Letters to the Editor
Rob H.
Published Letters: 122 Editor's Choice: 30
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This Piece Misses by a West Virginia Country Mile
[Read the article: She's still in it to win it]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Some good points in here, but overall, this piece seems to be way off.
Hillary was not speaking to those 200 superdelegates. As Madden suggests, she knows that game is up. Hillary and her surrogates are speaking to 2012 and to her base. She's still $25 million in debt. So they figure they can get more of her supporters to help pay off that debt while proving in 2012, that in 2008, she never gave up on these states. After all, when you're as cynical as the Clintons, why not look ahead and why use your own money when you can use other people's money?
Clinton is not "still in it to win it," at this point. She's in it to profit from it. Both financially and electorally if Obama loses. It doesn't take a genius to see that. Why Mike Madden can't bring himself to point out this sobering fact is beyond me. But I assure you, Hillary and her folks see it clearly.
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Harriet Christian Is A Racist
[Read the article: The other 18 million]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Harriet Christian is beyond "deplorable," Joan. Harriet Christian is a racist. Pure and simple. That you refuse to wrap your mind around that and make weak apologies for people like her is why you receive the amount of negative letters you do.
Harriet Christian might just as well have called Obama the n-word. And why do I think you'd still find something deeply analytical and forgiving to say about her anger?
You're beyond pathetic, Joan. And the best thing is that deep in your heart, you know it.
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@AKA Smith
[Read the article: Why Clinton voters say they won't support Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I always see your name so I did a little research.
Since 1:00AM on April 26, 2007, you've posted 4296 letters. That's an average of over 10 a day.
Aside from your usual MO of having nothing interesting to say, it's obvious you have nothing of a life except to post moronic letters at Salon.
To sum up: Get a life, AKA.
To PUMAs: Get a life. Or watch your kids and grandkids quite possibly lose theirs in a war or back-alley abortion.
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Oppression is Oppression, Glenn
[Read the article: Tom Friedman doesn't understand why America is unpopular in the world]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm reading plenty of invective in the letters here against Tom Friedman, but practically no one has addressed the facts in Zimbabwe and at the UN he was writing about. Nor the salient points he made about black on black oppression, South Africa's Mbeki and Russia and China's deplorable actions. I understand this was not what Greenwald was addressing, but I take exception to the entire premise of the piece.
As much as some would like to believe, it's not always about the Friedmans of the world and how wrong they were, nor about the deadly incompetence of Bush and Cheney. Sometimes it's actually about a society as brutalized as Zimbabwe. So you can bash Friedman all you like, but it doesn't change a singe fact on the ground in Zimbabwe. The people there don't need energy expended on pointing out the negatives of Bush and Friedman, what they need is energy focused on their plight. And Friedman made an effort to do that.
Just because the United States has become the root of so much evil does not diminish in any way other evils in the world. Oppression is oppression, whether perpetrated by Bush or Mugabe. If you don't think so, just ask some brutalized Zimbabweans. You certainly can't ask the dead ones.
I'm no huge fan of Friedman, but that some of you choose to bash him with foul-mouthed words when he was writing about one of the foulest people on the planet seems pretty sophomoric. And just to point out, Glenn, as usual, is at least classy and spot-on when he does these pieces. Some of you are simply vapid and vulgar. I may not agree with the premise of Glenn's current piece, but I applaud him for his unfailing intellect and his reasoned and measured observations. Some people here would do well to emulate him.
And I actually applaud Friedman for standing with Mandela, Tsvangirai, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch to name just a few who have condemned the ongoing injustices in Zimbabwe.
Just because Tom Friedman has been wrong on Iraq does not mean everything he says gets viewed through the prism of that all-encompassing disaster. To do so is short-sighted and in this case, does a disservice to Mugabe's innocent victims in Zimbabwe.
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Vietnam Anyone?
[Read the article: McCain meets with first President Bush, slams Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Let me get this straight: John McCain actually said, "When you win wars, troops come home."
Did he miss something about Vietnam?
Maybe someone needs to educate McCain about the war he fought in. Last I checked, our troops came home but I think the North Vietnamese won.
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Thank You, Joe
[Read the article: McCain's embarrassing assertions on the Iraq surge]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's astonishing the foolishness that John McCain gets away with. The MSM doesn't even blink as he tells canard after canard.
McCain's surge idiocy is a prime example. The New York Times portrayed it as, "Candidates Spar Over Troop Surge and Iraq Chronology," as if there were really two sides to the story. There was only one. And that was that John McCain was either lying or bereft of even a clue about the surge he touts so often. That the Times chose the angle of Obama vs. McCain as a matter of differing opinions on a subject -- as opposed to the FACT that McCain was dead wrong or a liar -- is just another glaring example of a media, including Katie Couric and CBS, that is beyond derelict in its duty.
But thanks to you, Joe, for writing about this subject. I knew some background on the payoffs to the sheikhs and the real reasons behind the reductions in violence, but this piece cleans it up nicely.
However, I won't hold my breath waiting for the MSM to pick it up.