Letters to the Editor
Taliesan
Published Letters: 942 Editor's Choice: 19
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jpincus
[Read the article: No Hail Mary for Hillary]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ah, calling someone a traitor for having reached the correct decision.
And you Hillary supporters are different to the Bushies how?
Frankly, this is one major reason why I don't support Hillary - a lot of her supporters sound like Republicans.
They like to call people "Haters" for not supporting their candidate. They like playing the patriot. They like calling the other candidate weak. They like insulting the other candidate's supporters as being naive and they play up the politics of despair. I have even seen Hillbots accuse Obama supporters of being loony lefties.
It isn't just the insults, we all get nasty in these arguments, it is just which insults the Hillbots choose to use. Frankly, I am surprised they haven't trotted out "Bunny Hugger" and "Tree Hugger" yet.
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AnaHadWolves
[Read the article: No Hail Mary for Hillary]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks for intimating that Obama is a Muslim. It really, really builds up respect for your candidate to appeal to xenophobia.
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AnaHadWolves
[Read the article: No Hail Mary for Hillary]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Aww, is the racist offended at me pointing out how transparent she is?
Frankly, I see no difference between your constant harping about us naive, intellectual elitist, young people with university educations, and the Bushy's harping about us naive, intellectually elitist young people with university educations.
That without even going into your whole blind faith in the mythical silent majority not noticing the emptiness behind your claims of experience.
Us young people, we threaten you because we had the gall to respect our elders (In my case, I pay my way and fully expect to shoulder the costs of running the household when my parents are both retired) and learn from what they had to teach us.
They taught us that despairing about how "They are all the same" doesn't fix things. They taught us that if you don't do anything about anything nothing changes.
They also taught us that an education is nothing to be ashamed of, that it pays to listen to someone who knows what they are talking about, and that our parent's are both fallible and human - that you shouldn't keep your mouth shut just because someone is older if you think they are wrong.
They taught us that people who keep secrets from us, aren't doing it for our own collective good. They taught us to actually look beyond race and gender and to judge people based on their results.
They taught us that words are important - a lesson learned from 1000 years of poetry, song and news, that without inspiration people don't do anything.
They taught us that fear numbs the mind, and prevents us solving the problems that prompt that fear.
And they taught us that listening to people who talk about a silent majority agreeing with them, who make patriotism a priority not in the sense of championing ideals, but in fighting on issues flag burning, who attack the weak to hide their own weakness is to listen to a collection of con artists.
They taught my generation to oppose people like you.
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AnaHadWolves
[Read the article: No Hail Mary for Hillary]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Aw, Ana, you can't answer a single argument so you resort to lecturing me on my English. Stick a fork in your arguments, you are done.
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david sugarman
[Read the article: No Hail Mary for Hillary]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I see nothing racist about their statements.
I disagree with their arguments, I think it is nitpicking and silly, but I see nothing racist about their arguments.
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Juliebird
[Read the article: Should Hillary Clinton drop out?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Okay, I would say this (Hypothetically speaking, I think we can both agree that I am far, far too argumentative for family to be all that likely in my future):
You do not give someone an important job based on you feeling they have been hard done by. You give them a job based on your belief that they would succeed in getting the job done.
The sexist attacks on Hillary didn't sway me any more than the racist attacks on Obama did.
My support was based on which candidate didn't use scapegoat issues (Immigration, flag burning, computer games.)
My support was based on which candidate who was the best speaker, as this is for someone who will speak for America.
My support was based on which candidate was most willing to take an unpopular but correct position when it was most risky (The real reason why Obama's Iraq speech is so important, he wasn't taking a popular stance at the time.)
My support was for the candidate who managed a capable campaign through to the end.
And my support was for the candidate who when questioned on his patriotism didn't spout off rote lines, but rather exposed how empty such rhetoric is.
My support was based on which candidate, I thought of as being the least secretive.
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Juliebird
[Read the article: Should Hillary Clinton drop out?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well to that, I say quite easily:
The media during that period was dominated by people whose idea of a counter to Bill Clinton's points on 9/11, was to criticise Clinton's socks.
These are people who promoted a war in Iraq, on as payback for an attack launched by a Saudi Arabian.
They were racist, sexist and frankly, stupid.