Letters to the Editor
kcusa
Published Letters: 13 Editor's Choice: 2
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Let's not forget our shortcomings
[Read the article: Romney and Huckabee's religious intolerance ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There are plenty of instances in America's history when social progressives have been hostile to religion. It's not good when we do it, and it's not good when one religious group does it to another religious group. While this article is right on the mark about the candidates' apparent intolerance, it is disingenuous to suggest that progressives and liberals have always been the most tolerant group.
I would caution that revising history in that myopic vein is both troublesome and dangerous. The only way we improve our treatment for each other is not to forget our past shortcomings, but to recognize them and change as we go forward.
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John Edwards for President
[Read the article: Who is the most "electable" Democrat?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Typical Clinton-spin. Iowa and New Hampshire voters should really take notice of the electability issue, and they should realize that it's not the democratic voters who decide who is the most electable (obviously democratic voters will vote for the democratic candidate). It's the independents and disenchanted Republican voters that decide. In this race, John Edwards is undisputably the the most electable candidate for the democrats. That's not to say that Obama or Clinton couldn't win the general, but is that a chance we're willing to take in the single most important presidential election in a generation??
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Higher priced corn? Good...then maybe we'll stop eating so much.
[Read the article: The fuel on the hill]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If anything, maybe the rise in prices for corn will move this country in a better direction - to get off personal consumption of corn-based products. Everything we eat - from Aunt Jemima syrup to Frosted Flakes to cheeseburgers (yes, cheese burgers because cattle are fed so much corn, that they're basically mooing stalks of corn themselves), is derived from corn. I say, let the price of corn rise, and watch Americans begin to abandon its consumption.
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Please, for the love of your country...
[Read the article: Candidates beware -- I'm on the beat]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Please, sir, for the love of your country, stay away from John Edwards.
That is all.
cpk
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In many ways, Clinton is the Anti-Clinton
[Read the article: Heartbreak ahead for Hillary Clinton?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If there's one thing (okay, there are a million things) that we all remember about 1992, it was Bill Clinton's ubiquitous comment, "I feel your pain." Whether or not you were actually feeling any pain at the moment you heard Bill Clinton utter those words, the sincerity and raw emotion cut straight to your heart. The brilliance of Bill Clinton was that he didn't need stories of Armenian girls who didn't get insurance approval in time to save their lives...Bill had his own raw, emotional connection to everyone that voted for him.
Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, has anything but that connection with voters. And it will ultimately be her undoing. She may want to cure the nation's collective pain. She may have every instinctual and learned ability to acutally cure that pain. But until she can feel our pain, the nation won't be with her. The problem is, it may be too late already.
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foreign policy...then and now
[Read the article: Dead party walking]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The reason none of these men qualifies to wear Ronald Reagan's shoes is simple...
Ronald Reagan said, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that wall."
Each one of these candidates (sans Ron Paul) says, "Country X, we're going to blow up your wall."
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I'm confused...
[Read the article: A GOP thriller in Florida]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There are Republicans running for president this year? Who knew!?
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There is a moment
[Read the article: Edwards bows out, but stays on message on the way]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There is a moment in any election cycle when you realize that regardless of the outcome, you made the right choice in the candidate you supported. While John Edwards' campaign is officially over, his message, his platform, his issues -- they have all become that of the Democratic Party for 2008. John Edwards is the conscience of our Party this year. He has set the agenda. Throughout 2007 and the few days of 2008, John Edwards reminded us that the poor have a voice that has been forgotten for too long...that working Americans are falling behind not because of their own failures but because of failures of our leaders...and, perhaps most of all, that it is time for Americans to be patriotic about something other than war.
His classy departure from the race still reminds us that we can and must demand from our leaders a focus on lifting up this great country...on restoring our moral leadership...on creating One America that cares for and fights for all.
Good luck, Senator Edwards. I hope you will stay in America's fight to be great again. This country needs you.
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Cool
[Read the article: Quote of the day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Cooooool quote.
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hmm
[Read the article: Would the Democratic candidates make your food safer?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This may have just changed my vote from Obama to Clinton. DAMMIT, I thought I was ready...at least I have a couple more weeks till we vote in Texas to decide.
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No, her powerful words were straight out of John Edwards' stump speech
[Read the article: Hillary Clinton's Texas-size moment ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://wonkette.com/359517/hillary-plagiarizes-john-edwards-bill-clinton
Her lack of authenticity is matched only by her opportunism. I wasn't a big Obama supporter until last night. After seeing Hillary accuse Obama of being a xeroxer and then doing her own copycatting, I'm going to call a spade a spade. Very disappointing, Mrs. Clinton.
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first of all, they'd "have to"
[Read the article: Quote of the day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is Senator McCain delusional or just willfully blind. He says he wants to give Americans a gas-tax-holiday and then responds to a question from John Roberts about whether the oil companies would even pass along the savings to consumers with they'd "have to."
And what, dear John, is that based on? When you pass the gas tax holiday are you also going to cap the price at the pump for the entire summer? Because if you *just* did that, Americans wouldn't need the gas-tax-holiday you propose. Otherwise, I'm thinking the laws of supply and demand will still cause the price of gas to go up during the holiday. Your marketing gimmick should be exposed as just that...and there's no straight talk in this gimmick, Senator McCain.