Letters to the Editor
Taliesan
Published Letters: 868 Editor's Choice: 16
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So long as you aren't going to make the Democrats fight for your vote
[Read the article: How the Democrats blew it]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The rightwing will get theirs.
Sorry, it is how it is, until you are willing to make your representatives actually represent you, they will represent someone who is willing to take that stand.
While I agree that a Democrat president is a good idea, the time is now to take stock on the two big parties in America's Congress and Senate and vote them out.
The Democrats have what they need to end the Iraq war. They have what they need to take down Bush. They have what they need to rally the left and they aren't using any of it, they are just playing rhetorical games.
If your vote for a Democrat is only going to get you a Republican in disguise, vote independent. Your Congressman, and your Senator are both there to represent you, if they don't then don't vote for them.
And yes you can make a difference. You can lead to the rise of a third party, to the weakening of the duopoly which has trapped America in a situation where America's political discourse hasn't really moved forward since the cold war, where Vietnam is a recurring event and where there is always an external enemy who is both pathetically weak, and overwhelmingly mighty.
The American approach to the Middle East is not due to the need to do something about terrorism, and neither party is going to do what needs to be done about terrorism because America's approach to the Middle East is intended to keep America in a 1984 style stalemate.
Your vote can mean the difference between a state which proclaims "War is peace" and a state where you, the people of America, matter. The apathetic weaseling of the 90's is over, it is time to make things happen.
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Tough Vs Strong
[Read the article: Angry, hateful liberal bloggers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The really strong, don't just weather the storm, they build a house so they can weather it in comfort.
The tough stand out in the rain.
The really strong stop and think about their actions, and when their actions prove futile, change tactics.
The tough act first and stick to it especially when those actions prove futile.
The strong lead their countries, the tough lead their parties.
The rightwing is obsessed with being tough, and that is all you need to know about their policies on war, peace, poverty and wealth.
The leftwing, would much rather be strong.
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jedimaster
[Read the article: Angry, hateful liberal bloggers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ever heard the line "But who will declare America bankrupt?" when arguing about America's national debt?
There's your answer.
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Garvey
[Read the article: How the Democrats blew it]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]History will define GW in much the same way you do: By 9/11.
Except, history 50 years from now won't take 9/11 as a blazing success, it will take it as a total disaster.
History will judge him by the two wars, Afghanistan and Iraq, and it will judge them both to be lost causes.
History will remember Bush's economy, and it will be rememebered with derision.
History will remember Katrina, and the unholy mess Bush made of Fema.
History, if it is recorded honestly, will remember the 90's and 2000's generations as being apathetic idiots who got the president they deserved.
My generation, the generation I grew up in, will be remembered for adding nothing worthwhile to the arts, nothing worthwhile to the concept of humanity, and nothing worthwhile to the world. Our defining figure will be Britney Spears.
And my generation will be remembered as the generation which followed the second worst president in America's history. The worst, is yet to come.
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Anonymous, funny thing...
[Read the article: Angry, hateful liberal bloggers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I, as a liberal, have never seen liberals do that.
Of course, this is because I am leftwing, and the idea that something can be bad without including the sacrifice of virgins on bloody alters is kind of normal to me.
The idea that bad people can do good things, or have likable traits (For example, the rightwing stink over some celebs calling Castro charming? Yeah, well so was Hitler) is normal to me.
Maybe what you see as the left making the Middle East sound good is because the left doesn't particularly romanticise it into being ruled by people with horns, tails and hooves. The left shows some of the good along with the bad.
Or maybe you are just a partisan pulling things out of your backside.
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bernbart, they didn't need a veto-proof majority
[Read the article: How the Democrats blew it]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]to get America out of Iraq. All they needed to do was add a legally binding timetable to the funding for the Iraq war.
Bush vetoes, he doesn't get any money for his misbegotten war. Bush doesn't veto, he gets a timetable for withdrawal.
They didn't need to veto extending Bush's power to spy on you. They could have just voted against it.
Instead, the Democrats caved on these mandate issues, and in caving showed the American voter how little a vote for the Democrats is ultimately worth.
That is why I say vote independent - the Democrats had, and have the power to do something that you the voter mandated, but they didn't and they won't so vote for someone who will.