Letters to the Editor
SueNJ97
Published Letters: 173 Editor's Choice: 4
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AKA Smith - President Hutchinson
[Read the article: The dude vote]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Unfortunately, President Hutchinson doesn't exactly do it for me. I have the same policy problems with her that I have with McCain.
I am a registered Independent. I am one because the center has been ripped out of both of the parties. Perhaps this is why I can look at Hillary Clinton and not be disgusted. I am socially liberal, sort of economically conservative. I believe the government has an obligation to try to fix problems that the market doesn't solve - however, I also want them to at least try and figure out how to pay for them. Deficits aren't something I'm fond of. However, I believe it's even worse to have what we have had - people who don't believe in government spending like there is no tomorrow, in some cases, just to prove that government doesn't work or pay off their cronies. Or, running wars 'off the books'. Yeah, thanks.
Hutchinson would be likely to support McCain, or continue his policies with regard to the following:
Appointing more Federal SC Justices in the mold of Roberts/Alito. I don't think these would be Clinton's first choices. I realize many people here think Clinton's a fascist, but Hutchinson is one of the Republicans who is, to even bring up Robert Bork's opinion here, completely inconsistent on the application of the 14th Amendment. She likes the substantive due process part (which was never defined either) being administered and pushed down to the States by the Federal courts because this ensures her rights (including her legal, not more 'personal' privacy rights) stay intact and enforced throughout the legal systems around the country. But, she doesn't want the Federal government administering and enforcing personal privacy rights on the States because she doesn't like certain social policies that result. However, she can't argue that it wasn't defined. Neither was substantive due process. And she's fine w/that.
More likely to keep us in Iraq forever. Clinton's position on withdrawal from Iraq is no different than Obama's. Both are different from McCain's. Both are different than what I've heard Hatchinson say.
There would be no hope of getting anything resolved on health insurance, even anything that made fiscal sense.
I don't see Hutchinson as a centrist - at all.
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Who is Lieberman?
[Read the article: The dude vote]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I always thought Palpatine was the spitting image of Lieberman.
LOL...well, yes. It gets more striking as the years go on and I find it hard to look at him directly for long...however, as with Clinton's ankles and Obama's ears, it's not that that should be held against him. It's the fact that he's channeling Palpatine that would worry me.
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Well, yes, but...
[Read the article: Are Barack Obama and John McCain hypocrites?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As other people have mentioned, they are politicians. BOTH of them. It kind of goes with the territory. Since I never saw Senator Obama as anything other than a politician, although I will vote for him in November, something like this doesn't shock me.
And yes, despite the protestations of people who want to see him as pure as the driven snow, he did say basically, if the Republican nominee will, I will. The Republican nominee will. From the convention on. The way people here are parsing words reminds me of the stuff you guys hate about, well, the Clintons. But, you see, it's OK when it's the candidate you support, the guy who was supposed to be 'different'. Except he's not, and you're not. He's just your guy. And that's OK. But please, get over it. He's a politician and he wants to use private funding. It will be something political, which means it's hypocritical, if he does it. You'd tear Clinton limb from limb if she did it after using the same words on a form that he did. But since it's your guy, it's OK. Just please, own up to it.
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Two cats, perfect blood pressure
[Read the article: Good news for cat ladies!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I work from home, I am looking at the furry ones right now.
Of course, they send my mother's blood pressure into the stratusphere when she visits. They get into everything. But it's my house, my cats.
My blood pressure went down after the felines arrived. They saw me through my layoff, year+ job hunt, loads and loads of rejections, the 30-year-old hiring managers who liked to laugh at me for daring to apply for jobs when I was 'old' at something like 41 and the few years I have spent working for half what I used to make because that's all I could find. The blood pressure has not budged from perfect during the entire time. I say it's the cats.
All Hail Felines!!!!