Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 324 Editor's Choice: 8
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Biden vs. Palin
[Read the article: Obama camp responds to Palin pick]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What I find interesting about McCain's pick is that he chose someone he probably doesn't know that well, either professionally or personally. Biden and Obama, however, are oncommittees together in the Senate and are obviously friends with each other. (Seriously, I thought they were going to make out after Obama's speech last night. Hah.)
I think Biden WILL really help Obama with foreign policy. I doubt he we will be left out of any meetings or treated like a red-headed stepchild like some v.p.'s in the past. Say what you want about the Bush/Cheney ticket, but it at least showed that a VP could be powerful in his own right AND set policy. Evil policy, but still, as strong as Bush became in the last 8 years, Cheney was the real maverick when it came to expanding the VP's power in the White House. Biden could be the democratic version of Cheney in the White House (well, without being the devil, hopefully) which doesn't scare me one bit.
McCain's Palin pick, however, seems to me to harken back to a time when Vice President is just supposed to sit around and look pretty. I seriously doubt she will have any juice whatsoever in Washington; she doesn't have the connections. If McCain becomes president, I predict she will have a very boring 4 years in the White House, one where McCain's staff will basically script every thing she says and does in public.
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The funniest thing about Palin and AIP
[Read the article: McCain was rushed, got sloppy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is that the party of Lincoln, of LINCOLN, would support a VP canidate who at one time was a member of an organization that advocates secession.
Oh, how far the Republican Party has fallen...
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Attention Republic Trolls
[Read the article: Obama's perfect pitch on Palin]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This article is about McCain and Palin, and whether or not McCain showed bad judgement in picking Palin. I for one, think he did show bad judgement. As a Democratic who doesn't hate McCain, I would feel very sorry to hear that he had to kowtow to the Republican Party (which, more and more I beleive is just trying to sabotage his campaign. I mean, Palin?) rather than picking his ideological soul mate Lieberman. Think about how substatantive an election between McCain/Lieberman and Obama/Biden would be? Finally, important foreign policy issues and economic issues and health care issues would finally take precedence over, I want to get drunk with McCain or I think Obama is HOT. It would be an election, finally, where both sides acknowledge the other side cares about the America, but that they disagree on how this country should be run.
Sigh.
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I was raised Pentecostal
[Read the article: Obama's perfect pitch on Palin]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In California. The congregation wasn't that crazy (okay, every church service did have a lot speaking of tongues, but that's kind of cool now that I think about it), was relatively progressive and very multi-racial. There were plenty of gay folks in the congregation, and I never had to sit through a sermon railing against homosexuality or abortion; I don't think my pastor ever spoke about politics, accept to say that we should practice charity. Then the Congregation moved to Pleasanton and the church got all fundemantalist and icky and that pretty much ended my churchgoing.
Damn Pleasanton!
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I hate 8:30
[Read the article: I can't get to work on time no matter what]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm having a similar problem as the LW getting to work on time. Either I get there at 8:15 or 8:35. No matter what I do, I'm either stuck behind legions of school busses and/or the 20 minute freight train going 5 miles per hour through the whole downtown blocking any possible chance of getting to work on time (and no, there isn't a set schedule for it as far as I can tell) OR I'm sitting at my desk at 8:15 twiddling my thumbs. And god forbid I clock in early! THEN I'll get O.T. which is a write-up-able offense. Another write-up-able offense; forgetting to clock in because you've been working off the clock for 15 minutes. AND working off the clock is a write-up-able offense.
So, unlike most people on this board, and even though the LW is a bit of douche (sorry, you are) I sympathize. Sometimes, truly, you can't win for losing.