Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 111 Editor's Choice: 3
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So the difference is this:
[Read the article: White House: Obama too "intellectually lazy" to work here]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]To have a STUPID intellectually lazy arrogant supercilious rich kid sonofabitch whose daddy bought him the chair in the Oval Office as president?
Or a very intelligent intellectually lazy supercilious poor boy who rose more or less on his own?
Damn -- decisions decisions decisions.
It doesn't matter -- when it comes right down to it, the Dem party voters will reject the intelligent white female and the intelligent black High School debate champ and vote for John Edwards, the intelligent white southern male. This is not an endorsement as such, altho we could do a lot worse (and ARE), just an observation of the dynamics and a prediction of where they'll lead.
As to the general election, well there's the intellectually lazy Fred Thompson, the intellectually lazy and nasty Rudy Giuliani, and the Ken Doll Mit Romney (and maybe the Republican version of Jason, presumed dead, but rising from his swamp to spew his opinions all over -- the intellectually lazy -- anyone who's ever read any of the books he refers to and quotes from knows he didn't actually read them -- Newt Gingrich).
And none of that matters since the voters elect presidents who have these two characteristics:
The one who appears to be
(1) tougher, and (2) having a good time.
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Another pissant everyone seems to be afraid to let speak
[Read the article: Turning Ahmadinejad into public enemy No. 1]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's not as if we don't have our own head of state who talks trash, acts like a sociopath, and is totally willing to destabilize the world for his own bizarre scenario.
Our government has been run for way too long by rich and powerful people taking our money and killing our soldiers and their (whomever) civilians because of what they're afraid of.
If he's a doofus, let him talk all he wants -- and record and publish it all.
There's an old Chinese adage -- "A dragon is only a dragon, but men can make it into a god."
Well, a demon IS a kind of a god.
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Well, I was right
[Read the article: Turning Ahmadinejad into public enemy No. 1]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Watched the speech and Q&A and other than a few interesting things, Ahmadinejad proved his doofus-osity maginificently.
A great thing for all of us to see that this fellow is/was flinging his BS from just as high up on the most vague rung of the Ladder of Abstraction (Freedom, Independence, etc) as our own leaders.
Unfortunatey, the President of Columbia firmly established his own doofus-osity with a churlish, petty, and insulting introduction.
And Mitch McConnell did the same thing in the halls of Freedom and Liberty.
And of course, while MSNBC ran the whole thing, CNN felt obliged to interrupt and bring in an expert who accurately characterized the intro as a frontal attack and insulting and then attack HIM for saying that.
And the Dean, fielding questions displayed a mind of unmplumbed shallows by asking such stupid and superficial questions as what he wanted to accomplish by coming to Columbia ("I was invited."), why would he want more study of the Holocaust and what would he say at Ground Zero.
In short, we pretty much expected Ahmadinejad to blow smoke, but it was embarrassing to see that our media and educators and legislators are/were so insecure and have so little respect for the intelligence of students and population as to not be able to handle the brief talk of someone whom, we knew, was NOT a nice guy and did NOT see things from the same perspective as we do, and that our people would obviously prefer to put fingers in ears and sing "Yah Yah Yah Yah I Can't Hear You..."
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And the difference between this and the Moveon.org Petraeus ad?
[Read the article: Fox News' attack on the honor and integrity of our war generals]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The difference?
The Petreaus ad ASKED A QUESTION -- DID (or WILL) the general betray us?
FOX news doesn't ask, it throws down in no uncertain terms (the way a bunch of neocon tough talking heads who somehow never managed to serve in the military can) that THOSE GENERALS WHO WOULD INTERFERE WITH OUR LINE SOLDIERS' RIGHT TO COMMIT WAR CRIMES are TRAITORS.
This is a more or less traditional kind of military crime.
In post-truce Korea, it was a way to break the monotony of guard duty -- Marines in the towers on the DMZ would wave cartons of cigarettes to N. Koreans on the other side, wave to them cheerily, in a friendly fashion to cross the Deadline, as if to say "Come on -- we know you're not a spy or a soldier, just some poor farmer."
And -- according to my fencing partner in college, the ex-Marine who told me about what he and the other guards used to do to relieve the boredom, would, of course, blow the peasant away as soon as he took one step into the free-fire zone of the DMZ. (I didn't go into combat when my turn came around, although we DID shoot across the estuary at the sailors when doing guard duty at MCRD San Diego. But they were armed and did the same to us.)
It was criminal behavior then and it's criminal behavior now. But in the age of cell-phones and other video cameras, we're seeing an evolutionary imperative in war crimes -- ONLY the more intelligent thoughtful criminal will be able to get away with it. (Hey, Nixon was a smart guy, but he didn't understand how tape recorders and Xerox machines changed the crook's universe.)
Fox news' problem? They don't go HIGH ENOUGH UP THE CHAIN OF COMMAND to point the finger and call it treason -- like all the way to the Commander-in-Chief. (Because he's one of THEIR boys.)