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TomRitchford

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Wednesday, April 16, 2008 01:56 PM

You can't just let people get away with repeated crimes!

He's been caught dozens of times times; how many times has he done it and not got caught? Surely at least hundreds. And it's not just frottage, he's been convicted twice of grand larceny.

I'm quite the bleeding heart liberal but this person really shouldn't be on the streets.

I do wonder when I read things like this whether corporal punishment isn't a better answer. Unfortunately, once you open the door to that, you've opened Pandora's box....

Wednesday, April 16, 2008 07:04 PM

Very practical advice!

Clear and to the point.

And don't forget the appeal to the team: "We're both on the same side here; the reason I get grumpy is not because I'm angry with you but because I worry that there'll be a terrible failure."

Wednesday, April 16, 2008 07:09 PM

When do you sleep?!

How did you find time to write this book while generating at least 5 columns a week for Salon?!!!

Guess I'm off to my local independent bookstore (Shakespeare and Company) to get a copy for myself.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008 08:12 AM

The gap between the bias in the articles and the letters is bizarrely great.

The obvious pro-Clinton bias in the articles contrasts strangely with the heavy pro-Obama bias in the letters.

We get enough biased reporting in the "mainstream" media - couldn't Salon work a little harder at obscuring its obvious biases? This article was just one example; the previous posters have very accurately pointed out the slant.

At this point, it seems almost mathematically certain that unless there's a big surprise, the nomination will go to Obama. Does the Left want again to be in the position of destroying their own chances for the White House?

Wednesday, April 23, 2008 07:58 AM

Wow, *another* pro-Clinton article at Salon!

What the heck has gone wrong with this place?

PA was Mrs. Clinton's last chance to make up ground; she needed a landslide and she didn't get it. It seems as if she mathematically has no chance to win now unless they subvert the superdelegates.

I'm not all ga-ga over Mr. Obama, who's yet another militarist candidate, but he's head and shoulders over Mrs. Clinton to anyone actually "on the left".

How Salon can play this into a "victory" for Mrs. Clinton boggles my mind. Are you so determined to destroy the Democratic party and thus the nation and the world (can you imagine the havoc that four more years of Republicans will wreak?)?

Tuesday, April 29, 2008 03:01 PM
Original article: I was wrong about Wright

We're not interested in this, we are interested in real issues.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/04/29/wright/

Tuesday, April 29, 2008 03:03 PM
Original article: Obama: "I am outraged"

Who cares? Why not write about actual issues?

Boring, boring, boring. Who cares? This is a non-issue.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/04/29/wright/

Thursday, May 1, 2008 11:38 AM

SHUT UP ABOUT WRIGHT ALREADY.

Damn, I'm getting sick of this.

Why are you doing this to us?! Do you really not understand that the Democrats squabble like little children and the Republicans rub their hands in glee?

It might be justifiable to endlessly attack one of our own IF there were anything to it. But there is nothing. Nothing, nothing, nothing.

Stop it! Stop it! Stop it!

Sunday, May 4, 2008 10:01 AM

Please explain to us some scenario where Mrs. Clinton can possibly win.

I guess it's become clear over the last week or two that you're a strong supporter of Mrs. Clinton. That's fine, although you should stop pretending that you're in any way unbiased.

However, it seems to me and a lot of other somewhat less partisan observers that there is no plausible scenario that results in Mrs. Clinton winning over Mr. Obama. Unless you can detail some real possibility for Mrs. Clinton's victory, you are simply wasting your breath and our time and patience.

I should add that gonads (the gender-neutral expression for cojones that you're looking for) should be extremely low on your scale for rating candidates. All the candidates have that sort of aggression in spades compared to your average guy. I'm more interested in rationality, competence, coolness under fire.

The fact that you can talk about things like the "gas tax holiday", one of the stupidest damn ideas ever proposed, one which will simply help confirm your average USAian's addiction to fossil fuels while draining the already-looted Treasury just a little more, and only see Mrs. Clinton's "fortitude" makes me think that you've lost the plot pretty badly.

Please. Stop shooting us in the foot. Take a little time off and think: "Is there really a way that Mrs. Clinton can win? If not, surely I should be putting my weight behind the final Democratic party choice because more than anything else we need to avoid four more years of Republican mismanagement?"

Sunday, May 4, 2008 10:12 AM
Original article: Opus

"Afraid of strong women."

"It must be an inside joke. Inside some group that is still into this "men are afraid of strong woman" tripe."

Try Googling "afraid of strong women clinton"

I'm a confirmed feminist, I'm in favour of "strong women", but I still laughed a lot at this one.

People do get told that they're "afraid of strong women" when they simply don't like Mrs. Clinton, perhaps because she's very right-wing and suggests unbelievably stupid, "suck up to the voters" ideas like the gas tax holiday.

(And if you're a supporter of Mrs. Clinton and you have any sort of rational justification for the gas tax holiday, lay it on us. Or if you don't, how can you support a candidate who'd suggest something so dumb?)

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