Letters to the Editor
Baruch Spinoza
Published Letters: 23 Editor's Choice: 3
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Worst one of these yet...
[Read the article: What you missed while watching "Project Runway"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The first couple times that Salon did these they were great but they are getting worse and worse.
Your synopsis of the debate last nite does not touch any of the important things that happened last nite. For instance, Clinton's rather hawkish follow-up to Senator Dodd at one point. Or the fact that on SEVERAL occasions Kucinich had the crowd cheering and clapping. Not to mention that you don't include ANYBODY's actual response to the question about human rights being more important than national security.
Then there is the fact that your synopsis does not mention that Clinton, Obama & Edwards all showed that they are Senators who know nothing about education as the other candidates shined while they answered. Biden & Richardson were both incredibly eloquent on the topic of education and yet your synopsis does not even touch it.
If I wanted a synopsis that portrayed the events of last nite as a soap oprea I would go to Fox News. Please go back to doing what you used to do best and that is breaking down complex political issues in an unbiased and meaningful way that is unobtainable merely by watching mass media. More and more the bias of Salon is becoming apparent. Please stop this, we don't need this, we need change. Progressive change.
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Biden...
[Read the article: Clinton, Obama and the yes-or-no question]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I believe he answered it in one word.
Might want to include that at the tail end of this piece about Obama and Clinton flip-flopping.
I really hope this doesn't turn out to be a presidential race where we have to choose to vote for a Black version of Bush or a woman version of Bush.
Both of them proved with their National Security over Human Rights answered that they would be more than willing to do that.
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Isn't the main issue here...
[Read the article: "A bunch of charts"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Not what Hillary Clinton not remembering the debate over NAFTA back from 1993 but rather that she does not an economic policy that differs in the slightest from the Free-Trade agreements that have dominated U.S. policy since the Spanish-American War. Granted I wasn't alive during that debate and I was a mere 10 years old in 1993 but like hell I haven't read and studied those two serious debates.
Our economic policy abroad has had MAJOR impact on our domestic life. Toys from China, outsourcing, Wal-Mart, Andrew Leonard's entire blog.
Clinton's non-answer and chuckle was brought on because she supports the status-quo and does not have an economic policy. We do not need the status-quo right now.
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whoops.
[Read the article: "A bunch of charts"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]that should read "not that Hillary Clinton does not remember"
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So effectively...
[Read the article: Huckabee: God wants us to fight global warming]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What your saying is that the one Republican who has a decent stance on global warming not only has not shot at the nomination but has god awful stances on many social issues.
Damn.
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Grand Funk Railroad...
[Read the article: America's water war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How did they get it right? They wrote a song about overpopulation in the 1970's and they were stoned our of their gourds.
Your telling me a bunch of stoners were more on top of the biggest problem that humanity has ever faced than the government. Overpopulation is the root of every problem that we are dealing with today. Despite this we still have a large portion of the world who thinks that birth control is evil.
Go read "Headbirths" by Gunter Grass
Simply brilliant. Thanks again Salon for producing/posting/finding great articles. This is an excellent work of journalism.
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Re: Re: so effectively...
[Read the article: Huckabee: God wants us to fight global warming]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yes but at least he thinks global warming is real. Can't say the same for many other Republicans.
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I see two problems with this...
[Read the article: Corporate profiteering against Iraq vets?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]1) It adds another level of opagueness to government spending. The government is technically transperent. It holds a contract that says what it expects from the private contractor and how much it is paying them. Now what the money is really spent on has nothing to do with them. The actual spending thus becomes opague. This leads to my second problem.
2) Accountability; our society is becoming obsessed with accountability. We spend thousands of man hours and millions of dollars so that when *@it hits the fan and people ask "Who do we blame for this?" that we have our bases covered. This is how the Iraq war is run, this is what NCLB is doing to education, this is how doctors are protected from malpractice, this is how American corporations are allowed to sell lead-infested, unsafe toys to American children with no ramifications. This is why Katrina became the travesty that it became. This is why drought is going to rip parts of this country in half...I could go on.
Privatization of government powers is corruption by definition. The words have changed from "Robber Barons" to "hedge-fund managers" but the process remains the same. The only difference now is that we've moved from back-room deals and having "friends" in high places to in your face this is exactly what we are doing and you can't stop it because it is legal. What country do we live in? "We the People" are sitting on our asses watching this unfold like a soap oprea.
We need to do as Jackson did and Edwards is trying to do. And that is to "turn the rascals out" and re-take the government through "popular will".
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Edwards might win on second choice voters...
[Read the article: Obama edges up in Iowa]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Out of the "big three" I definately support Edwards due to the fact that he is more leftist than Mrs. Corrupt and Mr. Prince Charming.
Second-choice voters who want "non-corporate" Democrats in office are going to go Edwards once Kucinich, Biden, Richardson etc. are eliminated.
At least that is how my brain works. It is the only way I can justify putting "hope" and "Edwards" in the same sentence.
"Turn the rascals out"
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I wonder...
[Read the article: For Giuliani, Thanksgiving is 9/11, too]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If they will talk politics at Thanksgiving dinner...
That's like sacrilegous isn't it?
Which kind of makes talking about politics at any time sacrilegous for religious families. Thus explaining part of the problem with both democracy and the United States o' America.