Letters to the Editor
chimpygo
Published Letters: 215 Editor's Choice: 2
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White Blue Collar Americans
[Read the article: What should Hillary Clinton do now?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Who are tired of being patronized and want their political voices and concerns to be taken seriously...
should reject manipulative race/fear appeals
and demand a political discussion that actually deals with the issues that affect their lives.
For years Repubs have given them lip service and counted on them for votes but done very little to actually help them.
Last I checked, GATT and the Iraq War didn't help the economy as a whole and certainly did little for this demographic (with which I'm intimately familiar).
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@ Elephantman
[Read the article: Republicans twist Obama's statements about Israel]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yep, this is true. He didn't wish for 1000 more years of bloody conflict. McCain's point was that—from U.S. standpoint—American presence isn't a problem, but active hostilities obviously are.
Of course, Iraq is not Germany or Japan or even South Korea, and who really thinks we're likely to have a both peace and a large presence in Iraq?
Again, the gotcha games do get us away from intelligent discussion/understanding, but even a more level-headed ananlysis doesn't make McCain's horrible ideas any better.
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2nd graph is global context of Clinton's style of campaign
[Read the article: She won't go easy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bulletin to all nations: help! Tornadoes, typhoons and earthquakes batter the globe, while the U.S. is teetering into recession and paralyzed by a stupid war it can neither win nor quit. But somehow we are locked at the hip to Hillary Clinton, who won't stop her manic tarantella until her party whirls into ruins, like the run-amuck carousel in Alfred Hitchcock's "Strangers on a Train."
And contains the word "tarantella." What else ya want?
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Bill Moyers on Christian Zionism
[Read the article: Finding Obama guilty of insufficient devotion to Israel]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Auf-Su-xZVU
Some right-wing "Christians" who believe End Times are nigh sometimes want to actually start wars just to bring it on.
The Jewish folk who don't convert, of course, aren't destined for Heaven once the "Rapture" comes.
[Of course, in the Gospel of Thomas, Christ says "the kingdom of Heaven is spread upon the earth, but men do not see it." What is this Buddhism?]
I think Obama's answer was nuanced and thoughtful. I'm not even remotely against Jewish people or the religious tradition that values peace, justice, dissent and discussion, but when people DEMAND that I refuse to consider the rights or suffering on the Palestine side, I get suspicious.
Many citizens of Israel feel the same way.
Any -ism that demands its adherents refuse to acknowledge someone else's humanity is potentially very dangerous.
No sane person could think that Israel as a political state is Infallible, or that our press and national conversations are balanced.
It's too bad that shameless bigot Jimmy Carter is trying to get people to see thier common humanity and their shared interest in peacefully coexisting. What will he think of next?
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NARAL's press release
[Read the article: Clinton supporters push back against NARAL endorsement]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/elections/election-pr/pr_05042008_obamaendorsement.html
"We are confident that Barack Obama is the candidate of the future. Americans are tired of the divisive politics of the last eight years, and will unite behind Obama in the fall."
Sounds like Molly Ivins.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1963759
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Ivins
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Can someone tell me why this ad is/isn't offensive/funny?
[Read the article: MoveOn ad: correction]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm curious.
Is it a parody because it's a low-brow (humorous) explanation of why people shouldn't be threatened by Obama's "race" (black and white mixed is a good thing), the implication being that it couldn't fly over the head of even low-information voters?
Or is it a parody of "diversity" that really is equating Obama with a spraying skunk?
Or something else.
p.s. I think they sent it to Move.On for publicity, not because they really thought it would be selected. Maybe they even hoped for a favorable reaction?
It's not surprising, though, given the sorts of hateful attacks directed at Obama, that Move.On was a bit hypersensitive.
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I don't like his shtick
[Read the article: In the land of believers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]poopy jokes and high school hazing
but he makes a ton of insightful points and does indeed take after Thompson in the pithy punchy force of his prose.
I'll give him a pass for now, too, gloriousgirl
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I can certainly sympathize with the author's legitimate feelings
[Read the article: Gay marriage, so what?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]and ewm hit the nail on the head.
But I agree with others who call for perspective: lots of us are also tired of waiting our turn for
1) not being at war in Iraq
2) the Constitutional liberties not to held indefinitely without trial and possibly tortured
3) ratcheting down the rampant corruption in our goverment
4) being led by people not looking for reasons to start a war with Iran
etc.
These aren't just abstract principle/notions, either, but real things that cause (or could) a great deal of pain and suffering.