Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 287 Editor's Choice: 8
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Catfight
[Read the article: Pipe down, Cindy McCain]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"dumbass white southern crackers love their guns and hunting and are roll on the floor evangelicals," etc."
Wow, Zenhead. That's a mouthfull. I would hope the black people you spoke to would at least just say, dumbass cracker and leave it at that. The other "epithets" are just redundant. Also, I think a fair amount of black people are the rolling on the floor sort of evangelicals (ever been to black church?) themselves, so its probably a compliment. Heck, I spoke in tongues when I was 9 years old (It was a creepy experience. I don't know if it was the Holy Ghost or hysteria) and I remember doing my fair share of rolling around in the center aisle.
Okay, to Joan:
I know you are trying to have a sense of humor, but unfortunately, this whole election has burned out everyones ability to have a sense of humor. Because you were quick to point out any instance of sexism, never giving any offender the benefit of the doubt, never allowing that they might have been ironic, tou've gotta be perfect, write perfect and try to be a shining example of how political writers should cover the campaign. You are going to have to be the stereoypical humorless feminist.
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I think there is something in Obama
[Read the article: Pipe down, Cindy McCain]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]that makes someone like Joan and other posters on this site (and his own wife as well...remember the smelly socks comment ) want to pull him down a peg or a hundred. He IS a little cocky. (This isn't a criticism so don't get touchy.) Even whe he's joking about how good he looks, etc., you kind of know he isn't really joking. Thats a man who knows his own worth.
I think thats what gives Joan's posts the feel, at least to me, that she is ragging on him. Like she is so fed up with adoration he gets from his supporters and the media as well as his public persona that she just wants to pick at him a little to make sure he doesn't get too full of himself. Maybe not undermine his whole campaign, in the words of Ancient Assyrian, but just nitpick every little thing.
I've never felt that way when she talks about Clinton, even when she is criticizing her. It's as if she treats Clinton with reverence and Obama like an annoying (little) brother.
I don't know if I can prove it, and really though, this friggin election has made me so behind at work that I don't have the time to prove it, but that is the tone I get from her words.
Or maybe I'm just projecting. Back to the salt mines!
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Here's an idea!
[Read the article: A new form of birth control]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If they can "cure" gayness in the womb, then wouldn't it follow that they could "make" people gay as well? Just add more of the hormone that makes gayness and voila, you've got a little truman capote or a precious gertrude stein.
I'm sure the gays, with their big 'ol agenda and all, have more than enough doctors who are on their side. In a amazing and beautiful ritual, involving a turkey baster and laboratory, a whole army of rainbow-colored babies could be born. An army to take over the world!
I bet there would even be some heteros who would be willing to have gay babies for the cause. I'd do it. For some free gas.
Thats my solution to the coming gay holocaust. What do you guys think?
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Nanasense
[Read the article: McCain: "We will take public financing"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't believe Barack Obama has spent "much" time defending his wife. He has the fightthesmears website, which is as much about defending himself as it is defending his wife and family. And he made one comment about John McCain. It's not like he isn't defending his wife to the exclusion of everything else.
The only time Barack Obama "attacked" Bill Clinton was when Bill Clinton made remarks about him. I don't beleieve he ever "started it." The fact is, the nominees spouses, in my opinion, should confine themselves to talking about their husband or wife and what they plan on doing for the country. I think Barack Obama's name should have never left Bill's mouth unless he was saying, he's a good canidate and I have the utmost respect for him and here's what Hillary thinks about X. Especially since he has so much power in the Democratic Party.
They shouldn't ever talk shit about the other guy. Michelle is just as wrong for saying (truthfully) that she would have to think about "campaigning" (not voting) for Hillary if she had won. Though, I don't see why a lawyer who works in healthcare shouldn't be able to go back to her job if her husband lost the bid, but whatever. She should have been more diplomatic as well. I think Michelle isn't the most diplomatic person out there, but she has an excuse, she isn't a politician. Whereas Bill Clinton knows better.
I think there is a tendency, on both sides, to see what you want to see. I think you should try to take a step back and look at all of the facts objectively.
Also, I certainly don't think its fair to judge Obama based on a few supporters who say nasty things. If I judged Clinton supporters by Harriet Christian or those protesters who held were screaming at the convention, repeating scurrilous rumours verging on being racist and homophobic, then I'd hate Clinton. I don't. I think she would have made a good president. She still could.