Letters to the Editor
madamfauntleroy
Published Letters: 654 Editor's Choice: 2
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brunhilde
[Read the article: Rev. Jeremiah Wright isn't the problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's another deep divide: the educated v. the uneducated, the cosmopolitan v. the non-cosmopolitan.
I agree with you on the anti-intellectualism that has been long promoted by the GOP, the moderate and the extreme, and may I add also, the kind of simplistic attack ads that the Clintons are now embracing.
However, I do take exception to the educated vs the not educated part. In my experience, I have found that even the educated have a profound lack of common sense and common decency that many of the not educated seem to have in abundance. Hell, look at George W. Didn't he go to Yale, and then we have Newt Gingrich who has a PhD in something or the other. Look at the vast numbers of truly educated folk who do vote on pocket book issues and can't see the forest worth of trees. In my travels I have found the least educated that had more common sense and creative ways of surviving that would put many of us to shame, had we to endure the hardships that they go through on a daily basis.
Also, the most cosmopolitan, the very well heeled and well traveled, yes, they only have stamps in their passports, like Hillary, to boast of their having been to many countries. I know many people like that who have and will support narrow and excluding right wing policies.
Just my 2 cents.
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Brulette and chickens coming home to roost
[Read the article: Rev. Jeremiah Wright isn't the problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't get why that comment is insensitive to the innocent lives lost on 9/11. That is the crux of what Wright was saying. In my own words here, US foreign policy has been the bane of many innocent lives lost abroad, whether by direct action or by proxy wars. Take US FP in the Phillipines with Ferdinand Marcos, in Chile with Augusto Pinochet, in Iran with the Shah, in Nicaragua with Samoza, in South Africa with the evil agents of apartheid, most of Latin America where the US armed right wing death squads to wipe out any dissent. Many of these people were innocent too.
This does not take away the hurt of families who lost their loved ones in 9/11, but brought home the sensitivity of how people in other countries have suffered in the same way because to ruthless US foreign policy.
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-- Carmela
[Read the article: Rev. Jeremiah Wright isn't the problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Has it ever occurred to you that "the myth of eternal American innocence" is the power driving the Obama juggernaut? My read of the folks caught up in Obamamania is that they are looking for a savior to wash them clean. They can pretend that they have not been tainted with the stain of living and thriving in a war mongering nation by getting behind the anti-war candidate. He promises absolution but he cannot deliver it. We are all responsible for the acts of our government whether we were opposed from the start or not. We live here. We're Americans. We are war mongers, murderers, and torturers.
We have all been tainted and the media has been complicit in this enormous silence on matters of occupation, torture and imperialism. Obama is not a savior. Make no mistake that his supporters even harbor that mindless sentiment. This is a movement of the people. The people have risen and Obama just joined the bandwagon to bring this country back to its promise.
What Hillary offers is the same old same old policies of Bush and McCain.
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Flag waving jingoists
[Read the article: Rev. Jeremiah Wright isn't the problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel - Samuel Johnson 1775
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tarajane
[Read the article: The Democrats' anti-momentum]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No. Hillary did not talk about her own experience about being a female. Throwing all those statistics out did not constitute Hillary dealing with the inequities of her gender. This is a chickens way out. Hillary, tell us about how you navigated your husbands infidelities, your glass ceiling experiences, etc. Sorry. But that is not what Obama did. He related his own experience about being a man of color in a society that discriminates.
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ann1960
[Read the article: Rev. Jeremiah Wright isn't the problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You should see how so called christians treat their women? ALL institutionalized religions relegate women to second class citizenship. The hierarchy in the christian lexicon is god, jesus, man, woman, children. Spare the rod and spoil the child has given divine dispensation to parents to abuse children. Wives are commanded to be subservient to their husbands, albeit without a veil.
Women, around the world and in this country as well, are subjected to brutal treatment by men who hide behind the Bible, Koran and the Pope, not to mention any number of cult leaders to extol their followers to regain control of their families from femi-Nazis.
I think it is specious to suggest that Wright should confront Islam when christianity too espouses anti-women practices.
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Payneman
[Read the article: The Democrats' anti-momentum]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I like my Johny Walker black, neat and smooth
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El Popo
[Read the article: Rev. Jeremiah Wright isn't the problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]also would rather save the life of the baby than the mother who will die in childbirth. Metaphorically not very different than stoning the woman to death. Both sickening anti-women practices
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Is this your bigotry speaking or your concern for women?
[Read the article: Rev. Jeremiah Wright isn't the problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Do you jump up and down when women in this country, regardless of religion, get battered every five minutes and have their skull crushed and their bones broken? Or, do you only see atrocities only when committed by your imaginary enemies?
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debaser
[Read the article: The Democrats' anti-momentum]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Payne speaks to hypocrisy and stupidity. I would welcome Salon to give him a column. He would cut to the chase and call out the bigots.