Letters to the Editor
Nita Martin
Published Letters: 289 Editor's Choice: 62
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So...do you think they'll name a big airport after me???
[Read the article: So what does that rug say now?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bush's boys have been spending time on his "legacy" for quite a while. Traipsing through Clinton's Presidential Library opening, sneering, sulking and loudly looking for ideas for W's library. His legacy.
Now the man who brags that he partied through one of the most prestigious college educations available is spending time with "big thinkers" trying to paste a philosophical veneer over his rotting facade of a "legacy". Tragicomedy at its best.
And while his legacy continues to snowball into the biggest inexplicable waste of human life, resources, good will and reputation of any president in history, he spends his working hours worrying about whether the fish are biting, or the Rangers are losing. The lazy, indolent, half-witted, somnambulist president who has always gotten rewarded for barely showing up. Or not. This is what I expected of him.
And yet, I still find it unbelievable.
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Holy Crabcakes!
[Read the article: Rudy Giuliani, unscripted]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Are the people in Maryland dumber than the rest of us, or is this the same unscripted mess I would have gotten a couple of states over?
It's George W...."see...it's like"...Bush all over again, but with longer rambling sentences. This man can't protect us from illiteracy, much less Islamic terrorists.
We need Clinton back. Not Hillary. The other one. The articulate statesmen. Remember what that sounded like? When "off the top of his head" was better than anyone else's script. Always.
I miss intelligence. Is it ever coming back?
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"And a lot of us do what is right, no matter what the polls say."
[Read the article: John McCain goes off the rails]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What? Who goes there? George W.? No...it's the voice of Bush-yet-to-come ...if it weren't for the fact that the somnambulistic voters who got us into our present mess are finally awakening.
Just once, would one of these guys do us the honor of referring to what the PEOPLE want...and what the PEOPLE say. That's what polls are, fellas. They actually ask the PEOPLE what they think. Very un-autocratic and Republican...but still...it happens. And yes, sometimes polls can be manipulated, but not made up of whole cloth at this level. Please stop referring to polls as though they are some mythical entity...like unicorns and leprechauns, meaningful only to those saps who admit belief.
And if you have no faith in POLLS. Why don't you listen to the PEOPLE yourself.
And if your point is that what is "right" happens to be only YOUR domain...then sorry...the PEOPLE are through handing out crowns and sceptres this time around...
...so please just follow your campaign strategists and bail now, McCain, and preserve what little shred of dignity and credibility you have left. Or better still, own up to your Baghdad whitewash and get out with some respect. The Evangelicans you've climbed into bed with (and it was far more extensive than this article admits) won't help you in that department, they're too busy with some serious sinning of their own to wash away yours.
Throw off the neocons, the bible-thumpers, the corporate thugs and dive into the polls. It's where the PEOPLE are. Join us.
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Just when you thought it was safe to come out...
[Read the article: If we leave Iraq, do we lose for good?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I stopped reading Camille because I think she is a pointless, clueless has-been, foisting tripe off on a public she thinks adores her...and still dining out on her key book, now old enough to have spawned my grandchild. (the book, I mean)
Now, she is devoting every third column to elevating ridiculous letters from readers who are clearly shills to provide her with a springboard, (having none herself) for pseudo-intellectual debate over that which shouldn't be taken seriously on any forum. I don't mean the opinions, we are all entitled to them...I mean the half-baked uninformed logic and "facts" wrapping the opinions. She has elevated it to intelligent discourse. God help us.
To Camille: it was bad enough when you were on your own. Now your Hannity-Colmes act with "readers" is over the top. I got sucked in because the headline implied that you are claiming intellectual high ground in assessing Iraq. Are you kidding? James Baker, you ain't. Stick to weighing in on Anna Nicole Smith's legacy.
I wanted to see what you had to say. I saw it, and was disappointed, for the last time, to see that reading your "column" is, and will continue to, be a waste of time. Just not for me. The only surprise for me is that you seem to be against the war...at least I think you are...it's really hard to tell with your convoluted prose. I say surprise...because that would put us on the same side of something. Actually, not so much a surprise as a shock.
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That's the job I want....
[Read the article: In defending Gonzales, Justice officials look to the dictionary]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Alberto Gonzales didn't get involved in the evaluation and firing of his senior DOJ staff...he delegated a large chunk of his responsibilities to inexperienced junior staffers...he appears to know nothing of how the Justice Department is being run, or by whom....he probably didn't read FBI reports suggesting "abuse" (by any definition) of domestic spying....
...maybe he just needs to keep his calendar free for when GW needs him to run an errand, or to take greetings from the President to desperately ill friends in the hospital.
My question is this: what the hell does Alberto Gonzales DO? And why are we still paying him not to do it?
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Sarcasm
[Read the article: Moral hazard]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Digby...
You need to work a little on your style...I was reading along and suddenly found myself saying..."what the hell???" Then I read the last paragraph. Although I should know what to expect, I long ago stopped trusting ANYONE to deliver the message I am expecting from them. So go on...throw some bread crumbs out so my blood doesn't start boiling before I realized you haven't jumped ship and paddled over to the dark side.
Maybe I'm a little too tightly wound about these things. Or maybe I'm suffering from Camille Paglia syndrome. But these days, who isn't?
Thanking you in advance for ratcheting up your smartass quotient for those of us who are constantly in the crouching tiger position, in spite of our arthritis.