Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 14
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and then there's the economy ...
[Read the article: Dead party walking]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"This has magnified the always-existing fissures in the Republican Party, setting evangelicals against small-government libertarians against hawks and preventing any candidate from taking control of the race."
You left one of the splinter groups out of this sentence -- the fat cats. They worship the almighty dollar; everything else is a means to an end. And this week the fat lady is hitting some pretty low notes. The donation dollars are starting to go Democratic on the theory that anything beats the fiasco that is Bush economic policy; and that in any case the writing is on the wall and it's smart to back the winners. These people want something that works -- they spell the word "principal," not "principle." Forget the Presidential race for a minute and look at Congress -- compare the Republican war chest with the Democratic war chest. That's the story right there. Republicans: your landlady called and you have a week to move out. Don't let the door hit you in the ass.
Nostalgia is all those folks have right now. They're on their way to third-party status. If they survive as a major party it will be in name only.
Can the Democrats manage to represent the fat cats? Well, that gets complicated. Let's watch and learn.
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fair enough
[Read the article: It's OK to vote for Obama because he's black]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm cool with that, homeslice, as long as you don't mind me voting for him because he's white.
We're like that in Kansas.
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Can you hear me now?
[Read the article: No, really, I'm a conservative]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When Hillary calls at 3 in the morning, this is the guy who should be answering the phone.
Keep em both out of trouble.
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Um...
[Read the article: Memoir in six words]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Um... what was the question again?
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"she possesses the audacity of hopelessness"
[Read the article: Clinton: Wright "would not have been my pastor"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]David Brooks has joined the attack machine:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/25/opinion/25brooks.html
Bang a gong ...
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gator got your granny
[Read the article: Why don't those hillbillies like Obama?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I wonder what is up with that minority of voters who did vote for Obama in the rural parts of those states. I bet if you took a look you would find that they were mostly young.
That's the real meaningful breakdown in this thing -- young people can accept Obama more readily than older people can; and they also are more excited about change and less impressed with experience (taking at face value, for the sake of the argument, both candidates' claims to represent those things).
Here comes the next generation. Internet money, flash mob action. They don't have the same hangups about race, and for them, the gender thing is a fait accompli -- women are in the game, so what? Ten years from now, this thing would be an Obama romp. If he wins it this time, we'll just get there a little sooner.
And hey -- if Obama wins, old white ladies and Red Man chewin truck drivers are still going to do just fine. You'll see. He'll be all right. And if it's not Hillary, hey, she still gets to be Senator from New York. That's not like staying home and baking cookies. It was good enough for Pat Moynihan, it ought to satisfy Hillary Clinton.
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sure, but whose veep?
[Read the article: Hillary Clinton for veep -- the petition]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]She might be good with McCain. No?
They both have experience ...
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Hey ...
[Read the article: Our cupboard was bare]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... don't load it up too much, now. People share food. Even chimpanzees share food. Sharing means caring. It's okay.
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Truman ...
[Read the article: Sarah Palin's real soul mate]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... Harry Truman was an effective artillery unit commander in the first World War, in, and this is overseas, France.
Harry Truman was also a real farmer, not a vacation brush trimmer. Farming is hard work now but it was brutal then. Harry was not in the loop on much that Roosevelt was doing, for sure, but Harry in the Senate was a serious Senator who did real work in that body. Harry Truman was no slacking beer blasting non-flying service-avoiding frat boy or jive phony cowboy or by no means a beauty queen. Harry Truman was a real man.
Harry Truman has nothing to do with George Bush or Sarah Palin. Whole other category of individual.
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foster child haiku (let)
[Read the article: In memory of David Foster Wallace, 1962-2008]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Foster Child Haiku (let)
Foster Child Haiku
David Foster Wall
(how long had he been sober?)
(let) (let) (let) (let) (ace)
Mitch Hedberg said it
I played tennis with the wall
that thing's relentless
the lines on the court
contain the game, but the game
cannot be contained
so things appear with
their opposites - loneliness
draws us together
he lay on the beach
and the tide was way way out
in the beginning
but and so ...
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wait a minute ...
[Read the article: Obama and the rules for Angry Black Men]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... isn't Barack Obama white?
Dude, it's all just talk. Get mad? They invaded a country based on a bunch of crap they made up. We have lost more than 4500 people. They have trashed the economy. They have hocked the government. They have systematically sabotaged every agency. They are ripping us off for billions and billions of dollars. You would have to be mad all the time, man. Us cool mixed bloods gotta all watch our mixed blood pressure, dog.
Cement shoes, now I'm on the move. Must I remind you? I'm only here to flip you.
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Fannie Mae already bought
[Read the article: George Bush's scary story]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hey, bucks 4, that is an interesting history. But we already took over Fannie Mae. Can you explain where all the other bad paper that we are now getting ready to acquire came from?
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This one is going out to my one true love ...
[Read the article: The Internet may have been a mistake]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... The Ladies.
It's all right if you love me
It's all right if you don't
I'm not afraid of you runnin away, honey
I get the feeling you won't
There is no sense in pretending
Cause your eyes give you away
Something inside of you is feeling like I do
We've said all there is to say
Break down
go ahead and give it to me
Break down, baby, take me through the night
(baby baby break down)
Break down, I'm standing here
Can't you see?
Break down, it's all right
It's all right
It's all right
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNxfPAF1frM
It's all right ...