Letters to the Editor
RobbySh
Published Letters: 94
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Obama is black but not an African-American-2
[Read the article: I was wrong about Wright]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But his wife is both. And I think she was far more taken in. Wright's church was a good fit for someone with a Muslim background: I imagine Wright has a pretty light Christology. But I think MRS, bought more into the church message. Now, however, Wright has dissed her hubby and I think that that all goes out the window. Stand by your man, you know.
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Hill
[Read the article: She won't go easy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Camille ignores one hard fact. Clinton has earned very near the same number of popular votes as Obama. Half the party supports her. Whenever she quits, the Democrats will probably win IF the party does not try to blow her off.
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Hillary's contituency
[Read the article: Can Barack Obama win West Virginia?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Clinton is staying in the game for more than pride. These last primaries have defined her constituency. In the end she can say, i got almost half the vote, and I am the only person who can bring enough of them to vote Obama to elect him. McCain is going to be fihsing in these same waters, and if you are not careful he will catch his 153 fish.
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Fat kiuds
[Read the article: Indiana Jones and the kingdom of fat kids]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Relax, with ethenol production taking up more and more farm land, and the farm bill paying people to take land out of peoduction, and making agribusiness richer and richer, the obesity problem will soon b solved. Milk now costs as much as gasoline. Pretty soon bread was cost $5.00 a loaf. Candy $5.00 a bar.
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McCain's psych records
[Read the article: What's in John McCain's medical records?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It is 1860, and the Douglas campaign is demanding that Lincoln make public his medical records. Rumor has it that he suffers from deep depression and that his friends once had to nurse him during a suicidal episode.
You guys will do anything to win, won't you.? Here you run Will Smith for President. Wait, its not Will" It'ss another light-skinned, tall, good looking. politically inexperienced black actor you have recruited for the role of President.
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Oregon
[Read the article: A split Democratic decision]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He got less than 60% in one of the most liberal states of the Union. onw where they are euthanizing old people, ala Holland. Oregon has always been progressive. Back in the 1920s it sought to ourlaw Catholic schools and was a hotbed of the KKK.
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Hollywoodized
[Read the article: The ugliest election]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why is it that it is heroic for a politically motivated Florida supreme court to intervene in a federal election but horrific for a (liberal) SCOTUS to overrule that intervention? BECAUSE IT SAYS SO IN THE SCRIPT.
So we get another dose of Hollywood's version of history, which is always about as reliable as "Inherit the Wind," or "Birth of a Nation." Historians do a bad enough job of writing their own prejudices into history; scriptwriters, however, manage to outdo them, because they always take the novelist's liberty of reading the minds of the characters, an ability that in real life is denied to all but saints like the Cure d'Ars.
The unpleasant fact is that our election process is ill-designed for situations were the electorate is evenly divided. Indeed, every design fails to provide of situations like Florida in 2000, or the Democratic nomination process this year. It is ironical--if that it the right word--that Democratic Party leaders are condemning Clinton for doing exactly what they urged Gore to do in 2000, which was to push the system to its limits. The simple fact is that the system broke down: we couldnever know what the voters wanted
The only equitable
outcome in 2000 was to allow the election to be decided by the U.S. House of Representatives, as provided by the 12th Amendment. As Scalia said, the end result would have been the same, as there were more Republican delegations in the House than Democratic ones.
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Lefty Obama
[Read the article: The ugliest election]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]By every measure I have heard about, Obama is the most liberal member of the United States Senate. Which probably puts him to the right of the Harvard faculty, but it's too far left for me.
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Racism
[Read the article: How much will white racism hurt Obama?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Don't confuse racism with cultural prejudice. In fact the term ought not to be used by the Hollwodd and Park Avenue elites when talking about the people of Appalachia, because after all it is based on their own brand of" racism, "their sense of culural superiority not only to the
"hillbillies" but even to any of their fellow Americans who don't share their cultural values.
Asto the feelings of hillbillies about blacks, it is most a matter of dislike. They don't like blacks for many of the same reason why many Boston Irish don't like blacks , why Mexicans don't blacks, why the Irish don't like Italians or Poles.
And it works both ways: blacks don't like whites. Blacks feel a deep resentment for Jews that is not unlike the resentment that Polish and Ukrainians felt toward Jews in "the old country." But they don't like whites, either, and they do their best to live apart from people not like themselves. The election of Obama is not going to eliminate racism in this country anymore than the election of Kennedy ended anti-Catholicism.
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HHatchet
[Read the article: How much will white racism hurt Obama?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My children grew up in the U.S. military community, which is probably the most integrated American institution. When he went to college twenty years ago, he was amazed at the self-segregation by blacks. In dining rooms, blacks would sit at one table and whites at another. At another school, my daughter had a black roommate who basically ignored her, and while she wrote that off as, well, one of those things, she noticed that the other blacks who came into the room, also treated her with indifference.
Now this is simply an anecdote, but it shows what I was talking about. Blacks are no more immune to the herd instinct than people of any other ethnic group. I have always been surprised by the unwillingness of blacks to admit that the differences they see among white ethnic groups have any significance, or anyway that they can ever cause conflcts like those between blacks and white.