Letters to the Editor
kezaezy
Published Letters: 10
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Somebody call campus police
[Read the article: Poor, poor Gonzales]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What's so infuriating about Gonzales (and every other member of the Bush-bunch from Rumsfeld and Bolton to McClellan and Snow) is his disdain for his own job. What is it with these guys? They sigh, they slump, they shrug their shoulders like a bunch of college-age scofflaws.
Gonzales! This is not traffic court and you are not speaking to Wayne the hearing officer about your unpaid parking tickets! You have been entrusted to protect that which defines us as a country and you have trashed it, you stupid mofu you.
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Spinning the spin
[Read the article: Limbaugh's latest: Let's bully journalists!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This guy built a career on digging up dirt, slanting it, tainting it, smearing it and lying about it... doing whatever he wants, and his minions never examine it. Ironic, eh?
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It's not about MLK
[Read the article: The Clinton-Obama contest gets rougher]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hillary's remark about Martin Luther King Jr. wasn't about MLK at all. It was a statement about the office of the presidency. As 'the decider,' the president can ram a thing through (see Iraq War, Domestic Eavesdropping and Terri Schiavo) or cock-block a thing (see Bin Laden Determined to Strike in the US, Stem Cell Research and Joe WIlson). It's ridiculous to even think she would try to take the Civil Rights movement away from African Americans. Why would she?
And I think that most of the hysterical pundits out there know it.
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We're embarrassing ourselves
[Read the article: The return of the Rev. Wright]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]OK. It's official. I'm as sick to death of the parsing of Wright's words (followed by the parsing of Obama's response to Wright's words; followed by the parsing of Wright's response to Obama's response.... ) as I was of the parsing of Bill Clinton's blow job.
My fellow white Americans: Please let us wrap our tiny little ethnocentric brains around this alternate version of the American experience. We are being asked to rise to an intellectual occasion. We are being invited into a a thoughtful and, dare I say 'deep' conversation about race and class in America.
But instead of hearing the point being made, we're obsessing about the tone of voice being used.
Must Obama (to paraphrase Denzel Washington in the movie "Philadelphia") explain everything to us like we're two year olds?
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And another thing...
[Read the article: The return of the Rev. Wright]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]May I ask what you watched on TV last night? How many mind-numbing, wasted hours did you spent in front of the boob tube soaking in The O'Reilley Factor, American Idol, The Biggest Loser, I Love New York, Wheel of Fortune, Trading Spouses, etc, etc etc. And how many times in, say, a year, did you return to those shows and to their "messages?" Do I get to hold your feet to the fire for the snarky comment made by Simon Cowell? Or the racist/sexist/homophobic comment made by Bill O'Reilley... simply because you listened... again, and again, and again?
Obama is a gift to us. Will we accept? I fear that, ultimately, we will reject it. Take the McTurd instead. Let's hope we don't have to wait another 40 years for another such leader to appear.
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Lame
[Read the article: Touché, Senator McCain]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]John McLame.
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Dear America,
[Read the article: Edwards: "Being 99 percent honest is no longer enough"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ok. Whatever. Who cares?
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Not with me
[Read the article: A pre-convention memo to Hillary Clinton]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]49-year-old white woman here. I'm about one hot-flash away form renouncing my demographic group.
I had thought this brand of political petulance a right-wing disease. To see so many of my smart, courageous, creative sistahs turn into intractable zealots is disappointing beyond belief. I expect this sort of spite from an Ann Coulter or Bill O'Reilly. But et tu?
BTW, you realize that Joe Conason was (probably still is) a Hillary fan... right?
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Does thsi dress make me look depressed?
[Read the article: Bush officials sneak-attack nation's wildlife]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Paradox, thank you for keeping score. I don't have the brain storage-capacity for the volume of Bush corruption and chicanery we’ve been served.
And you are right. It's hard to work up a good head of steam anymore. Ya know, the Republicans are coming to town soon and I'm trying to decide whether to tote my signs to St. Paul and protest. The reason I can't decide is I don't know what it is I'm protesting anymore. Everything? Their very existence?
I’ve been to every rally and signed every petition (protesting the items on your list and more). I’ve written countless letters-to-the-editor and put my representatives on speed dial.
…like so many other Americans.
But what have we accomplished? What have we prevented? Forgive my cynicism (and I do reserve a little bit of ‘yes-we-can’ hope) but it’s all for shit.
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Who is Sarah palin?
[Read the article: Who is Sarah Palin?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... Michele Bachman.