Letters to the Editor
maureenodonnell
Published Letters: 577 Editor's Choice: 5
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If it's good enough for Chris Matthews.....
[Read the article: Obama and the Kennedy legend]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The imperious jade attempts to brush me out of her way, just because she and Chris Matthews (a paid tlker) can only come up with jaded effusions about Camelot, an ideal purloined by lazy-minded Americans back in the Sixties. If you are so feather-brained as to exult in a plagiarised idea, centuries old before America was discovered, then carry on in your giddy way. "Purple prose" has its own weird fascination as the reader which excess is just that too bit excessive or whether the foolsgold has been entirely mind. As you seem none too thrilled with my comments, I'll offer you an Australian summation to match your own and it's "Tough Titty". Australians don't seem to take themselves as seriously as Americans do and pretentious nonsense doesn't was with them.
Sweet dreams! I'm off to bed.
Too tired now but I left out the verb in "the reader wonders" - also "entirely mined" - "doesn't wash with them".
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At least McCain was there and Romney was...Where was it?Oh, France!
[Read the article: How is John McCain like John Kerry?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"The top o' the mornin' to yiz".I feel that I should say that since Ted Kennedy endorsed Barack Obama amid effusions of "Camelot" ,it shows just how stupid people can be . It might encourage students to read Tennyson's poem "Morte d'Arthur" but I very much doubt it if they regard an everyday word such as "Change" asing be a shibboleth to Utopia.
So John McCain is now being subjected to sneak attacks by a crowd of Tomb Raiders and I wonder who is behind this. It couldn't be billionaire Romney, of course, because he was "Lost in France" during those agonising Vietnam years thus drawing attention to his French leave wouldn't be exactly a clever move. It couldn't be Rudy Giuliani either, although his critics think of him as Ghouliani for his overblown statements about 9/ll and his hovering around the scene of the crime. "You've heard of Julius Caesar and the great Napoleon too and how the Cork militia beat the Turks at Waterloo"? If you haven't that's a crying shame but Rudy's rampage against the Vietcong should be worth a verse or two. Oh, Lord love a duck, Rudy had some pressing engagements closer to home comforts and just couldn't get away to the mysterious Orient. Thus, in a cack-handed way, I admit, I surmise that neither Romney nor Giuliani wuold have the gall to discredit McCain's war record. This requires a Raymond Chandler type investigation. It couldn't be the Bush gang.could it? I don't know if you're familiar with the expression "the last sting of a dying wasp" but it might be worth thinking about.
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Coloneblog, this is a sincere question
[Read the article: How is John McCain like John Kerry?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Almost everybody in the Western World knows that the Gruesome Old Party is always awash with money but I thought that John McCain was almost out of funds a few months ago. Apparently, Mitt Romney has a bottomless pit of his own money. Who is backing these candidates and for what comprehensible reason are they doing it.
I have the same question about the others. I remember when Barack Obama was making no progress at all - about six months ago - and David Geffen, a very wealthy man in the entertainment business, came to his aid. I don't have any idea who's financing Hillary Clinton's campaign or their reasons for doing so. This is baffling to non-Americans so I hope you can inform.
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Droogoy is a sad person
[Read the article: Obama and the Kennedy legend]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I mentioned that I was going to bed last night, having commented to the o.t.t. remarks of Jade 7243 and some of the more excitable members of the American media. While I slept, Droogoy was so incensed by my impudence in questioning American appropriation of Camelot, that he saw fit to give me a brisk, curt lecture on the Arthurian legend - along with some haughtily dismissive "ad feminam" (e.g. "girl) which is
the stock-in-trade of zealots on this forum.It's now 24 hours later and, having just read Droogoy's post, which is an amalgam of insecurity and brashness, I've been tempted to reply - even though more stoic people would ignore him.
The Arthurian legend is European, whether you like it or not, There is a l4th century French illustration of Arthur and his knights, there is a mosaic in the cathedral at Otranto in Italy which signifies Arthur's European renown. It is dated 1168 and includes depictions of Alexander and Noah. I could go on but why bother! Arthur, sorely wounded, is reputed to have been taken to die on the Isle of Avalon. After l,600 years, if Arthur were to return, it's highly unlikely that he'd be attracted to your country where you can't even conduct an election in a civil manner. The comments on the female candidate are so gross from some of those who hate the woman, that it's perfectly clear that they've never heard of the Arthurian code of chivalry. Debate is fine but crude insult is not. I'll resist any inclination I might have to call you "boy", although you have addressed me as "girl". As for "freakin", when are Americans going to stop mutilating the English language? Anyway, though you steal our legends, we're lucky that there is very little oil around our shores but I've read that Putin's Russia has claimed huge reserves of oil/gas under the Arctic ice-cap. I'll now bid you good-night from the western hemisphere in what your President Bush calls "Old Europe".