Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 382 Editor's Choice: 4
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Women who hate women, and men who love them
[Read the article: Oops, she did it again]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Caitlin Flanagan, Maureen Dowd and Judith Warner are all playing to the gallery of men who feed them. As token women in the NYTimes op-ed, why bite the hand? They can be more ruthless than men and work their testosterones overtime to keep up with the pack who must demonize and marginalize Hillary Clinton and facilitate the right wing conspirators in their dirty game.
My hope is that women across the United States take their cue from the women in New Hampshire and build a movement to not only mow down patriarchy in the coming elections, but to also run corporate media out of business.
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Salon and Camille Paglia
[Read the article: Oops, she did it again]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Dear Joan
I have to agree with those who see the irony of Salon giving ink to the likes of that insufferable twit Camille Paglia and your discomfort on the NYTimes giving space to the twerp Bill Crystal. What's wrong with this picture?
I like to read another point of view, but people like Paglia and Crystal are not informed writers and speak mostly from personal grudges and bias which discredits the jobs they are being tasked with.
Also, can someone tell me why there are golden stars next to some names and not in others? Just curious.
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Gutless political play
[Read the article: Betting little in Las Vegas]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Barack Obama played the religion card last night by claiming that he is a christian. I do not have a problem with that. However, he lost a huge bunch of Muslim votes by not honoring their faith and summarily dismissing the allegations. He would have won a lot of hearts and minds, if he could have been adult enough to respect people of ALL faiths.
So now, Muslims around the world and United States in particular need to call the bible and judeo christianity terrorist religions as well. Wasn't it a christian Timothy McVeigh, who blew up the federal building in Oklahoma killing as well, a huge number of innocent children in daycare?
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Can we bury McCain once and for all?
[Read the article: John McCain's real war record]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I am so tired of McCain being lionized as the maverick in US politics. Yeah sure!!!! In a spurt of maverick zeal he lambasted the religious right. In months of faux contrition he went to Brigham Young University and touted christian zeal. Why isn't the McCain sucking media reporting on his flip flopping? It is OK to call the Democrats flip floppers, but not the opportunistic republican pols. McCain is as much a maverick as Stephen Colbert is a right wing pundit. My god. Does it have to take Comedy Central and Jon Stewart to debate him on his christian stance, which unlike Craig, I am sure, is not so wide.
Can we close the curtains on McCain, once and for all? Please???
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@joelspray
[Read the article: John McCain's real war record]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is the world safer with Saddam executed by a Bush kangaroo court? Ask the Iraqis what Bush has wrought on more than half a million innocent citizens killed because Bush wanted to punish Saddam for egg on his father's face in the first Gulf war. Is the United States safer? I think not. Iraq was never part of the equation in the bombing of the twin towers. Most of the perpetrators were Saudi Arabians, good friends of Bush and Cheney. And apart from the puppets that the US has set up in the Middle East and Pakistan, the majority of their population want the US out of their region.
Are you implying in a coded Republican message something to the effect "How did our oil get under their sand?"
Enough about McCain and his being a war hero. Enough already. Warmonger maybe, but war hero, nyet! Read about why many of his fellow POWs refuse to indulge him in his opportunistic grab for power.
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Democrats have to unite
[Read the article: The battle for Nevada]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Voters will have to hold their noses and vote for whoever wins the Democratic nomination. It will be very myopic for African Americans or Hispanics to sit out the presidential elections should their candidate not win. Both Clinton and Obama, both centrist, or rather to the right, Democrats and both beholden to big money, are far better than John McCain who will be the republican nominee. I have no doubt about that. Guilliani is toast and the rest of them are just gnats on the corporate elephant's arse.
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The media is doing a good job again of dividing the Democrats
[Read the article: The battle for Nevada]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It is sad that lifelong Democrats are falling once again for the media hyped and exaggerated divisions amongst the candidates. The media is doing no such thing for the Republicans, which they want to portray as a united party. Aren't the Republicans also taking swings at each other? Why aren't they being held to the same standards? Can anyone see the hand of the media in promoting these petty squabbles among the Democrats, albeit even baiting the candidates into making mountains out of molehills?
My god! They keep talking about Bill Clinton's temper and how that will hurt Hillary. Frankly, Bill's taking ON the media and that is what is galvanizing voters into the Hillary camp. I am not voting for Clinton, but I'll be damned if I don't see media complicity in bringing her down and in turn the Democratic party.
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Also, let's not be coy about race and gender
[Read the article: The battle for Nevada]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Who benefited the most from Affirmative Action? Certainly not minority women and men. There are more white women in positions of power today than minorities of either gender. Barack may play cute for trying to woo independents, moderate republicans and the pathologically undecided. But this country will rally around Hillary, because time has come for a woman president. A white woman president. She will most likely win the nomination, and most Democrats will want to be on the right side of history. I will not vote for her in the primaries, but if she is nominated, I know where my precious vote will go.