Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 113 Editor's Choice: 3
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Obama turns out to be a schmuck like the rest... sells Wesley Clark down that river by asskissing the illiterates...
[Read the article: Tuesday's campaign roundup]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I thought, at least, he was literate -- but what a putz --
Wesley Clark NEVER denigrated John McCain's service ("A hero to me, to thousands and hundreds of thousands and millions of people...")
All he said was that flying a plane and getting shot down is, in and of itself, not enough to qualify a person to be commander in chief. I have yet to hear any of the talking heads mention that General Clark was not only a General but also Supreme Commander of NATO who served in that role IN COMBAT in the Balkans .. and ended that war.
Are we so slavishly worshipful of Senator McCain's courage and strength during his time as a hideously treated POW that we can't actually think "DID that qualify him for anything but our admiration and respect?" Of course character is important, but Wesley Clark -- a man who's been there and done that -- is speaking from experience when he says there's really no substitute for having been in command of an army.
Is that such a terrible thing to say?
Is Barack Obama so thoroughly sold out ALREADY that he can't even speak up to correct the completely false impression of what was said?
Fuck him.I thought we'd get at least a bit more time before he'd betray our trust... doesn't matter if he change his position, but to agree to misunderstand the words of one of his supporters is seriously vile. More like Hillary Clinton or Mitt Romney or Rudolph Giuliani than someone we thought was speaking with a new voice and holding up a new standard.
I can already see John McCain with that animatronic Vril -- Mitt Romney -- running the table and then McCain, dropping dead, leaving us with a President who sings "I am a mechanical boy... I am my mother's toy."
So much for the New Boss NOT being the same as the old boss...
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Dear Bearpaw1 -- I NEVER said I thought Obama would be as bad as George Wanker Bush
[Read the article: Tuesday's campaign roundup]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I just said I was disappointed to see him play to the people who attack based on a snippet of a statement taken out of context, even when the entire statement means the exact opposite.
Please -- if anyone EVER needed proof of the falsity of "It doesn't matter who gets elected," George Bush -- in the only thing he's done for the country in 8 years -- has proven it DOES matter a great deal who gets elected by making himself a cautionary tale what can happen when a pissant's daddy and his daddy's friends buy him a seat in the oval office.
I just meant, that like the others, he's willing to help hold the rope when the only US General to WIN and END A WAR in the last 50 years is getting media-lynched -- that as Supreme Commander of NATO, General Clark might actually know something about what executive experience means -- and frankly, while I have NOTHING but awe and admiration for McCain having had the grit and courage to endure all that torture without caving in, the whole "McCain walks on water" stuff is dreary and dumb.
All he does is attack Obama's character -- I guess that's a way to keep people from noticing he hasn't had an indea since 1957.
He's become a sort of pathetic illustration of Fitzgerald's observation: "Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy." The only way I can see him getting elected is by a combination of anti-Obama racism and a mercy vote for a pathetic confused (but still mean-spirited) old man.
I believe Obama can be one of the better presidents in our history -- I'm just disappointed to see him doing what I guess he has to do -- waffling, doing the dance, allowing lies to be accepted as truths without objecting.
Disappointed or not, he's a damn sight better than what we've got and what we might get with McCain.
I just didn't say it as clearly as I should have.
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Stowey is HALF right ---
[Read the article: Why copy the communists?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...that our govt uses torture to intimidate foreign enemies.
But it has another effect, one which, based on what we've seen of the Patriot Actors, may well be intentional:
It intimidates American citizens who might dare to criticize our sock puppet president or the people who paid for him to accept the presidency as consolation prize for not being named Baseball Commisioner.
Similarly, prisons serve a dual function of putting bad guys away from us, but ALSO reminding the middle class what can happen to them if they step out of line.
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Well there goes even the pretense of McCain running a non-slandering campaign
[Read the article: Thursday's campaign roundup]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We were all singing that old sea chanty "I'll go no more Karl Roving" with a guarded sense of relief and optimism ...
So much for that hope, and the weirdness of the John McCain's statements, especially all this past week or so, demands that we ask the question "Is there something wrong with John McCain?" We have a president right now who doesn't seem to understand the words that come out of his mouth, and we had one that most people who didn't worship at the feet of Ronald Reagan recognized as having progressive dementia. Is that what's wrong with him? I don't know but it sure seems like SOMETHING is.
Although a politician abandoning the principles he once extolled for the possibility of personal gain shouldn't surprise anyone.(He says "No personal attacks," but barely a word comes out of his mouth that isn't a direct ad hominum aimed at Obama. i.e., "Can't trust him." He says "We have to support our troops," but votes against providing funds for them for anything but keeping them in Iraq.)
And the TV news people laugh and say that the traditional sleazoid tactic of poisoning the well of American politics and hope is "just the way the game is played." But then, it's definitely the way the game is played in the TV world, so why would they object to the politics of personal destruction? They obviously won that game -- at least last time around, since there they are, smiling like idiot at the camera.