Letters to the Editor
MaddieP
Published Letters: 706 Editor's Choice: 9
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Regarding Florida
[Read the article: "Richardson has never questioned Senator Obama's electability"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I live here and I can assure you it's a very different state than it was in 2000 and 2004.
I moved here in 1998 and at that time it was all old people - mostly transplants from NY, may of them Jewish.
Today, the state is HOME to a much greater diversity of population. You cannot just assume that the state is ripe for a Hillary win. Not so fast batman.
But that said, Ii believe based on my own experince living in two very differnt parts of teh state over the last almost 10 years, that Florida is NOT NECESSARYILY A RED STATE McCain COULLD TAKE FOR GRANTED.
There are huge populations of young people, Latino, African-American voters who have not participated hugely in the political process in the state. I feel the democrats would be able to easily mobilize these populations and the results might be quite surprising.
Check it out:
http://edr.state.fl.us/population/popsummary.pdf
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Penn sucks and this AINT strategy
[Read the article: Reports of Penn's ouster may be greatly exaggerated]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I would think Hillary's team would be GLAD to see him go after he so thoroughly and [perfectly f**ked up her campaign from DAY ONE. He has done her no good service for her money, that's for damn sure.
JACKSPARX
I would agree with you that this might have been an excellent strategy on Hillary's part - to *fire* Penn after eh *snuck off* to talk with Colombia about free trade. EXCEPT for it to WORK Hillary would have had to actually exclude him for at least one news cycle! To have him actively sit in on the conference call the same damn day would be a stupid way t carry out that strategy.
Co-conspirators in a bank robbery don't meet up again anytime soon. If ever.
No, this was just a typical Hillary campaign f**k up. I feel sort of sorry for her. I'm not a fan of hers but her campaign is probably far worse than she actually is.
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Bottom Line
[Read the article: Some in the military like pro-withdrawal candidates]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It doesn't take a nuclear physicist to realize your ass has been in the freakin desert for three and a half years with very little respite and your baby girl is about to start pre-school...
How long do you think it would be before anyone with a brian in their head would say to themselves: "Fuck me!!...how long is this shit going to keep up? And anyway, how do we know we've won? Cuz last month i was over in THAT province and it got to be OK now its all fucked up".
I mean come on.
The telling thing about the video, despite the unofficial polling. is that these soldiers were asked these questions amidst groups of others. For so long the GOP had the implicit support of the military...that these soldiers would even utter support for a democrat while on the battlefield and not feel they would later be ostracized by their buddies tell you ALOT about what these guys and gals are saying and feeling when the cameras aren't around.
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sascatchewan
[Read the article: Obama: The Chinese version]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Exactly why our country needs someone like Barak Obama.
China may indeed be an oppressive regime with a different political system than ours but it is to our great peril to dismiss them as 'enemy' because of it.
We're in a new world and this country had better get its s**t together or we'll all be speaking Mandarin soon enough. I think he's smart to understand that our future as a country depends of our ability to connect with the Chinese (as much as we can anyway) and for our governments to develop a sense of trust and relationship which benefits us both equally.
I don't begrudge Obama for having the foresight to understand the world we live in, and the world that's coming very soon.
P.S. By the way, how better to change a repressive regime (or any regime) than for the people themselves to demand it? China has changed a lot even in the last 10 years. Isolation never helps those people who want or demand change.
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he's not a libertarian...i was/am but now...
[Read the article: Is Barack Obama a libertarian paternalist?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama is definitely not a libertarian. That's just outright stupid.
Once upon a time i considered myself libertarian. And i guess in a perfect world, an alternate universe, I still am.
It would be great if it could be reality.
But I have found that as the world changes I have had to examine my own views. I cannot be static and ossified. I have to reevaluate on an on-going basis. I think more people and countries should do this. (the USA gets stuck a lot because we won't consider change - look at the resistance to national health care, election procedures etc.)
I don't think i like this 'new term' mentioned in this article. It sounds stupid and will be a PR flop. Two words everyone hates? Together? Right. Its dead in the water.
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Abbeywood
[Read the article: McCain's century-long problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Where's the clip...I'd love to see it! Do share.
I find McCain scary too. I think he's not all there. And worse: he doesn't realize it!
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not interesting...its natural to doubt
[Read the article: Clinton tells the truth]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Like Judge Judy says, if you lie about one thing it makes it hard for me to believe the other stuff you say.
So what Alex, if some Dems had a skepticism about it. So what? Nobody was *siding* with the hospital.
Hillary's own campaign knows that perceived believability is her weak point. And has been from the start. They know this and so when something comes up that FITS into that perception, people are more likely to consider it true or examine it closely.
That's all. Don;t make more of it than that.
BTW I didn't really care about the hospital story per se or whether it was a lie. Maybe some others did. I think it is also another example of an all too eager 24/7 media monster that must analyze and parse every single word and make it into a story - even when its not.