Letters to the Editor
Rocky57
Published Letters: 213 Editor's Choice: 4
-
Sorry, Mr. Berra
[Read the article: It ain't over yet]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"...Barak is charismatic and has brought millions of new people into the party; he could stand to do better in the resume department against McCain..."
The problem is that those people will be turned off by a down and dirty primary fight or have their ardor dulled by the prospect of backing a divisive figure who has turned the Dem Primary race into a mud-wrestling bout. The GOP will be united against Clinton but, more importantly, the Independents and moderate Republicans who would have turned out in support of Obama, will either stay home or switch to the GOP.
My take? Obama needed to have won two, last night...because he didn't he'll get more of the trends, the reemergence of which we saw Tuesday night. I wish him well, but Pennsylvania and Indiana don't look good and places like N. Carolina may not be the locks the Obama campaign is counting on and that leads to more pressure for a re-do in Fla and, perhaps, Michigan. By then, those trends may have manifested themselves enough to so cripple an Obama candidacy that the convention, with the help of the super-delegates, will have no choice but to coronate Hillary.
Even though Obama's ahead in the delegate, state and popular vote [still], it doesn't look good. He needed to have eked out a win in Texas to deny Hillary even the appearance of momentum.
-
Hillary bet on the Stupidity of Americans...
[Read the article: It ain't over yet]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"... and she won. Ms. "I'll-say-anything-to-get-elected" decided it was time to cast Obama as that shady muslim guy who may talk pretty but who you can't trust to answer the phone while your children are sleeping. And it worked...."
I assume you're saying that with H.L. Mencken as your bookie, you'll never go broke? One may be hardpressed to mount a rebuttal.
-
It's a Dynasty
[Read the article: No Texas-size victory for Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]i>"...Bill Clinton has run (oh, and *won*, rather handily) exactly twice...."
Actually, Bill won with pluralities, not majorities...had it not been for Ross Perot it is arguable that Bush Papi might have had a second term.
The poster's point is about a Bush or Clinton being on the winning presidential ticket for 28 straight years. That, indeed, is not healthy.
-
Who's Complaining?
[Read the article: No Texas-size victory for Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"...If the uninformed nominate Obama John McCain and the republican's will destroy him with his thin skin he can't take the heat...."
"Thin-skinned?" I think not. Who's complained about "biased media" and "misogyny" and a matter so trivial as "who seems to get called on first." Obama, prior to today, hasn't uttered son much as a peep--nothing about racism, nothing about Hillary Clinton's halting acknowledgement of Obama "[saying] he's a Christian," despite the fact that the two attend Congressional Prayer Breakfasts, together, and next to nothing about that photo ostensibly circulated by the Clinton campaign of Obama in Somali muslim-like head garb. You couldn't turn on the tv without Ms. Clinton caterwauling, on news and entertainment shows, alike, about unfair treatment. All this while attempting to slime Obama and his attempt-to-stand-above-the fray campaign.
Now, exactly who is it that's "thin-skinned?"
Now, we're going to get a Pig-fest in the mud, which is, apparently, exactly what one candidate wanted.
John McCain is sittin' pretty
-
Careful how you use the term "Swiftboating"
[Read the article: No Texas-size victory for Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"...Plenty on the *Right* have floated 'Obama is a Muslim' (HRC this morning on the Today Show said this was silly)..."
Too bad Hillary couldn't have been as forthright on the subject, the weekend before the Primaries, during that "Sixty Minutes segment," as she was the day after them, on "Today."
-
It Seems Shirky and You are....
[Read the article: Does "Obama Girl" help Obama?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...limning the world of "Ghost in The Shell," particularly the inaugural season which involves the "Laughing Man" investigation so vividly portrayed [in the States, on Adult Swim] by Shiro Masamune and the guys and gals led by Kenji Kamayama at I.G. animation. Here, you pretty much evoke that part of the world of "Ghost" with these lines:
"...My argument is pretty simple: We are living through the largest expansion in expressive capability in the history of the human race. The effect of new capabilities destabilizing existing behaviors has been very profound for really major communications changes -- as with, say, the printing press and the telephone. Given the enormity of the change we're living through -- the first group-oriented medium in history -- change is now coming to every place where society relies on groups to get work done, which is almost everywhere...."
Your article is fascinating--I'm way older than "25" but I've been on the Net since 94-95 and I've been fascinated, ever since, with the way this technology transforms the way we think and get things done.
It's funny, but in both "Ghost" and something like Spielberg's excellent "Minority Report" there is a place for Newspapers in the world of the mid-twenty-first century. In "Ghost," in an episode entitled "Excavation" in the series's 2nd season, one of the characters, Togusa, is shown on a subway car talking while another person walks by with a newspaper under his arm. In "Minority Report," there is the now famous scene of Tom Cruise escaping his fellow pre-crime cops by boarding a subway car where he sees his name and picture flash on a Time Magazine flimsy, as well as a newspaper. All three, the newspaper in the "Ghost" episode and the Mag and newspaper in "Minority Report" are presumably internet-sensitive and are capable of receiving updates via that medium. The presence of a print medium, if only in a facsimile type, cyber-enhanced format, in "Ghost," is particularly interesting, especially in a place and time where one can have info streamed directly onto cybernectically enhanced eye-balls. So, I guess, with a few tweaks here and there, there may be hope for an old stand-by, yet.
Ps: I'm going out to get the Shirky's book, first thing, tomorrow--where it'll take its place, on my bookshelf, alongside those of Kurzweill and Moravec. Thanks for the article.