Letters to the Editor
ceytron
Published Letters: 59 Editor's Choice: 11
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The right choice.
[Read the article: Could be Biden time]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I will add my voice to the chorus who suggest that Biden would be an excellent VP selection. Any time I've seen him debate on TV or during the primary debates, my opinion of him was good. He is sharp, he is incredibly knowledgeable about foreign policy (Obama's perceived weak spot) and speaks clearly and with confidence when discussing it.
Biden, in my opinion, is the clear choice for the ticket. Webb, though I like him, doesn't bring nearly as much to a ticket as Biden would.
Also, I'd just like to throw out my crazy prediction now, if Biden is picked, I think there is a good shot it will be for one term only. My gut tells me Obama would really like to put Claire McCaskill on the ticket, but she's a rookie like him and he needs experience on the ticket. If Obama wins with Biden in 2008, 2012 will see an Obama/McCaskill ticket.
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The subject of much debate
[Read the article: For the sake of the girl with the beautiful swing]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Surely, for decades, history will fiercly ponder just how a man as unqualified and uninspiring as George W Bush was elected to a position of such terrifying power.
It would be comical were the results not so tragic, the trajectory that led our president to his throne. I recall, in summer of 2000, a heated debate I had with my roommate over the election and the interjection of Ralph Nader into the mix. My friend, admirably, argued that Nader was right in trying to alter the duopoly that dominated the system.
Only, this was not one of those elections. We were not choosing between either the red or the blue rockem-sockem robot, the cherry or the vanilla side of the popsicle.
George W Bush in 2000 was a dangerous man. Can you consider anything more terrifying than a candidate vain enough to believe he was chosen by God, yet so stupid he could not contemplate the dangers of such delusions? Arrogant incompitence alone is not what made the man as dangerous as he was, what truly terrified me then was the insidious ideology that guided his core beliefs. A set of values so antithetical to the American way, that it relied on hyper-american themes and distractions to scurry by unnoticed.
Part of me has always felt that Nader's role in facilitating Bush's victory was driven by his desire to see the Pheonix reborn. George Bush was the match he needed to set the whole damn thing aflame. I don't know, maybe I'm just overly paranoid.
But one thing is clear, the country is buring. One of those slow festering burns, smoldering and noxious. For the sake of all ten year olds, not just those who play softball, we need to put it out, and we need to clean up the mess.
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Here we go again.
[Read the article: Betrayed by Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Enough Obama bashing.
Yes, FISA sucks. But you know what'll suck worse, losing this election to John McCain. Obama did not vote for FISA because he felt a deep need to piss off the left wing of his party. He voted for it because he doesn't need to hand the Republicans a bludgeon with which to hammer him for the next four months.
Democrats need to stop whining all the time. It's time to win dammit, it's time to win a damn election. It's time to put our trust behind a nominee and give him our support. If he doesn't deliver on important issues like health care and Iraq after we put him in the White House, then we have the right to complain. But to nitpick over his FISA vote is just that, nitpicking. One senator's vote on one bill is insignificant compared to what the man can do if he wins the Presidency and we finally have a decent person running this country.
I'm so sick of the whining, stop whining and get behind your candidate for once.
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Defeatocrats
[Read the article: Betrayed by Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Salon is starting to depress me. Obama's vote was meaningless but it insulated him from a "weak on terrorism" charge that would be repeated over and over on TV.
The Republicans have no idea how to attack him on national security. They are trying with the "lack of experience" arguement, but that arguement falls flat when their candidate voted for and supports the disastrous while Obama came out against the war.
Obama was smart not to give them ammunition, and after the grueling campaign of John "I voted for it before I voted against it" Kerry, Obama's keen political skill is a breath of fresh air.
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@bstock
[Read the article: Betrayed by Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Democracy is about power my friend. Who has it, and who doesn't. And for the past 8 years, we progressives have had very very little. And as a consequence of that, we have seen our economy shredded, we have seen our environment plundered, and we have seen thousands and thousands and THOUSANDS of people (Iraqi and American) slaughtered in a war based on a lie.
So you know what, I don't like FISA, but if voting for a watered-down version of the bill gets Obama in the White House, I'm a happy happy man. How much worse will things get if we let John BOMB BOMB BOMB Iran McCain sit in the Oval Office? How many more soldiers and civilians will die? How much worse will our economy get?
Grow up your whiners, politics is about strategy and compromise. And it is a high stakes game! And at the end of the day, if Obama doesn't win the White House, the sins of FISA will be the least of our worries.
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HA
[Read the article: Betrayed by Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Amurikans may not understand FISA, but they do understand a principled stand and the strength that it conveys."
No, what the American voter will understand is that Obama voted to give the terrorists more freedoms. They'll believe that because it will be repeated on TV and on Radio over and over and over again.