Letters to the Editor
maureenodonnell
Published Letters: 577 Editor's Choice: 5
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Golden Boy, you don't know what you're talking about!
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Maureen Haughey is the widow of a rapscallion Taoiseach now deceased and disgraced before his death. I disliked him intensely but his wife was not a politician and stayed out of the public eye. This woman is a grandmother who has always chosen privacy and, Golden Boy, you are a %*"---to make such ill-judged, malicious statements. The paramount reason for my supporting Hillary Clinton is that when I came to this site I felt sheer revulsion at the viciousness of the Obamites' attacks on Hillary Clinton. "The narrow-minded cosmopolitanism" of the Irish is something you're an expert on, you'd have people believe. Well, Mr. Mediocrity, the "narrow-minded" Irish had a Taoiseach who publicly flaunted his mistress while everybody shrugged and got on with their own lives. That Taoiseach was Charles Haughey and he was disgraced because of his financial dealings not because he was a randy old goat. If you want "narrow-minded" you should look closer to home and particularly to the sanctimonious Obama supporters who, in the absence of anything intelligent to say, have dredged the Lewinsky story up again, regardless of the feelings of that particular woman and ten years after the scandal.
It's completely illogical to find such nasty people, some quite foul-mouthed, expressing support for a squeaky-clean candidate. I've become a target now but you are so obvious and inept that it doesn't bother me. You're only showing yourselves up with your blundering attempts to shut me up. I wouldn't be in the least bit surprised to learn that you are stalking-horses for the Republicans because you certainly are very strange representatives for "Senator Sweetness & Light".
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Golden Boy, you DID mention Maureen Haughey but now you're trying to wriggle out of it
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]You're also a copycat because I mentioned the SANCTIMONIOUS Obama supporters who are unwilling to give Monica L. any peace. Hey presto! Here you come back with the "sanctimonious Irish". They must have loved you in Australia where you could expound on "the Irish", apparently unaware that a large proportion of the Australian population is of Irish descent and some of the earlier settlers were taken there on convict ships for various misdemeanours such as fomenting rebellion against the Crown. What is it with some of you that you have so much difficulty in grappling with language? Socs and Twigs (bifurcated?) states that I wrote that Americans are insular. What I wrote was "There are Americans" and that means "some Americans". Are you people being deliberately obtuse or is that just the way you are?
I find it very hard to believe that any Irish person would choose to be in your company, apart from the most pathetic of gits. You make blanket-statements about a whole tribe (or "clann" which means family) as if we were all the same. Yeah, like all Americans are obese, all Americans have loud voices, all Americans wear baseball caps? That applies to Michael Moore but intelligent people don't generalise in that way. This leaves you out, Golden Boy, but your rugby-playing female friend probably finds your conversation inspirational, even transcendent. You're not worth wasting time on but I hope to see Daniel Day-Lewis winning an Oscar for "There will be blood". His wife, Rebecca Miller, is American, lives for part of the year in Ireland and is supremely intelligent. Now run away, little fellow, and see if the bar-tender will serve you a beer. I'm logging off now, cutie-pie.
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Golden Boy warns me ' 2:30 p.m "If you had any idea who I was...."
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]For a dazzling moment I thought you might be the candidate's wife because all that tired old stuff about Pavlov's dogs sounds as if it came from a Sociology Department about 20 years ago. I've just come in and, while I was out, someone mentioned "Outside the Blog" by Louis Lapide and it does seem that the candidate's wife is angry enough to dust anyone down. She's been nursing a sense of grievance for many a long year, it seems, but I'm not like that. I even tried to laugh at your imbecilic jokes. Did they call you a "wowser" in Australia? They have a great sense of fun, of course. Btw, people are now beginning to question whether the attempted concealment of the thesis written by the candidate's wife comes within the restrictions of the Patriot Act. Och, isn't it all terrible and the media bending over backwards to cosset Hillary. I suppose you know all about this supercallifragillistic thesis but I'll have to wait until morning to read your sagacious analysis. Incidentally, sarcastic comments have been made about my "pearls of wisdom". but I don't wear pearls, although the candidate's wife does. I'm now off to the Land of Nod, just the cue for you to sneak up as you did earlier when I said I was logging off.
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Barack Obama has been campaigning for two years but has only managed one brief official visit to London and nowhere else outside the
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]"The Times" (london) is a quality newspaper and this week concern was expressed about Senator Obama's lack of foreign policy experience (29th February 2008), calling attention to the fact that, apart form a brief trip to London, this Presidential candidate did not visit any other place in Europe. According to "The Times", neither has Obama been to South America. This sounds very similar to George W. Bush's attitude to the outside world before being elected President of the United States (twice). Nobody has to tell you that the war in Iraq has cost you dearly and now, with anti-American feeling running high in Serbia and Russia, because of what is perceived by them as American meddling in Eastern Europe, fine speeches seem more important than calm, informed leadership. Good night.
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Correction: Nowhere else
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]outside the United States.