Letters to the Editor
CeliaInSF
Published Letters: 920 Editor's Choice: 5
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indigo
[Read the article: Clinton endorses Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]dolores is correct - you have no way of knowing what four years of McCain will bring. Seven with Bush has brought us over 4,000 dead American soldiers and many more wounded for life (I think that figure is up to a quarter million) that does not include Iraqi casualties which are estimated as over a million, with millions more refugees (countless of those victims of rape, violence and ethnic cleansing.)
That is just on the issue of an illegal preemptive war. Chances are good that McCain would start another with Iran which is about ten times the population of Iraq (before the war and mass exodus.)
That does not include the grievous damage to our republic in the name of never-ending war including the erosion of civil liberties, including habeas corpus and the right to privacy. The list goes on and on.
Your vote is indeed your vote and the choice is yours but the consequences are not limited to you. There are a lot of pragmatic thing you could do to help women and getting women elected if you chose to. Undermining the presidential bid of a progressive candidate isn’t one of them.
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doloresflower
[Read the article: Clinton endorses Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm not convinced the goal and purpose of these protests is on the up and up. But I will maintain the benefit of the doubt for individuals expressing an interest:) It is still important, I think, to counter argue without giving to much credence to the premise that there are millions interested in marching. If someone stumble across this and thinks 'hey, I'd rather proactively work with EMILY's list or the DNC or whatever to achieve my goal of getting woman elected' then that will mean something. I'm sure there are some sincere people considering protesting but I think it is a republican ploy and feeding right into their interests. (That's not paranoid the repubs are really out to get us- and the proxies on the sidelines will do anything to subvert the democratic candidate. This is be pretty tame as far as dirty tricks go.)
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indigo
[Read the article: Clinton endorses Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Your premise is false- Clinton had the support of the DNC leadership,the big-city party machines and the big donors from the outset. Obama ran a strategic campaign against and bested her in the votes and pledged delegates and that is why the rest of the party leadership- supers went over to him. To respect the democratic party majority. You may not like it, you may not approve but you don't get your own facts or any hinky Clinton math.
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Cristines
[Read the article: Clinton endorses Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Your source is a post from craigslist that ends with a graphic "Liberalism is a mental disorder" in a bloody font.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!
Well, thanks for the laugh.
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AKA Smith
[Read the article: Clinton endorses Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]To me it is not just about your vote- that is your choice. It is about fomenting a protest against the progressive candidate. Which is again, obviously your right - I just see it as misguided and in fact probably playing into the hands of those who would like to halt and reverse progress.
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PS
[Read the article: Clinton endorses Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]and the portest is misguided in the fact that Obama has not run a sexist campaign and can't be held to account for the media talking heads (whom he has tried to swat down with his 'silly seaon' responses). He certainly can set an example for supporters and does but can't be held accountable for what is said in the wilds of the internet. (And some of the supposed supporters in every camp are obviously there trying to damamge that candidate by reflecting poorly on them.)
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Hey rufus
[Read the article: Clinton endorses Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Haven't tuned into Babylon 5, sorry.
Have you seen the new BSG- there is some interesting social/political commentary.
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BSG = Battlestar Gallactica :)
[Read the article: Clinton endorses Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The new version- it is in the final season now. I think the previous 3 1/2 seasons (they did a weird 2.5 season in the middle) are on DVD along with the original mini-series which was the pilot.
It is an incredible program, great drama, great political allegory and awesome special effects (and crazy cool battles!) I just watched this week’s episode for the second time last night. I highly recommend buying or renting it on DVD.
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Fabulous!
[Read the article: Touché, Senator McCain]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I hope McCain keeps himself firmly planted in the past, making references half the electorate can't relate to. Awesome!
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The author is so clearly biased against Rebecca Walker
[Read the article: The mother-daughter wars]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]in the 'choosing the white family' remarks (hey isn't she also half white?) and the critcism of airing private dirty laundry.
Maybe Chesler is a little too close to the subject to see it? Either way the tone makes clear the interpretation deserves a big grain of salt.
I'd be interested in reading it certainly. Ironically from the persepctive of this article, you would think feminist writers would suport one another in tackling difficult personal subjects - not scolding Rebecca Walker for not being a nice girl to her mommy.
It sounds like their estrangement is sad and personal. But the headline is misleading- if RW is a voice of the third wave that is not a denunciation of feminism (even if second wavers refuse to acknowledge the third wave.)
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I guess I shouldn't be shocked
[Read the article: Quote of the day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]at fox news taking a display of affection and distorting it through their lense that makes anyone who is not a wing-nut either a pervert or a terrorist. I was still taken aback though. Takes a real special kind of nut-job to find evil in an innocent gesture. Projection I guess.
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I guess it's good she lost her prime time slot
[Read the article: Quote of the day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]but isn't Laura Ingraham a total whackaloon too? I haven't listned in years but when I was younger with a stronger stomah I'd listen too talk radio. Isn't Ingraham a proponent of such bold intitatives like reversing women's suffrage? Or am I thinking of another, right-wing whackaloon?