Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 1150 Editor's Choice: 3
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@ saintzak
[Read the article: Obama and the white working class]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How do you know what you think you know?
Could you either show your work or be fully transparent about which part is speculation and which part fact?
You speak a bit like a soothsayer. If you're going to make grand claims, at least be careful not to make them as if you're really in possession of some truth the rest of us don't have.
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@ Fester
[Read the article: Obama and the white working class]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]" The fear of the boogeyman arguments as presented don't really hold water from my perspective. The boogeyman is coming, no matter what."
No kidding.
I want to know who this mythic candidate is whom the Republicans won't slime.
I mean, they slimed Max Cleland and John McCain, ffs. They'll slime everyone.
Why are we so afraid of the Big, Bad Republicans? Like John McCain is invincible? With this economy, this war? Having to deal with his own base?
What the fuck is everyone so afraid of?
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@ Fester
[Read the article: Obama and the white working class]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I know, I know.
Where has fear gotten us so far?
It's one thing to have fear, it's quite another to allow decision-making to be governed by fear.
That's just what I don't get.
I think it makes for bad politics.
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@ manos
[Read the article: Obama and the white working class]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Right on, Manos.
He's got his own problems and would do well to watch his own ass.
I'm tired of Democrats cowering at the sight of their own shadows for all to see while Republicans lead us all to damnation.
Let McCain be afraid of us.
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To hell with the horse race
[Read the article: Don't blame San Francisco for Obama's "Bittergate"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Let's stay focused, shall we?
"For we have a choice in this country. We can accept a politics that breeds division, and conflict, and cynicism. We can tackle race only as spectacle - as we did in the OJ trial - or in the wake of tragedy, as we did in the aftermath of Katrina - or as fodder for the nightly news. We can play Reverend Wright's sermons on every channel, every day and talk about them from now until the election, and make the only question in this campaign whether or not the American people think that I somehow believe or sympathize with his most offensive words. We can pounce on some gaffe by a Hillary supporter as evidence that she's playing the race card, or we can speculate on whether white men will all flock to John McCain in the general election regardless of his policies.
We can do that.
But if we do, I can tell you that in the next election, we'll be talking about some other distraction. And then another one. And then another one. And nothing will change."
How 'bout you, Joan?
Do you stand for change or bullshit as usual?
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Joan, Joan, Joan
[Read the article: Will Obama's debate stumble hurt him?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"His irritation was irritating. "Gotcha" questions come with the territory."
Your complacency is demoralizing.
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Dear Joan
[Read the article: Will Obama's debate stumble hurt him?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I was glib with you and I'm sorry, sort of.
It's just that your concerns are spectacularly lacking in vision. Why don't you demand more of yourself? Why do you not offer your readers something worthier?
By all means, lay into Obama, whatever, but have you no substance to draw from while doing it?
You're irritated with his irritation because "gotcha questions go with the territory?"
So what, he's supposed to just play along, allow himself to be hazed because, well, hey, it's always been thus: the last guy had to drop his breeches and take twenty strokes with a paddle so this guy does too, and he's not allowed to suggest that maybe the entire exercise is less than Just?
And you call yourself a writer?
Don't you think it's incumbent upon yourself as a writer, as someone in a position of public trust to do more time thinking and less time reacting?
Please, Joan, for the love of God, get over yourself.
What are you about?
Do you even know?
Where's your vision?
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Joan
[Read the article: Will Obama's debate stumble hurt him?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Do you recall, perchance, what happened to Howard Dean in 2004?
You might recall. After he placed third in the Iowa caucuses, he screamed at a rally before his supporters.
He was unhinged, like a crazy person!
And thank God the media were not asleep at the switch!
They not only alerted the rest of us who weren't able to be present in the room that this candidate for the presidency of the United States of America screamed like a crazy person, they played it over and over and over again, just to assure there wouldn't be a citizen left standing to whom Howard Dean was not exposed for the stark raving lunatic he was!
And that's why I love the media. They can always be counted on to do the right thing by their audience, providing a vital role in this Great Democracy of Ours.
Man, he must have been pretty irritated too, as well as all his supporters who dared protest that the fix was in!
What whiners, right Joan?
I mean, Christ, someone should have told all those baby whiners that that sort of thing just goes with the territory, right?
It does just "go with the territory," right, Joan?
You and I who are People of the World know that!
What naive little babies to start whining about the Injustice of it All!
They should just shut up and Play the Fucking Game, right Joan?
Saddle Up, just like Bill Clinton says!
Man, imagine if these babies ever got power!
Can you imagine it?
I know, it makes me shudder too!
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@ Jaret
[Read the article: Will Obama's debate stumble hurt him?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Fear not, the guy has a preternatural learning curve, as we've seen.