Letters to the Editor
maureenodonnell
Published Letters: 590 Editor's Choice: 5
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The Emperor's Clothes
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]In the original folk-tale the Emperor was naked but it was only the clear-eyed child among the onlookers who pointed that out, as the adults had been inculcated with the idea that they should marvel at the King's splendid apparel. The moral of the story seems to be that society can enforce rules which train people to react as they're expected to do. That Emperor was stark naked and only the child had the honesty to remark on it.
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Anonymous at 7 a.m. Have you people slunk away?
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is easy-peasy for me and I don't need a whole clutch of individuals to think up sneering comments to deride my country, my name or what the unperceptive might regard as my religion. For the record, I'm not a Church-goer and don't require a medium to interpret God for me. Here comes another awkward question, which might provoke further wrath, but I'm asking it anyway. Why does Barack Obama attend a segregated Church? The journalist and avowed atheist, Christopher Hitchens, has written about this in "The Irish Times"; Hitchens is a syndicated columnist. Perhaps the anonymous "we" who attempted jejune mockery of my Irish name etc. would like to answer my question without resorting to verbal abuse?
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Yet another Anonymous at 9:20 a.m.
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]This Anonymous hasn't been paying attention. The steam coming out of his ears must be uncomfortable. Dear Anonymous, didn't I state quite clearly that I am NOT a churchgoer before you said I would be welcome in Barack Obama's Church which is a "black church" but is not segregated. Oh dearie me, I didn't know that this Church is part of American history either. I have various books on American history but I'm certain that there's no mention of that Church. Perhaps that is an omission that can be rectified.
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No. Anonymous with a sense of humour
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]John Kerry was never Irish. He's too lugubrious for that. As for all those snakes-in-the-grass over in Amerikay who pretend they're Irish - the Kennedys and Ronald Reagan come to mind - surely you know that we true Gaels put the run on them so that you people could benefit from their shamroguery. We didn't get rid of all of them as there's still a surfeit of them around here. That should take care of your suggestion, Anonymous, with my final point on this fascinating subject being that if John Kerry was truly Irish he'dhave fought back at those Swiftboaters instead of going around with a face on him that would stop a funeral.
Anonymous is not the only one with suggestions as I have some myself, needless to mention. I love a good detective story - I'm eclectic in my tastes - and I was thinking about Obama and the Seattle connection. Maybe Grandpa Dunham went to work for Boeing as they'd probably have been the biggest employer there after WW11. The band Nirvana came from Seattle too and it seems to me that some of his supporters, when not making hurtful remarks about their critics, are kind of interested in Nirvana too.
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To Anonymous '- @ l0:43
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ah but you think you're clever. You don't know the half of it. I've fooled you with surname but that's the name of the man I married. Naturally enough, my own crowd are so much better, as I keep on telling him. Btw, I liked John Kerry's wife, Teresa. There was a bit of life in her. My husband is in hospital at the moment - no, I didn't do anything to hima and he blesses the day he found me. I'm letting rip on the Internet while he' "hors de combat". I love that touch of French, don't you? It's so classy. I do wish that Moseby fella (as we use for "guy") didn't mention the need for a drink. I liked the way he erupted. Maybe you're right about him. Somebody mentioned Hillary Clinton's antecedents. I think they're Welsh, also Celtic but much more circumspect than the Irish. For heaven's sake, they don't even celebrate their national saint, David, on lst March. I hope you weren't being sexist with me, Anonymous, because I can be very prickly. You mentioned St. Patrick's Day (I'm annoyed with that Paddy disrespect) but you failed to mention St. Brigid's Day, which was yesterday. You're a bit of a "smart Alec" allright but you haven't yet worked that I'm the reincarnation of Mata Hari.
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Anonymous @ ll:3l am. I should have been a "private eye"
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Here you go again with your "Geez" and I think you'r the same Anonymous who had a go at me earlier for asking an incinvenient question. I think I understand now why some Anonymous (there are a lot of you about) got really mad when I asked how Cheney and Obama are related. What if, and this is only the most trnuous of suggestions, the Cheney and Dunham (or Mrs, Dunham's) side had ever been slave-owners? That would mean that Barack coldn't pay reparations to himself but would have to pay them to people like Oprah.OmG, this is an amazing scenario and Hollywood could make a film of the whole thing.