Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 88 Editor's Choice: 1
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I used to like Bill and Hillary
[Read the article: Clinton: "I am in this race"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Like others, I was pro-Edwards & neutral on Hillary and Obama early on.
But as Hillary has emerged in the past month, showing her true colors (are you aware that an edict was issued at the Clinton White House that members of the Secret Service were not to approach her, make eye contact, or in any way try to engage with her? - this from Joe Eszterhas's "The Devil's Guide to Hollywood") as a barely-disguised Republican, a Bush-lite warmonger and liar.
What does she even stand for anymore? Aside from winning, that is.
What I find most interesting is that whatever generation of feminism she represents, first, second, whatever, she has shown it to be as morally bankrupt and as power-crazed as the modern Republican party. It is no stretch of the imagination to imagine her as the VP nominee for McCain.
It is OVER. Go home. Learn how to bake bread.
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Obama is the first candidate to excite me since RFK
[Read the article: Obama/Kennedy vs. McCain/Goldwater]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]To those of you younger people who do not want us comparing Obama to JFK or RFK or MLK, I apologize, but it's going to keep happening. Thanks to the men who took JFK, RFK, and MLK away from us forty years ago, we have had a succession of ever more vile Republican presidents: Nixon, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush. Yes, Clinton was a republican and so is his wife, in terms of service to their corporate masters.
I will quote my own piece, November 22, 1963: The Coming of the Great Darkness at my site, Sun Pop Blue:
I was in eighth grade when John Kennedy was killed. I remember standing in the cafeteria with the whole student body as a teacher told us that John Kennedy was dead in Dallas. I will never forget that day, the shock, the sadness: who among us of my generation will? We loved John Kennedy and the great promise of America, for all Americans, not just the few, that he embodied. If you were not there, you cannot really know how exciting it was—the killers killed so much more than a man that day.
Of course, they had to kill again, not just RFK, who would have, as president, brought his brother's killers to justice, and Martin Luther King, who inspired millions with his grand vision for racial harmony and economic justice in this country, but many others involved with the original assassination, over the next fifteen years.
It's easy to point at JFK's foibles and mistakes now, but it was a weird time. And he was changing. That is why he was killed.
I've had more than one "conservative" challenge me as to why, if "liberals" are so great, have we been unable to elect any to the presidency over the last forty years. My response? "Well, you guys killed them all." It usually shuts them up.
The consolidation of power and money in this country, the installation of one corrupt Republican stooge after another as president, the rise of the right wing noise and smear machine, the corporate takeover and destruction of the news media, the assault on the constitution and the Bill of Rights, has been no accident.
So here comes a breath of hope in Barack Obama. I think it amazing that, what, 90% of his many millions of campaign donations have come from the people in amounts under $200. It is clear to me that we are in the midst of a sea change in American politics unlike any we've ever seen before.
If post-war (WWII) America gave rise to the military-industrial complex, the mafia, the money-laundering center that is Las Vegas and its pollution of our entire economy, the Republican pansy/pedophile party, it seems that people are finally waking up to the crimes that have been committed and see in Obama a man who can begin our journey back from this place the money-grubbers and marketeers, conmen, killers, and bagmen, the finks, bigots and shills have brought us.
I hope he is smart enough to avoid getting killed.
I can only imagine how worried the powers-that-be are at the moment. I don't think they can Diebold their way out of this one.
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Completely unhinged
[Read the article: Defending campaign, Clinton cites RFK assassination]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have NO idea what she was talking about when she mentioned the RFK assassination ...
There was NO reason for her to mention it.
I think she is showing evidence of borderline personality disorder at this point.
Either she is paranoid, delusional, or some damn thing ... I'm no shrink ...
But taken in tandem with other recent remarks of hers, it is clear that this is a woman in serious mental trouble. Remember the movie "Diary of a Mad Housewife?"
The superdelegates need to step in and end this travesty now. Hillary and Bill Clinton have no place in the Democratic Party any longer.
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I can't find the RFK "quote" anywhere
[Read the article: Argus Leader editor responds to RFK controversy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Can someone find a few verifiable references/url's to reliable news sources, please?
For the record, Hillary's thrice-repeated tasteless, irrelevant remark about the RFK assassination not only has no place in the campaign, Hillary and Bill have no place in the Democratic party any longer.