Letters to the Editor
fahrender
Published Letters: 22
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Colin Powell
[Read the article: Will the real Colin Powell stand up?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Some have said that Colin Powell didn't run for president because his wife was fearful of what might happen to him and made him promise that he wouldn't do it. Whereas this may or may not be farfetched, I think it is quite possible that the Bush Administration is in a position to make Powell and his family fearful if not miserable should he speak out against them. Having had a military career, with it's obligation to respect the rules of the chain of command, Powell may simply be unable to bring himself to transcend that ingrained habit. He may also even yet be unable to admit to himself that he is wrong in supporting the insupportable.
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Bill Kristol
[Read the article: Bloggers mature, the New York Times stumbles]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]William Kristol has a very troubled relationship with truth-telling.
Ah, what the hell, he's a liar.
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Is Mickey Kaus Considered To Be A Journalist?
[Read the article: The role of political reporters]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]for Mickey Kaus to use rumors published in the National Enquirer to try to bring down John Edwards tells us all we need to know about him. the idiocy of his ideas is surpassed only by the means he uses to try to get us to believe him.
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John Yoo, Enabler
[Read the article: John Yoo: Spearhead or scapegoat?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]i watched my country fall apart over the past seven years. our leaders have failed us, repeatedly. we as voters have failed, repeatedly.
America has never been perfect but the American people seem to have become indifferent to the ideals and principles on which the country was founded.
the Neocons, lead by Cheney and Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and Feith and Rove put the sock puppet Bush on the stage and we followed him right into the abyss. virtually every aspect of American life, every institution, and, yes, this includes the military, and many millions of individual Americans are complicit in this debacle.
if we should decide that we are ready to really recognize our responsibility in this shameful mess we may, eventually, restore our nation in some meaningful way. i am not sure we are ready. the last i heard, impeachment is still off the table, but even if it isn't it's probably too late before the sock puppet has made his last exit, stage right.
a lot of other things need to happen but if we aren't willing to confront the blatant criminality that urgently lead us down to the depths where now we find ourselves we stand just as guilty. what happens when cancer is ignored?
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the deafening silence of the MSM
[Read the article: Media's refusal to address the NYT's "military analyst" story continues]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]we have a very sick nation. when this many politicians and the fourth estate, this many leaders, this many powerful people are complicit in such an immense evil enterprise, an enterprise which has been undertaken in the name of our country, when such a thing happens, and we as citizens do not rise up and revolt against the perpetrators, then we all become guilty. i seriously believe that the America which most of us believed in will soon perish if, indeed, it has not already done so.
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Harry Reid
[Read the article: Things that don't exist in Harry Reid's world]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Glenn,
you're a brilliant writer and i follow you most of the time but i think you're cutting Reid too much slack. he's a liar. punkt. he may be an idiot into the bargain. maybe he took too many punches back in the day.
Joe Lieberman makes the Democrats look really, really bad. he is a walking, gaseous insult to every living progressive. somebody needs to put Holy Joe and Harry the Hapless out to pasture. They are both enabling virtually everything bad in American government.
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Chomsky
[Read the article: Tom Friedman doesn't understand why America is unpopular in the world]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]what i think of when i read Glenn's piece today:
"What We Say Goes"
the title of a book Chomsky got published last year. turns out it's from a quote of James Baker after "Operation Desert Storm" (which juicy bit i discovered when i Googled it).
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beer
[Read the article: The rise and fall of an American beer]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]back in the day, i probably drank most all of the beers mentioned here at one time or another. i could tolerate most of them. i gravitated towards PBR or Carling's Red Cap Ale when i had the choice. i will always remember the first time i drank a Lowenbrau at the Rathskeller in Chattanooga. that one definitely stood out. i realized i been missing something (this was before it started being brewed in the States). recently, one of the best American beers i've had is Fat Tire, made in Oregon.
for me, at least, having one beer i really like is a lot better than having three or four that are totally forgettable.
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@strangely enough, etc.
[Read the article: The rise and fall of an American beer]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]thanks for sorting me out on Fat Tire. i drank mine at Elk Lake, Oregon and assumed it was a local beer since i hadn't heard of it before
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Cass Sunstein and Closing the Circle
[Read the article: Political harmony v. the rule of law: an easy choice for the political establishment]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Cass Sunstein's choice of a partner does, indeed, help to "close the circle". Pretty cheeky of him to bemoan how the Internet creates discreet echo chambers segregating liberals and conservatives. As we all know, nobody shuts out dissenting views more thoroughly than the political "elites", one of which Sunstein is certainly a part.
Sunstein's arid, narrow intellectual view of the political landscape in America, if maintained by a potential Obama administration, will drive the final nail in the coffin of America's historical guiding principles. The window of opportunity for rescuing and resuscitating those principles is almost closed at this moment in time. Once the window is completely closed, all that will remain to be done will be to weld some bars across it. The Republicans and, already, far too many Democrats are perfectly willing to see that happen.
Completely forgetting the promise which we once were able to at least aspire to will follow. America's promise, as we have strived to realize and sometimes come close to achieving, will be dead.
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Boot The Blue Dogs, the sooner the better .....
[Read the article: Let's give "Blue Dogs" the boot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Gee, Glenn, one would think that you want the Democrats to act on principle and not just self interest. Like another political group we know about.
The Money Bomb is a good first step to get the attention of the ones we want to feel it. That's why I've already contributed. Keep up the pressure. Increase it. Anger can be a good energy if focused on the right scalawags.