Letters to the Editor
Susan Wood
Published Letters: 379 Editor's Choice: 27
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Are people actually blaming this "Muslim radical" smear on Clinton?? WRONG BLONDE!!
[Read the article: Barack Obama: "Committed Christian -- Called to Bring Change"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It was that drunken androgyne Coulter who started spitting the name "B. HUSSEIN OBAMA" with all the venom she could muster, which is quite a bit. The kind of people who listen to her and Pillhead Limbaugh are the ones who have picked it up and run with it. This smear campaign is indistinguishable from the one recently run against McCain in South Carolina, and it has all the earmarks of the same source -- if not Karl Rove himself, then someone who learned his trade in the Campus Republicans, where, as an article in The New Republic demonstrated a year or so ago, young Republicans learn how to gutter-fight by practicing on each other. Whispering campaigns and slander are par for the course in elections for the presidency of the group, and the Darwinian survivors emerge ready to savage any Democrat who gets in their way. The purpose in this case probably isn't to swing votes from Obama to Clinton, it's to discourage Democratic voters from going to the polls in the primary at all, and to damage whoever emerges as the Democratic nominee.
And at the risk of sounding cynical, yes, Obama should do whatever he has to do to counter the smears, in language that the target audience will understand.
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MAV et al:
[Read the article: McCain: Clinton would "surrender" in Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The word "surrender" long ago lost any trace of its dictionary meaning for Republican hawks. Before a single bomb was dropped on Iraq in 2003, they were already accusing anyone who opposed the rush to war as "surrendering to the terrorists." It just means expressing doubts that "victory" in Iraq is definable, let alone achievable, and that the Great Pumpkin flies through the air every Halloween with presents for good girls and boys.
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Maybe I need a tinfoil hat and have become a hopeless conspiracy theorist
[Read the article: Who's to blame for the race politics?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]but I've had a hard time believing that the venomously racist whispering campaign against Obama ("sleeper-agent secret Muslim terrorist" crap, viral e-mails about his "madrassa" training and so on) came from anyone except a Republican.
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Hazmaq, if we're supposed to believe that Matthews et al want Hillary to win
[Read the article: Who's to blame for the race politics?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]can you explain why they were already dancing a triumphant jig on her grave (or so they thought) before the NH primary, and why they seemed so angry and embarrassed when she won, and why Matthews, after vowing never to underestimate her again, turned right around and said that she owed her success entirely and only to the fact that people felt sorry for her because her husband is a horn-dog?
Look, I prefer Obama too. But let's try not to form a circular firing squad on the Dem side, shall we? Especially since the entire MSM seems intent on trashing any Democratic candidate with a decent chance of winning.
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Nulla Salus, try to keep up.
[Read the article: Tom the Dancing Bug]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We are not bombing Iran, not yet, anyway, because the CIA had the courage to release a National Intelligence Estimate that pulled Bush/Cheney back from the brink. Bush is fuming about it, of course, telling his dear dear friends in Saudi Arabia that he doesn't believe a word of it, because sometimes those dumb spooks get mixed up and don't tell him what he wants. But it will be a lot harder even for authoritarians like Bush to bulldoze the country into war again on flimsy evidence now that at least one government agency has found its, er, backbone and done something to prevent him. That isn't to say he won't try, of course.
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I'm no fan of Rudy either, BUT
[Read the article: Punch-drunk Rudy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]don't be too quick to gloat, shall we? Remember how Chris Matthews looked with egg all over his face after he'd spent a week gloating over Hillary's inevitable loss in New Hampshire, and how silly the pundits look today who figured she'd probably win SC? Rudy might just do better than expected, knock wood, throw salt over my left shoulder, make the sign of the "cornu" to ward it off, but he just might. So let's be careful how we count our chickens.
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A vindication of Village Wisdom!
[Read the article: AP reports John Edwards will drop out today]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What economic policies? What health care plan? What record? Edwards could not possibly be President because he spent $400 on a haircut -- haircut -- haircut -- haircut -- haircut --- [BZZZZT-reset, press escape button followed by control-alt-delete] could not possibly be President because he was not sufficiently macho -- masculine -- manly -- like my daddy -- daddy -- daddy -- daddy -- daddy [BZZZT-reset]
Sincerely,
Maureen Dowd
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Let's be fair to GHWB, although I'm no fan of his, either.
[Read the article: Quote of the day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]His experience at the Japanese state banquet was not at all unusual for American visitors to Japan, as any businessman can tell you, because it means adjusting to a very different diet, one based on fish. People can go along for a few days enjoying Japanese food and unaware of any problem, and then they'll suddenly, quite unexpectedly turn pea-green, and . . . Japanese business men who deal with Americans a lot know the syndrome well, and will tell their guests "go to your room immediately, you're going to be sick." This isn't by any means a criticism of Japanese food, which I love, or of American eating habits, but just a fact of life when people are adjusting to an unfamiliar cuisine. Poor old George H.W. had the bad luck to succumb in view of the T.V. cameras, and his hosts at a state banquet weren't able, under the circumstances, to order him to his room when he started turning green.
That said, however, the fact that he was taking Halcyon probably didn't help any. And yes, Sonny Boy is slurring his speech more than he used to, I noticed that too before his SOTU speech put me completely to sleep.
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Good point, damnthatxanadu.
[Read the article: Karl Rove and Fox News, (officially) together at last]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Rove's style to date has been to start whispering campaigns spreading libel, but to keep some "plausible deniability" for himself. Now it'll be much harder for him to do that.
Anyway, I hope he does for Fox News what he did for Bush.