Letters to the Editor
greenhatranch
Published Letters: 5
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Richardson needs more publicity
[Read the article: Billy the Greek]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm both discouraged and heartened by this article. Since I'm convinced that Bill Richardson is our best choice for President in 2008 I'm distressed that there is no mention of his qualifications or his stand on the issues. I just don't understand why someone who has been Secretary of Energy, Ambassador to the UN and Governor of New Mexico doesn't get more respect as a candidate.
On the other hand this is at least some press coverage and the possibility that Bill Richardson will be able to raise a reasonable amount of money is very encouraging.
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huh?
[Read the article: "Look! A shiny object!"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm sure they are all good, but I don't get any of them
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I did watch the forum
[Read the article: Clinton, Obama, and the forum on faith]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I just am unsure what the forum added to anything.
Usually when people want to talk about religion, they want to convince you that their view of religion is the only correct one. Fortunately, the candidates didn't seem to be doing that.
Occasionally there are conversations on religion that actually treat it as a topic worthy of some intellectual energy. I had some of those converstions in college and I've actually heard Jon Meacham have one. But the questions in this forum were so bad that the forum was actually embarrassing to watch. Perhaps "bad" is not the most accurate word, the questions were the typical "issue of the day" questions that have dominated most of "debates" the networks have held so far in this campaign.
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I may be unusual
[Read the article: The other 18 million]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]but I'm a white woman in my mid 60s who thinks all of this is nonsense. My annual income is more than the "cutoff" of $50K a year that is always talked about, but not much.
My impression of the press coverage of the primary season has been that there was almost no coverage of Obama before Iowa and that the Clinton coverage was mostly neutral or positive and it didn't seem to me to be very sexist. Yes, Obama got a lot of positive coverage from the press after Iowa but it wasn't more than Clinton got before Iowa. Now I'm not a big follower of blogs which may have had different slant but then I suspect that in that matter I'm pretty typical of older women.
I'm sure there are some women who were supporting Hilary because she was a woman, but to imply that most of the women (and men too for that manner) who supported her will vote for McCain is demeaning to the intellenge of those people. The issues have to matter and there is no question that Obama and Clinton are very close on the issues and that McCain is in another camp entirely.
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Let me confess a bias
[Read the article: Tim Russert, one of the good guys]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I enjoyed watching Tim Russert and when I heard that he had died I felt a genuine grief. I especially enjoyed his Saturday show when he had two guests on with differing opinions and for the most part let them have a civil discussion on their differences.
On the other hand, mostly I do not enjoy reading the letters on a Salon article. I read them because reading them is one way of learning what others think and occasionally I find a real jewel of a posting with well thought out ideas and even some facts.
My assessment of most of the twats who write in this space regualarly, especially those who write in multiple times to a article, is that all that you ever say is "your bias is different than my bias so you are an idiot".
On the subject of allowing time before attacking the dead, I think that it is interesting that early Friday afternoon when I went on line to see if there was a place to send condolences to Tim Russert's family, that all of the postings were condolences (I didn't look at the War Room letters). Yesterday (Saturday) when I checked to see what the online news sources were saying, there were starting to be anti-Tim messages and then today the tide had turned overwhelmingly. So I guess in this day and age, you don't get 30 days, you get 30 hours.