Letters to the Editor
Ken Erfourth
Published Letters: 138 Editor's Choice: 11
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Thanks for admitting your overt bias toward the Clinton Establishment
[Read the article: Update: Michelle Obama disagrees with me]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"But I still think reporters are far tougher on Clinton than voters are"
Nice subjective opinion there. Maybe the reporters have more nasty things to say about the Clintons because the Clintons are being so nasty? That's my subjective opinion.
You wrote a foolish story claiming Obama 'agreed' with you about the Clintons attacks making him stronger. Many of us "hysterical" Obama supporters called you on it. And guess what?
We're right. Anybody with a few political braincells knew we were right. Obama didn't like being attacked. Nobody likes being attacked. He was smart not to whine about it, and to show that he could handle it, but nobody likes being in a stink fight with a skunk, even if it does hone your skills at hosing the place down with tomato juice afterwards.
Now we're getting tons of Salon headlines about the "racialization" of the contest ("Hey everbody, Obama is only fer the black folks"). And most recently, saturation coverage of this ridiculous moron with the "CitizensUnitedNotTimid" webpage. Shades of the "Iron my Shirts" losers that Hillary spotlighted at her rally, and that the Mediacracy fell all over themselves to publicize the morning of the New Hampshire primary.
Now one idiot with an offensive website selling teeshirts gets huge coverage like he's some sort of movement of Neanderthals (sorry, Neanderthals) opposing our dear female Hillary.
Cluephone ringing; In a country of 300 million people, there are bound to be some pure stinky assholes. It isn't necessary to inflate their pitiful efforts into some kind of movement. Unless you're shilling up a sympathy vote for the candidate of the Establishment.
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Words Fail me
[Read the article: Clinton: I'll take those delegates now, thanks]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Either Hillary Clinton's internal polls show disaster looming, or she is completely without shame.
Where is all the talk about supporting the Party? She had plenty of time to object when the DNC reached its initial (and IMHO, correct) decision to hold Florida and Michigan to the timetable they agreed to this summer.
But now, Hillary is trying to play savior to the cheating State Parties in Michigan and Florida, who, if they would have played by the rules, would be playing a very important role in this tight primary race.
I started this campaign with a preference for Edwards or Obama, but a lot of respect and sympathy for Hillary. That is just being destroyed by the cynical and dishonest character of the Clinton campaign.
One expects leaders to have feet of clay--but who knew they were feet of fresh cowflops?
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Why is Salon publicizing these losers?
[Read the article: More ways to call Hillary Clinton the C-Word ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Let's keep the misogynist Hillary hate-wear coming! Send pics or links to broadsheet@salon.com."
Oh good. So whenever we find some loser who comes up with some crude and stupid way of insulting women and Hillary, we should give them as much publicity as possible.
To what purpose? Attention is what these assholes crave. Giving them publicity will only encourage more of this sort of behavior. In the case of CitizensUnitedNotIntimidated.org, publicity will actually make money for the dickhead behind it.
But Broadsheet wants more, more!
I'm afraid you'll need more than a few crude pottyshirts to make Hillary a sympathetic character. In the meantime, you're empowering a bunch of really vile characters.
Doesn't that make you feel proud?
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I didn't think it was possible, but they pulled it off
[Read the article: Kansas O'Flaherty ... Secret Agent]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]They made it worse.
I actually went back to last week's strip to be sure the hunky guy Kansas seemed to know so well was actually the Joe who was "the fraud".
Guess those weren't lobsters he was packing--maybe just jumbo shrimp?
My kid did a better cartoon book when he was eight years old. And he did the drawing AND the dialog.
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Thanks for the article Gary. The ugliness of some letter writers is frightening.
[Read the article: Bush's delusions die in Gaza]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Gaza can become Switzerland or Hong Kong?
Not when its borders are closed by Israel. Dude, they can't even buy cooking oil! How are they going to become in international trading hub when Israel won't allow anything in or out of the country.
Gaza should figure out how to generate its own power?
Uh, actually they did. Gaza had its own power plants. Israel bombed the main one, and won't allow diesel fuel to cross the border to power the smaller one that remains.
Mubarek is in a bad place right now. He should get control of the situation by creating a trade zone where Gazans and Egyptian merchants can mingle to do business, and establish the control/customs points inside Egyptian territory to prevent a linkup between Hamas and The Muslim Brotherhood.
Then, everyone wins, except Olmert and the Likud in Israel.
And they can go to hell.
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Thanks Gary. Thanks, Obama.
[Read the article: Biracial, but not like me]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks for sharing a little about yourself, Gary. It was a really great article, and felt honest.
Thanks to Obama for his own selflessness and honesty.
We don't have to be mean-spirited and petty. We can become better people.
We can become a great nation again.
Lets all hope and pray for a good day tomorrow.
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Clinton wants debates on her own turf--Faux News!
[Read the article: Clinton campaign continues pressing for debates ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If Clinton wants to debate Obama, then she should quit playing games with Faux News.
Voters in general are sick of shallow media moderators and gotcha questions. We might enjoy a format that allows the candidates to explain their positions and actually educate the audience about what they plan to do.
Getting all pally with her buddy Rupert Murdoch is not the way to do that. If Clinton is so eager for more debates, she ought to let Obama pick the format.
If she's not willing to be part of an impartial forum, then Obama shouldn't feel like he has to give her anything.
She's the one who has run out of money to pay her staffers, after all.