Letters to the Editor
sajwan
Published Letters: 487 Editor's Choice: 13
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American Idol is the way to go
[Read the article: Your presidential candidate: Hot or not?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What you ultimately would get is a measure not of aggregate preference, but of aggregate enthusiasm. -- Asher Steinberg
I think this is a good point. There are many movies on IMDB that are rated in extremes - mostly 10s set against mostly 1s. Because of the extreme feelings either way, a skewed view of the movies rating results.
Who knows, maybe the system doesn’t matter; maybe elections are just popularity contests anyways. What about the American Idol approach - have people call in to a weekly show, calling into support their "favorite" politician of the week. Advertisers could pay for the cost of the show, eliminating fund raising and all the shenanigans there, and people would actually tune in, especially, if the current American Idol judges participate.
And, please no more pictures of Obama looking squinty eyed towards the heavens. Try it with colleagues at work. Start staring squinty eyed upwards in your interactions with them and see if they either don't start thinking you're a lunatic or ask what’s wrong with the ceiling.
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@Slacker 8:43
[Read the article: Is Hillary Clinton's campaign in trouble?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Maybe Slacker thinks all sports events should be suspended at half-time and whoever is ahead at that point declare themselves the winner just because they want to and then everyones happy and united because they get to go home early.
Clinton is behind by 6 delegates in the delegate count with significant delegate states coming up. In national polls she is more popular nationally than Obama amoung Democrats by a small margin and head to head polls with McCain give Obama a small margin. If Obama wins the delegate race, fine, congratulations to him WHEN THAT HAPPENS. Othere wise save the fukkin coronation for when the game is over.
I am becoming increasingly aware that my issues are less with Obama than with his supporters.
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Fire the Fuk
[Read the article: The Shuster fallout]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A national News organization, (yes David Shuster represents MSNBC) implies Chelsea is a whore and Hillary the pimp getting the returns from her whoring daughter. There is no "common usage" or just a "poor choice of words" crap here. Family members find ways to contribute to their family members campaigns all the time. The Bushs twins when they hit the campaign trail for their father were not whores. Obamas wife is not a whore. There was no valid journalistic substance to David Shusters comments. There was malicious intent, it was a chance to call Chelsea a whore and her mother a pimp. Thats all.
Thats it. Nothing else.
Fire the fuk Shuster today.
Send a fukkin message today.
And for the probable Obama supporters who think that having someones daughter be called a whore on a national news program is somehow a "political opportunity", then that just enforces my awareness that my issues are less with Obama than with his supporters.
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The Rose Law records mysteriously disappeared then reappeared.
[Read the article: Clinton won't release tax returns yet]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Another fukkin RNC talking point from an Obama supporter. Gosh how unusual. When her Rose law records were found what did they show? Wonders of wonders, they showed nothing. ZERO. NADA. NOTHING. Might the RNC lemming Obamamites think that since the Rose law records clear her of all inuendo, of all real or imagined wrong-doing that she might have wanted those records to be found asap? It seems for every dumb-ass RNC talking point there are unknown numbers of dumb-ass Obama RNC consumers.
Rezco - Long-time known Sleaze-bag. Long-time Obama relationship. You want to make believe Obama did not have a relationship with this guy, you're deluded unless you yourself often partner with people you don't know in million dollar real estate transactions. So he returns some campaign dough, how about returning the $300,000 savings he garnered from his relationship with slum-lord, influence peddling Rezco in their partnered real estate transaction. Ok not illegal, just s l e a z y.
Exelon - A partnership made in heaven for the nuclear giant Exelon, which has given "at least $227,000" to Obama's campaign that eventually got them legislation from the Illinois Senator written with their best interests in mind. If this was a story about Clinton rewriting legislation to benefit one of her biggest campaign contributors, who also happened to be Big Nuke, there would be blaring headlines across the web. --Taylor Marsh
Blind Trust - A pretty good summary here. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/chi-0703080154mar08,1,3568688.story?coll=chi-news-hed
I conclude Obama got caught and so had to pull his investments out of his contributors stocks at a loss. You draw your own conclusions.
You want to ignore this crap, fine, no ones perfect, especially politicians, but please excuse those of us who don't want to plug our ears and start singing "somewhere over the rainbow" everytime we get a deeper look into Obama history.
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Everything is so nice
[Read the article: McCain targets Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So nice that the breakdown on the vote legalizing warrantless spying on the telephone calls and emails of Americans, and full retroactive amnesty to law breaking telecoms was similar to what GOP backed initiatives always are in the Senate:
Democrats -- 31-18
Republicans -- 0-49
So nice to know both our progressive presidential candidates came down so strongly on this critical bill, as in running away and hiding in no-vote land while their supporters hatefully and spitefully banter about which supporters are more hateful and spiteful.
Also nice to know that Obama promises a new co-operative spirit in Washington. All those Republicnas who vote in lockstep? No problem, after just one big "Yes, we can" party, the numbers on any GOP inititiative to undermine the Constitution will then certainly look more like this:
Democrats -- 27-22
Republicans -- 1-48