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Published Letters: 698 Editor's Choice: 32
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All the world's a high school.
[Read the article: The "distractions" debate]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You wrote:
Renegade iconoclast wrote:
"Obama even defended Clinton against the Bosnian sniper story, saying that his campaign had talked about it because they were asked, but that people make errors, even Sen. Clinton was entitled, and that the gotcha politics and distractions were hurting America, basically.
What did Clinton do with the olive branch? She did her best to shove it up Barack's ass and give it a twist, responding to every sleazy attack on Obama as though it were justified."
Can I just say how much this sounds like some annoying teenage relationship? The girl gets caught in a stupid MySpace lie, the whole school mocks her, she feels stupid, the boy tries to defend her by pointing out a higher principle, the girl gets huffy for him sticking his nose into it, the girl gets even with everybody by attacking the boy.
I don't think I can take much more of this.
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Thank you, Glenn.
[Read the article: David Brooks' fictitious defense of his industry's behavior]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]On certain days (like days when idiotic "debates" like this occur and idiotic defenses of them are mounted), it must be very demoralizing to even bother to continue your fight to point out what SHOULD be painfully obvious.
Thank you, Glenn, for pressing on. We need you more than ever.
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@The Notorious W.E.S. about bowling
[Read the article: David Brooks' fictitious defense of his industry's behavior]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You wrote:
"If you can't bowl, don't roll your first game in a Presidential campaign."
This is true. I wrote elsewhere that Obama's handlers should have given him a private 10-minute lesson in holding and releasing the ball so it rolls straight. Photo ops are helpful when they're done right but lethal when they're not.
Lethal, only because we are now trapped in a media world that will latch onto a poorly executed photo op or an imperfectly worded sentiment as an excuse to release cascades of poison -- if you're a Democrat, that is.
It's time to pick a friggin' Democratic nominee already for even the slightest hope of McCain getting the kind of media scrutiny HE actually deserves.
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Disappointed in the posters today.
[Read the article: We want a kid but don't think it's right to have one]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm taken aback by the contempt in these letters. Where are the handholding and sympathetic tears generously offered to LWs with unpleasant neighbors, confusing career choices, yearnings to cheat on their mates?
I did not think this letter was a joke; I did not think the LW should get over herself; I did not think she was all manner of nasty name she's been called here. I took this her and the sad thoughts she's having very seriously.
That is all I'd like to say, for now.
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Re: Not a silly question at all.
[Read the article: We want a kid but don't think it's right to have one]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm giving a star to Mr. Jones.
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@timbuktom
[Read the article: Will Obama's debate stumble hurt him?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But I could not detect any stumble on Barack Obama's face. I am almost sure Barack shaved right before that debate.
[Do people have to be 50 years old to get this?]
-- timbuktom
All I want to know is: What's all this talk about snippy Bosnians? I think they're pretty nice people!
Oh -- never mind.
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Here's my patented Joan-ed reading system:
[Read the article: Will Obama's debate stumble hurt him?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Step 1: Read the headline on Salon's home page.
Step 2: Immediately realize it's a Joan-ed.
Step 3: Go directly to letters.
Step 4: Have some great laughs at the great posts, which are getting more biting and hilarious by the day.
I would like to thank Joan for providing hours worth of entertainment.
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Bottom line journalism
[Read the article: Debating the debate, complaining about complaining]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And about those 20,000 mostly negative messages on ABC's website? You can bet ABC is thrilled about it. They can take that to the advertisers to show that people watch us, they really watch us, and pronounce this travesty a great success.
I wish Obama would start his own news network! He'd be more interested in letting Hillary speak about her actual ideas than friggin' ABC could ever even pretend to be.
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Mom and Dad and Tin Pan Alley
[Read the article: How I learned to stop worrying and love the recession]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]These days (and really for the last ten years), I find myself grateful for the Great Depression-induced paranoia of my parents. The accumulation of clothes or toys or things was never even on the edge of my family's reality. Restaurants more than a half-dozen times a year? Are you kidding? The best of this, or improved that? Forget about it. Credit cards? Do you have to ask? Buy it with cash, or don't buy it at all.
And then when I joined 7th grade chorus, we sang "I got plenty of nothing, and nothing's plenty for me. I got my gal, I got my song, I got heaven the whole day long..." My 12-year-old brain drank in those lyrics like gospel truth; they seeped into my soul as the great secret to happiness.
I have carried Mom and Dad and Tin Pan Alley with me all these years. So Heather, I absolutely get that comforting feeling of knowing you just don't need that much, that simplicity's partner is a contentment rarely attained by those programmed to want (and to think they need) ever more, more, more.
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well, okay but...
[Read the article: Campaign roundup]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]These polls are about as useful as fishing poles, stripper's poles, and Poland's Poles.
100 percent of the people in my household say, just shaddap and wait for the returns.
P.S. I predict that the actual Presidential election counts are going to be so crooked that none of this Democratic nominee drama is going to have meant a thing. I don't like that Bush and Cheney look particularly smug and sanguine.
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Melancholy baby.
[Read the article: Even Santorum can't stay away]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Time will tell? I'd say time is up. It pains me to the depths of my soul to say it, "it" being "President McCain."
The GOP knows how to just get on with it. My party does not.
I feel completely defeated, that's the truth.
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Gucci, accidental teacher.
[Read the article: Your handbag is hysterical!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If a fun and colorful article about an obscenely priced, ridiculously named accessory can impart to me a new item of knowledge so truly interesting and intriguing as that Greek free-floating uterus reference, I say Gucci's Hysteria collection has served its purpose!