Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 60 Editor's Choice: 1
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Don't you mean bigots, rednecks and old farts?
[Read the article: What Pennsylvania tells us]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Please do not take Pennsylvania as a microcosm of America. Perhaps the most bigoted redneck and ignorant state in the union,this is the state that gave us Arlen Specter and Rick Santorum. The average age in this state is OLD and its mostly OLD WOMEN. No surprise Clinton, with her Muslim hints, her racist hints, her appeal to old angry white women and her "he's too rich to get it" hints to a bunch of losers went over well. They are too dumb to realize she is the pathological liar who has lived in the governor's mansion for 12 years, the White House for 8 years and a multi-million dollar New York mansion for the last 8 years. That's 28 years out of touch with reality.
As for the big states - how would Hillary do if those primaries were held today? She won those states when Obama was relatively unknown. Why not take a poll in New York and California now? I doubt Clinton would come out on top in either state after all her racist innuendos.
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WRONG AGAIN....
[Read the article: Is Obama really standing up for gay rights?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I watched the Gay Debate on Logo. Barack Obama was the only candidate who said gays were equal to straights in every way, and thus had to be treated equally under the law. He supports gay civil union/marriage, adoption, employment and housing protection. He notably said, Gays are entitled to all the rights, protections and privileges received by any other American - no exceptions.
Apparently it concerns you that Barack Obama has friends and/or supporters who disagree with him. Imagine, he can actually allow people who do not agree with him to be in his campaign. I agree that while Clinton and Bush want everyone who disagrees with then executed, or at the very least imprisoned. But that's a bad thing, isn't it? Isn't the fact that Obama can stand among people who disagree with him and still strongly express his positions admirable? Isn't it what we would expect from someone who has evolved beyond the reptilian brain?
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STARTING WITH A FLAWED ASSUMPTION
[Read the article: Whose fault is the Clinton-Obama stalemate?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Your article starts with the flawed assumption that both candidates started on an equal footing. This is not true. Hillary Clinton started as the presumptive nominee, with the entire Democratic establishment and the Clinton machine behind her. Obama started with a message, very little money and almost none of the establishment behind him.
Hillary's wins almost all came - until recently - because she was the presumptive nominee of the party. She was, by her own words, inevitable, but she would allow the formality of a vote. No one seemed capable of dethroning her.
As Barack emerged in Iowa and South Carolina - many including me - wondered what was going on. The Edwards dropped out of the race and Obama went on to 14 straight victories. When he lost, it was by very narrow margins. When he won, his margins were often stunning.
Still, the establishment stayed in Hillary's corner, with very few defectors emerging. Privately there were rumblings, and some super delegates revealed the Clintons were threatening any defectors would be brutally punished.
The problem with the democrats has always been a lack of balls and backbone. The Super Delegates tremble in the wings, not wanting to make a decision. Hillary who does not have a snow balls chance in hell of winning legitimately has begun new math: only large states she has won should be counted. Primaries that wer enot sanctioned, and where Obama's name was not even on the ballot should be counted. Women voters should get reparations...
Except on NPR, there has been little mention of the voter fraud in New York State. No votes for Obama in Harlem, for example. Really? No blacks voted for Obama in Harlem. Interesting - especially since tens of thousands say they did. Shades of another Bush Presidency - this time in a pant suit.
Look, Hillary is a proven pathological liar, as is her charming if daffy husband. Haven;t we had enough of lies and liars? I came late to the Obama Campaign, but knowing Hillary and McCain as well as I do, he is the only hope America has left. For me, that makes his campaign close to inevitable.
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Please - could we talk about the issues and not this SH:T!
[Read the article: Keith Olbermann apologizes for his Clinton remark]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Enough said.
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ALL WRITERS HAVE DOUBTS
[Read the article: Writing is in my blood, but how do I know if I'm any good?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The best advice I ever received was from Stephen King who said edit your work as much as you possibly can. Edit it until you cannot remove one more line, one more word. Then your writing will have power and people will want to read it. I always tell my students and friends, give someone your first page and ask them what they think. If they say it is good, it's crap. If they ask for the rest, it's good.
I have a friend who one the Pulitzer Prize for literature when he was in his twenties. Nothing he has written since has - in the eyes of critics - measured up. I have another friend who has written and published nearly 100 novels - all romance - and lives with the fear she has never written anything enduring.
The young man needs to realize the arts are no place to seek affirmation or approval. Writers are revered but not loved. Write one bad book and the public will crucify you. Write a great one and you only buy yourself a little time until you have to do it all over again.
My advice is choose a different career for money and affirmation and let writing be your mistress. If you do that, you will always love her.
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CRINGE
[Read the article: Writing is in my blood, but how do I know if I'm any good?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Naturally, I did not edit or proof that letter. CRINGE!