Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 382 Editor's Choice: 4
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There is no guru that any atheist follows
[Read the article: I don't believe in atheists]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have been an atheist for a majority of my life. I did not read any books on atheism, neither was I under the influence of any guru. For me, it was evolutionary without any atheist bible to start the day. I follow my own moral code of ethics and try as much as I can, to live and let live.
Christopher Hitchens is and always will be a self centered hypocrite who has his own sense of white supremacy. His wrath against Islam and Muslims in general is as nonsensical and low as his being a proponent of the war in Iraq and torture. He has a Tony Blair kind of crusade against the Middle East; to wipe out Islam and Islamic fundamentalism. I wonder what he thinks of a similar approach in the west, of wiping out christians and christian fundamentalism that has been at the forefront of the war in Iraq, that Hitchens so shamelessly promoted. So in a sense, Hitchens has common cause with the Christian fundamentalists who see the Iraq war as an expeditious measure for the second coming of Christ.
Frankly, as an atheist, I am no threat to anyone.
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If Obama is an affirmative action candidate, then
[Read the article: Geraldine Ferraro still needs to apologize]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]so is Hillary Clinton, as a white woman. She got to where she is, strictly hanging on to her husband's coattails. As first lady of Arkansas, she got herself a lucrative job at the Rose firm and did more for WalMart and corporations than she did fighting any civil rights suits for women or minorities.
Then she got to the White House, ostensibly as a co-president, and just as quickly lost out on her Universal Health Care initiative and gays in the military, with a hair brained idea called "don't ask, don't tell," a hypocritical adjustment to say the least.
After standing by her man over many of her husband's "bimbo eruptions" and an impeachment over Lewinsky, she beat a path to New York to run for the Senate. Not being a NY resident, to say the least, except maybe for a 6 month waiting period, she made her way to the Senate, need I emphasize, again on her husband's coattails. Does anyone really think that Hillary would be where she is, if she was not married to Bill Clinton? And now she is running for the President. Yeah, sure, she did this all on her own.
It is completely specious to lend any credibility to Ferraro's racial outburst, and I am glad that Conason is coming back to his journalistic roots. For a while there, he was sounding more and more, like Clinton mouthpiece on Salon.
It is imperative that people see the distinctions between the 2 candidates. Obama made his way on his own, and not through any dynastic nepotism. The last two weeks have seen the most vile attacks coming from the Clinton campaign, a campaign that is so riddled with disorganization, one has to pause and think, how Hillary will run the country. She cannot manage her own campaign, and she is going to manage the country?
She has done everything to dimunize Obama, from putting him as a VP on her ticket to mocking his followers, thereby implying that his supporters are all easily brainwashed.
My heart swells with pride, that a self made man like Barack Obama has gone beyond race and is winning not only African American votes, but also white. Hillary has no such pluralism. She has dangerously alienated the core of the Democratic Party. That is why she went on to apologize ad nauseam to the community yesterday. She knows that without AA, she will lose the general elections.
I am glad that Joe Conason is speaking out. For a while there, I thought Salon had become a Hillary PR firm.
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Cluster Bombs Are Not Good for Children, Hillary
[Read the article: Geraldine Ferraro still needs to apologize]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ditto for Landmines and Sanctions
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/03/13/7655/
Here is another of her legislative experience besides voting for the war in Iraq
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Campaig Finance Reform
[Read the article: Reid, Pelosi get entangled in the presidential race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is good. Big money guiding the electorate. Now is the time to get Campaign Finance Reform as one of the major issues to discuss in the run up to the nomination, as well as the General Election.
Wasn't McCain complicit in the McCain-Feingold limp reform? Gotta get this back to the front burner.
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Posturing?
[Read the article: Reid, Pelosi get entangled in the presidential race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Just shows who owns the Democratic Party. If Pelosi succumbs to this threat, then we know that the party is bought and owned by people with money. Hillary Clinton after all, has big money on her side, while Obama has run on nickle and dimes from his supporters. I just sent him a check.
Obama is not posturing to get Hillary Clinton out of the race. He is trying to prevent her from destroying the party.
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Media complict
[Read the article: Rum, Romanism and James Carville]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]in exploiting non-issues. I care about Clinton lying about her experience, but I do not care about Craviile calling Richardson "Judas." I care about issues of race and Wright, which Obama answered beautifully and superbly.
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Wasn't McCain statistically dead only a year ago?
[Read the article: Polls: Obama weathers Wright controversy ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Smoking is one of the leading causes of all statistics.
Liza Minnelli
USA Today has come out with a new survey: Apparently three out of four people make up 75 percent of the population.
David Letterman
If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.
Ernest Rutherford
You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
David Lloyd George
He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts—for support rather than for illumination.
Andrew Lang
I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.
George Canning
Statistics are no substitute for judgment.
Henry Clay
Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie.
Harry Reasoner
Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
Evan Esar
Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.
Evan Esar