Letters to the Editor
Kitt
Published Letters: 3555
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@Phil
[Read the article: The Weekly Standard's "9/11 Generation"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You mistake failure to agree for failure to notice. You cited only my final paragraph; did you read the preceding ones?
I understand the premise of the video, and the argument that Blumenthal is not cheerleading the war. Neither of those points, however, answers the essential objections I raised. The video is tendentious, careless, and sophomoric. It will do nothing to persuade the uncommitted or to find common ground with the opposition.
We will not resolve our problems with others, whether they are Republicans or Islamists or anyone else, with peep-show presentations which wouldn't qualify as Michael Moore Lite. Or even as Monty Python.
-- PhilSheehan
No, I didn't mistake or overlook what you left our of your post. Of course I read the preceding paragraphs. Dumb question, in my opinion. Possibly just disingenuous. It's not like you had written 10,000 word essay for me to wade through.
Yes, I get it. You thought Blumenthal's video was sophomoric. To each his own opinion. I don't agree but that is not relevant.
As for trying to win over chicken shit College Republicans...who cares? Blumenthal wasn't trying to win them over. He was exposing them for the frauds that they are. That is what he set out to do. If I happened to be one of "the uncommitted" I would take notice of what Blumenthal exposed. The College Republicans cooperated with Blumenthal in the video by making fools of themselves with laughable excuses for their refusal to physically support the "war" that they are beating their chests about every day.
Mission accomplished!
If you want to waste your time and energy trying to appeal to College Republicans, have at it. Blumenthal knew what a bunch of hapless phonies he was dealing with. And now, so do a lot of the "uncommitted".
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@anon#?
[Read the article: The Weekly Standard's "9/11 Generation"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So, do you support the space program? The world needs astronauts, son. Sign up.
How about free medical work in Africa? If you support it but don't volunteer for it, what does that say? Better get your shots, junior.
Support good public education in inner-city schools? Better get a teaching certificate and a flak jacket.
So until I see you wearing a spacesuit in a one-hut school in inner-city Addis Ababa, I don't want to hear from you about it.
Not the clearest thinker walking the Earth, are you?
--Anonymous
Are there people on radio, television and newspapers calling people who choose not to be astronauts, teachers or medical assistants or doctors, traitors and unpatriotic, un-American "fags" and terrorists or terrorist sympathizers?
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Phil
[Read the article: The Weekly Standard's "9/11 Generation"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I care, and so should you. Point out folly if you will, and criticize the mistakes of others; those are inevitable elements of any debate. But the parlor game of "ridicule the other guys" gets boring and fruitless after a while, unless you are trapped forever in an eleven-year-old mindset.--Phil
You care? Oh? And just how is it that you're going about dealing with these College Republicans? Are you preaching to them? Sending them flyers and emails?
There are a lot of people to be reached. Since the approval rating of George Bush has gone from 90% to 28% I'd say a lot of people have been reached. College Republicans are of no interest to me.
What is mature about your self declaration that you "care" about convincing College Republicans to...I don't know...what is it that you think you can help them to do?
To summarize: don't give me your shit about maturity means wasting your time pretending that frauds like the college Republicans are who we should be spending our time helping to see the light. You are posting dishonesty or fantasy. One or the other.
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Bucky
[Read the article: Bush's 2001 condemnation of Russia's human rights abuses]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Kitt the coward ....
You do not need to own the comments section to see that you are afraid to name a candidate until someone gives you the memo. (we know who, don't we?)
-- bucky1
There is no learning curve with you, Bucky. You haven't changed one bit or learned a single thing since I first called you out for saying that the posters here are waiting for Greenwald to declare a candidate. At that time you insisted that that was not what you said. And yet, here you are, once again, still saying exactly what I called you out on.
If you want to know why you are basically despised and ridiculed around here, look no further than this perfect example of your incredible dishonesty. Plus you frequently top it off with one of your idiotic 'Titles' like "kitt the coward".
Fucking weird, Bucky. That's what you are.
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@anon
[Read the article: The Weekly Standard's "9/11 Generation"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]@kitt
Are there people on radio, television and newspapers calling people who choose not to be astronauts, teachers or medical assistants or doctors, traitors and unpatriotic, un-American "fags" and terrorists or terrorist sympathizers?
No, and there aren't people calling those who don't volunteer for the army that, either, except here on Salon and in similar forums.
Bullshit. There is nothing more need be said. If you are denying that Limbaugh, Coulter, Hewitt, Savage and the rest of the lynchmob haven't been freely using those words to lash out at everyone who is not on their "team" you are either blind and deaf, or a liar.
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Phil
[Read the article: The Weekly Standard's "9/11 Generation"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Your dramatics just slay me. How do you think we, the American people, managed to turn Bush's approval rating from 90% to 28%?
You think awfully highly of yourself, and you seem to think you know the way as no one else does.
There are people who have helped turn a few heads and minds around. Go easy on the self flattery, man, and the presumptuous insults that you've so readily tossed out at a whole bunch of people that you know noting about. Okay? Try not to be so full of yourself and you might find some room to see what's going on around you.