Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 186 Editor's Choice: 1
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I would have to conclude that this is how most wars or warlike conflicts go at home
[Read the article: Five years of Iraq lies]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm sure we stayed in VN despite all the rancor at home and despite what they told the populace. I'm sure that Korea was far less popular than the government hoped it would be. Heck - even WW2 had a strong and persistent strain of un-popularism at home throughout. And if you go all the way back to 1776 only 1 out of 3 colonialists sided with the Revolution. You simply need to understand that wars are fairly unpopular when they are going on. It's only later that they become heroic. If we could, we should go back to 1776 and just stay a colony. At least it would all be someone else's fault.
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This takes on the attributes of faith itself
[Read the article: Was Obama's speech enough?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]For the glint eyed zealots no apology for anything is ever required. For the skeptics no apology is ever sufficient. I just hope Black America makes the best of this Black Presidential opportunity and doesn't come back in 2012 or 2016 picking at the same old victimhood, the same excuses for what could only be called hate speech coming out of anyone else's mouth, however that's a normal part of the communities wider dialog. And I do hope Rev Wright is elevated to an official position in the Obama cabinet so we can at least be witness to the unvarnished truth, unfiltered by his acolytes.
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I don't know what channel you watch, I guess it's in the bay area
[Read the article: How local TV embraced fake news]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Here the news is a preview to the weather, the weather, more weather, the drought, a weather recap, some local crime news, the weather, local government news and the weather.
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Did everyone have a good cry?
[Read the article: "Today, I weep for my country"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Because nobody stopped this from happening. Words bigger than actions.
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Is this the thread where everyone contributes obscure delicacies from far off places?
[Read the article: The K Chronicles]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Tuber Grub on a stick in Abidjan perhaps? The best pork free pizza in Kuala Lampur?
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It was a speech
[Read the article: Obama's faith in the reasoning abilities of the American public]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Just a speech. Perhaps you should stop considering it in the same light as the sum total of all human wisdom. And please, I understand he travels on a beam of light, shatters the barriers of time and space, parts the waters, feeds the hungry and raises the dead, but someone wrote that for him while he was busy campaigning for elected office. And the office isn't the Papacy.
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He was a better engineer than a writer
[Read the article: The last rendezvous with Arthur C. Clarke]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I bet most people forget that he was an engineer. He invented geosynchronous orbital dynamics. I always thought his sci-fi was a little too too engineer-y in the way he'd go into a long description of some exotic tech and when you got to the end, you realized it was a thermocouple or something mundane like that.
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They should label it in either case
[Read the article: FDA disregarded results on food from cloned animals]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And let the muttering superstitious pass it by in the grocery store. It's probably heretical to mention it here but perhaps you-all would be happier with Halal or Kosher.
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Seems reasonable.
[Read the article: (Weird) quote of the day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We pay a lot of money to vacation in far off exotic places that get written up in NatGeo where they do odd things like this. If you're offended stay home.
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calgodot
[Read the article: Charlie Rose suffers black eye in saving MacBook Air]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What if she had a family that needed her and now was SOL. Aren't people at least on par with animals? We don't have to elevate people over animals but a little parity wouldn't hurt.
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Canuckistan Bob
[Read the article: Obama's faith in the reasoning abilities of the American public]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Me neither, the last few are just about blaming Israel for crop failure and sunspots or something. I didn't pay attention.
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Big problems need a big switch
[Read the article: The crash in Republican economics ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If we just turned the power off in America for 8 hrs a day it would solve the greenhouse gas problem and all the other problems as well. Just go dark 1/3rd of the time. For that 33% you're living happily in the bucolic 19th Century. And ban all motorized travel during that time as well.
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Are these the things we all believe that Presidents should excuse?
[Read the article: Obama's faith in the reasoning abilities of the American public]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Mr Obama's beliefs are his own. But are these the things we want our Presidents to sort-of excuse? Imagine if you will any other scenario where the President had an odd acquaintance, a mentor even and that person advocated revolution, literally, grab an M-16 and kill people revolution. Or racial separation, or burkhas, or any number of other things that go against what we generally conceive of as the American experience. It's wonderful that we live somewhere where people are permitted to espouse those ideas if we like. But that's not the same thing as seeking out the wildest most extremist views and embracing them because you believe that's the way to be inclusive.
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A year ago
[Read the article: Five years of Iraq lies]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]About a third of all mainline news reports were about Iraq. Now it's about 3%. Iraq is now the 3rd or 4th most pressing issue to the voters. And again Democrats run the risk of snatching defeat by elevating this election to a single issue: Iraq. Fact is, most Americans are tired of hearing it. They understand that in either case we're there for many more years and it's simply a matter of distinguishing McCain's cheerleading from the Dems gloomy inactive shame.