Letters to the Editor
Kevster
Published Letters: 36 Editor's Choice: 2
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The effectiveness of Obama's fundraising is unprecedented
[Read the article: Obama opts out of public funding]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Let's not conflate the ability to raise money through lobbyists, PACs and 527s with the ability to obtain over a million small-dollar donations. This issue is not about "principle"-it's about effectiveness.
Go clutch your pearls and faint on some other couch.
Yes, the system is broken but Obama needs to do what is necessary to win. The public system as currently constructed limits him-he is wise to opt out if he can do better elsewhere. And he has.
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What a great ad!!!
[Read the article: Washington state Dems agree to change "Sopranos" ad]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Washington State Dems should have told the Italian whose-itswhats to shove it.
We need more of this. They are sleazebags and need to be called out at every turn. I hope they just change the music and run the ad again. But, of course, someone else will grab their pearls and fall on the fainting couch because that's what the whiny ass titty baby rethuglicans do.
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John McCain is at his scariest when he speaks about Vietnam
[Read the article: What John McCain didn't learn in Vietnam]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He truly believes that it was a "winnable" war. This alone disqualifies him (not to mention his ill-temperment; non understanding of economics; dependence on a rich wife; his lock-step similarity to Bush) from the presidency. Before Iraq, Vietnam was the most important foreign policy mistake since WWII. To think for one minute that it was a winnable war exposes the nightmare that is John mcCain's foreign policy vision. There is never a bridge too far; there is never a hill too high; there is never a disagreement that can't be remedied with US military might. That is the Neocon vision; that is Cheney's vision; that is McCain's vision and we must run from it screaming as fast as we can. It is the politics of national destruction and it must not enter the Oval Office again. The scourge that is the Bush nightmare must not be repeated by mcCain. We know who this guy is and he is a scary son-of-a-bitch indeed.
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Why is thing even close?
[Read the article: Obama's political brilliance in Berlin]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A tale of two campaigns: one charismatic politician speaking to the world; one doddering old fool gettin' his German on at a sausage restaurant.
Only in America does it take a brilliant politician to win the Presidency from the Democratic side whereas any two bit Gooper will do on the GOP side.
What was that again about the liberal media???
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The concern trolls at the New Replica(an)
[Read the article: The decay of serious journalism and Rachel Maddow's new show]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]would of course be "concerned" about Maddow's new show representing a further polarization of the media. As Glenn points out these same trolls seem to have a blind eye to the extreme imbalance that currently exists. I dare any of the trolls posting here to document one falsehood uttered by Keith in his show or in his special comments. This "pox on both houses" crap regarding right and left in the media completely misses the bigger point: the conservatives in the media are serial, unmitigated, and unrepentant LIARS. The balance that Maddow and Keith bring is the unvarnished truth since the traditional media ignores the most egregious sins of the current cabal in the White House. It's not about right vs left; it's about fact vs fiction.
Hoooray for Rachel and Hooray for Keith. It's about time that we had some truth tellers in teh media. You certainly don't find them on Fixed Noise.
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IOKIYAR (It's OK if you're republican)
[Read the article: How many homes do you have?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Republicans always get graded on a curve by the media.
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As Keith said: "Case Closed"
[Read the article: What'd you think of Michelle Obama's speech?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I hope to see snippets of this speech in campaign ads shown in all the swing states-it was that good. She was tender, compassionate, full of love for her family and country, and most of all, real. She struck an extremely sympathetic figure that completely cancels out the right wing noise about her being "angry".
She will be a magnificent first lady.
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The Rethugs are peeing their pants
[Read the article: Who is Sarah Palin?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ole "Snake-eyes" McCain just rolled a doozy. This makes no sense on so many levels. The fact that she is a woman is completely trumped by the fact she's anti-choice, an oil company handmaiden, and a creationist whack-job to boot.
McCain now needs psychiatric help for his serious gambling addiction.
In the words of Joe Scarborough: "that's not gonna work".
No kidding.
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Gambler McCain just rolled "Snake-Eyes"
[Read the article: What Sarah Palin means]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That this was a pathetically desperate pick done by a transparently overmatched candidate seems obvious to me. If he wanted a woman just for gender's sake why not Kay Bailey Hutchison? If he wanted a fundie why not Huckabee? If he wanted youth he could have gone to Pawlenty. This pick makes absolutely no sense yet the traditional media will cover this pig (McCain) with lipstick and call it "pretty". The only rationale for the pick is its off-the-chart ridiculousness. It's getting a lot of attention because it really does make no sense. A 72 year old candidate can't afford to be gambling away America's future with his #2 however "bold" he thinks it is.
That any number of the right wing apologists will say that she has more "executive" experience than Obama is hilarious- they could say the exact same thing about McCain. George Bush was the first MBA president-what exactly did that get us? Obama just won a hard fought 18 month nomination fight against a well established favored candidate. The management savvy needed to pull that off tells me all I need to know about his executive experience.
How can anyone look at this pick and feel better about McCain's judgement? It is beyond absurd.