Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 520 Editor's Choice: 21
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What if
[Read the article: Gloria Steinem on Barack Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]George W. Bush were a woman? A woman who did what he has done, before office and within office? No need to mention everything, you all know the details.
Just take one of the facts and run with it for argument's sake: A woman, born of extreme privilege, cheats her way through school while doing coke and drinking her face off. Yeah, that would go over well. Can you think of the names SHE'D be called? It meant nothing to his votes. The same voters who said that didn't matter, also said he seemed like "a fun guy to have a beer with".
I don't want to have a beer with the President, I want the President to be too busy making the country better and fixing things! We don't have to like the President, but we have to believe this person will lead us in the right direction.
Where is our hero? I like Hil and I like Barak because they seem to want to make things better. Compared to Bush, I actually love them, but are we putting too much faith in one human being?
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Too much weight
[Read the article: Gloria Steinem on Barack Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]goes into the primaries. Think about the past elections. Dean won Iowa.
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I am trying to understand these activists
[Read the article: Is abortion a civil rights issue?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I've volunteered in a neighborhood clinic in a not so nice part of a city. I hear the shouts of these activists as extremely ignorant and shortsighted for a few reasons:
1. They are preaching to take away rights from people presumably unable to find other options.
2. They are ignoring the fact that just because you make something illegal or difficult doesn't mean it doesn't happen. Hangers anyone?
These young women need resources, and possibly professional medical help, not people shaming them or making obscure references to Darfur and Civil rights.
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Dear Anon,
[Read the article: Is abortion a civil rights issue?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The phrase: "obscure references to Darfur..."
which you took out of context so that you could perceive and spin it to mean something different was directed at the people preaching at the young women and teen girls who are getting pregnant. Do you really think those pregnant teens in inner cities in the US can relate and comprehend what is going on in Darfur? Do these 13, 14, 15 year olds participate in political discussions about Darfur and the 'Ethnic Cleansing' evil that is happening there?
I think you are missing something in what these activists are doing, or maybe you don't recall being a teen or have never been young and without money, but Darfur for all it's horror, is not number one on their list. Thus, that issue is what one could call obscure. In the immediate reality of those who are faced with these choices, it is quite obscure. The people the message is aimed at are not experiencing it and have more immediate problems ( a baby inside their wombs) to deal with.
Darfur is clearly another topic and should not be used to promote an agenda that will only lessen the choices of these young women and girls in communities already lacking in resources. In fact, only someone who doesn't get what is happening there would use it this way.
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Anon,
[Read the article: Is abortion a civil rights issue?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I hope you are correct, I really do.
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Darkest just before dawn
[Read the article: My molester financed my college education]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]St. John of the Cross. The Dark Night of the Soul. Right here in my hands and I am thinking of you while I read it another time.
LW, you have to set this burden down. Everything in your life is heavier because you have this weight but it does not belong to you. There is not one person reading your letter who does not want to send love to you. You must be so tired. We are here, an army of people who have been hurt by stupid, evil and ignorant people. We are right here, all around you and we've suffered abuse and violence and things we cannot even write. You are brave. We know you are hurting and we want to help.
Please keep a copy of this thread. We are real. We are here. Cary is here and what he wrote is right.
By the way, St. John of the Cross, and this idea of the Dark Night... it has a good ending.
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@Voice of Reason
[Read the article: My molester financed my college education]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]William Ernest Henley, God that is beautiful. Thank you for sharing this.
LW, the world is rich, throughout history with this struggle you feel as seen in this victorious poem from somewhere around the turn of the century. Music too is rich with pain and the glorious " break of dawn " that comes a little after your 3 AM.
If you need some good music, tell Cary where to send it and I will fwd it through him. It always helped me reconnect in times of great despair and it powerful to realize you are not alone. And you are most certainly not alone.
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jbrown10
[Read the article: Is abortion a civil rights issue?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Nailed it!
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long process
[Read the article: Does race explain the polling disconnect?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's just the primaries. Look at past elections and notice the winners.