Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 8
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Put the knioves away now
[Read the article: The knives come out in South Carolina]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Mr. Shapiro's presentation -- as Obama gamely defending himself in kind against Hillary's relentless personal attacks, as in a "there she goes again" vein -- is utterly dishonest, and just as disgraceful as their performance was. They were equally responsible. Correct me if I'm wrong, but Obama started it down the gratuitoius personal insult path when he made the "Wal-Mart" crack. Her "slumlord" reference was a retaliation for that. He also had no business counter-attacking on the Reagan matter, because the Clinton's were hardly the only Democrats who had the same take-away from that interview. His response to the fear that he's a closet Lieberman was fine, just what was needed, but there was no need to attack the Clinton campaign for deception on that particular point.
They both need to publicly make up to each other, and apologize profusely to Democrats nationwide for listening to the Kool-Aid dispensers reassuring them that they are more important than the cause. Bill needs a little tough love, too: he needs to shut-the-f--- up for awhile, too. If there's a silver lining to it for the long haul, they've both demonstrated they won't be pushovers. I could finally see Barack bombing the crap out of al Qaeda if he gets a clean shot. That's good on the national security issue, you know.
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Name names
[Read the article: Who needs Dana Perino when you have the NYT's Michael Gordon?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Who are those NYT editors, and what ate their email addresses? They should not be allowed to hide behind the cloak of anonymity, either.
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Respect your elders, Glenn
[Read the article: Michael O'Hanlon's defense of his pro-war record]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How old are you Glenn? I think it best to agree with those who watched it all unfold. Beyond the behind-the-scenes activity and obvious regret, McNamara did not have the lessons that should have been learned from the Vietnam War to help guide him. That doesn't make him a hero, but he's vastly less reprehensible than these shameless goons.
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Disappearing other results?
[Read the article: Various items]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why are you "disappearing" Kansas, Hawaii, Idaho, which you referenced in the update before. OK, sure they were caucuses, but they weren't 25 participants -- more like 25,000 or more. DC was a primary, and the Obama margin was 51%. Oh wait, I forgot, African-American voters don't count as much as white votes: only two-thirds, as I recall, bringing the number down to 34, which isn't enough to offset Kristol's point.
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A lasting legacy?
[Read the article: Can Obama do more than "nudge"?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A national health plan that is at least virtually universal will be a lasting legacy -- and given the sheer drag on employment that it's absence causes, a major economic one at that.
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Olbermann and Obama's secret plan
[Read the article: Keith Olbermann's reply and Obama's secret plan to protect the rule of law]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You may be missing the point: it's the Blue Dogs who will make Obama look weak. "He can't even corral support from his own party." He should have been forcing them into line over the past few weeks, but I suppose he can't do everything at once.
But I agree Obama missed an opportunity to use it to present his new (and superior)concept of national strength: when the country doesn't live up to the ideals that have made the rest of the world look at us as the leader, it weakens us in every battle we need to fight, including the battle against international terrorism. The bill is simple to attack in powerful, simple terms: it gives the President, any President, too much power, with only very weak checks and balances, and it perpetuates the worst of big corporations using their lobbyists to get their way in Washington. Independents and traditional moderate Republicans agree with all of that.
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The morality of forced pregnancy?
[Read the article: The attention-driven Warren, Book III]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How about someone having the guts to push from the other side of the moral question? For starters, what the hell is moral about forcing your 13-year-old daughter who made a mistake to carry a pregnancy to the end? How about someone else's 13-year old-daughter who was raped by her father? If the answer is the girl's sin, what the hell is moral about forcing the sins of the mother on the unfortunate baby?
Shouldn't McCain be pushed into answering these questions? Shouldn't all so-called pro-lifers be forced into dealing with these questions? "Don't you even care about the girl who is forced into a pregnancy she did not want? Oh, yes, she should have thought about that. What kind of an answer is that for the unwanted baby? Do you think that's moral?"
Then wait until they say it's a complex issue.
As usual, Democrats and liberals are put on the defensive, and they have zero, zero, zero ability to turn it around against the attackers: "I am not immoral! It's not fair for you to say that."
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It's a team game, people
[Read the article: Money talks, Barack. Are you listening?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's time to stop focussing on the personality of the leaders, and look at their teams. Which team will do a better job of fixing the problems, the team that caused the problems or the team that put together almost a decade of prosperity before the Bush-McCain team totally screwed it up?