Letters to the Editor
Ray Walker
Published Letters: 34 Editor's Choice: 2
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Silder attacks
[Read the article: Dr. Laura to Silda: It's all your fault!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]To assume one is knowledgeable about another's sex life and make suggestions like Schlessinger has done about Mrs. Spitzer is pure Yellow journalism, more akin to the old Hearst crowd.
I am sure there are marriages where the woman, for good or bad reasons, denies her husband sex. And I am sure there are husbands whose inhibitions keep their libido a secret from their wives. "Marry the virgin and make love to the whore" is an ancient problem brought on my the weird idea that sex is somehow sinful. Religious taboos cause more problems than unsympathetic wives.
For a number of years it has been popular to picture the husband as a bit of an imbecile, only fit to play with toys, and now women as airheads. When we do this kind of generalizations about race or intelligence we get properly whacked across the mouth.
My personl judgment of Elliot Spitzer sank beneath the waves, not because of his fancy whore, but because he had the poor grace to bring his wife to the microphone to help prop him up. Shameless and unforgiveable.
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Jeremiah Wright
[Read the article: The difference between Jeremiah Wright and radical, white evangelical ministers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This issue is far more complex than Greenwald's article. The anti Obama argument is based on a 20 year mentorship, spiritual confidant, a man who praised Farrakhan, traveled with him to Libya to see Ghadaffi, and who frequently said "God damn America." Given our record of Jim Crow it might be understandable that a black minister would take offense and react in this way. Obama's problem is suggesting he never agreed with these sentiments, even though he supppoted Wright financially.
Comparing this with the Religious ideologue Bush, and other neocons making political hay out of associating with the likes of Robertson for politcal purposes, and not closely associated with him, is a bit different. If they were buddying up with David Duke there would be better similarities.
I'm totally disgusted with the entire political system. I think Ron Paul would've been a better choice all around than these prancing fools.
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Bailing out the greedy failures
[Read the article: The crash in Republican economics ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Simple justice would suggest that the individuals whose control and marketing of subprime loans should not escape. They should individually be required to file bankruptcy and return their wealth to the taxpayers who are baling their sinking boats out of the deep water.
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Obama's faith in reason
[Read the article: Obama's faith in the reasoning abilities of the American public]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Greenwald, I hope you are wrong. I have never voted for a Democrat for president in 56 years that I have been able to vote. I may well vote for Obama, based entirely on his faith in reason. Also, McCain fails to represent a change of attitude towards our foreign policy and our quagmire in Iraq.
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GOP attack plan similar to the Democrat plan.
[Read the article: The GOP attack plan for Barack Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Unless one is so partisan that you are totally deaf to a bell rung by your opponent, a more rational observer of the political process has to know from experience that "Dirty Tricks: is not a process exclusive to any party but a universal habit of ideologues, and of little help to those who would like substance and not rhetoric and sniping.
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Poor America
[Read the article: Poor America]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I love Garrison's wit. Used to listen to him when I had a radio. Too much noise and goop on to bother anymore.
Well, politicos don't want to deal with the real finances. Can't blame them. If I were a politician this is what I'd tell you.
"We've only given you what you've asked for, consumption on credit. If any of us proposed a real cure you would vote us out of office. Social Security will bankrupt by 2030, Medicare will require 80% of the present budget by 2030, the comptroller says we are effectively bankrupt, but any of us who tell you the truth and propose a fix, are tossed from office.
"You've asked us to bribe you for your votes and we've complied. Why are you unhappy?
We've given you the government you deserve and asked for."
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Jeremiah Wright isn't the problem.
[Read the article: Rev. Jeremiah Wright isn't the problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]All due respect to Mr. Kamiya's analysis, with some of which I agree. Where I think he fails is in understanding human nature. To be labeled racist, or homophobe, or any other pejorative term, when you aren't, is taken to be unfair. So I want to be fair.
Assume that a presidential candidate had spent 20 years in a church pastored by a KKK minister. Is there any sane person who would think he'd get a nod from a political party? His comment that he didn't agree with the pastor would not be believed.
Wright has allied himself with Farrakhan. If a pastor in any church I attended made the racial comments Wright did, I would've been gone after the first hearing. Wright teaches Liberation Theology. I think he'd do better listening to Bill Cosby.
I was thrilled by Obama's speech as it related to racial issues. I am disturbed by the economic requirements to pass what he suggests are cures for inequality in income and education.
I don't believe Sen. Obama has satisfactorily dealt with a 20 year relationship with a black racist anti-Semite.
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Clinton's Economics
[Read the article: Hillary Clinton's plan to fix the economy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The first step might be better taken to address the $8 Trillion debt and a budget deficit that is out of sight, rather than spending another $30 Billion in welfare for homeowners. The Federal Reserve's bail-out of Bear Stern at taxpayer's expense is inflationary, i.e. just print more paper money. With the Euro at $1.57 when a year ago it was .70c ought to be a storm warning to anyone with a 10th grade education.
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Dalai Lama
[Read the article: Seduced by the Dalai Lama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bayard's analysis is excellent. For those like the Dalai Lama who are opposed to violence, I would state that freedom from tyranny has always come from the business end of a gun. The only "gun" China fears is world condemnation and a total boycott of the Olympics. Sometimes the opinion of the majority can tame the wanton use of the gun. But do we really give a damn? I doubt it.