Letters to the Editor
sajwan
Published Letters: 487 Editor's Choice: 13
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Neo-Conservatives like being afraid, what else is new
[Read the article: Why do conservatives really find the Obama campaign "scary"?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I thought the Reagen adulation was over the top and to a certain extent manufactured, GWBs was certainly manufactured by Rove at the peak of his manipulitive skills and power. Anyways I thought the American pie, nationalistic fervor was ridiculous and shallow but it did work for the base. In the end it was manipulated political adulation, this video breaks uncomforatbale boundries of personal adulation.
The chant in the video has a droning quality similar to chanting found in hindu temples chanting the name of the lord or gurus, or saints, but not political leaders. BTW the chants can be sublimly beautiful and are designed to quiet the mind and open the heart. ANyways this Obama chanting is different than GOP nationalistic and paternalistic fervor (“Go Team America!”, “Hail to the Chief!”) super-imposed onto a simplistic GOP personlity, this is all about Obama, this is cult of personality, over the top personal adulation.
The ad starts “We are One”, cool that’s uniting. Then it morphs to “We are THE ones”. Huh? Which ones are THE ones. Am I one of THE ONES? How do you get to be one of THE ones? By chanting Obamas name? And if there exists THe ones, doesn't that mean "we are not one"?
If this ad is brought to the forefront in the national election, it would hand the election to McCain in a heartbeat...unless McCain followers heard the chant as "go-bomb-them", "go-bomb-them", "go-bomb-them".
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Its the usual...
[Read the article: What Clinton once said about tax returns]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Clinton asked someone for tax records and made a big deal about...nothing.
So now Obama asks Clinton for her Tax records and makes a big deal about...nothing.
For Obama it's not, "do as I say, not as I do", it's just do as Clinton does.
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Slip of the tongue?
[Read the article: Obama advisor Power resigns]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't think so.
Many O-supporters on blogs are definitively stating as the absolute TRUTH that Hillary is a monster. It was not a slip, it is a pervasive theme and under current in the Obama campaign. I can't wait until another advisor "slips" with a "cackling old bag on the rag" comment, or accidently lets Pakistan know that if they don't toe the line Obama will O-bomb-them. Whoopee lets have naive starry-eyed academics running around the world fukking things up worse than GOP idealogues already have.
We are THE ONES and CHANGE and HOPE implies a pompous self-anointing attitude which reminds me of the MORAL majority. They were neither a majority nor more moral.
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Lotza lotza posts...
[Read the article: Some free advice for Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obfuscation…
Whos the pot and who’s the kettle…
Whatever You say bounces off me back to you…
False facts…
Partial factcs…
Misleading statements….
Lack of debate integrity…
No I didn’t… Yes you did…No I didn’t… Yes you did…
Deeps discussions on who is the bigger poopy pants…
Enough absurdity to make Kurt Vonnegut return from the grave…
And so on ….
10% content 90% bullshit. Ahh the smell of politics in the air.
So let me join.
See now Miss Walker, anyone who says anything against little Miss Clinton you accuse them of being "blatantly misogynistic," -- madamfauntleroy
You do realize you completely undermine your point by referring to Clinton with the title “little Miss”. You might want to use the title “Senator”, it better hides your blatant misogynistic tendencies. Or maybe you can join manos and go outside and step on ants or squish beetles or something.
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Spin this
[Read the article: Obama takes Wyoming]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The numbers do support Obama in the fukked up Democratic primaries and do NOT support him in the fukked up general election. If the delegate counts were winner take all, like the Electorial college in the general election, Hillary is ahead in delegates. Winning the winner take all big states is not a nice to have in the general election, they are got to have. Did I mention the general election rules were fukked up? At least not any more so than the Democratic primaries, just in a different way.
If there is no clear winner or no kissy makeup between the Democratic candidates, and Obama decides to run as an independent, it helps Clinton in the general election by syphoning independents from McCain.
If Clinton decides to run as an independent it looks good for her, again due to Obama splitting independents with McCain and Clinton then mopping up with the democratic base.
Ain't life a bitch.
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Discrimination
[Read the article: The religion of balance and centrism]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And you're also a lawyer? That's like four strikes right off the bat. You couldn't possibly have anything Serious to say... And a piece of advice for your next book - don't rely so much on evidence and logic to determine your conclusions.
-- thehallmark
I agree with Hallmark, "serious" is a "Serious " word. And who in their right mind, whether a journalist or a lawyer for that matter would ever rely on "too" much evidence and logic. Why bother, it's much easier to make stuff up.
And well put, being a lawyer does have at least 4 strikes, just like in baseball. Right off the bat. But the 5th strike against lawyers are that they are all in disguise running the country in the form of elected officials and politicians.
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It is funny that the word discrimination has both a good and evil side to its dictionary definition. The evil side refers to making distinctions based on racial, religious, sex, etc, intolerances or bigotry. The good side refers to the ability to make nuanced distinctions and use practical judgment based on facts and evidence. Who knows, maybe that is what forces "serious" journalists to be "balanced", they cannot determine when and how to use discrimination.
Lack of discrimination does things like:
tie together a lunatic/comedianne/sociopath/entertainer and an advocate promoting a position as the same thing,
tie together a politician who lies a nation to war and another who lies about an extra-marital affair,
tie together actions and events that can cause potential personal consequences, with those that can devastate an entire nation.
To bad discrimination has such a bad connotation, journalism sure could use some discrimination.