Letters to the Editor
AnnieW
Published Letters: 1189 Editor's Choice: 31
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@Willard
[Read the article: Committee votes to accept Michigan compromise]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I look at him and all I do is flash back to McGovern and Carter.
Fair enough. He's not your ideal, neither Hillary or Obama were mine.
I can honestly say that given a choice between Carter, McGovern, Obama, Hillary, etc. vs. a third term of Dubya's policies and a reworking of the Supreme Court, I would take ANY of them and all their flaws over McSame.
You are entitled to your vote and I hope you do not have children who might very well have to fight in new preemptive wars.
BTW, I don't see Carter as a huge failure, he was done in by some very shady dealings with Iran by the Reagan campaign. The same people that brand him a failure tell you that we were this close to "winning" Vietnam. A nuke dropped over there would have saved many people from dreaded communism, I guess.
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Compromises
[Read the article: Committee votes to accept Michigan compromise]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you are not sure which one will do the most harm in the long run.
I am. The worst possible scenario is McCain. Without fail. Even a Republican called him "Cheney on steroids" and that's frightening.
You at least are honest that you think that Obama is too moderate. The Republican talking point of "most liberal" is a scam, as any one paying attention knows. This is my biggest fear about him, too.
As far as Hillary, I think her and her husband (health care notwithstanding) were big time compromisers, too. I know her husband's views, which is not a fair way to judge her, but other than that, all I have is the same reference points as Obama's. Her actions as a junior Senator.
Her vote for Kyl-Lieberman was what ruined her as my favored candidate. It can be used as justification to go after Iran the same way the Iraq resolution was used to go after Iraq. She was supposedly fooled once, okay, how could she be tricked twice? She's too smart for me to buy that.
If she pulls this off, I'll vote for her. You can de facto vote for McCain if you want. How bad could it be?
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@AnaHadWolves
[Read the article: Viva Hillary Clinton!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you were just offended by McGregor's insult, fine, that's your call.
If you think you need to defend ShawnM, maybe you should have read some very disgusting posts of his that were yanked to understand some of the vitriol flung his way. He's not worth defending.
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Take your own advice
[Read the article: The new math in Florida and Michigan]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Go over to Talk Left if you need to vent with rational, sane people.
Though I imagine you'll embarass the legitimate Hillary supporters over there, too. But I guess that's your plan.
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@Joanna
[Read the article: Big weekend news]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No, the actual issues do not matter to people like NewYork, it's only the person they care about, not what Hillary stands for.
Abortion rights, habeus corpus, social security, more war, etc...stuff like that, that stuff is unimportant, it's trivial. Don't you realize that someone on the Obama side was mean to Hillary. Some anon poster that likes Obama made fun of an anon Hillary poster. Chris Matthews was biased.
Screw the rest of the stuff, there's principle invloved!
Let's hope there's an equal amount of idiots on the Republican side that will throw away their votes on Bob Barr to balance it out.
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Castro
[Read the article: AIPAC conference reignites fight between McCain and Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]See, if we don't talk to them they get forced out of power...oh, wait.
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9/11 money & bailouts
[Read the article: Say goodbye to that SUV in the sky]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The two major airlines that actually suffered physical losses on 9/11 got squat.
American Airlines didn't apply for the loans...the terms were too onerous.
United wanted them, somehow didn't qualify for the aid, which were actually loan guarantees, not grants. United went BK instead.
The money went to weird places, like an independent tourist helicopter operation in Hawaii.
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Needs
[Read the article: The mother-daughter wars]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's impossible to meet all your children's imagined "needs", ever single child differs.
I'm one of three daughters. If my stepmother had met all of my sister's needs, the other two of us would have to have not existed. She "needed" all of the attention all the time, 100% would probably still have not been enough. My mother having to go back to work when my father got sick was seen as further rejection. It wasn't fair...but she thought having her period wasn't "fair" either.
RW is striking me that way.
Hearing the details of RW's pregnancy (already married older Dad, guru, etc.) would have less than thrilled me, too, whether she was my daughter or my best friend.
Loving someone doesn't mean having to be joyful of every decision they make.
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@always learning
[Read the article: The mother-daughter wars]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What I wish is that feminism really were about choices and that women would have children if the want them and don't have children if they don't want them.
It is. That's what it boils down to and even if RW resents her mother for her upbringing, AW helped bring about the world where RW could do whatever the hell she wanted.