Letters to the Editor
Susan Wood
Published Letters: 379 Editor's Choice: 27
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Trigve has a very good point.
[Read the article: Goodbye, Super Tuesday]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Democrats would be insane to focus on personality issues, mainly because the Republicans certainly will do exactly that to both the frontrunners. Don't kid yourself that Hillary's negatives will be higher than Obama's. Her negatives won't go down, but the full-court-press is already on to ratchet his up as high as possible, with every racial and gender smear in the book. He has an Arab sounding name! Oooooh! There's a viral e-mail going around that says he took his oath of office on a Koran! OOOOOOOHHH! (Actually, that was Keith Ellison, a Representative from Minnesota -- different man, different state, different house of Congress, but the creeps who write these things count on the fearful and gullible not to check Snopes.com before forwarding). Maureen Dowd says he has a "feminine" leadership style, which means that he won't brawl with Hillary as ruthlessly as she wants him to. OOOOOOOHHH!
There's nothing we can do to stop the right-wing slime merchants and Village idiots like Dowd from doing this, so please, Democrats, don't do it to eachother. Save your energy to fight the McCain-Lieberman ticket, because otherwise this country is truly, TRULY screwed.
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I'll bet they wish now that they hadn't fired Rachel Marsden.
[Read the article: Quote of the morning]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Talk about a secret doomsday weapon -- that woman would have been quite capable of claiming that Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton ALL sexually harassed her, and then the right wing stink machine could have kept the viral e-mails going all summer, long after Marsden had been hauled away in a strait-jacket. But they shortsightedly kicked her out just because she was harassing her colleagues. Too bad, Bill O.
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Comparing Clinton's campaign to Giuliani's is ridiculous.
[Read the article: Is Hillary Clinton's campaign in trouble?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It was Giuliani's own idea to confine his efforts to Florida in the hopes of a big win there that would give him the momentum for the rest of the primaries. He gambled everything on that and lost. It was a lousy idea. Clinton has campaigned hard for every primary vote. If she's neck-and-neck with Obama now, it's because both of them are good candidates, and the great majority of us would be happy with either one -- or with Edwards, if the press could have managed to give him the time of day about something besides his haircuts. If it's come down to one or two must-win states that will decide the nomination, it's not because either candidate blew it but because both have campaigned well, and the voters are pretty much evenly split.
They say that great tragedies rest not on the choice of good or evil but of good or good. I hope this won't play out as a tragedy.
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I wondered how long it would take someone to come up with the obvious response to that headline
[Read the article: Blood-and-guts politics]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]and the answer was, obviously, not very. By about the 6th post someone had pointed out that weird old coots in glass houses should not throw stones.
Who needs a weird old coot on Salon, for that matter?
But thank you for at least reining in her normal impulse to extend her stream-of-consciousness babbling for 6 or 7 pages. It makes it much easier to skim read in seconds and then get on to the real entertainment in the letters section.
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I can't finish reading this swill.
[Read the article: John McCain is running for sissy in chief]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Just put this idiot out to pasture with Jonah Goldberg and Camille Paglia, will you? Let them chew their cud together and moo about how they are better than the rest of us because they're not bovine herd animals.