Letters to the Editor
Kevin Riley O'Keeffe
Published Letters: 29 Editor's Choice: 1
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The Weaklings Substandard
[Read the article: Weekly Standard: Bush has "near dictatorial power"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I would compare "The Weekly Standard" (or The Weaklings Substandard, if you prefer; I know I do) to Dr. Julius Streicher's Der Sturmer, but in their own brutal and otherwise flawed way, Dr. Streicher and Adolf Hitler still do represent a form of idealism, however misplaced and distasteful one may regard it. I would never assign such high motives to cretinous vermin such as William Kristol and George W. Bush. For that matter, when people describe (as they often do) so-called neo-"conservatism" as 21st century American fascism, I invariably reply neo-"conservativism" is an entirely separate political phenomenon from fascism. And that its actually a good deal worse.
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Mike Gravel for President
[Read the article: Democrats strike up the show]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Mike Gravel gave the only interesting and sincere performance of the night; even Kucinich was a bore. With people like Clinton, Obama, Edwards, and Biden refusing to say they're opposed to a war with Iran (a war we can't possibly win, short of a draft and/or using nukes), I must agree that some of these people scare me as well. Besides, how could anyone with a soul be pleased by the prospect of Clinton, Obama, and Edwards (the three Yuppie Androids) as the front-runners?
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Yuppie Android gives Servants the Day Off
[Read the article: I saw John Edwards in the shampoo aisle]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If John Edwards is doing his own shopping, you can pretty well assume he's doing it so someone will notice and pen an article like this. How can people be taken in by such transparent propaganda?
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Moron Alert
[Read the article: I saw John Edwards in the shampoo aisle]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I should have added that anyone who thinks it makes sense to spend $400 on a haircut is too stupid to be President. Its a judgement question; does a short-haired man with a $400 haircut look any different than with a $50 haircut? Of course not. Its like when Gary Hart dared the reporters to follow him around, and then went over to his girlfriend's house. I don't trust someone that lame to be President.
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Sarkozy the Neo-Con
[Read the article: It's Sarkozy time!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He'll either turn out to be lying about his plans to crack down on illegal immigration & multiculturalism, in which case he'll energize the National Front, and/or he'll follow through on his economic program, in which case French wages & benefits will go down, while unemployment remains the same (or increases), in which case the socialist left will be energized. One thing is for certain, be it the National Front or the Socialist Party, a different party will be taking the French Presidency in 2012.
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"All My Children"
[Read the article: A cause they've long ago forgotten]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My wife enjoys that program, and I sometimes watch it with her in order to spend more time together, despite the fact I don't really enjoy it. Let me pose a question: What is with all the dipshit names? Babe, Kendall, Spike?
Also, with regard to hair extensions, I think I know why they're so popular: Men can't distinguish between hair extensions and real hair. Women (and probably gay dudes) can, somehow, but we can't (I have never, even one time in my life, been able to indentify a person as wearing hair extensions; I'm forced to take it on faith that such things even exist). Yet my wife can spot them a mile off. But my wife's isn't part of the target audience for hair extensions, while I am. And they fool us men just fine, which is what they're supposed to do. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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Clunker-o-rama
[Read the article: Don't run, Al. Don't!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Democratic candidates suck, quite frankly. I say this as an anti-war conservative who hates Bush so much, I have been a registered Democrat since 2003, and have voted Democratic in the last three congressional elections. Which is to say, I'm the sort of White male swing voter who actually freakin' matters (we'll forget that I live in California, thus nullifying any significance my vote could ever have, never-the-less, guys like me are going to decide who carries states like Ohio and Florida in '08).
The Bush/Cheney administration is so awful, and the at least semi-serious GOP contenders (other than Ron Paul, whom I adore, yet who almost certainly won't be the nominee) so uniformly revolting - I'm speaking of Benito Giuliani, Fred Thompson, "Mitt" Romney (I refuse to believe anyone ever named their child "Mitt"), John McCain, and Mike Huckabee - that I'm actually inclined to vote Democratic in a Presidential election for the first time since 1992 (I've voted for third party & independent candidates ever since).
But if the Democratic Party thinks I'm going to vote for that horrid, shrill, evil, totalitarian gangster, who's only claim to fame is she's the spineless yuppie pseudo-wife of a mediocre, media-hyped, priapatic degenerate of a President, then they've got another think coming. It doesn't matter if I'm right in my loathing of her; 50-55% of the American electorate, including most of the swing voters who actually matter, will always agree with me on this. If you want to win an election, don't nominate a candidate your target audience unformly despises. I have nothing against Barack Obama, other than the fact he's obviously not qualified for the job, but if you think a Black dude raised by a Muslim stepfather, named Barack Hussein Osama, er, I mean "Obama," is going to be elected President next year, you're not very bright. And Edwards is just a sad joke; I wonder what opinions his pollsters have assigned to him this week. That's why the Democrats should nominate Gore, simply because that way, they might not lose. Failing Gore, they should go with Richardson. Jim Webb should be the Veep (or a Gore/Richardson ticket). Anything else, and get used to essentially four more years of Bush/Cheney neo-"conservative" warmongering tyranny and incompetence.