Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 324 Editor's Choice: 8
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Lest we forget
[Read the article: McCain advisor woos Clinton supporters]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]1) This is the internet. So anyone, even people who post here regularly, could be trolls stiring up controversy because they are on somebody's payroll OR they are just EVIL and get a sick thrill off of upsetting people.
2) For some reason, any discussion of Obama and Clinton makes people lose their damn minds. The most reasonable folks on this website turn into vicious attack dogs, hell bent on ripping apart dissent by any means necessary. Even I, sadly,have succumbed to personal attacks and insanity. I need therapy.
3) Using the chatter of the comment section to gauge the opinions of either Obama supporters OR Clinton's supporters OR John McCains is really, really stupid because of number 1 and number 2.
I don't know if the Clinton supporters who can't stomach Obama are meeting Fiore because of spite, because they think McCain has better qualifications, because they are racist, or because they beleive Obama and the Democratic Party dissed their canidate. (And please Clinton supporters, don't get all upset that I threw racism in there. I'm not trying to upset ya'll, but I do think it could be a factor for some people. Just like some people didn't support Clinton because she is a woman.)
The truth is, we can't know their motivation. However, I will say that for a Democrat, it doesn't make any rational sense to support the Republican canidate whose platform is completely different than Clintons. At least under an Obama presidency, Clinton could see some of her ideas come to fruition. And, since Obama has shown himself to be a moderate in every sense of the word (he always was a moderate) much like the Clintons, it just seems kind of weird , this aversion to voting to him. I can even handle democrats going green or voting for Nader, but I just don't understand how democratic Clinton supporters could run to the McCain camp. It is completely irrational. But if American politics were rational we'd be saying President Gore.
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Why did you post the Obamabot screed, AKA Smith?
[Read the article: McCain advisor woos Clinton supporters]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ms. Smith, you remind me of this little girl Charmaine in my fifth grade class way back before the earth cooled. (okay, i'm not that old!)
Charmaine was bright and had a way with words too, but she was a class A instigator. If you put Charmaine in a room with two best friends, they'd be clawing each others eyes out in an hour. Your not exactly like her, because instead of turning people against each other, you turn them into an angry mob hungry for the BLOOD of AKA Smith.
Kudos, though. It does show you are a pretty damn good writer to inflame the passions of the salon mob. (Well, and keep it going as long as you do.) You sit back and watch the fur fly, and post these infuriating yet witty comebacks at the expense of you inferiors. It's not even fair. Even though I don't agree with you on this whole Obama thing, some of these threads are like watching a Shark vs. Lyon fight...at the bottom of the sea. It ain't a fair fight, I tell you what.
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I thought this was funny shit
[Read the article: Why I hate summer]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I actually laughed out loud reading it.
I too, hate summer. Well, its not summer, rather, but hot weather. You want to talk about humidity; this morning (7:30 a.m.), while driving to work, and before the air conditioner kicked in, the sweat was pouring down my face and into my eyes. I had to pull over because my eye glasses were steaming up and I couldn't see well enough (what with the burning sweat in my eyes) to find a tissue to wipe them off.
I know about New York, though. My summer vacations were spent in that hell hole, visiting family in the PROJECTS, on the bazillionth floor, without an air conditioner. However, living in the South in the summer has made me look fondly on those times. Because New York is a paradise compared to the Deep South in the summer.
The crappy thing about the South is that not only is it hot, but the bugs are hopped on crack (and I suspect OFF spray and those citronella candles just make them crackier.) I scratch, scratch, and scratch constantly.
Sure, we have air conditioning, but it blew out last month for two weeks and I swear to god, I prayed for death. The brick house I live in is great if you have an air conditioner; it's just hell on earth if you don't have one.
And for everyone who is hating on the writer for hating summer; fuck you all. I mean it. You go be your perky happy selves and run naked through the goddamned sprinklers or visit theme parks, or go hiking, drinking cooled gaspacho next to the pool, or whatever the heck ya'll do in the summer and I will sit inside my dark house and pray the air conditioner doesn't go out again. And no, I don't want any advice about what I should do to not be miserable. I like being miserable, thank you very much. The only thing I have in common with most of the bible thumping, homophobic, racist fucks who live in this god forsaken hellhole is our mutual hatred of the humid soul killing weather.