Letters to the Editor
Dawggone
Published Letters: 451 Editor's Choice: 69
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So did the Klaasans turn around and sell the house at a huge loss?
[Read the article: Exposé or just innuendo?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hmmm Edwards wants to sell his house. Turns the details over to a broker and thanks to them ends up selling at a profit well within what anyone would get under the same circumstances. Whoa, he made a profit like some citizen who isn't a complete moron. What a scandal!
Imagine the Post article if Edwards had totally mismanaged the property and sold it at a horrible loss. The Post and other MSM would be on him like flies calling him shit for being such a fool and incompetent whose populist roots obviously blinds him to making any intelligent economic decisions. And we would never want to elect a president who can't succeed in financial matters, right?
Oh yeah, never mind.
Someone needs to really ask why so called journalists are attacking Presidential candidates for acting on the advice their business pages hands out to any average American. And most of all why a man who sells his home at a profit to a family he doesn't know is castigated while the past six years of the most blatant conflicts of interest are either given a pass or a tepid "I say dear man" and only when they know such protest will fall on deaf ears because no one has the power to stop them. How is it that the Post is so self righteous when it is the most weak and so ugly and vindictive when it should be most fair.
The Washington Post our motto "We go in after the battle to knife the wounded."
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People can forgive him for supporting the war
[Read the article: Bush's escalation and the GOP]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Clint Eastwood is still up for Oscars, so his war support is not anything near what we would like to think.
But when "Walnuts" spends the last few weeks planting his decrepit lips upon the asses of the likes of James Dobson and Jerry Fallwell, well, the Straight Truth Express has run off the rails.
I only wish this American public would tank someone who yammered incessently about the wonders of American Imperialism.
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The government we want, not the one we wish for
[Read the article: How to speak Republican]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In our fantasy democracy founded by our dream founding fathers, the people rule. The President is not our king, not our Uncle Joe, Dear Leader, Chairman Mao, or even our Commander in Chief to whom we sing "Hail". In our fantasy democracy, we the people are in charge and our presdent is our servant. The servant to all of us. Our public servant.
Our servants, our paid employees are people we want not just to act in our best interests; for the best interest of US, Incorporated. We also want our servants to be honest with us, to tell us the truth no matter how bad the news might be. How else, can we, the real power, the real commanders in chief, make the important decisions that must be made to protect our best interests, or common good, our pursuit of life, liberty and happiness.
That is our fantasy democracy. The one we learned in school, the one that taught us how great We The People were and how proud to have such great founding fathers that made us the great people we are today.
Our real democracy, the one we really want and chose to have, is one that relieves us of the heavy burden of being one of three hundred million leaders of this great nation. Our chosen democracy has only one leader. He makes all the decisions for us so we don't have to even think about them or that there is any decision that needs our slightest thought, let alone attention. Our best leader is someone who is so good that we don't even have to know there is any news he must tell us, let alone bad news. If the media invade our secure lives and disturb our personal pursuit of life, liberty and happiness, it is up to our dear leader, our uncle Joe, our commander in chief to tell us that not only is the news not bad, but there is no bad news.
Lutz works for our real leader, in our real democracy, giving him the words that protect us from the real reality. In effect, he also works for us, and if Lutz were to disappear from the face of the Earth tonight. There would be another one to take his place tommorrow. Our Commander in Chief needs people like Lutz, because We the People need people like Lutz.
For the democracy we asked for.
We only hate him because he gives lie to the democracy we fantasize we have.
All hail to the Chief.
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To summarize for the sound bite impaired
[Read the article: A GOP alternative: Escalation with oversight]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bush will do what he wants and Congress will form a committe to watch him do it. In the unlikely event it goes well Congress will claim they supported the President and his very good decisive idea, thanks to their "oversight." If it doesn't, Congress will be right there, after the fiasco, just in time to knife the wounded.
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Wait! There's more!
[Read the article: Timing is everything]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks to the "Terrorist Surveillance Program" government agents, listening in on domestic telephone calls, have uncovered millions of plots by people expressing their desire to acquire WMDs to use on the White House, their wish for super powers to induce Bush and Cheney to just drop dead, and even supernatural powers to hope they rot in Hell.
Obviously with so many people bent on the destruction of our "freedom" the administration must take even harsher steps to preserve our security.