Letters to the Editor
Seamonkey
Published Letters: 42 Editor's Choice: 3
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ummmm...
[Read the article: "We Are the Ones"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The first one was okay. This one, with the chanting, is just creepy... it plays right into the whole "Obama as cult of personality" thing, which is the exact opposite I am interested in him as a candidate.
I can't see where this is going to help at all.
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Oh please...
[Read the article: More on "Obama Girl"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Come oh Farhad,
At least King Kaufman acknowledges it when he slips stuff in just to get page views and search hits on google.
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Exactly what ARE they looking for?
[Read the article: Ask the pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I flew from Las Vegas to Austin yesterday after ten days of camping in the desert. Thanks to a rushed packing job in the rental car, I didn't have a chance to think through where I placed all my gear as I had when I flew out of Austin.
Going through the security line, I had taken my laptop out of my backpack, but left my camcorder and SLR camera inside. After going through the x-ray machine, the TSA official pulled me aside and asked me to remove the electronics from the bag so that she could have a look. Reaching in and pulling out the Nikon camera and Canon video camera, I saw white plastic bag underneath them and very nearly laughed out loud. Instead, I managed to keep a straight face and show them the two cameras, then put my shoes back on and made my way to the gate.
The white bag was very specifically supposed to have gone in my checked luggage. Inside it was a small bottle of shampoo, a razor (triple bladed even!), a container of shaving gel, a swiss army knife, a four inch hunting knife, and three (used) bullet casings I'd found in the desert.
But thank goodness they made sure there was a tape in the DV camera.
wow.
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Is it women, or just Hillary?
[Read the article: Americans more ready for a black president than a woman?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The phrasing of the question may be neutral, but anyone who gets asked that question right now isn't answering about a generic woman, I don't think. They're putting Hillary's face on that question.
And if you'd asked me that question a year ago, I'd have told you that Hillary or Obama, either one is fine, as long as we get someone with a brain, but after what I've seen in this campaign... well, let's just say that if she wins the nomination, I'm going to have to have a few drinks before I go to the poll and vote for her in the general election.
I know many, many intelligent, powerful and worthy female leaders. Hillary is not one of them. So ask me today, who would I vote for, a black man or a white woman, and I will answer that generically phrased question with a very specific answer - Obama over Hillary.
None of which excuses the sexist attacks or subconscious condescension she's received, but then again, if any of those were aimed at a woman I actually felt deserved my vote, I'd probably be more outraged. I just find it hard to get worked up over attacks on someone who has played this game the way she's played it. I'm sorry if that offends the women around me, but then again, a lot of the women around me are just as disgusted, and not willing to let Hillary represent their entire gender.
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And if leaves were dollars I'd rake my yard and be rich
[Read the article: Why Hillary Clinton should be winning]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is the biggest piece of garbage I've seen on salon since the last editorial by Joan. Did the original submission have the Hillary '08 logo on it, or did the author remember to remove it?
Other letter writers have done a more than capable job of exposing the faulty logic of the entire thing, so I won't bother. I just wanted to comment that this story is a waste of bandwidth.
I really do remember when Salon was a good place to come for news and analysis. Long, long ago... (not including GG, of course)
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To quote the fabulous David Rees
[Read the article: The rubes and the elites]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I might have grown up in rural West Virginia, shot my first shotgun at the age of 13, and driven in a creek bed to reach my grandparent's house, but damn it
“If ‘elitist’ just means ‘not the dumbest motherfucker in the room,’ I’ll be an elitist!”
What Obama said was right on... he wasn't saying that people turn to guns and religion because their economic life sucks. He said that they vote that way because they long ago learned that voting based on economics does them no good whatsoever. I'd call that pretty damn close to the truth. Better someone who understands that than someone who hasn't done her own shopping in twenty years or more, but who "feels our pain".