Letters to the Editor
sajwan
Published Letters: 487 Editor's Choice: 13
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Script Approved
[Read the article: Jay Rockefeller's unintentionally revealing comments]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The script is in and has been approved:
The telecoms were acting patriotically in a time of need, responding to the desperate demands of a President caught in a new and dangerous terrorist filled post 9/11 world. Why should they be punished for this?
Of course, that last rhetorical question in the script sounds nice and supports the telecoms as the innocent victims. (Hmmm kind of like when Bush claims he was the victim of bad intelligence) Unfortunately, inconvenient questions are ignored since it fuks up the script.
What about the companies that refused to go along - were they traitors?
What if this was just a stupid idea from an administration full of stupid ideas, and in practical reality there is no intelligence value in what the telecoms did?
If the telcoms are proven to break the law, this leads to the conclusion that the president was breaking the law - is this an impeachable offense?
Don't we want to know if the president was strong-arming telecoms to break the law?
Don't we want to know how and to what extent the law was broken?
Don't we want to know where is all of this data they collected?
For Crissake don't we even at least want to know if the telecoms actually are continuing this behavior to this day?
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A lot of people are dead
[Read the article: Mission unaccomplished]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bin Laden is DEAD people -- he has been since 2001
Get a grip. - Anonymous
Exactly. We should leave all mass murderers alone and then they'll just die of old age.
Or is this all just another excuse, another occasion, by which to attack President Bush?
-- Elephantman
It is not another excuse, or another occasion, it is another of the colossal failings of his presidency.
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If I was a MINORITY (doesn't mean I'm not)
[Read the article: Setting the South Carolina bar]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If I was a MINORITY that has never had someone of my MINORITY in the white house and now there is a viable candidate who is of my MINORITY I just might lean in the direction of that MINORITY candidate just because he is of my long oppressed MINORITY.
What Bill said about Hillary and Obama geting votes due to their race or gender is accurate and realistic, if not idealistic.
America is not a color blind or gender blind society...yet. The whole tribal mentality thing still creates a lot of sore spots. There is hope. The country overall, not withstanding pockets of relapse, is getting closer. This election is proof.
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I'm relieved
[Read the article: There's no taking sides]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Do not appreciate Million Year Picnic mixing RNC dumb as wood claims with valid election season issues.
But whatever, it's about this: With all the sides out there, whether political, racial, religious, national, or whatever, everyone thinks they are on the good side.
Thousands of different sides out there and everyone thinks they are on the good side.
From Palestine to Israel to Republicans to Democrats to Obama supporters to Clinton Supporters to pro-life to pro-choice to Protestants to Muslims to Catholics to Liberals to conservatives to socialists to capitalists to communists to.......
If you ask any one of them, they will tell you they are on the good side.
I am so relieved to know we are all doing good in the world.
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Easter in Iraq
[Read the article: A GOP thriller in Florida]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Now, everybody can look back and say, 'Oh, well, we didn't find the weapons. It doesn't mean they weren't there. Just because you didn't find every Easter egg didn't mean that it wasn't planted." --Huckabee
Just for this statement alone, Huckabee shouldn't be allowed near the White House.
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I was Lucky
[Read the article: "Rambo"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"The hell with Stallone. The hell with Rambo. The hell with the Swift Boat Liars. The hell with anybody who thinks they've got the Vietnam War all figured out." --GO
I agree. In the end, beyond all the agendas and bull, the best we can hope for is honesty. I appreciate the honesty in your post.
I was lucky, I was close but didn't have to go to Vietnam. I know though if I had gone I'd be a different person today. Who knows it may have made me a better person. In my case though I'd most likely end up worse, since even without spending my semi-adult youth, killing and avoiding being killed, I am already a pretty angry motherfukker.
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Questions and answers
[Read the article: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and Tony Rezko]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We may never know all the details of the transaction since the real estate agents and prior owners are playing mum. Good for them, they are under no compuncton to speak to anyone about legal private matters.
Here's what I think we do know.
~ Obama and Rezco got a package deal on a adjacent lots and a house.
~ Obama gets the lot with the house
~ Obama buys a strip of land from Rezco.
~ Rezco lot remains empty
The real estate transaction can be construed as a "favor" from Rezco, and Rezcos indictment showing his attempted influence on an Illinois governor certainly shows a predilication on his part to collect on his favors.
So:
Did Obama do something illegal. No.
Was Obama naive and stupid? Maybe.
Is there anything good that could come out of his Rezco relationship? No.
Is Lauer a pathetic shithead? Yes.