Letters to the Editor
juneausmog
Published Letters: 244 Editor's Choice: 11
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Tom Tommorrow jumps on the Hillary-bashing train
[Read the article: This Modern World]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I remember Al Gore getting this same treatment from the left-wing and main-stream media in 2000.
A vote for Gore is the same as Bush! So vote Nadar!
Now we're eating crow with how we treated Gore...how we ASSumed we knew so much about him and his character.
This cartoon is a perfect summary of where lefties sit right now. They have joined the hype and because it suits their misperceptions about her, and they will happily pile on.
It doesn't help that many in the press corps seem to go out of their way to mislead news consumers about Clinton's vote and what she's been saying about it.
http://mediamatters.org/columns/200703050007
Meanwhile, she co-sponsors legislation with Jim Webb that states, that prohibits the use of funds for military operations against Iran without explicit Congressional authorization.
http://www.senate.gov/~clinton/news/statements/details.cfm?id=284618
And still Obama gets a pass on saber-rattling and hypocrisy when he himself co-sponsored the following bill in April, 2007: The "Iran Counter-Proliferation Act of 2007,"
It states that:
"The Secretary of State should designate the Iranian Revolutionary Guards as a Foreign Terrorist Organization under section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189) and the Secretary of the Treasury should place the Iranian Revolutionary Guards on the list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists under Executive Order 13224 (66 Fed. Reg. 186; relating to blocking property and prohibiting transactions with persons who commit, threaten to commit, or support terrorism)."
How is this different than the Kyl-Leiberman resolution that Obama didn't show up to vote for?
Let's be consistent here, Tom. And please don't perpetuate willful ignorance on issues.
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Tom Tommorrow jumps on the Hillary-bashing train
[Read the article: This Modern World]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I remember Al Gore getting this same treatment from the left-wing and main-stream media in 2000.
A vote for Gore is the same as Bush! So vote Nadar!
Now we're eating crow with how we treated Gore...how we ASSumed we knew so much about him and his character.
This cartoon is a perfect summary of where lefties sit right now. They have joined the hype and because it suits their misperceptions about her, and they will happily pile on.
It doesn't help that many in the press corps seem to go out of their way to mislead news consumers about Clinton's vote and what she's been saying about it.
http://mediamatters.org/columns/200703050007
Meanwhile, she co-sponsors legislation with Jim Webb that states, that prohibits the use of funds for military operations against Iran without explicit Congressional authorization.
http://www.senate.gov/~clinton/news/statements/details.cfm?id=284618
And still Obama gets a pass on saber-rattling and hypocrisy when he himself co-sponsored the following bill in April, 2007: The "Iran Counter-Proliferation Act of 2007,"
It states that:
"The Secretary of State should designate the Iranian Revolutionary Guards as a Foreign Terrorist Organization under section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189) and the Secretary of the Treasury should place the Iranian Revolutionary Guards on the list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists under Executive Order 13224 (66 Fed. Reg. 186; relating to blocking property and prohibiting transactions with persons who commit, threaten to commit, or support terrorism)."
How is this different than the Kyl-Leiberman resolution that Obama didn't show up to vote for?
Let's be consistent here, Tom. And please don't perpetuate willful ignorance on issues.
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sorry for posting multiple times
[Read the article: This Modern World]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I didn't hit 'post' three times. But when I hit 'post' the first time, I think the 5pm rush hit and my internet went slow and the salon website went away and I had to hit refresh a couple times.
I guess it resulted in multiple posts. weird.
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Conflation
[Read the article: Hillary Clinton gets serious]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Enough of the fear mongering? This is another attempt to conflate what Hillary says or does, with the wretched behavior we have seen from republicans and the Bush administration over the last 10 years. And it couldn't be further from the truth.
Her message isn't about fear, not the kind of fear Bush promotes (you will die if we don't invade Iraq). Her message resounds clearly with what I've heard every concerned American has been saying: that Bush has really f*cked up this country and the state of international affairs.
We do need someone what can tackle the large pile of serious problems Bush will leave us. That is a fact. That is not fear mongering.
To deny this concern denies our basic problem with our current leadership. And then to turn around and conflate it with what republicans do; this just makes me shake my head and wonder if bi-polar liberals that have lumped Hillary in with the RNC, will ever get it.
We should be thankful that the Clintons interrupted a long line of republican leadership...that's why they hate the Clintons so. They were supposed to have the white house for at least 16 years uninterrupted, starting with Reagan.
While they may have triangulated to suit the times of American swinging to the right, at least those Dems (Clintons) were winning, while all other Dems were losing to republicans. I believe that with a country swinging left, they will finally be free to pursue more progressive and liberal policies.
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God Forbid
[Read the article: Obama's European problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]a serious journalist like Joe Conason actually investigates Obama. I hope he does the same for Edwards and Hillary, as well.
You Obama supporters need to take off your sensi-pants and stop slinging verbal dung at anyone who dares to dig a little deeper under the mesmerizing rhetoric of his campaign.
This is the president we're talking about here, and we need to know if these candidates are the best we can get.
We have learned that slick messages, marketable rhetoric and zero experience gives us a president like Dubya. I for one, want to see what cattle lies under Obama's hat.