Letters to the Editor
Taliesan
Published Letters: 942 Editor's Choice: 19
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Revere
[Read the article: Bowling for votes in Wisconsin]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yep, darn them young whipper-snappers and their video games and their university degrees.
Them young-un's just don't understand that to take America back towards the left one needs to elect someone who believes the ~evil~ video games industry is out to subvert America's children by splicing nipples into good old wholesome all American ultra-violence.
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W.E.S.
[Read the article: Bowling for votes in Wisconsin]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yeah, because it is so much better going with someone who promises you nothing (Say, like McCain) and manages to deliver less.
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W.E.S.
[Read the article: Bowling for votes in Wisconsin]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The status quo means ruin. It means years in an unwinnable war which nobody even knows what defines victory.
It means an economy in the toilet, crumbling infrastructure and an increasingly jaded public.
It means a government which is willing to torture, and destroy the rights of its citizenry.
It means despair, fear and anger.
So when I see Obama making a speech, and his audience chanting "Yes we can" I too say look out - because anything less than that, and nothing changes, the status quo remains.
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jaygilb
[Read the article: Bowling for votes in Wisconsin]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I suspect that to be the case. I suspect that there is no real difference between the Republican and Democratic party for that matter - they both seem locked into the war, and they both despise the liberal vote.
But, I recognise the need to hold on to the hope that they are not.
Why? Because in the end, if they are all the same it means that America is doomed. America cannot survive another Bush, it cannot survive someone who continues to alienate your allies.
America cannot afford any more pet projects in place of real policies. It cannot afford AIDS relief to Africa, that gets stolen because nobody bothered to even go so far as to demand the books balance.
It cannot afford dumb wars, where money is flown out into a war zone and then "lost" and where mercenary companies charge hundreds of thousands to drive empty trucks to Bahgdad.
It cannot afford an education policy which wastes massive amounts of money on providing Children with an enferior education. It cannot afford to continue funding a welfare state for its biggest businesses.
America cannot afford to continue to blacken the name of its products by stonewalling measures against global warming and polution. It can no longer afford to send its jobs overseas and it cannot afford to build a fence, in lieu of actually doing anything about immigration reform.
It can no longer afford for change to be purely cosmetic. The deficit doesn't care if the president is male or female, black or white. The unemployment figures won't change because the president has a nice smile or functional tear ducts.
It cannot afford to buy into rightwing hysteria over new media anymore - where computer games are this generation's Dungeons and Dragons.
It can no longer afford to buy the media myth that dumb is good.
I say vote for Obama because while I suspect that he is just another politician, I don't know that he is. I say vote for the young guy, because ultimately, while he may be insincere he may not, and to fix America, risks need to be taken.
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Anon, speaking of smoke and mirrors
[Read the article: Bowling for votes in Wisconsin]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Actually, that is Hillary Clinton.
For all of her much vaunted talk of experience on foreign policy - she called the leader of Russia soulless.
For all of her talk of experience in government, she made the wrong call on Iraq - one of the worst mistakes in America's history.
For all of her talk of fighting the Republicans, she agrees with them on censorship and Iran.
For all of her talk about being a top campaigner, Obama, a rank outsider has gone from being a virtual unknown with a name that rhymes with Osama, to not only fighting her to a draw, but fighting her to a point where she is trying to cheat.
She is smoke a mirror show upheld by cries of press bias and a hysterical campaign crew trying to contain the damage.
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AnaHadWolves
[Read the article: Bowling for votes in Wisconsin]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Your hypocrisy isn't quite as blinding as you hope.
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AnaHadWolves
[Read the article: Bowling for votes in Wisconsin]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You come on here and you accuse the Obama camp of being horrible nasty people quick on the insult.
And in the very next breath you accuse them of being naive cultists.
When I call you a hypocrit I am not resorting to ad-hominem, I am being perfectly factual.
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Xrandadu Hutman
[Read the article: Bowling for votes in Wisconsin]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Another example of Obama telling people "What they would like to hear"
While Hillary was falling over themselves to blame immigrants for stealing American inner city jobs, Obama pointed out that inner city unemployment predates the current immigration "problem."
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slightlyjaded
[Read the article: Bowling for votes in Wisconsin]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Her main achievement, to my mind was in her first term after 9/11, she secured $21bn in funds to redevelop the WTC site.
Further, she was instrumental in investigating the health complaints of the rescue crews that saved lives during 9/11.
My main bone of contention with her as a president is the Family Entertainment Protection Act - which she introduced after Grand Theft Auto, San Andreas (A game where you kill cops, steal cars and beat up prostitutes) had the gall to include a minigame portraying consentual sex in its core progamme.
The programme had to be altered in order to open up the game.
Though the bill did not become law in the end, it didn't exactly leave this gamer overly charmed with Hillary's stance on censorship.
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JasonF
[Read the article: How Obama won Wisconsin ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Because they are, well, lets put it this way:
You tell them that Obama appears to lead amongst university graduates, they accuse you of being an arrogant elitist.
The electoral narrative from them has been slamming elitism, for basically the whole primary.
And frankly, Americans got to see what happens when you vote for the anti-intellectual, anti-elitist choice - George W Bush.
Now I am not saying that Hillary supporters are bad people or even that they all seem fixated on getting their own back on those dirty educated people, but rather that those of them that are, appear to be doing their candidate no favours.