Letters to the Editor
Reality-based Liberal
Published Letters: 774 Editor's Choice: 100
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Maybe the Democrats would be better
[Read the article: How the Democrats blew it]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]While I believe Hillary Clinton would act against my interests as president, I admit that I expect she would be better than Giuliani. That said, we short-attention-span progressives have forgotten an important matter: we never fixed our “fixable” election system. With the stakes as high as they are for the neo-cons, with a more compliant media, and with a public conditioned to powerlessness, a bogus Giuliani win is a real threat.
Scary thought experiment: Assume that those with the power (and perhaps experience) to exploit of our voting systems made the tactical decision to let the Dems barely take over in ’06, in order to stall the political will to eliminate their opportunities for vote fraud. Would that tactical decision have been a good one in retrospect? (Consider, legislative results are unchanged and no one is going to repair our electoral apparatus before next November.)
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Too Bad About Obama
[Read the article: Obama: I was right from the start]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He could have been a clear headed liberal that showed voters and the media that there is support for sanity. Instead he has squandered his political capital as quickly as the US did after 9/11 by mounting the most unoriginal centrist campaign -- a campaign that failed to distinguish him from the better known Clinton.
Now, thanks to his failure, we voters are probably stuck with Clinton for a candidate in the general election and she's going to have to win without my vote, and the many others who are done voting against their interests just to keep someone slightly worse out of office. My vote the only political tool I have for improving the Democrats, so I don't really see that I have a choice but to go off the board on the presidential race.
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Yes, but...
[Read the article: Limbaugh's "phony soldier" becomes a suicide bomber]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Don't forget, Limbaugh didn't suggest that a general playing politics and spinning Bush's view of the war had betrayed the nation and his uniform. So Limbaugh's hands are clean. Get with the program!
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If this is not evil, what is?
[Read the article: The Decider has decided]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sure it's funny; we have to laugh to keep going, and were it satire, it might be over the top.
But consider that the most powerful man on the planet is not only an outrageous liar, but feels safe enough to be a terrible one too (and why not?).
These statements not only contradict the public record, but apply Bush's own crimes to his opponents, taking away their power to indict him. (Media: "Both sides blame the other for acrimony, attacking speech, hurting the troops, fill-in-the-blank.")
It is not enough to take the public for a ride, the Bush crowd wants to destroy any tools we have to help ourselves (e.g. democracy, civic and civil society, transparency, discourse). To hold the public in such contempt suggests zero loyalty to this nation and its people. Indeed, enemies of the state are in charge -- and they don't even bother to hide that fact; we do it for them.
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Liberals have this all wrong
[Read the article: Larry Craig and "moral turpitude"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Shame on our glee in Craig's case -- we sure are weaklings.
Our president is committing war crimes around the world and openly lying about them. Congress is bought and paid for by coal, auto, oil, banking, arms and healthcare industries -- with even Democrats suppressing anything that seriously threatens these entities. Oh, but what a hoot trying to promote the embarrassment of Larry Craig!
What did he do? Whatever his craven politics, he lives in a homophobic society where his curiosity or outright gay proclivities drove him to reach out to prostitutes in an airport bathroom. This is sad. This says a sad thing about our nation. He should have been able to satisfy his curiosity, or lust, whichever, long ago in an open manner. The fact that he can't, and the liberals are celebrating this while a near-dictator drives us toward fascism, suggest just how pathetic the "progressive resistance" is in our nation. It’s broken, weak and self loathing.
Shame.
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Hey nancerich
[Read the article: Larry Craig and "moral turpitude"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You are an asshole.
Not only are you completely arrogant, but you show yourself to be a flakey know nothing.
First off, you talk about my "pet issue" -- what issue is that? I raised many, all on the top of America's radar, unlike Craig.
Second, you suggest that scoring political points off of Craig's sad situation is "walking and chewing gum." What the fuck? "Hey," says nancerich, "we can exploit bullshit and care about our crumbling nation at the same time -- why should Republicans be the only hypocrites?" What an unprincipled way to look at things.
Finally, your attitude that we should all just root for the BLUE TEAM, like somehow 60 votes is going to end this war, let alone bring about the government that most people would support, is just sheer fantasy. Not only that, it's like the Democrats are your sports team and you can't see past that to glimpse the reality based world. They are just politicians, and they have to oppose Bush, but that doesn't mean that they have to oppose his owners, which are their owners.
Enjoy playing your values-free game of pong, nancerich. Thanks to people like you we'll never get a Democratic party that represents the public.
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Don't waste time on folks like anonymous
[Read the article: Larry Craig and "moral turpitude"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He is contending that Bush isn't lying about his duties as president to the Congress and the public. This is an absurd claim. Bush tells more lies than truth. Anonymous is a distraction. People like this just try to muddy the waters. "Hey, argue with me! I believe in the Great Pumkin!"
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Right on, heyjude
[Read the article: Brownback: Censure for Craig?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is sad and pathetic -- both Craig's having to solicit in an airport bathroom and our fixation on it because it could get us a couple points in the election.
If exploiting some third rate senator's sexual problems is our best bet at winning -- at a time when fascism is on the march -- then I'd say both the progressive movement and the Democratic Party are serious pansies.