Letters to the Editor
L. Michelle
Published Letters: 114
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A one term President?
[Read the article: The Obama campaign's past two weeks]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]On the way home from work, I was thinking that Sen. Obama will be a one term President.
Next election, he won't catch opponents by surprise. The Republicans will diligently search for and run a much more dynamic personality, with just enough nuance, to EASILY win back the votes of conservative minded people he's had to sweat and break his back for.
He's going to have improve a lot of people's lives economically for this not to happen. (Money talks, bullshit walks). As P. Mooney would say, "He doesn't have the complexion for protection" - so he's going to have to put Money into MANY pockets. Electing the 1st Black President won't change that.
Ralph Nader had a point the other day. Problem is he only shows up at election time to make his points and makes them very badly. "Talkin' white" was an awful term to use. But I understand what he was trying to say. If Nader was looking to get a rise out of Obama to get some discourse and publicity he should have said:
"If Obama is diplaying a good deal of cognitive dissonance (a term used by a radio show host today to describe Obama's latest political moves), it's a direct outgrowth of his life as described in his 1st book. He's always had to live in two worlds as a child of mixed race. It's the way his mind works."
In Obama's current world, the votes of the conservatives are the ones that count and are valued. He can present both sides of an argument (like most lawyers), but he truly believes both sides. As a politician, he feels he has to go with the side that has had the best press the last 40 years.
This is why he hasn't written a book called "Dreams of My Mother". She was the "liberal" many thought they were voting for. And she may be the moral compass (NOT his father) that would point toward a way that some feel has gone missing this election cycle.
I'm at the point now where I'm voting for him because maybe he won't bomb as many people as McCain would. That's saving some lives at least. I hope. Maybe. And, just maybe, Obama's change will be that he won't get in the way when people try to bring about change.
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A Question about the Swiftboaters
[Read the article: The Obama campaign's past two weeks]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Lots of talk about how McCain has brought out the swiftboat crew in response to Clark's statements.
Is there any evidence they weren't already going to be coming out? Does anyone really think the McCain camp got on the phone with them just the moment after Clark's comments?
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Pictures worth a thousand words
[Read the article: Obama advisor Greg Craig: Adding insult to injury]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yesterday on Huffpost, there was a photo of Pres. Bush doing the fist bump with a young boy.
Underneath, was a story about Sen. Obama in a classroom, but refusing to a fist bump with a young boy.
Obama is becoming afraid of his own shadow, trying to deflect criticism before it comes instead of standing strong against it. Unfortunately, he only thinks criticism from conservative circles will hurt him. That's a bit of a bully stance - to only stand up to the liberal minded who are perceived as powerless, while cowering away from the conservative minded who are perceived as strong.
Also, and I'm only asking, doesn't it seem like the move to the center has occured as he's taken on more former Clinton campaign aides?
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When people have to cover for those on parental leave
[Read the article: Throwing out the bonus with the bath water]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]They should be rewarded !!!
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Marketing & Stereotypes
[Read the article: The unbearable whiteness of being]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Consumer culture marketing thrives on stereotypes of all kinds.
Anytime someone describes themselves as "hip-hop" or "Gen X" or "Boomer", etc...you can pretty much invision a list of products under each heading.
Want to F with America society as a whole?
For three months (that's all it would take)start withdrawing cash from your accounts...make all purchases in cash. Hold off (if you can manage to restrain yourself, put off big ticket items that would involve credit).
Use online for just paying bills maybe.
Panic attacks would ensue at Madison avenue because they wouldn't know what we were buying...
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Where have all of U been since 1978?????
[Read the article: Aug. 8, 1974 vs. July 9, 2008]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Where have all of you been since 1978 with this protest?
That's how long FISA has been around.
Please...
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Again please read - never been a progressive liberal
[Read the article: Learning to live with the "new" Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Seems some bought the right wing election playbook and lazy mainstream media analysis that automatically portrays most Dems as liberal in any major election.
It's a one size fits all propaganda and you should have read his book.
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Wow !! Massive concern about telecom immunity
[Read the article: Interview with ACLU re: constitutional challenge to new FISA law]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]LONDON/WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Apple Inc's new iPhone made its hotly awaited debut on Friday, with buyers storming stores in Asia and queues forming in Europe and the United States.
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You know your concern about FISA is extremely FRINGE when...
[Read the article: Another bad week for John McCain]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Massive numbers of people wait in line for days, even weeks, to get the new iPhone w/ exclusive contracts for two years with AT&T.
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We must continue to complain
[Read the article: Ask the pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Even if complaining does little to change things as fast as we would like, we have to expect they will change.
If you don't believe that, then look at it this way...
The last thing we want is the younger generations thinking this is the way things should be.
I always think of that old film Rosmary's Baby that came out before I was born:
The whole movie, the staid, conservative couple seems to be the semblance of normality and turn out to be leaders of a satanic cult. Rosemary, sold out to them by her aspiring actor husband, eventually figures out what is going on. She runs and tries to fight. Then at the end of of the movie, the baby is born and taken from Rosemary. She grabs a knife and goes looking for the baby. She finds it surrounded by cult memembers. The leader of the cult then convinces her to put down her knife and "be a mother to the baby" who is at that moment crying like normal babies. Rosemary goes to the crib and begins rocking the baby - which is then shown with it's demonic eyes.
The real horror is when we ACCEPT the "evil" in our lives.