Letters to the Editor
madamfauntleroy
Published Letters: 743 Editor's Choice: 2
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We are all prostitutes
[Read the article: Ferraro wants study on sexism, racism in campaign]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]whether we sell our bodies, sell our ideals, or sell our souls. Faustians are we all for money. What we do for money. Yup,not all of us are crazy about our jobs not even when we are paid millions. Money and power.
Picko is right. Ann Coulter is no different than Al Franken.
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jeffersonian
[Read the article: Ferraro wants study on sexism, racism in campaign]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So, no one has integrity? No one is altruistic? Every motive is mercenary, every decision is conniving and self interested?
We all have lots of integrity as long as we can keep our bellies full and have a roof over our heads. Same with altruism when all our basic needs are met. That frees us up I suppose to then talk about integrity and altruism.
does everyone compromise?
Of course we all compromise. If there was no give and take we would not be able to survive.
Does that make them prostitutes?
Why are you so down on prostitutes? Prostitute: One who solicits and accepts payment for sex acts. Don't we all also solicit and accept payment for services we render even if they are not of a sexual nature? In my opinion, prostitution must be legalized. The sex trade is not going to go away, much like prohibition and the war on drugs has not reduced consumption of contraband.
It's that kind of "they're all corrupt, they're all alike" that has gotten us the political system that serves us so very well.
I agree with you that corruption within the political system has gotten us to where we are today. But when has the system not been corrupt?
What I am trying to say is this. Why do we compare the most vile deeds of corrupt people, mainly politicians to those of prostitutes? When prostitution is legalized, will that be an appropriate measure by which to characterize corrupt people? Just because a prostitute is selling his or her body, does not make him or her dishonest.
On another note, I am not convinced that you, jeffersonian is a republican troll. You write and sound like old Tom Payne, who though wrote with fiery zeal, spoke from a true lefty's heart. Why are Fester, et al accusing you of being otherwise? I have not read all your posts, but the ones I have, have been pretty similar to the ones that Tom Payne would write. I am confused.
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Joan Walsh cannot get herself to accept Obama
[Read the article: Big weekend news]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Frankly, I gave up reading anything Joan Walsh wrote about the primaries, because she made it apparent that Hillary Clinton was her choice and by god, she was going to do everything in her power to dimunize Obama and raise Clinton - which she has dutifully done, column after column. Clinton's many many failures were swept under the carpet, as Joan took on the crusade to fight Hillary's losing battle on the pages of Salon. Imagine, blaming Obama for Hillary's despicable statement of the RFK assassination in June and that was why she was staying in the race. That was the ultimate low blow to people's intelligence.
Now that Hillary's demise is certain, I thought that Walsh would at least be gracious about Obama's victory. But just like the candidate she supports so passionately, Joan Walsh compulsively must make her digs at Obama, without grace but with a heavy dose of snark.
Just how much credibility Joan Walsh has lost, can be gleaned from the number of letters that call her on her journalistic credentials much less her overt propaganda for a favored candidate. I am not sure whether Hillary Clinton was endorsed by Salon and therefore Joan was asked to shill for Hillary, or whether Joan took it upon herself to become the spokesperson for Hillary. In either case, good judgement went by the wayside and the cult of identity took over the columns of Joan Walsh.
My hunch is, that a good many of us, former subscribers of Salon, keep coming back to the letters pages to counter Joan Walsh. It is sad that the one e-Magazine that held so much promise as a cutting edge foil to MSM, has in the end, succumbed to the viles of right wing character assassination.
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So many polls such little meaning
[Read the article: Big weekend news]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]% of white baby boomer women will never vote for Obama
% of swing state blue collar voters will never vote for Obama
% of right wing evagelicals will never vote for McCain
% of Republicans fed up with the war on Iraq will never vote for McCain
% of all Americans do not trust Clinton and will never vote for her
% of African Americans will never vote for Clinton
% of young voters will never vote for Clinton
% of Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter followers will never vote for McCain
So many computations and permutations, so many flies in the ointment, so much hype and hyperbole, so much spinning and weaving, so much conjecture.
Just remember people, same time last year, John McCain was dead in the water, Hillary Rodham Clinton had a clear path to the White House and Barack Obama was a young upstart to be easily vanquished on Super Tuesday.
We can prognosticate all we want, but in the end will have to answer to our own conscience. Listen to that inner voice and all will be well. Whatever the outcome, we will all be still standing, except for some of our braves and innocent civilians in Iraq.
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The church of Bill Clinton according to Vanity Fair
[Read the article: Big weekend news]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/07/clinton200807
This article comes out 3 or 4 days before the lights goes out of the Clinton campaign. Just consider, should through some miracle, Hillary is the nominee. How would Hillary spin her way out of this morass after the Republicans have at her with their attack ads? Who is more electable? And Obama did not even once raise the impeachment of Hillary's husband.
Bill Clinton is certainly a colorful character, I must say.