Letters to the Editor
AnaHadWolves
Published Letters: 477 Editor's Choice: 26
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The Race Card
[Read the article: Betting little in Las Vegas]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The losers in 2008 may well be the Democratic Party and the American people since the Obama camp has played the race card as cavalierly as they have. Misquoting and misrepresenting what Bill and Hillary Clinton actually said on a variety of political subjects, and then playing the "victim", is oddly reminiscent of how Karl Rove and Lee Atwater worked their foul magic.
Prediction: when the votes have been counted and the results are in, the Republicans may well be the beneficiaries of the BarrackAttack. Splitting the Democrats for political advantage will cement Barack Obama's place in the pantheon of members of our party who have metaphorically shot themselves in their collective feet. I am not amused.
Barack Obama played the race card to attempt a win over Hillary; with that in mind, he'll probably be remembered, as Limbaugh might opine, as the King of Spades.
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Running The Gamut From A To B
[Read the article: A GOP thriller in Florida]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]By now, most of the Republican electorate has pretty well decided to vote for the lesser of all evils instead of voting for the best candidate. None of these guys is perfect for each constituency and there are enough warts on all of them to decorate Macbeth's witches for generations to come.
Romney is an empty $4,000 suit, Giuliani is a one-trick pony (9/11, as if I had to say it!), Huckabee plays the religious right like a banjo and John McCain simply looks angry all the time with his few smiles forced through clenched teeth. As for the rest of the field...are there any others running?
These guys keep invoking...pathetically...the memory of Ronald Reagan; no one wants to remind the voters that two... count 'em...two Bushes came after The Gipper. Interesting that no one...except John McCain...even mentions Bush/41 or Bush/43. Gosh...I wonder why!
The economy seems to be intertwined with Charmin, home-ownership is declining, the dollar is in free-fall and quality-of-life is dropping therefore I can't see even one issue upon which a Republican can or should stand for election.
Republican primary voters may indeed opt for the candidate who creeps them out the least.
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Obama: The "Feel Good" Candidate
[Read the article: An old-fashioned thumpin' in South Carolina]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So Obama won South Carolina in a romp. Congratulations; he ran a good campaign. However, a little perspective, please.
Barack Obama has offered very few specifics on his policies, programs or positions for anyone to grab hold of. He simply offers generalities designed solely to appeal to the Democratic desire for immediate change...no matter what that change entails...after eight years of Bushdom/Bushdumb.
While Barack has a "message" of change, change to what, specifically? Treat each other better? Help the poor? Bring the troops home? End the war in Iraq? Help everyone get healthcare? Both Hillary Clinton and John Edwards have virtually the same message. There is one difference, however: Hillary Clinton...and, to a slightly lesser degree, John Edwards...offer specifics combined with experience. I respond to that.
Barack is the "feel-good" candidate. Fine. He's a good man and will make a good President...one day. However, 2008 is not that "day". I'd select Hillary Clinton as President with Barack Obama as her Vice-President for eight years. Then, in 2016, he'll have the gravitas, the experience and the sophistication to be a wonderful President.
But, save the crocodile tears that opting not to vote for Barack this time is racist in any way; it is about experience, and, nothing else.
Hillary for President!
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Just Consider The Source(s)
[Read the article: Life's a bitch, and so are all the anti-Hillary slogans]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Republican base's male component is made up primarily of knuckle-draggers who still use the N-word among friends to describe African-Americans, still refer to gays and lesbians as fags and dykes and refer to most Middle-Easterners as either red-dots or towel-heads. So, why is it such a stretch to believe that they refer to Hillary as a bitch...or, worse?
As a white, moderate, male, I am embarassed at the crass way other white men choose to demean women and sexual or ethnic minorities. There is no defense for such language or activity.
However, consider the sources: white males who continue to think that America was founded by and for their Anglo-Saxon, Christian, heterosexual, slave-owning male ancestors and who were meant to inherit this country as it was founded. They cannot envision that things have changed because they have not.
Perhaps, one day, natural selection will weed out these cretins and we can procede together as one country...male, female, gay, straight, religious, non-religious, color-neutral and non-judgemental. If not, we will be destroyed from within by hate, bigotry and animus.
I wonder how the Founding fathers would react to today's Republican party?
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Rupert Murdoch's Big Paw
[Read the article: Republicans make Fox News sick]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The heavy hand of media-mullah Rupert Murdoch is far heavier than Roger Ailes' hand. Nothing gets on FOCKS NEWS unless the Dear Leader from Australia says it does.
With his acquisition of the WSJ, perhaps he'll muck that up to the same extent he mucked up FOCKS NEWS. One can only hope.