Letters to the Editor
greenman
Published Letters: 27 Editor's Choice: 2
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I won't be getting one
[Read the article: What will YOU do with your fiscal stimulus check?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My understanding is that you don't get a rebate if you make more than $75K and you're a single filer or if you make more than $150K and you're a married filer. I think Andrew Leonard's original piece isn't quite clear on this point. He writes: "$600 for individuals, $1,200 for married couples, or about half as much for those Americans who don't pay income tax at all." I don't think his description is as nuanced as it needs to be.
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What a Neanderthal!
[Read the article: John McCain is running for sissy in chief]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Only someone who hasn't suffered the oppression and discrimination that women and gay men experience on a regular basis would be ignorant and insensitive enough to use the word "sissy" in order to "push . . . outrage buttons." Strausbaugh comes across more like a school-yard bully than any kind of skilled or insightful writer. How quickly can we make his 15 minutes of odiious fame tick by?
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It's kind of like his wives
[Read the article: That's McCain, Johm McCain]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]McCain's decided to divorce "n" out of his name in favor of "m," whom he thinks is richer, younger, and hasn't been disfigured by a car accident.
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If this issue causes the Democrats to lose the presidency, then we deserve to lose
[Read the article: California Supreme Court legalizes gay marriage]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Seriously. Equal rights and equal protection are bread-and-butter Democratic (and "democratic") principles. If Clinton and/or Obama can't articulate that point and win the White House, then the Democrats deserve to lose the election. Likewise, if the voters focus on same-sex marriage as an election issue rather than on the war in Iraq, the economy, the environment, and all the other disasters that the Republicans have wrought, then this country deserves to have John McCain as its president.
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Excellent article
[Read the article: What's in John McCain's medical records?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]McCain's refusal to release his psychiatric records is a major issue. Many thanks to Salon and to Mark Benjamin for this excellent piece. The media are giving McCain a free pass on many things surrounding his campaign. I can only hope that his psychological health won't be one of them. In my opinion, McCain's a nut case on par with George W. Bush.
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Disappointing article
[Read the article: Finale wrap-up: "American Idol"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The level of bile in this article says much about the author. Do you need a vacation, Louis?
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McCain would do the same
[Read the article: How Karl Rove played politics while people drowned]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If McCain wins the White House in November, we can expect the same dirty politics and the same heartless lack of compassion from him.
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"laughingstock"?
[Read the article: Rep. Kucinich introduces articles of impeachment]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is a truly unprofessional piece, Alex. You should be ashamed of yourself.
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Scalia's legal mind
[Read the article: Quote of the day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In my opinion, Tony Scalia is the most incompetent legal mind we've ever had on the Court.
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Laughingstock
[Read the article: More on Kucinich and impeachment]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Alex, you've become the "laughingstock." That sucking sound is your integrity going down the drain.
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In the words of Young Jeezy . . . .
[Read the article: Media mischaracterizes Clark comments, Obama backs away]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]McCain's "a fraud."
The idea that being a prisoner of war makes McCain qualified to be president is ridiculous. In fact, I think McCain's imprisonment severely damaged him psychologically. I'd suggest that his well-documented anger management issues are a direct result of his long-term confinement. Can the US (and the world) really afford to have another psychologically ill person run the country?--eight years of GWBush and his mentally imbalanced approach to governing have been a disaster. I predict that McCain will self-implode at some point during the campaign: his awkward, strained, false-toothed smile simply can't hide the frightening mania that floats just beneath the surface of the wanna-be leader.
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Amoral
[Read the article: Why copy the communists?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Just more proof that Bush is completely amoral. If the people of the world don't eventually judge and punish him for his high crimes, the karma of the Universe will. No one deserves it more.
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Craven
[Read the article: Obama bites the bullet on FISA]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A craven vote by Obama. I supported Clinton during the primaries because I was afraid that Obama's professed interest in "working across the aisle" would amount to his giving in to the Republicans and because I thought his calls for "change" sounded hollow. Once Obama became the presumptive nominee, I began supporting him (both financially and emotionally). But his craven vote today has cost him my support. I think he showed us today exactly how little he would change Washington were he to be elected president. What a shame.
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It's going to be a let-down
[Read the article: Veep too late]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama's strung us along so much on the VP choice that, at this point, hearing that his choice is Biden or any other the other ho-hum yawn-invokers is going to be a big let-down. If it's not Hillary or Gore or some other big name, this has all been a poorly orchestrated, anti-climactic exercise that makes me question Obama's judgment. Kind of like Geraldo Rivera opening Al Çapone's vault. Or someone opening that great big, mysterious Christmas package that you've been thinking about for weeks only to find out it contains socks and underwear. I wan't Hillary Clinton, damnit, not socks and underwear!
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Yawn.
[Read the article: It's Biden]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Reports are that Obama didn't even vet Hillary.
Obama's lost my vote.
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Mean-spirited
[Read the article: How did Sarah Palin do?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]She's mean-spirited and grossly sarcastic.
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Why?
[Read the article: Obama campaign accuses GOP of planning voter suppression]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why the need to describe the Michigan Messenger as "a liberal news site" in the piece? Does the War Room add a political descriptor for every news source it mentions?
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The biggest known unknown
[Read the article: Is 2008 a sui generis election?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I've gotta think that the biggest known unknown in this election is the Bradley effect (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_effect). I think many of us are underestimating the effect that race and racism are playing in the polls and will play in the actual vote.
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"Horseshit"
[Read the article: Saturday morning debate roundup]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That one word sums up McCain's career, his principles, and his campaign.
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"Mormon Mitt"???!!!
[Read the article: Rudy gets a smackdown]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I've gotta agree with sgsanjose: is the nomenclature "Mormon Mitt" really necessary? Seems kind of snarky to me.
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Past his bedtime?
[Read the article: This town hall didn't help John McCain]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Did anyone else notice that the Obamas stuck around after the debate to interact with the live audience members while the McCains apparently left immediately?
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Hack
[Read the article: Live-blogging: What are you, chicken?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bob Schieffer is a hack.
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Maroon
[Read the article: When talking points go wrong]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]She's a maroon!
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Perfect
[Read the article: NRCC cuts off Bachmann]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Couldn't be happening to a more appropriate person!
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Mitchell and Crowley?
[Read the article: Ladies of the nightly news ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How can you put Mitchell and Crowley in the same class as Brazile and Maddow? Mitchell and Crowley have been laughable ciphers for decades.
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Light
[Read the article: Election Day blogging (11 p.m. EST thread)]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And the world stunningly emerges from the darkness of the last eight years.
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I wonder . . . .
[Read the article: Sympathy for Charles Graner]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I wonder how well George W. Bush would fare in a military prison, placed in solitary confinement, lights on 24/7, being strip searched for no reason, with no entertainment besides reading.