Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 92 Editor's Choice: 12
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Lest we forget
[Read the article: Why Ronald Reagan didn't completely suck]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is the man who routinely fell asleep at his own staff meetings and was so shallow that his own biographer couldn't get a handle on him. He was divorced, knocked up his girlfiend whom he later married, and was estranged from his children, despite running on a family values platform. The man had the biggest deficits in our history to build a Star Wars system that still doesn't work.
No one ended communism. It ended itself; Reagan was merely sleeping in the White House when it happened.
The right has built him up as a paragon, rewriting history in the process. I'm waiting for the book that shows Reagan as he really was.
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Criminal Offenses
[Read the article: The MySpace mom's prosecution threatens us all]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What happened to:
Unlawful transaction with a minor?
Reckless endangerment leading to death?
Contributing to the delinquency of a minor (suicide is still a crime in many areas)?
Trust me, if this was a man who was "chatting up" a girl under an assumed name with the intent of harm, the prosecutor would have NO trouble find a statute to charge him under. What's fair for the guy is fair for the girl.
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The decline of WaPo
[Read the article: High standards at the Washington Post Op-Ed page]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We've gone from Woodward and Bernstein to Kathleen Parker implying that we're going to lose our place in the world because Obama and Edwards are gay? Wow, how far can we fall that fast?
It's only a small step to now calling Edwards a fag, like Man Coulter did a few months ago.
While I'm offended by the race comments, I'm equally offended by the constant accusation that if men are good looking and not a turkey-waddled septuagenarian on his 2nd wife and nth mistress, they must be gay.
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Profits and price-fixing
[Read the article: Why gas is so expensive]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The article addresses some of the issues involved in gas prices, but neglects two issues that are troubling to most Americans. The first as mentioned earlier is the record profit levels being raked in by ExxonMobil and others.
The second is the very obvious price fixing going on between companies. I pass maybe 20 gas stations in a 2 state area on the way to work. When prices rise, they all rise to exactly the same price at the same moment, no matter what the stations are and regardless of state. Am I really expected to believe that they're all getting similar messages independently from their owners to raise prices to the exact same price, or is it more likely that prices are being set between companies?
We'll likely never know as Cheney took the secrecy of his energy task force to the Supreme Court so that we would never know what really happened.
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What a shame
[Read the article: Why McCain's gas tax proposal is a good idea]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Just when it seems that perhaps politics has risen above race and gender, we get the New York Times (and some ignorant Salon readers) saying that Appalachians are only concerned with gas prices and saving a few dollars at the pump. Speaking as one of those Appalachians who is voting for Obama, there is as much diversity in our group as any other. And we can see beyond the BS as well. We're not all pick-up truck driving idiots.
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Supposed to be different
[Read the article: Obama camp reacts to Johnson story]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama has invited some of this on himself by announcing that he will be running a different type of campaign, one that takes the high road and defines itself in terms of hope.
Then he hires a man tied to the subprime mortgage mess to help find his VP and sadly the best he can do is "they're worse than me." Considering that McCain is one of the Keating 5, that's not exactly a ringing endorsement of ethics. I don't want a man up to his ear in the subprimse fiasco involved in government decisions any more than I want a money launderer for the mob involved.
While I plan on voting for Obama, it's quickly become a lesser of two evils than a true plan for change in this country.
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The unexamined life
[Read the article: My failed lesbian romance]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I wish I did get a feel that the author learned from her mistakes. Repeated relationships with addicts, rebound relationships, the problems of installing new people into her children's lives too quickly, being involved with a married person.
However, the breezy tone really didn't convey to me that the author had learned any of this and I left the article feeling rather sad that the author didn't get the problems she had caused by her behavior.
The title was gratuitous. Same sex relationships include sex, not stricken looks. I felt more like I was reading one of those 1990s gay panic defenses than a real heartfelt experience.
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November
[Read the article: McCain's offshore oil-drilling flip-flop]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm one of those Ohio voters who will be getting bombarded in a few months with campaign ads. I hope one of the 527s eviscerates Obama for his non-stance stance.
I'm sure when the campaign starts calling me that I'll have a lot to say to them about FISA. I have yet to see a Democrat say that this is a good thing.
I hope Hillary does make a stand. It would be a slap in the face to the Obama campaign, which is well deserved for that cop-out.
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Parsing words
[Read the article: McCain had private meeting with head of gay group]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]@MrEdCt
Isn't someone who encourages homophobia and mericilessly uses it to bring out voters to ban gay rights a homophobe as well, even if they are a cynical one? Not feeling that gays are people too, and deserve a modicum of respect is not exactly a mark of an enlightened soul.
From striking language from .gov websites to encouraging states to vote on marriage admendments to weekly meetings with rabid homophobes, I don't see how anyone could label Bush as anything but a homophobe...
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the willingness to put the concerns of others above one's self.??
[Read the article: Wesley Clark boldly goes where few have gone before]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Tell that to his first wife and first set of children who were abandoned by McCain when he went looking for newer/younger/richer when he was still married. He proposed to Cindy before he even bothered to get a divorce. That's hardly putting the concerns of others befoer one's self.