Letters to the Editor
maureenodonnell
Published Letters: 590 Editor's Choice: 5
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Arlo Figg feints and weaves
[Read the article: The race vs. gender war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is obviously not a fencing bout as bludgeons and knobkerries are being used. Arlo Figg, who apparently supports Senator Obama, resorts to insulting the Clintons in what is supposed to be a discussion on Gary Kamiya's article: "The race v. gender war". What an insight into the American psyche you, Arlo Figg, and Anonymous (who thinks using filthy language substitutes for debate) are providing to the rest of the world! You people are really scary. You call Bill Clinton a "sextagenarian" and perhaps that is your feeble attempt at a pun or perhaps you just cannot spell. So a sexagenarian", a person in his or her sixties, is considered worthless in his/her sixties. I suppose that you know that "sexagenarian" is a word that comes from Latin and has nothing whatsoever to do with sex, although some of you seem fixated on that particular topic.
I'm still waiting for a dispassionate and reasoned reply to my questions but, although some of the Clinton-haters on this discussion board, have no problem with spouting a farrago, you seem unwilling to deal with facts. The Clintons mean nothing to me and I sympathise with the supporters of John Edwards as their favoured candidate is being pushed aside by the media, apart from a condescending piece by Lawrence O'Donnell in Salon. I have neither the time nor the opportunity to read all your media outlets but I've also read Maureen Dowd in NYT. Both of these people, of Irish descent I suppose, seem to be biased journalists. I don't care what there ancestry is, they do not reach any criterion of impartiality. Now, to return to my original points, why is there such a veil of secrecy surrounding the charming Senator Obama and, to keep ON TOPIC which revolves around race and gender, why is hs mother not being acknowledged? I believe that Barack Obama's mother had a daughter with Mr, Soetero. That brings in the gender issue again so why is his sister not being brought forward? Yes, I've read about the lovely Michelle Obama who is not in her sixties but, with the help of God will reach them some day, because as Shakespeare said "Youth's a stuff will not endure".
Now, Arlo Figg, it is YOUR Presidential election but the U.S. keeps on interfering in the politics of other countries. Why, even now, George W. Bush is telling the European Union that Turkey should be admitted to the EU but I reckon he's going to get a dusty answer from the citizens of the EU. Could you please answer my questions and stop prevaricating. I don't need to know anything about HRC as her life has been trawled over by biographers, journalists and so on but the phenomenon that is Senator Obama has appeared in the galaxy quite recently.
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Error corrected
[Read the article: The race vs. gender war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Typo - Lawrence O'Donnell and Maureen Dowd - "their ancestry".
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Please think "outside the box", p-breedlove
[Read the article: The race vs. gender war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]p-breedlove referred to me as a "British Chick" which shows that he isn't thinking outside the box. I'm Irish -ever so slightly different from British - and I'm not a "chick" as my mother was not a hen. I lived in England when it was considered O.K to call young women "dolly birds" and, although it was reductive, I never got aerated about it as the intention behind the words was not malevolent. When I got up this morning, I was a woman but I may have since turned into a vampire as it is after midnight and already Wednesday morning. Did you know , p-breedlove, that the author of "Dracula", Bram Stoker, was born in Ireland? The grandparents of the late Bobby Kennedy and John Fitzgerald Kennedy were born in Ireland? I don;t have a soap-box, just a laptop, but it's clear my questions irk you. So it's hunky-dory for the Americans to invade Iraq and bring it to ruination so that Halliburton and others can grab a bit of the action in the Middle East oilfields but non-Americans can't ask perfectly reasonable questions about your presidential election, which at the moment your media has focused on a war of words between Clinton and Obama factions! We do have a perception in Europe that Americans are very arrogant, even boorish, and you've just proved it. Pardon me for breathing and asking questions about a man who was practically unknown outside Chicago until a little more than two years ago and has only been heard about in Europe within the last six months.
Don't ask any questions, just swallow the guff that the American media dishes out to you, including getting you all hot-and-bothered about WmD. Do the same this time as you did in 2004 but if you elect any more war-lords who think it;s America's right to kick everyone around and to, allegedly. use Shannon Airport in Ireland, and airports elsewhere in Europe, for what you call "extraordinary rendition" and we call kidnapping, then you Americans can expect extraordinary reactions from Europe. Your reputation is already in shreds because of the imperialism of Bushco. I find it amusing that Cheney, McCain and Obama have a common ancestor, with Obama's on his late mother's side but you are all skittering away from that whereas I hear "polarising" being used about HRC in parrot-like fashion, without any specifics. Could she be responsible for the melting ice-caps in the North Pole or has she done something awful to the walrus in the South Pole.
When you Americans accept that other people on this planet have rightf also, then there will be no need for "a Brit chick" or anyone else of that ilk to ask you straightforward questions. It's evident anyway that you prefer to create smokescreens than ask relevant questions of the two leading Democrat candidates whom you loathe or venerate in equal measure.