Letters to the Editor
debaser
Published Letters: 652 Editor's Choice: 11
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wow Shawn
[Read the article: Obama wins in North Carolina]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Look at the demographics pal, North Carolina is only 1/3 African American...
ya know, CNN has been talking about that nonstop - or have you been busy starching your white hood to watch the coverage?
;)
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oh snap!
[Read the article: CBS calls Indiana for Clinton]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Donna Brazile just totally pwned that Republican pundit Alex Somebody who tried to say "Will Obama put Ayers and Wright in his cabinet?"
how sweet that is!
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compare and contrast
[Read the article: Obama wins in North Carolina]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The bevaviours of Begala and Carville.
I've consistently felt that Begala has been the most even-handed of the CNN pundits that have declared their allegiances.
We'll need alot more Begalas and alot less Carvilles if the dems are going to come back together.
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CeliaInSF
[Read the article: CBS calls Indiana for Clinton]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yeah I did...I love that lady, she's one brassy woman in the bestest sense of the word :)
I quite enjoyed her metaphor of the Democratic Party - it's "a whole lotta potatoes with gravy, and we're the gravy"
cheers!
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wait a tick...
[Read the article: Race and the race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is it just me or is the fact that Obama got 40% of the white vote somewhat significant??
I thought these were the people he insulted by calling them bitter and scared the living bejeebus out of with Rev Wright?
Isn't the fact that he has cut that deficit by a significant margin a big deal??
just wonderin'
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well regardless
[Read the article: The Brazile-Begala smackdown]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think we can all admit that Donna Brazile totally kicks ass. The way she pwned that mustachio'd idiot Castellanos made my night!
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one small clarification
[Read the article: The right's selective political manipulation of Catholicism]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think it would be wise to keep in mind that we're talking about the American Catholics and not Catholics in general. While I can't speak for any other strain, I do find that the Canadian brand of Catholicism is alot less incendiary than the American one. At the various churches I've been to throughout my life homilies have been largely tame stuff - treat your neighbour well, put your faith in the Lord, etc etc. The few times I've been to American Catholic churches (and yes, my sample size is obscenely small...about a dozen times in MA and NY and FL) it seems the priests are using the homilies to rail against social wedge issues like teh gays and abortion. It was actually quite jarring the first time I heard it (what with the fact that I normally zone in and out of homilies ;)
My feeling is that there's some "keeping up with the jonses" going on in the US Catholic Church - in order to stay relevant they have to keep pace with the stridency of the more vocal protestant churches.
I dunno...I could be way off, but that's how it's felt to me - Catholicism in America is way more politicized than in Canada, and it has led to a caricaturization of what it means to be a Catholic - no gays, no abortions, and that's pretty much it.
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Oh Glenn
[Read the article: The right's selective political manipulation of Catholicism]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Don't you know that Alberta is Canada's answer to Texas?
:D
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Magritte's pipe
[Read the article: The right's selective political manipulation of Catholicism]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Fair enough, I was really only speaking about my experiences which of course are rather limited (Southern Ontario, Eastern Townships Quebec, and coastal Newfoundland vs. MA, NY and FL)...I should've been clearer on that I guess
;)
but I still suspect that the American brand is more politicized, if only because of it's environment...but again, it's only a hunch
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also
[Read the article: The right's selective political manipulation of Catholicism]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]man, that's one AWESOME handle you got there Magritte's Pipe!
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Sure Wes
[Read the article: "We lost this thing in February"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]and how about "Mondale the Lesser" for Clinton??
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this article
[Read the article: What does Hillary want?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]was fantastic, it's really cool to read about the behind doors aspect of political campaigning.
this letter thread? Is depressing as hell.
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also jpetty
[Read the article: "There's a pattern emerging here"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I can buy the argument that Bill was trying to downplay the significance of South Carolina as a primary, that it really isn't much of a bellweather primary.
But maybe, just maybe it was more than a little tin-eared? Can you at least concede that? Maybe it would've been less damaging had he said something along the lines of "John Edwards won SC in 2004 and lost the nomination"? Or whomever lost it in 2000, or 1992? By going all the way back to 1988 is, well, at the very least tin-eared as hell.
It was a gaffe of epic proportions, you must be able to concede that...or are you one of the people who jumped all over the "bitter" comments? Seems to me if you jump all over one, you have to jump all over the other - because they both were examples of unfortunate phrasing (I'm being generous to Bill here)
thanks
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"demagogue"?
[Read the article: What did Clinton do wrong?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Awwww...innit that cute? Wes is starting to use that "word of the day" calendar his mum bought him for Christmas!
Have you come up to "obtuse" yet?
;)
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@davedavis
[Read the article: What did Clinton do wrong?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Over at TPM they mention that the Clinton camp has turned down a proposal that would give Clinton 10 more delegates (instead ot the 18 she would've garnered against "uncommitted")
I'm not sure what I want to say about that...I'll leave it up to you.
cheers
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a bit disingenious no?
[Read the article: Clinton writes to Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]especially when I read this over at TPM:
"Hillary Campaign Says No To New Michigan Delegate Proposal
By Greg Sargent - May 8, 2008, 2:20PM
Camp Hillary is rejecting the new plan floated today by Michigan Dems that would seat the delegation by awarding 69 delegates to Hillary and 59 to Obama.
Hillary spokesperson Isaac Baker emails over this:
"This proposal does not honor the 600,000 votes that were cast in Michigan's January primary. Those votes must be counted."
This is hardly surprising, since the proposal gives Hillary a 10 delegate margin -- a significant cut from the 18-delegate margin of victory she enjoyed over "uncommitted" (Obama wasn't on the ballot) in the Michigan primary."
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plus and minus
[Read the article: Clinton writes to Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well on the plus side at least she didn't say "disenfranchise". That REALLY sticks in my craw because it diminishes the very real and very serious crime of disenfranchisement. Not being allowed to help nominate a candidate is NOT disenfranchisement...a bummer for sure, but not the most serious crime a democracy can commit against its citizenry.
But on the minus side, if she's going to "write" a letter to Obama, and then "release" it to the media...I would've hoped that she'd have at least used spell check.
"You did not support those efforts and your supporters in Michigan publically opposed them."
cheers!