Letters to the Editor
Taliesan
Published Letters: 942 Editor's Choice: 19
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AlecsMom
[Read the article: My last word (for now) on sexism]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You know, I don't think she stuck with Bill because of political expedience.
If it was political expedience, well it was only really with the left that it was expedient, and the left would have understood a divorce anyway.
I think she stuck with him because she actually likes him, and like many a spouse to a cheating partner, was prepared to overlook it because there was more to the relationship that just sex and feelings of ownership.
Of course, I could be wrong, but then the only person who really knows Hillary's motivations there is Hillary herself, so I don't see a problem with giving her the benefit of the doubt on this.
Of course, all of this is as an aside as to whether she should be president. I feel she shouldn't, mainly due to my strong opposition to some of her stances. The soap opera of her private life I feel is something that doesn't really impact the fact that she was wrong about Iraq.
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sslash
[Read the article: My last word (for now) on sexism]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well said.
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SusanGSMcGee
[Read the article: Hillary's slick willies]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Or maybe that cigar is just a cigar.
There have been no end of men with issues over their likeability.
Hillary isn't losing because of sexist cranks. She is losing because she has run a poor campaign.
She started out with a strong lead across the country according to the polls, she had a lead in the black vote, she was so strong that when Edwards came second to Obama in the first primary - she was still the one to beat.
This idea that liberal men are secretly snickering at the idea of a female in authority, is of course based on total bullshit.
There are women in authority all across the world in various positions all across the world, with leftwing men working for them. The differences with Hillary a lot of us hold are on her policies, her voting record and how she has run her campaign.
You are painting all opposition amongst leftwing males to the ascendency of your candidate as being about sexism. Well sorry, but it has a lot more to do with her policies and her campaign.
And that you have to resort to screaming "Sexism" rather than putting her case for being president forward, says precisely how her campaign and her policy proposals have failed. While most of us do not hold her gender against her, we do not hold it suffeciently in her favour to simply give her the presidency because she is female.
She needs to convince us that she will do a better job than the other candidates. She has not done that and she has in fact reinforced many of the arguments against her as a potential president.
So long as her loss is written off to "sexism" the lessons to be learned from this campaign season will not take hold, and it is a pity. Hillary inspires strong reactions, and she came into this race with high negatives - that had nothing to do with her gender even though the barely coherent rage of her detractos might seem to make it so.
That she inspires strong reactions is not a new revelation, that the left don't like her isn't either, she argued for and voted for the war without even reading the NIE. She is not substantively different to Lieberman on the war, and she has followed his voting pattern on other issues too, such as computer gaming.
And it is no accident that her primary detractors are younger voters, voters who play computer games and who, in the case of a draft, will fight your wars.
She has come to represent the old guard of the Democratic party, and the thing is that the new guard, the people who populate the leftwing blogosphere and that are willing to go to the wall for the Democratic party, despise the failings of the old guard.
Those who when accused of weakeness, proved it by rolling over for the Republicans. Those who were more worried about being called traitors than whether Iraq was the right decision, those who pandered and did nothing.
Criticisms of Hillary are not simply about her anymore. They have become about everything wrong with the Democrats as a whole, and that is the lesson that needs learning. The Democratic Party needs to change.
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There have been no end of men with issues over their likeability.
[Read the article: Hillary's slick willies]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Strange.
That should read
Maybe issues over her likeablity actually are over her likeability, not her gender.
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drinkwater
[Read the article: My last word (for now) on sexism]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Not really. It comes out perfectly fine to me, though I would more take Bush than Lieberman, for all of Lieberman's flaws I haven't heard that he can't take being around strong personalities.
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maureenodonnell
[Read the article: My last word (for now) on sexism]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thatcher also supported Reagan's arguments against declaring sanctions on Apartheid South Africa.
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ShawnWM
[Read the article: Spare votes?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yeah those stupid Latte Lefties.
You know the guys who were right about the economy, right about the environment, right about healthcare, right about the war, right about America's crumbling infrastructure, right about housing, right about the UN, right about K-Street and the honesty of the Republicans, right about illegal wiretaps, right about torture, right about the NPT, right about Darfur, right about No Child Left Behind heck what has the "Latte left" actually been wrong about?
Oh, that's right - thinking that being right about anything actually counts for anything amongst the trully stupid - like you.
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Why this will never happen
[Read the article: Story Minute]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Take a look at how Hollywood views people who choose not to have kids. They are cold, empty workaholics or adult children.
Neither example being happy.
Thus, they get left a more responsible relative's kids and suddenly grow up.
It is the "Kiddies as prozac" schtick which more than anything else, teaches stupid people that the path to happiness involves changing wet nappies.
This is a reflection of America's cultural values system, and because of this twisted values system, the idea of restricting children to people who can, *gasp* take care of them and raise them into reasonable adults, is an anethema.
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JennyLynnF
[Read the article: Hey, Obama boys: Back off already!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You got cut off in traffic?
http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Clinton_backer_stabs_Obama_backer_over_support
Ahem.