Letters to the Editor
StacyInDC
Published Letters: 2 Editor's Choice: 1
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Why I can't back Obama
[Read the article: Obama can't close the deal ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why haven't I moved over to Obama's side? It's simple. I have no idea what he represents aside from "Change". It's a default position when you have a lot to whine about with no proposal on what you intend to do about it. I don't bother to complain about what's going on at my job or in my personal life unless I have a specific strategy to solve the problem because that will just make me a whiner. I see Obama as a whiner.
I'm much less supportive of Clinton than I was at the beginning of her campaign. She's made far too many mistakes. That does nothing to improve Obama's position, in my mind. He remains where he was before. Wanting a "change" from a Bush-Clinton-Bush may make sense but at least I know that I preferred the Clinton phase of that sequence and I know what Clinton's positions are on many of the issues that concern me and how she plans to address them. I see the platform of "change" as a faith based campaign, without the god. I'm supposed to assume that whatever changes are made will be good without knowing what, specifically, those changes are and how Obama thinks he'll manage to get those changes through the political process. Sorry, but that's too much of a risk for me. Without knowing what those changes are and being able to consider the likelihood that those changes will actually make it through, I'm not willing to rely on a hopes and dreams based plan. Unless and until Obama starts focusing on concrete policies and detailed plans, my attitude wont "change".
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She never mattered but so what?
[Read the article: Does Madonna still matter?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Madonna never "mattered" in a serious sense and that wasn't a problem. I don't expect entertainers to "matter" to anyone but the promoters, record companies and staff who rely on her career for income. She was (and maybe still is. I haven't kept up) an entertaining singer and that was perfectly fine with me. It reflected a level of genius, albeit not of the type I've ever aspired to. Not mattering isn't her problem. Trying to matter in areas in areas of her incompetence is the problem. Between the peculiarities of her adopted speech patterns (over-enunciation, faux accents that drift in and out like the tides), her desire to be a "proper lady" offstage and hot slutty MILF on the stage and her pushes to save the world, she's become so phony that her former outrageousness and style changes seemed honest and pure in comparison.