Letters to the Editor
Falken
Published Letters: 3
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Changing attitudes
[Read the article: Democrats may come to regret not opposing Bush on torture]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When I was 16 or so I was very unhappy with where I was in my life and I wanted nothing more than to move to the US. When I was 19 I had revised my dream
somewhat; I wanted to study or work in the US for a year. Then finally when I
was 24 I started going on vacations to the US. Thoroughly enjoyed meeting
Americans. I'm now in my thirties and once again my attitudes have shifted.
Since 2001, the ever increasing security lines and ever decreasing amounts of
respect from people working in airports have been chafing at me but I still
kept coming, thinking that it would get better in 2008. But this law that is
going to be passed makes me afraid it won't. It makes me afraid to travel to
the US again. It boggles my mind why no Democrat is standing up and call this
what it is, a torture bill. I still can't understand why, when accused by
Republicans that they first voted for the war in Iraq and then were against
it, nobody said: yes I voted for it. Because I was deceived. The evidence
was cooked. I feel powerless as I see a country my grandfather believed to
be the greatest country on earth, slide off to a new moral low previously
found only in the former Soviet Union.
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disappointed with the article "Obama's a natural"
[Read the article: How Obama learned to be a natural]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I am very disappointed with this article, but not anywhere near as disappointed as seeing it on my Salon. It's as if you've taken a page from the right-wing noise machine.
I don't know what is worse, that it was placed because of the controversy and clicks it would generate, or that it was placed because you agreed with its contents. And don't tell me you didn't read it beforehand, that is supposed to be your job!
How on earth does this article fit in with what Salon stands for?
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the perfect example
[Read the article: The National Review mind]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I emailed this story to every person I know who ever asked me
why I wasn't getting tired of studying American politics. There is a morbid fascination at work. I sometimes wonder if our children will ask us: how come a bunch of sixth graders got to run the country for so long?