Letters to the Editor
SueNJ97
Published Letters: 220 Editor's Choice: 5
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@mikeinportc
[Read the article: The John McCain "centrism" fallacy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Actually, it does bother ME that McCain is portrayed that way...but, I'm a centrist and I can actually tell the difference. It also pisses me off that most people here, who spend lots of time on threads screaming that centrists are nothing but "Republican-Lite" and think that we are just as evil, but now need our votes to win this November, are angry that he's being portrayed that way. They don't really care except that they are afraid that he might win because of it. They still have mostly contempt for people like me. In their heart of hearts, you see, they don't think there's much of a difference. They are just afraid it might help him win. I'm secretly a collaborator...who refuses to vote for him.
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@Paul Daniel Ash
[Read the article: The John McCain "centrism" fallacy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Because I said I was a centrist, I must want to bomb Iran? Excuse me?
OK. I have said this before and I will say it again. I didn't even support the plan to go into Iraq. WTF would I support bombing Iran - unless we have a hell of a better reason than what you just wrote?
But, what I love is that when we went in, 70% of the country was for it, with many of them screaming at people who were against it. Now, 70% are against it, which means 40% have changed their minds and gee, we forget that, don't we? No they were always against it, or, at least, almost everyone says so. I can actually find my #$%^& posts from the websites at the time, or have you phone my family, who cross party lines, but were all against it.
And, I am really surprised that, in going through the Hillary vs. Obama threads, nobody can recall all the references to centrist, betrayal of Democratic party principals, DLC, and the like. I have to go and find the cites?
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@Paul Daniel Ash
[Read the article: The John McCain "centrism" fallacy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I am talking about the letters sections, where, in general, if you look at the discussions about the candidates, on the democratic side, from the beginning, even when all the condidates were in, there has been a recurring theme among many (not all) posters. We need a 'real' progressive this time. Anyone who looks like a centrist is bad. Centrists are really Republicans-lite. And now, some of those same people who write those letters are on here bitching about McCain being called a centrist. I have an issue with McCain being called a centrist, yes, he is NOT one. I could go though the reasons why, I went through them with my mother when I successfully removed any thoughts she had of voting for him a few weeks ago.
But, people who have been yelling that actual Democrats who were not as progressive as they would have liked were, just evil, over the last several months who are now screaming about this, well, they have no right to complain about it. They are just as responsible. They are only afraid it might help him win - they don't see any real difference. They believe we are ALL evil, just as, many Republicans believe I am going to hell with Osama bin Laden (a direct quote from several) because I'm an atheist and I didn't support the invasion of Iraq (as if the two were linked). I've had it with both sides, and the idocy on here with the concern that he's being painted as something he's not - please. They only care because it might make him more Electable. Not because they don't think centrists are evil too.
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@Chris Dowd
[Read the article: The John McCain "centrism" fallacy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Actually, it's odd. Many kept calling the Bush Administration fascists and, with their love for melding the corporate with the government, there are some elements of fascism there, but, I kept thinking that the whole bunch reminded me of mid-era Soviet Communists with their emphasis on ideological purity, their inability and disinterest in making anything in government work correctly, and way they kept trying to control the message. And, the emphasis on external and internal enemies, it was just really, well, Bolshevik, not just Nazi.
Of course, the Evangelical Christians wouldn't have fit, but, that's the native US influence.
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Re: the Hitchens article
[Read the article: Why John Edwards hasn't endorsed Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Does anyone recall that the Europeans asked the United States, under both the first Bush Administration (the father) and then under the Clinton Administration to leave the former Yugoslavia to them, that it was a European problem and that they, as Europeans, would deal with it? Then they spectacularly failed to do so. I thought people were actually in favor of us listening to our allies. We did. We stayed out. They did nothing and let the situation get entirely out of hand. I am not saying, btw, that the US hasn't done this elsewhere. However, in this case, the US, under the Bush 41 and the Clinton administrations, was doing what it had been asked to do by its European allies. Then, finally, NATO, including the US, did something after the Europeans on their own, didn't act. They didn't go beyond their UN mandate, it turns out the UN mandate was inadequate.
But, I thought (1) listening to your allies and (2) obeying UN mandates was something people on here were for. Or not????