Letters to the Editor
Taliesan
Published Letters: 942 Editor's Choice: 19
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odog
[Read the article: Rev. Jeremiah Wright isn't the problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thabo Mbeki is an AIDS dissident. Unlike Wright, who believes in HIV causing AIDS, but thinks that the US government invented the disease, Mbeki is in complete denial over the disease even existing.
His main policy has always been founded on his arrogance and surrounding with incompetent lackies. One could just as easily point to his stance on Selebi, to say that Mbeki is an idiot.
Of course, idiocy isn't a racial trait and Obama is a totally different person to both Mbeki and Reverand Wright.
Obama has surrounded himself with competent people of differing ideologies. People who one is confident will say "no" to him if he should be wrong.
Mbeki's chief hires have been based on loyalty rather than competence, which is why the idiotic health minister has managed to keep her job despite her being a kleptomaniac and a drunk. Selebi (AKA: Consorts-with-drug-dealers) has similar protection.
This loyalty to loyalty has a lot more in common with Republican candidates and certain disquieting stories coming out of Hillary's campaign than what has been reported about Obama.
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jjppmd
[Read the article: Rev. Jeremiah Wright isn't the problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hillary Clinton doesn't stand a ghost of a chance in the general right now.
She has been successfully painted as running a racist campaign. Part of the Democratic base is the black vote and a lot of the black vote's support for Obama is based around the perception of Hillary running a racist campaign.
Further, the attacks on the UCC are going to cost the Democrats big, it is after all, the biggest black church in America.
In essence what you have here is a situation which may help Hillary in the primaries, but this "Win at all costs" strategy is going to kill her in the general.
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OhioPlayer on country
[Read the article: Rev. Jeremiah Wright isn't the problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Actually, it has evolved into different forms.
Rock, metal, jazz, modern folk all owe a lot to country.
The thing is, whenever country has evolved it has stopped being "country" and become something else. That you don't get sub-genres to country is because whenever a sub-genre has appeared, it has ended up being called something other than country.
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Independent_thinker
[Read the article: Rev. Jeremiah Wright isn't the problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Adressing your statement on the Pope:
That is a triumph of secularism, not Christianity. Secularism gives people the right to ignore their religious leaders.
For that matter, so is the whole "We don't burn witches at the stake" concept.
The Western world is not particularly religious, mainly because back when it was we had the inquisition, witch hunts, book burnings and genocides.
Overly Christian areas sometimes still have the inquisition, witch huns, book burnings and genocides (Look at the DRC as an example.)
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Frederick
[Read the article: Rev. Jeremiah Wright isn't the problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Your economic policy has failed, costing America in homes and jobs.
Your foreign policy has failed, costing America in lives and trade.
Your president has failed, costing America in prestige and standing.
Your congress has failed, costing in America its reserves and infrastructure.
Your supreme court has failed, your senate has failed, your religion has failed where have you succeeded?
It is time to start listening to those who were right in the first place. It is time to cut the "patriotic" crap.
That is what scares cowards about Obama's preacher. That America is not perfect, that its behaviour is not always above board and that there is real injustice in America's actions implies the need to fix those imperfections.
It is much easier to wave a flag and say "America uber alles" than to actually knuckle down and do the work needed to run the damn place.
That is what Obama offers by not being a "patriot". By not wearing the flag pin, by marrying a not-particularly proud American, Obama offers America a president who won't waste its fucking time with flags and reminders of just which country you come from.
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Oh, and another thing
[Read the article: Rev. Jeremiah Wright isn't the problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If the average poster showed as much distain and complaint for their employer as they do their country, most would be unemployable.
If the average poster's employer ran their business as badly as America's current government runs a country - the average posters would be out a job and a pension fund.
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christmartin17
[Read the article: The GOP attack plan for Hillary Clinton]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well said.
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If she did it
[Read the article: Is Briana Waters a terrorist?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]she is guilty of terrorism.
The thing is, the case against her by the sounds of it, is so full of holes as to produce a reasonable doubt that she did it.
Indeed, the reciept leaves one thinking that it may have been highly unlikely for her to have done it.
There is a strong possibility of the prosecution using "Terrorism" to try and scare the jury into a guilty vote.
This article would have done better focussing on the witch-hunt style hysteria raised by "terrorism" than questioning whether politically motivated arson counts as terrorism.
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To the guy who was gloating about Pennsylvania
[Read the article: The GOP attack plan for Hillary Clinton]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Last I checked, the vote there is on April 22.
Now Hillary is probably going to win there, I would be very surprised if she didn't, but it is still March and declaring victory there may just be a wee bit premature.