Letters to the Editor
Flatblonde
Published Letters: 159 Editor's Choice: 8
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Bill aside...
[Read the article: Bill Clinton and the "race card"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The bottom line is that Hillary was right this morning when she, in effect, said she will campaign for the Democratic ticket no matter who it is....because anyone who would support her or anyone who would support Obama can not intellectually justify voting for McCain.
I am confident that Obama thinks the same way. Believe me, if he loses the nomination (hard to see how, but ok) I'll bet you dimes to dollars that he's out working hard to elect Hillary (even if he has to hold his nose a bit, just as Hillary will hold her's if she has to support McCain).
The policy differences between the campaign are really rather small...and policy differences melt away and become less meaningful on day two when you're in power. Pragmatism begins to rear its ugly little head sooner or latter...so a Clinton Presidency to all practical intents and purposes would not look that different from an Obama Presidency, save in style perhaps.
This is where Bill is really problematic. Right or wrong -- and I suppose you could arguably make the case that Obama is just as apt to play the race card as I often think the Clinton campaign is -- talking about it that way will only serve to alienate key voters needed to burry McCain. If Hillary pulls it out, He's going to have to do a lot of repair work with black Americans who once loved him but now see him as slapping them about...Just as Obama will ahve to do more to soothe the qualms of many women candidates supporting Hillary if, for no other reason, she represents the best chance of electing a women in their lifetime.
Anyway, watch the anger folks. If you love Hillary you can live with Obama and if you love Obama you can live with Hillary. Believe me. It may not taste as good as you'd like, but the taste and the reality is so much better than four more years of Bush under McCain.
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Rarely...
[Read the article: Quote of the day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Has one person been so profoundly wrong on critical issues affecting this country yet still be accorded credibility by a credulous media. For his prognosticational and analytical sins, Kristol should be viewed as the Harold Stassen of punditry instead of being seen as some sage whose views merit any attention.
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I'm sure...
[Read the article: Quote of the day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He pilots the wife's corporate jet...wonder if corporate jets will get a fuel tax break.
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Dear Glen:
[Read the article: Neocons and the truth: Bitter enemies to the end]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Has anyone done any contemplation of the fact that the intellectual fathers of the neocon movement were often former Trotskyites? I wonder about this because Trotskyites and other movement people are well trained in the brutal real politics of organizing and subterfuge to win their position, often have embraced almost Leninist tactics to win and ignore inconvient facts that don't match their nearly black and white view of the world? You can see the Trotskyite tactics in how they lay their plans and fight their battles, as well as their belief that they are following a higher path...once it would have been dialectical materialsm and the Marxist view of history and the inevitatility of communism, but today that is replaced with a mythic sense of "freedom" in the democratic mode...indeed, their dedication to freedom is such that freedoms may be surrendered in order to achieve and secure freedom -- A contradiction that bothers them no more than the death of millions would bother a Trotskyite in the advance of communism.
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Its not about not playing golf....
[Read the article: The president's great sacrifice]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It was about giving our soldiers the best you could...in terms of policy and planning. Bush could play golf all he wanted to if he presented policies that made sense and planning that could be effective. He did neither.
Considering he has spent newarly two years of his Presidency away from Washingotn -- in Texas or at Camp David, it isn't like the man has given up recreating, put on a hair shirt and flagulated himself ... while kids, fathers and mothers are doing 15 months stints for the neocon cabal. Bush is a turd.
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Beverlee McKinsey an actress, not a writer
[Read the article: She won't go easy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I do hope Ms. Paglia understands that while Beverlee McKinsey may have been a fine actress and delivered her lines in memorable style, she did not actually WRITE those lines quoted in the article. I am amazed at how often intelligent people credit actors with the lines they deliver, instead of the writers who wrote them. Hardly seems fair given how Ms. Paglia's own fame derives - at least in part - from the written word...
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The Model Appeaser...
[Read the article: Bush seems to attack Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Neville Chamberlin, was a man who was incapable of dealing with evidence. If the fact -- or the personality (say Hitler) -- didn't fit his preconceived notion, he dismissed it or wouldn't deal with it. In short, his personality type, in its way, was stubborn and unrealistic and fixed, not unlike Bush.
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For it all...
[Read the article: In new message, McCain tries on the hope mantle]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]McCain really made the case for the Bush third term, and that is why he will not win.
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Yet another...
[Read the article: Now, McClellan a harsh critic of Bush]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Party hack who stooged for the Administration KNOWING that he was lying to the press and the public who now feels remorse and wants to dish for dollars. Disgusting. Where was his backbone in the Administration? Where was his threat to resign if the Administration insisted on lying to the press and public. The man facilitated war criminals, does that not make him an accomplice to the crime at the very least?
Oh, and where is the MSM's outrage? Here yet is another tale of the Administration manipulating them and them bedning over and taking it up the.... Just like the Pentagon briefing program, it was calculated to deceive and they will likely let the story die.
Makes me sick and very, very sad.