Letters to the Editor
drhadabath
Published Letters: 8 Editor's Choice: 1
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Global Warming
[Read the article: Dogma days ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Next time you try to write an article about a million things try to be at least a little bit knowledgeable about all of them. Global warming may be ushering in an extinction of the scale that killed all the dinosaurs. I guess if you think about species as passing fad, then yeah, you could say that is that. This is not hysteria. This is an unprecedented disruption of an ecosystem that our existence as a species depends upon. Even if it isn't, don't you think the cost of acting, which is purely economical, is much less than the cost of mass global upheaval which, currently, thousands of scientists are predicting? Whether Hillary is REALLY a feminist won't really matter then.
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Please wake up and listen to logic.
[Read the article: Why conservatives love Barack Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Look. We can endlessly debate on whether this or that republican supporting this or that democrat means that they think that he's/she's easier/harder to defeat in the election and that, by supporting that candidate, they hope that associating their conservative personas with that candidate will give/take away votes from them in the primaries and go in endless circles, saying things like "well, by supporting them they knew that that would hurt them in the eyes of liberals, but they also know that we'd know that's what they were doing so they're actually hoping that we'll think that they trying to hurt the candidate when really they want that candidate to win!" what all this insane argument, which reveals much more about who the arguers already support, is this undeniable truth:
If we decide to NEVER vote for a candidate that is supported by a person on the right and if those on the right NEVER vote for a candidate that is supported by the left then we'll NEVER have a candidate that BOTH sides like.
The possibility for bipartisan action would become null.
Come on people, have we forgotten Abraham Licoln "a house divided cannot stand?" Have we forgotten that the best presidents have always brought us together rather then divided us?
Whomever you support, please don't be swayed by whether or not this supposed "other side" supports the candidate or not. Because if we all do this, it'll be the last thing that we all can do together.
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My fellow democratic voters.
[Read the article: Why I'm still not for Hillary Clinton]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No matter which candidate you support, and despite all the confusing signals that the Iowa and New Hampshire primaries gave out cocerning our parties future, there's one universally upbeat piece of news coming from the early primaries that no one is talking about.
In the last two primaries, the Democrats DESTROYED the Republicans!
As Democrats, we have never been so close to be being united and excited about our candidates. And the Republicans have never been in such shambles. We're more confident, we're more talkative, and we're getting a hellava lot more practice voting than the Republicans.
I'm an Obama supporter. Have been ever since the 2004 convention, actually. I think that him, and those like him, are the best future our nation can hope to find; the only question is that, are we ready to find it?
But hell, Hilary's incredibly competent and a great campaigner, Edwards could actually do something to stem the excesses of corporate culture and he's darn electable, and if either are the candidate come November, you better believe I'll have my fingers crossed and some Champagne ready!
However, we need to realize that, if we want to be able to unstop our bottles of bubbly come November time, we need to stop this negative crap.
Look, the media wants to paint the primaries as out and out wars because conflict sells, but we don't have to and we shouldn't buy into that mindset. Primaries should be times of open discussion, of the evolution of our party; we have peoples attention, so its time make people feel better about politics again and then, by extension, make them feel better about voting democratic.
Negative campaigning may win close "races" but, in the long run, its self defeating. We're all on the same side people! Primaries are times where voters of each party express preferences and then coalesce under one ultimate banner and under one ultimate candidate. It shouldn't be a mass blood letting where the person left standing is the one we send against Bush 2.0, it should be a true coming together.
So, as an Obama supporter, I'm not going to be sad that my candidate got a bit less votes than another candidate in New Hamphire and I'm not going to hang it over my Hilary supporting friends head's if he scraps out a victory in South Carolina or Nevada. I'm going to be ecstatic that the democratic party got WAY more votes than the party that has systematically destroyed what makes this nation great in the last 7 years. Obama supporters, Edwards supporters, Clinton supporters, lets clink glasses, no matter what the outcome.
If anything, we should be glad for a longer race, because now we'll have even more opportunity for discussion, which we wouldn't have if the Clinton inevitability of pre-Iowa or the Obama inevitability of post-Iowa pre-New Hampshire had lasted.
Remember folks, these democratic primaries should make our party stronger, not weaker. Let the Republican field of 6 fight it out tooth and nail :)