Letters to the Editor
NotOrbitBoy
Published Letters: 306 Editor's Choice: 4
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Can We Agree that McCain-Feingold is a heap of $#!+ ?
[Read the article: Will the press get over its love for McCain?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If I understand Joe's column, John McCain benefits from the Reform Institute. The Reform Institute gets money from all types of donors. McCain acts on behalf of the donors. We do not know where all of this money comes from.
How ironic that Joe makes this case against the gallant campaign finance reformer.
Now to the McCain-Feingold Campagin Reform pile.
1. Can we agree that this legislation has NOT removed the influence of money on elections and governing? That is has NOT REDUCED it?
2. Can we agree that these two senators have NOT solved the problem they set out to solve?
3. Doesn't the Reform Institute serve as an example of this failure?
4. Can we agree that limiting speech in a democracy is a BAD thing?
I hope, and expect, McCain to get lots of criticism as the campaign progresses. I believe that every questionable conduct cited by Joe in this column can be equalled with questionable conduct by hillary. Different circumstances, both people acting in their best interest. I don't know about obama, I'm sure hillary will educate us if she doesn't win big next Tuesday.
What I'd really like is for salonistas to get as angry over the free speech limiting garbage known as McCain-Feingold, as they do over FISA. Why one is seen as "shredding the constitution" and the other is hailed as good, I cannot understand.
Had he not limited our free speech, would McCain have ever become the darling of the media?
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Juan Cole misleads you
[Read the article: Blowback from the GOP's holy war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Juan builds a flimsy argument depicting Republicans as bigots.
Rather than swallow juan's view, read what Attorney General John Ashcroft, and Asst. Attorney General Ralph F. Boyd, Jr. had to say about race, religion, and American principles.
The statements were made two days after 911, when everyone was still angry, sad, confused, or scared.
The statements made by these men defy juan's fairy tale.
By the way, they are Republicans.
http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/legalinfo/dojstatements.html
juan's full of it.
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MLK - Try Living It
[Read the article: The race for California]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Joan writes a column and identifies the race and gender of the candidates, and their supporters. She looks at the surface. She ignores Dr. King's advice.
A lot of salon letter writers and democratic pundits do the same.
Please never lecture me again about race and equality.
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Illegitimate - Obviously
[Read the article: Why McCain provokes paranoia on the right]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Dear Joe,
It's not paranoia that is the basis of conservative's displeasure with john mccain, it's the disagreement with his philosophy.
Ronald Reagan Quotes;
“Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.”
“Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.”
“The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.”
“Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.”
“There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.”
None of these sentiments brings to mind john mccain. That is not paranoia, that is simply noting the obvious.
Regarding your comment; “guilt by association, McCarthy style”
You certainly have nerve...or a short memory. Go re-read your column about Hadassah Lieberman (Sep 1, 2006). Guess it takes one to know one.
Facts are not the foundation of paranoids. Fantasy, flamed by a base emotion (anger, fear, jealousy) are more likely the driving force.
An example of this type of paranoia can be found in another of your earlier columns; "Don't believe the surge hype The Petraeus road show will roll into Washington with dubious claims that troop increases have reduced violence." (Sep 7, 2007)
You're on thin ice man.
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@SpaceLobbyist
[Read the article: Why McCain provokes paranoia on the right]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You're right.
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Why Ronald Reagan is Great
[Read the article: Why McCain provokes paranoia on the right]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you really want to know the answer, contact someone born and raised in a Eastern Bloc country. Someone who's lived long enough to remember th Berlin Wall coming down, and the freedoms they have since enjoyed.
Those kind of people are not democrats or republicans.
Those kind of people are known to tear down statues of their former communist masters, and construct statues of Ronald Reagan.
Ask them.
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@Roger64
[Read the article: Hillary's time of troubles]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Test of your theory. "As a psychologist, I am convinced that it is virtually impossible to convince someone to believe something they do not want to believe."
You state that the clinton scandals revolved solely around bill's personal behavior. I think that is ridiculous, and there are numerous facts to refute it. As a psychologist, I hope you remember the scientific method, the manner in which knowledge is confirmed, and will consider the following;
1. The clinton administration illegally obtained FBI files on their political opponents. They blamed it on a former bouncer and member of their security staff. That was either incompetence, or a lie.
2. hillary's law firm billing records were subpoenaed, but could not be found. Then they turned up in a White House storage room, just after a statue of limitations expired. No one knew how they got there. . . .think the Republicans planted them?
3. The pardons. Marc Rich. hillary's brother getting paid by people seeking (and getting) pardons.
4. Money from China. Gross violations of campaign funding.
This list is far from complete. None involve clinton sexcapades. This past year, hillary received a bunch of illegal campaign contributions, which she returned,...after it became public.
Please do not be a victim of your own theory of how people form their beliefs.