Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 28
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pink naked
[Read the article: Hillary at twilight]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I started my lettering here as Mark Stratton; that being my name. Then I realized that every late evening thought I had was being posted on the web for all to search and to see so I began writing anonymously. I, like most of you, don't really want just everyone to know what I think so I wrote to salon, after their ban on anonymous letters, asking them to allow me an alias so that I could continue to enjoy the banter of the letters forums and not really be me. I was refused. Those of you who have been and still are "wildbill" or "everyonessusan" can still write at will and for all intents stay unknown, or anonymous. I have been forced to lie down in the bright light of the google search forever due to the inchoate fascism of the salon reich. Look at the world. It is from the unchecked left that fascism grows. But, on subject, I've been wondering where the real leaders are. Why aren't truly qualified people running for the office of President of the United States? We have the spouse of a former president, one who stayed strong and maintained her dignity under the most stressful of times, but who really hasn't proven herself as a leader (and there whole cities full of people who have been heroic in love and marriage, so what). We have a junior senator from Illinois who has done nothing and who has managed to stir up the evils of racism whenever the idea that he has done nothing comes up in conversation or debate ( a lot of time spent practicing "presidential" in front of the mirror and not one meeting called on the senate committe that he chairs), and we have the man who lost to and who was humiliated by our current incompetent president and is now seeking that same imcompetent president's endorsement. We're voting for images and the images are being collaged by the inexperienced and/or corrupt media(salon being more and more in and part of that group). We need to stop listening to the Walter Shapiros and the Joan Walshs and the blind polemicists like Greenwald and start voting for ourselves - looking at the realities of our own lives and voting for those who can, and who have proved they can, help to start making those little changes that make us a better country and that make our individual lives a little easier to live.
Goodnight, and with totally pink and soft nakedness and without the company of Joan Walsh tonight, good luck with your new president.
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if you're worried about your hide cecil
[Read the article: Hillary at twilight]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]then don't look first at Al Quaida. "The BaSE" that we should all be worried about is armed and dangerous and protected by the constitution and they are the gun totin (hillary has dropped her rs - what a waste of money to have journalists making this observation when there are real problems to be solved in our communities) young angry dispossessed people. Both of the dem candidates talk about health care and whether it should be for the young and the old or just for the young. It's all uninformed talk. If you're afraid do this : demand universal child care. Take care of the children unconditionally and solve almost all of your problems.
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ignorant of what wayne famous
[Read the article: Hillary at twilight]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]ignorant of what?
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special prosecutor
[Read the article: The best-laid plans]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Somebody knows somebody. That is the only explanation as to how this drivel could be published and then debuted here on Salon. It's all about favors and agreements and trade offs and Salon has obviously been invited to the big party.
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RACE
[Read the article: Election 2008: Declare a forfeit]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Gary, you don't write well in this voice. Your idea is too cute. Go hiking with your Mom and ask her what she thinks. Obama's biggest challenge will be to overcome the constant references to race and racism and not let them dominate the campaign so that he can run on ideas and he doesn't need the best folks in journalism (you're one of them)making up cute stories about the Generals going up against the Globetrotters. Sort of disses those trotters a little doesn't it - all they can do is cross over dribble. Anyway, you've got five dollar gas on the wrong team. He could wind up being a star.