Letters to the Editor
AnnieW
Published Letters: 1189 Editor's Choice: 31
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More oil on the fire
[Read the article: Michael Mukasey's tearful lies]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thing's GG's regular posters regularly disagree on (besides prostitution).
The "I" word was the obvious one, but you have to add third party candidates (either Libertarian or Green), 9/11 stuff, atheism, Obama v. Clinton (or Clinton v. Obama), Ron Paul, Huckabee, gun control, the military, the draft, etc.
Most of the regulars here do agree that we do like the "rule of law" but still think that some laws are draconian (drug laws) and should be changed, scrapped, modified, etc.
I see very few posters support the unitary executive except the regular RW posters, and somehow I think they'll lose their enthusiasm for it if it were in Hillary or Obama's hands.
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@bucky
[Read the article: Michael Mukasey's tearful lies]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well, it would be easy to put all these disagreements to an end; I could write a post explaining why everyone else is wrong;
I think I've already read that post of yours...in fact, more than once. (big grin)
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Accountability
[Read the article: Quote of the day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Unfortunately, most people I know are all about everyone else being accountable for their problems and troubles, just not their own. Why should this be different for their children?
We want children to be taught and objectively graded...unless it means John gets a "C" or worse, actually fails. This is in third grade when the parents have already determined that John "needs" to graduate from Harvard Med School in order to be a success, and this one average grade ruins everything. If John isn't perfect, it reflects poorly on them...so it must be the teacher's fault, the grading system, testing irregularities, etc.
It's not a "Left" or "Right" issue, though the "Right" talks tougher in general, they just don't mean it for their own kids. They suggest things like breaking the teacher's union which would make it even easier to fire a teacher that wasn't grade inflating or teaching to the test...both things that make them feel proud of their kid in the short term.
I'm glad I don't have kids in school today.
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Zelikow's response
[Read the article: Why doesn't the 9/11 Commission know about Mukasey's 9/11 story?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Now why was Zelikow so much better in his response (basically, saying Mukasey is pulling something out of thin air just doesn't want to use the dreaded word "lie") than Hamilton was?
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Penn & Abramoff
[Read the article: Penn attended meeting on trade deal Clinton opposes]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hmm, it seems the best way to make a ton of money is get it to get $$$ from both sides in a dispute.
Sounds alot like what Abramoff did with Native American casino interests.... See how well that worked out for him, at least in the short term, that is.
Hillary keeping Penn is disturbing to me on many levels, this just adds to it.
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Spreading the risk...
[Read the article: Bear Stearns: "Too interlinked to fail"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well,the way this has played out, it seems more like the risk has been centralized, not spread.
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@Publican
[Read the article: Why doesn't the 9/11 Commission know about Mukasey's 9/11 story?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]SO please, focus on the FISA issue and drop the lie allegation on 9/11.
So as predicted on page one of the comments, the excuse will be that it's just a parable.
Let's say that you are 100% correct, the problem with that is the parable keeps being repeated until it becomes seen as the truth. How many Americans before the Iraq war thought that Saddam was somehow behind 9/11? And yet most of the WH and the war supporters deny that they ever pushed that, everyhting they said was just comparisons, what if's, etc.
Mukasey is not some hack, he chooses his words carefully, he was playing the room for suckers, and us, too.
If it wasn't the truth, just a "what if" moment, he needs to immediately clarify that position, otherwise he's a liar.
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@Winkandanod re: War Room
[Read the article: Penn attended meeting on trade deal Clinton opposes]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Unfortunately, no matter what blogs you read, the Clinton v. Obama taunts have taken over, no matter how off topic. It's certainly not unique here and I don't know what would be the right way to contain it.
Over at Firedoglake, one frustrated moderator creating a poo flinging thread awhile back and requested every one who wanted to just taunt stay there and stop disrupting all threads with their shit.
I'm in the camp that believes ignoring trolls (and some of the supporters in both camps have clearly gone that route) is the best solution, but it's truly hard.
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@Jebbie
[Read the article: The U.S. establishment media in a nutshell]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It doesn't take bowling (or any other type of) balls to order other men into battle whether that battle be dropping bombs from 60,000 feet, launching missles from afar, or slogging through the mud on foot with nothing but a rifle.
It certainly doesn't. And has been pointed out on so many other threads, the RW that seems to really go for the manly man image, um, to put it delicately, fall seriously short.
Off topic, I just finished reading OIL! by Upton Sinclair and the similarites of what we are going through today to the 20's is mind boggling...and that definitely includes the complicit media.
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Correction
[Read the article: The U.S. establishment media in a nutshell]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I said RW when I meant RW cheerleaders...
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AP love letter
[Read the article: The Associated Press fails to reveal Mukasey's favorite color]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That story really was over the top...and so newsworthy.
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Religion aside
[Read the article: The Associated Press fails to reveal Mukasey's favorite color]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This was a puff piece, adding Mukasey's religion would scare some of the red meat conservatives and middle of the country folks who this is article is supposed to reassure.
Now if he had been a Methodist or Episcopalian...that would have had to be mentioned. The powers that be are beginning to recognize that fundamentalist Christian, Catholics and Jews all carry their own baggage, depending on who is being targetted with an ad, and that's what this was.
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Don't forget elitist...
[Read the article: The Associated Press fails to reveal Mukasey's favorite color]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]never mind Mukasey, the Clintons are rich!
But Guiliani is a law and order guy, McCain is an affable, moderate good guy, down to earth, tons of $$$ but it came from his beautiful wife so it's okay, Bush is a down home Texas cowboy, Cheney is, never mind, the press doesn't even try with him, too scary for even them to spin.
Clinton, Obama, Gore, Kerry, Edwards, etc. we all know are rich elitist snobs who hate America.
This piece on Mukasey just reads from a script, can you imagine this article being pushed about Janet Reno?