
This Wednesday, I hope everyone takes a time out from their barbeques and keg stands to read the document that we are celebrating. Many of its provisions are seen as quaint and disposable by those in power.
Familarize yourselves with it citizens, it may become necessary for us to write a new one in the near future.
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It all makes me suspicious
[Read the article: Giuliani plays with fire]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Considering the nonchalance with which the GOP presents its surreally inept platter of potential candidates, you have to wonder if anyone on that side of the fence really believes there will be an election.
Giuliani seems to be willfully flaming out, just as McCain has with his zealous felating of Bush's Iraq marred legacy. It looks like they are leaving the race wide open for Romney, save for the fact that a half-page from their own '04 Playbook (from the "Flip-Flopper" chapter) could shoot him down in Kerryesque flames.
Really, when you look at these clowns you have to wonder who the incumbents are backing. There has never been an outgoing 2 term administration as quiet about the next election as this one.
Are they hoping to pawn it off on a Democratic patsy a la Carter. If so, who would they be grooming for 2012?
Rudy is a grotesque cartoon of inelectability. A social liberal who doesn't play to the fundamentalist base, who still brandishes enough of a weirdly machiavellian authority fetish to worry us ACLU types. A "Law and Order" candidate campaigning on 9/11 who has alienated Fire, Police and Emergency response professionals around the world. Let us not forget that he also has a personal life that makes Bill Clinton look like the Dali Lama.
And he is one of the best the Republicans have to offer?
Strange times lay ahead.
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Someone from the 41% implied by this survey help me out . . .
[Read the article: There's always Nixon]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm going to name a handful of things for which the idiot child-emperor should be relgated to the most loathesome and shameful corners of history, then will someone who views him in a positive or even neutral light give me an equal number of reasons he should not be run out of Washington on a rail.
After publicly stating that he would not accept the presidency if he lost the popular vote in 2000, Bush literally walked away mid-press conference from reporters asking what he meant by that.
He either masterminded or rubber stamped the Patriot Act, a document so Draconian and obtuse that it guts the Bills of Rights while its authorship is unknown to most Americans.
In the wake of 9-11 he redirected valuable military resources away from the known epicenter of the movement responsible for the act to wage an inept war against an unrelated party. The fact that his father's previous exploits in Iraq lend a weird Freudian subtext to this entire thing only makes our country look creepier and more imperial.
He allowed his Vice President to maintain ties to the petroleum industry while writing federal energy policy, and has supported the VPs stonewalling w/ regars to the committee assembled to write said policy.
He was complicit in the outing of a CIA agent for political purposes.
While acknowledging that his VP's chief of staff perjured himself and obstructed justice, he has taken no measure to correct the lies or obtain the obstructed justice.
He lied to his countrymen to justify his Freudian Iraq adventure.
That's seven (to my mind) impeachable offenses this chucklehead has committed. Who in the hell still thinks he looks good? A few more months and we will be able to compare him to Stalin instead of Nixon.