Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 264 Editor's Choice: 7
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@peace-now
[Read the article: Playing soldier]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]remember, those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.
hang in there - a lot more people emphasize with you than you might realize. your feelings are why we have memorial day...
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as i've said before - the hits keep coming
[Read the article: A new low in Clinton bashing]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Inflammatory stories like this are all about the page views and hits that increase the revenue Salon.com can earn from banner ads.
It doesn't have to be fair or make sense, as long as it boosts web traffic.
I like reading Glenn Greenwald, the comics are good, and Ask The Pilot is a favorite. Joan Walsh, on the other hand, requires regular doses of eye-bleach.
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i think camille just wants...
[Read the article: Obama's best veep choice]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... to fuck Daniela Mercury!
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had to check the headline twice
[Read the article: Confessions of a salvia eater]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]thought it said 'saliva', not 'salvia'... ;-)
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my letter to Obama's campaign spokesman
[Read the article: Obama's support for the FISA "compromise"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]TO: William Burton, Spokesman
Obama for President Campaign
Sir,
I am quite dismayed that Sen. Obama has decided not to oppose the FISA legislation pending in the US Senate. I really expected more from him. I had supported his candidacy up to now, voting for him in the Virginia Democratic Primary and contributing frequently to the campaign.
I am writing to tell you personally that I will not vote in the general presidential election and have removed the solicitation email address from my address list. Any future messages and requests for funds from Obama's campaign will bounce. I am frequently asked by friends and peers to weigh in on political issues, and as far as I am concerned, this position is a total sellout for conservative votes. I intend to actively encourage everyone I know to sit out the 2008 presidential campaign and withhold their vote. I have blind-copied them on this letter.
I find it incomprehensible that Democrats would bow to the Bush administration's now successful attempt to cover up their efforts to break the law and wiretap US citizens without a warrant. The telecommunications companies were being sued in federal court by US citizens who will now have their rights abrogated by the US Congress, all in the name of the phony war on terror. There is a minority of folks in this country who see this sham war and the war in Iraq for what it really is: a means to subjugate dissent and enrich military contractors at the expense of the US taxpayer.
Sen. Obama has squandered a golden opportunity to explain why FISA in its present form is more than adequate to protect the nation from terrorism. He could have cleared up the obfuscation and misinformation being propagandized from the right. Sadly, Sen. Obama has chosen to forgo honorable actions for political expediency.
I am fairly certain that the pending FISA legislation, which contains ex post facto attempts to allow illegal acts on the part of government officials and private companies, would not hold up if reviewed by an impartial Supreme Court. Sadly, the US Supreme Court is not impartial, as the 2000 Florida election debacle has proven. Our civil rights, fought for by our founding fathers, are being gradually eroded and discarded in the name of political expediency.
Perhaps Sen. Obama has forgotten that Martin Luther King was a victim of illegal wiretapping by the FBI. Words cannot adequately express my disappointment in the position taken by your candidate. Actions, however, can.
I expect to receive some kind of canned form letter response to this email, but at least I will have said my piece before pulling the plug on my support for your candidate's campaign.
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sorry, Obama lost my vote...
[Read the article: Why Clinton voters will come back to the fold]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...when he caved on FISA. I am sitting out this election. I voted for Obama in the primary and contributed money, but I'm done.
I think people will be profoundly surprised and ultimately disappointed when they discover that Sen. Obama is the most typical presidential candidate since Bill Clinton.
The psychological phenomena known as 'projecting' applies here - people see what they want, until they wake up and realize otherwise.
In my opinion, he had his chance to 'uphold the Constitution' by speaking truth to FISA, and he waffled in order to capitulate to the right.
Folks, if he's not gonna do it before he's elected, he sure won't do it afterwards...
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the ultimate air travel weapon...
[Read the article: Ask the pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...is a CD or DVD - if you break one in half, it becomes sharper than a razor.
after posting this I fully expect CDs and DVDs to be banned as carry on items...
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everyone who has read this story...
[Read the article: Exposing Bush's historic abuse of power]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...is now being tracked. the truth is out there. forget about seeing it anytime soon, though.
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i'm worried...
[Read the article: "The X-Files: I Want to Believe"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]i never agree with stephanie, and i want to believe that this is a good movie...
goodbye $18...
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i guess my wife's a trendsetter
[Read the article: In defense of casual sex]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]we never have casual sex...
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i'd hate to be at work with some of the trolls here
[Read the article: Opus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Some of you folks take this shit much too seriously.
It's an existentialist comic strip. Charles Schultz is dead.
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reagan started it
[Read the article: This Modern World]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]…when he called ketchup a vegetable, and casual drug users “murderers” while sending arms to the contras and South American death squads.
Ok, sorry to pick on Reagan - though I despised him when he was in power and I am disgusted by how the right reveres the man. He was not universally loved in his day.
Ever since "Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Clara_County_v._Southern_Pacific_Railroad) determined that corporations have the same rights as individuals, our real rights have been steadily eroded.
"Remember the Maine?" It’s not so much that our leaders are stupid, but rather that they encourage public fear and ignorance in order to cover up evidence of their crimes.
Those of us who grew up during the Watergate era were fortunate enough to witness how the "press" was supposed to protect us from egregious power grabs. If today’s press had been operating during Watergate, Spiro T. Agnew would have presided over the Bicentennial.
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Love it!
[Read the article: Tom the Dancing Bug]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]my brain feels like it's floating in a beaker this morning - or maybe a coffeepot...
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"Blue Velvet"
[Read the article: And the next great American beer will be...? ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Frank Booth: What kind of beer do you like to drink, neighbor?
Jeffrey Beaumont: Heineken.
Frank Booth: Heineken? Fuck that shit! Pabst Blue Ribbon!