Letters to the Editor
Taliesan
Published Letters: 906 Editor's Choice: 18
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Its quite simple really:
[Read the article: This Modern World]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hillary's supporters are basically everything they accuse Obama supporters of being.
The are immature, petulant little crybaby cultists who alternate between accusing the other side of not being tough enough, and then whining about how the other side is too tough on their candidate.
Any criticism whatsoever of their candidate is met with the "Hater" label, which was pretty much how they met any criticism of their last candidate GW Bush before he became unpopular (Now they claim, along with most other Americans, to have not voted for him.)
Any straw that can be grasped, be it the Rezko deal (In which exhaustive investigation has found nothing untoward) or Obama's pastor is gripped with white knuckled rage as they proclaim proudly that if they don't get things there way they will vote for McCain, because evidently they actually don't give a flying fuck about the issues, they are only concerned with personalities and they just don't like Obama.
They accuse Obama supporters of being heavy on the name calling, while generally in the same posts using terms like "Obambi" or "Obamanation". Plus, in a reversion to their Neocon instincts, they slam commentators for either being "loony liberals" or "Latte liberals" where liberal is something of a swear word and being consistently on the wrong side of every argument for the last 200 years is a compliment.
Like we haven't haven't had enough of that shit from the damned economy wrecking retarded right over the last seven years.
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Obama must be careful with this
[Read the article: Barack Obama, working-class hero?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama could end up making the mistake of coming across as condescending if he isn't careful here. Blue Collar doesn't mean stupid, or uncultured or any of that.
Heck most blue collar workers would probably see "taught constitutional law" as being in favour of Obama, it means that as a president, when he vetos something for not being constitutional or for being a threat to a constitutional concept he may just know what he is talking about.
He needs to tread a thin line so as to avoid looking like certain elderly white guys do when they try to talk "Street." If McCain started trying to speak in modern day slang he would lose votes - it would be seen as a lack of respect.
Obama runs the same risk here.
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MaureenOdonnell
[Read the article: Barack Obama, working-class hero?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]To be honest, what Kerry thinks or says is of supreme indifference to me.
The guy lost in 2004 to what amounts to an insult to chimps, for being too boring. What makes you think any of us give a shit now?
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Okay, that does it
[Read the article: Why John Edwards hasn't endorsed Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Joan, sorry but you are a dishonest shill for Hillary. You have been one for ages and it has shown in your editorial bias.
Not simply in these articles in your blog but also through a selective reporting bias (A form of dishonest reporting.) The Bosnia lie was brought up mainly through the letters section long before it was brought up in the news section.
This article pushes it over the limit to which one is willing to accept so far as biased bullshit goes. You are hurting the site through it, you are hurting your own reputation through it, either come out with your bias and distance yourself from it or expect to lose readers and then your job.
Grow up Joan.
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AnaHadWolves
[Read the article: Barack Obama, working-class hero?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If these are supposed to be "Adult" conversations what are you doing here?
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Xrandadu Hutman
[Read the article: Barack Obama, working-class hero?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yep.
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AnaHadWolves
[Read the article: Barack Obama, working-class hero?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As opposed to you, a heavy going wuss who whines and cries about how immature people who don't support your candidate are, straight after you insult everyone who doesn't support her as being naive cultists.
While I am still going through my first youth, and thus have a lot to learn, I will learn it. You are going through your second, and frankly one shudders to think how stupid you were in your first - or how you managed to survive so long in a world where people are required to gain skills over a period of time.
Probably some sort of trust fund left by parents who actually contributed something to society as opposed to just vapid nothings on an internet letters page.
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ELYDOG
[Read the article: Barack Obama, working-class hero?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A president has the power to veto legislation and pardon criminals, which means that in the end, a legal background is something of a plus.
This is why the Democrats tend to go with lawyers, having someone who can actually read legislation and has some training in understanding the consequences of that legislation
is something of a plus in a post which is basically 50% of the time, all about reading legislation and vetoing the crap.
Plus, it helps to have someone who can read a contract being in charge of signing major treaties.
Now your "Working class hero" type doesn't actually have the skill set to do that as well as your latte liberal lawyer. The latte liberal lawyer has some training in legal issues, and knows legalese, your working class hero is more likely to be the type screwed over by the legalese, or to ignore that portion of the job except for where it conflicts with that "working class hero"'s religious views or lobbyists.
The trouble is, politics is governed by people who do not see this. They want to have someone who is just like them running the country, because people just like them are losing their homes, their livelyhoods and their prospects. It is a genuine wish to change things, tainted with some genuine arrogance.
Thus you have people who are anything but "Working class heroes" who are normally still of good will, trying to run as "Working class heroes." It comes off as false and in the end, insulting.
Obama would be better running as he is, GW Bush ran as a "Working class hero" and look at where that landed America.