Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 656 Editor's Choice: 32
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This is Bush's Brain on Impending Retirement
[Read the article: Bush on the lesson of Vietnam: Stay longer]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sounds like Rove's clearing up all his "last" (yeah, right) advisory tasks before the big "retirement."
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Gaffe is in the eye of us Salon types.
[Read the article: Ari Watch, continued]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm very disappointed. I was hoping to see Ari make a big dummy out of himself, but in true GOP style, he glossed over his own ignorance with a slickness that I'm sure left most viewers thinking it not particularly unreasonable or any big deal that he didn't know the soldier's name. He's an important guy; you can't expect him to have every little detail top-of-mind.
Would that the Democrats carried themselves with such corporate confidence when cornered. Sad to say, but I wish they'd watch this a few times and take some notes.
(I'm kind of curious why the marketing types in the GOP decided to that recycle the "freedom" bit might work this time around. Sounds idiotic to me, but what do I know?)
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My gut, my gut, my lovely lady gut
[Read the article: Why did Gonzales resign?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hey, if Chertoff can make pronouncements about national security based on his gut, I guess I can, too, concerning the Gone-Gone-Gonzales.
And my gut says the allegedly "retired" Rove has orchestrated this move. It's all part of a gradual, ongoing remaking of the Republican party that is going to continue until election day -- to the point that currently disgusted Republicans and independent types will have forgotten all about Bush and the denizens of Bush World, and have a new cast of blank-slate Republican faces they'll be lulled into placing their trust in.
Sadly, Democratic candidates should not be celebrating or even assuming the worst is over; quite the opposite, actually. They need to be stronger and more solid in their positions than ever, to counteract the middle-American likelihood of votes for AnyWhiteGuy who isn't superficially associated with Bush.
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I'm just a widdle kid.
[Read the article: Bush and Gonzales, or the accountability moment that wasn't]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think the wording of Vicks' apology was positively Rovian in its calculated obfuscation. It wasn't a horrific, sadistic crime, it was "immature," and Vicks reckons he needs "to grow up."
Let's examine what that implies: youthful indiscretion, dumb mistake, juvenile behavior. Can there be any doubt that Vicks' speechwriter/lawyer is trying to position him as a silly kid, and a silly kid doesn't get jail for his crimes, just probation.
Ugh - sometimes I wish mankind would go back to grunting for communicating. It was so much more honest.
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Ask a fifth grader
[Read the article: Hey, Dems: Run against Bush -- and toughen up -- or lose in '08]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Or ask any male in America the thing he has known since he was 10: You can try to hide, you can try to reason, you can cry, you can tell the teacher -- but you don't stop getting beaten up by the big moronic class jerk until you finally take your own swing.
I suggest the Dems get themselves to an elementary school to get their civics lesson.
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We need an earmark.
[Read the article: In the closet? Or just a bathroom stall?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think it's time to skim a few million bucks from our War of Terror and earmark it for HIV/AIDS/STD tests for every single wife, former wife and mistress of every single elected Republican.
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Mrs. Craig
[Read the article: Craig gives up committee assignments]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't know who's a bigger tool: Craig? Or Craig's wife, for appearing by the tool's side?
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Pageant's coming-out
[Read the article: Miss dumb blond USA?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm beginning to think her childish, jibberish original answer WAS rehearsed. Perhaps the sponsors of this pedophile-fest have decided the time is right to stop pretending it's something besides that, and just unabashedly appeal to the sweaty old men who find this adow-able.
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Youtube as arbiter
[Read the article: Miss dumb blond USA?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Anybody in here who thinks Miss S.C. is providing laughs only because she's female, blonde and beautiful, needs to visit youtube more often. There's a slew of true-life Bush videos featuring his trademark inanity/insanity/surreality, and they all get among the HIGHEST click numbers.
When posers pretending to be quality people, people of leadership, people who the rest of us should follow and emulate, reveal themselves to have the intellect of slugs -- yeah, sorry, but THAT's entertainment.
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Craig's List, The Musical
[Read the article: Craig gives up committee assignments]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm pretty sure somebody's choreographing "all that jazz" as we speak.
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@Debpet
[Read the article: Miss dumb blond USA?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wait, you're worried about this painted doll's future? Are you kidding? Everybody now knows her name, everybody's now seen how gosh-darn pretty she is, half the world is jumping to act as her White Knight, she has been anointed with Matt Lauer's drool... she's got her spotlit career set now, light years ahead of any other pageant contestant or winner. Quick now: Name one other participant in any Miss Teen USA pageant, if you can.
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@healthyskeptic
[Read the article: Miss dumb blond USA?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Geico cavemen!! Yeah! The evolved cavemen can translate for the viewer as she babbles the fine print of competing auto policies! LMAO
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Yarmulkes and babies
[Read the article: I've had three miscarriages and my husband won't wear a yarmulke]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]LW, I think you already feel left out of the world of "everybody else" because (so far)you can't have kids, and your husband's (extremely petty!) refusal to at least be like "everybody else" and put on a GODDAM yarmulke is stirring around in your head in a big stew.
Maybe you want him to put on the yarmulke as a symbolic reassurance that he's going to transcend himself and do whatever it takes to maximize your chances of getting pregnant.
It's not hard to sympathize with the conflation going on here: "Geez, you can't give me a baby; at least give me this so we don't have to be sitting among all those FAMILIES with their kids. Do you also have to call attention to us and be judged for not having enough class to respect the traditions?"
On a practical level, you can compromise and just go to a reform or reconstructionist temple to take care of the yarmulke problem -- but I'm not sure it will do much to assuage the bigger pain underneath much.
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Greatest hits, indeed
[Read the article: Sparring with Snow]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You know what would be a really useful history book for high-schoolers? One that has a whole chapter listing Bush's lies and dry-drunk attempts to speak in general, and a whole chapter listing Tony Snow's contemptuous spitting at all of America.
Kids need to learn just how close our precious democracy has managed to come to fascism.
And make a version put to music the kids can listen to on their headphones, too, just in case they don't really want to read or something.