Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 655 Editor's Choice: 32
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A little duct tape is in order.
[Read the article: Bill Clinton and the "race card"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I never thought Bill's South Carolina remark was particularly racist so much as a sour grapes attempt to generally demean Obama's victory, as in, "yeah, that was a fluke, but that's all he's going to win."
It was a dumb remark for that reason all by itself, as in, "smug dismissals like that will bite you in the ass when he goes on to win some more."
I can't imagine what Bill thinks Hillary has to gain by rehashing this old stuff. All it does is remind people who were ready to forgive it (like me) of the pettiness of it.
Some time back, somebody posited that Bill just might be trying to sabotage his wife, even on a subconscious level. It's things like this that make that theory seem pretty plausible.
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Let me count the count.
[Read the article: What to expect when you're expecting (primary results)]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I expect lots of fuzzy math, voodoo math, trickle-down math, experienced math, changed math, monster math, sniper math, and math with a shot and a beer.
And all of it will be quite calculated.
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Financial abuse:
[Read the article: I'm perpetuating the cycle of emotional abuse]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Financial abuse -- like spending all the family's money on gambling; withholding money for things like food and clothing in order to intimidate or get your way; your general using the power of money as a cudgel to break your family's back.
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No cognitive dissonance here.
[Read the article: Clinton: "The tide is turning"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't mean this as "snipey" as it sounds, but a woman who can convince herself that she had to run from sniper fire in Bosnia probably doesn't have a hard time convincing herself that a tide turns in America.
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What's your address?
[Read the article: Passing back the baton]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hey Steve, when I try to click on your "regular digs" link, I get a "file not found." Can you fix it or just type a URL? I would very much like to come over and set a spell.
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oh brother
[Read the article: My husband constantly upstages me]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is one more marriage where the spouses are competitors rather than partners. I look at these marriages and think "sibling rivalry" and then proceed to wonder how they can stand an hour of each other.
Either that, or he is truly a terribly lost soul who clings to you for every shred of manufactured identity.
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The real point of these ads.
[Read the article: Anti-Obama ad a winner for McCain]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think at this point even the average 7th grade youtube watcher knows you get a lot more mileage out of an ad that's talked about ad infinitum than the ad itself.
Yes, the GOP knows exactly what it's doing, it knows exactly how to use a surrogate while McCain stands back and pretends he's above this kind of thing, and there will be much, much more of this and other subterranean campaigning over the next months.
Obama can say it's lousy, McCain can pretend to agree it's lousy, and meanwhile the viewing audience gets brainwashed with the negative message over and over and over again. (Oh, and just great that Wright is appearing on Bill Moyers tomorrow night, because everybody sure needs yet more linkage between Wright the Bad Man and Obama.)
Elsewhere on this site is a headline referring to the GOP imploding. Are you kidding? They are lying in wait like a lion for a newborn lamb.
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Thanks for nothing.
[Read the article: Why Jeremiah Wright is so wrong]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Joan, when November has come and gone and McCain has won the presidency, will you be doing any introspection whatsoever? Will it even occur to you that the relentless petty, tangential obsessions of alleged "lefties" (geez, are you kidding?)like you will have helped cut the Democratic party at its knees and practically shoved independents into the arms of the Republican party?
No? I didn't think so.
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Oprah, you silly scamp.
[Read the article: Nothing says "hip" like the Oxygen channel]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Haha! Yep, the average twenty-something would be so proud to identify herself as Generation O!
Who's kidding whom here? That O doesn't stand for Oxygen, which would be embarrassing enough.
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Rebates go right back to billionaire oilmen.
[Read the article: Is the American consumer finally giving up?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Same old same old. Whether it's brainwashing consumers that they need SUVs, invading Iraq, creating $4 and soon $5 gas through greedy speculation in oil futures, or pretending all is well by putting a few extra dollars into our pockets this summer, it's the oil industry that gets obscenely, despicably, undemocratically rich.
That 600 bucks? It's going to pay for gas this summer. Why do you think Bush looks so damn smirky when he brags about it?
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"Never loved" = "I'm cheating"
[Read the article: My husband of 12 years suddenly says he never loved me]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He's cheating on you, since at least while you were pregnant with your newborn and probably long, long before. Men don't want a divorce unless they've got a sure sexual supply at the ready.
(I know a woman who's been cheating on her oblivious husband for years, and finally right before their 25th anniversary she announced that she was leaving and never loved him. Yep, there's lots of unprincipled, unfeeling folks out there.)
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Really? There's a man out there who is this pathetic?
[Read the article: I want more commitment from my married girlfriend]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What a dumbass.
Hope this silly attachment is worth the monthly sex.
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Cautionary tale.
[Read the article: What happened to the D.C. Madam?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I absolutely believe she was murdered.
I absolutely believe any "investigation" will be a joke.
I absolutely believe any woman who gets involved in the sexual perversities of our great male "leaders" is playing with fire. (Ask Chandra Levy's mourning family.) We are led by dangerous, narcissistic men powerful enough to do anything -- anything -- to keep their utterly fake images intact.
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Addendum to the strategy: Say nothing at all.
[Read the article: The media, the right and 1988: Endless deja vu]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The GOP must be salivating, waiting for their chance to air attack ads featuring whichever Democratic nominee lost, tearing down the one who won. At the end, the voiceover will intone something to the effect of, "See? Even Democrats know (Hillary or Obama) can't lead this nation."
We're doomed.
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Hey Arne
[Read the article: The media, the right and 1988: Endless deja vu]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Nobody who misspells "misspells" gets to use the word doofus.
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Zip it.
[Read the article: Barbara Walters interviews Barbara Walters]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yeah, yeah, I know it's what sells, but I have always thought kiss and tell was the lowest of the low-class.
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Co-dependent daily chain.
[Read the article: Our friend got drunk and went to a hotel room with a bunch of Marines]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You're too tangled up with Lisa, who's too tangled up with Jan, who's too tangled up with sex.
You, or you and Lisa, dump this freaky, dangerous Jan. Then tell her boyfriend why.
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oops
[Read the article: Our friend got drunk and went to a hotel room with a bunch of Marines]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I meant "co-dependent daisy chain."
(Damn you, Jon Stewart!)
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Sometimes a cucumber is not just a cucumber.
[Read the article: I'm really a self-actualized being, but my family is all messed up]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Maybe the kid flew into a rage at those cucumbers because Dad never gives the kid the time of day, and the boy was hoping Dad would indicate he gave a bit of a damn about him by at least bringing home the treat the boy asked for.
Daddy seems lost in Self Land.