Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 237 Editor's Choice: 16
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Just doing his job
[Read the article: The Olbermann factor]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Liberals and progressives are not looking for someone to hand out talking points, or arguing for our side. All we want is that the media do its job: report on what is happening in an open and transparent way. Olbermann is not perfect, but he beats the heck out of his competition at that.
The reporters he gets, Dana Milbank, Richard Wolfe (sp?) and so on, are free to say what they think they are seeing, and to ignore the spin they are tossed. That is enough.
Anyway, Michael Musto is probably right about Suri.
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Baghdad?
[Read the article: The never-ending war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]“The safety of America depends on the outcome of the battle in the streets of Baghdad,” Mr. Bush said.
No one could say that was true before this bungled invasion and occupation, the responsibility of the guy asking us to follow him into more death and destruction.
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Why quote Tammy Sun?
[Read the article: Carter delivers a jolt for Joe]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Tim, this is a column. You don't have to find the Lieberman spokesman and get a quote. She is a total hack n' flack. Who the heck cares what she and Joe think? They don't care what Connecticut Democrats think, so why should you print their self-serving garbage?
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Institutional Failure
[Read the article: Whose state of denial?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Blumenthal exposes yet another example of institutional failure in this country. Woodward calls himself a reporter, but he fails to exercise the basic skill of journalism: skeptical inquiry. Why would anyone assume that any president is wise enough to act properly in an unquestioning environment, any more than other governmental officials, or elites in any other institution, including the press?
At least Blumenthal is beginning the process of correcting the hero worship that infects this society. In the same way that no one asked whether Emperor Ken Lay was clothed or naked, no one asked if Emperor Bush was wise or foolish.
We are all better off when all of us ask hard questions and demand answers.
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Bayh is not helping Democrats
[Read the article: The man who would be Hillary]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bahy has over 10 million in his campaign war chest, facing no real opposition. If he really wants to run, he needs to pour that into electing Democrats.
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The Netroots contributed
[Read the article: The GOP's dwindling anti-gay parade]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]at least $72,000 to Paccione's campaign. http://www.actblue.com/page/blueamerica
even though she was late to seek support that way.
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Professional Dress
[Read the article: Playing doctor in inappropriate clothes]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Anyone who wants to know how to dress like a professional should take a careful look at our next House Majority Leader, Nancy Pelosi. No one will mistake her for a man, but she looks like the most powerful woman politician in the country.
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McCain??
[Read the article: The first annual Capitol Hill roast]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Let's see: he looks like death warmed over, appropriately enough in light of his advanced years, he slavishly hugs GWB, who called his wife a druggie and his child something much worse, he flip-flops on Roe v. Wade, and he wants to send more troops to Viet Nam, I mean, Iraq, because if only we had done that in the 70's like Kissinger wanted to do, we would have won.
This guy is just a turkey.
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Kilgore is Right
[Read the article: Yes, Democrats do need the South!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Take a look at Oregon and Washington. The big cities vote Democratic, and the rural areas vote Republican. As urbanization increases, the rural areas are being outvoted, and the states turn blue.
The same is true in the South; there are plenty of big cities that provide a solid base for expansion of progressive voting. Charlotte, Atlanta, Memphis and Nashville provide a huge number of progressive voters. This is the base from which to grow. Ignoring us is stupid. Every dollar spent by Bob Corker to beat Harold Ford was a win for the Democrats. And, despite his family, Ford ran close.
The fifty-state strategy is a winner for Democrats. I look at the Tennessee Party under the energetic leadership of Bob Tuke, and see the future of progressive politics.
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Rumsfeld Understands Mistakes?
[Read the article: If Bush isn't "troubled," shouldn't the rest of us be?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is there any evidence for this, or is it another matter of faith with the President?
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I am on that list
[Read the article: The virtual John Kerry]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And I sure won't lift a finger to help Kerry get the nomination.
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There are other good candidates not mentioned
[Read the article: The case of the disappearing candidates]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wes Clark, anyone?
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We have to watch them
[Read the article: Keep hope alive]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We have to watch the Democrats just as hard as we watched the republicans, rewarding them for good behavior and punishing them for bad. The mid-terms were just the first step towards reforming politics. Regrettably, some of our Democrats swear allegiance to the money party, and cannot be talked into representing the actual desires of their constituents who are not actually in that party.
When we start rooting out the money interests on both sides of the aisle, we will have a chance to move our country forwards, and in some cases back, to the nation we can be.
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Why does it matter?
[Read the article: Seeing the light -- of science]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Mainline Christians believe that God is unknowable, that we puny humans have no way to comprehend God, who, in the end, is just too different from us. They nevertheless try to describe the Almighty, using ideas from every age, including the present. In the end, they acknowledge in true humility their inability to comprehend. They are left with the words their mystics use.
This kind of God can coexist easily with evolution, whether biological or otherwise. This kind of God is not going to be used to explain anything other than the sense some people have that this God exists.
I cannot think of any use for such a God. Like all pragmatists, since it is of no use to me, I don't believe. If other people get something out of that belief, and the dogmas that people created following that belief, I couldn't care less. I just don't care. I don't judge other people by their beliefs, just their behavior. So, what am I in this lexicon?
I know plenty of fundamentalists who live really good lives. They judge not lest they be judged, they pray in private, and they give copiously of their energy and money to help others. These are good people.
Then there are the Hypocrites, I hardly need to provide a list.
I'll take the first group in large numbers.
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Where will we go?
[Read the article: The holy blitz rolls on]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Even if one were to realize that "it can happen here" early enough to leave, where exactly would one go, and why would they let us in?