Letters to the Editor
Rocky57
Published Letters: 215 Editor's Choice: 4
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Cowhead Soup
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]CowheadSoup [commenting on Obama's "lack of achievement" and noting, in passing, his editorship of Harvard Law School's Review]: "The man is infact a Zero -- with a zero record of true accomplishments, save perhaps heading his college newspaper. He does own a yet-to-be-thoroughly-inflated voting record, one that for Salonialists may be quite Spiffy & Cheery. --"
Laaawd hav' muhcy! And, Obama wants to lead a nation comprised of too many of those of which Cowhead is a "prime example"? I wish him luck and that he continues to draw to an inside straight with his increase of newly registered, younger, at-least-semi sentient voters.
(As I never tire of saying: Barack's got a long row to hoe with a particular demographic that's never shied away from voting against it's interests once you start flapping red flags [and those "red, white & blue" ones] and shuffling political street corner shells and peas)
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Dre95
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]"...Who in his right mind would propose tax increases during a recession? It's the spending, stupid!"
What's "stupid" is promulgating one elective war on top of another, attempting to conduct them at the same time while giving the top pctile a tax break. The result: cutrate equipment for our fighting men in Iraq and needless carnage among their ranks. Nothing could be, if you'll pardon the expression, "stupider."
What Obama wants to do is ease the burden on the Middle Class and get the freeloaders in the upper pctile to shoulder their fair share. Better yet, Bush shouldn't have spent [for a purely elective War in Iraq and a whole pig slough of mainly GOP generated earmarks] without paying for it
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A Heartbeat Away
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]My choice for VP? Not Sibelius, who I think is an excellent politician and a comer. But, what does she add? Kansas? Biden? No, another small stater and a great guy with Primo foreign policy experience but how many of the "enlightened" heartland electorate know that? In addition, wasn't he a "yea" vote on the War Resolution Act--and if he was how does he avoid the flippin' pancake and skillet routine the GOP will rightfully throw at him?
The strongest choice is Jim Webb. A well-read guy with military/gov't cred who was, unlike Biden, fortunate enough not to be in the White House when the vote went down and, early on, an incessant critic of the way Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld diluted the effort vs. Bin Ladin in Afghanistan by clumsily electing to take down Saddam Hussein, in Iraq. Plus, he's from Virginia, a key state with a boat-load of electorals in the upcoming Big Enchilada. He may have a tendency toward the controversial but nothing so serious as to bollux the campaign and you'll never see him get that Deer-in-the-Headlight look, ala John Edwards, when things get sticky in those Veep debate moments.
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Oops, Ala Webb
[Read the article: Obama's best veep choice]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obviously, I meant to write "Congress" rather than "White House"
Pardon the error
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Horizon
[Read the article: Obama's best veep choice]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"...George Bush, your nemesis, grew up in one of our country's leading political families. He graduated in the top fifth of his class at Harvard Business School. He knows his business. His ultimate decision to change Iraq and thus change the history of IslamoFascism from growing menace to utter defeat will go down as world historically important. In ten years, the Iraqi people will be a happy people thanks to George Bush and not thanks to you and those with whom you identify...."
Bush's undergrad resume, aside from his familial pedigree, was exceedingly mediocre. I don't know where you got his Grad ranking, since Harvard B School is very close-mouthed about its alumni, especially Bush. He failed at his oil endeavours, failed to distinguish himself with the Carlyle group but managed to live out a boyhood dream as a part owner of the Texas Rangers baseball team...an organisation that has yet to distinguish itself in any meaningful way other than to ruin the arms of a number of young pitching phenoms.
As for "Islamo-fascism"? Dollars to donuts had Bush kept to his efforts re Bin-ladin, we wouldn't now be having this conversation about a loose collection of recently-even-more-inspired religious nuts equated, by the normal collection of paranoid delusionals, with the Russian Bear threat of the Cold War and the Axis Powers of WWII, before that.
And, oh, yeah, that "happy Iraqi" scenario you and yours never tire of touting? Now, its "ten years" instead of the "Iraqis bearing flowers in May 2003"? Please, tell that to the 100,000 plus Iraqis [and the 4000 American soldiers] who've needlessly died in the aftermath of the invasion because Bush incompetently attempted to wage war on the cheap.
Whether Obama wins the Presidency or not, is almost an afterthought; the Dems will take veto proof margins in both houses of Congress and sweep state-wide offices [governorships]. Unless the Nov big dog winner is a Democrat, winning the White House'll be a booby-prize for John McC., courtesy of George "Knows-his-business" Bush.
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Cowanl & the best of both worlds
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]"All the pluses of Hillary and none of the drag. Puts FLA in play for real and seals the campaign funding gap over McShame."
Hmmm...interesting choice.