Letters to the Editor
sajwan
Published Letters: 487 Editor's Choice: 13
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A patronizing weasel by any other name is still patronizing and still a weasel
[Read the article: Obama: Clinton "deserves to be able to run"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama: Oh, absolutely. And I think she deserves to be able to run and make her case.
It's unfortunate that anybody would give a flying fuk whether Obama thinks "she deserves" to run or not. If he wasn't such a weasel, he would have simply stated, "As long as Clinton remains in the race, I have not won the nomination and must continue to campaign to win the nomination to the best of my abilities."
See the difference children?
Oh excuse me, I didn't realize you didn't like be patronized to either.
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Ok I get it
[Read the article: "I'm f---ing Obama"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama and supporters are already lining up the excuses.
Excuse #1 It's Clintons fault.
Excuse #2 Bowling is a racist white mans sport.
Excuse #3 It's Clintons fault.
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McCain and Obama on same page
[Read the article: McCain, Obama in spat]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama has called to increase the size of U.S. ground forces by 92,000 troops, 65,000 for the Army and 27,000 for Marines. This is exactly what Bush requested in 2007 and McCain supports.
We know what's driving the Bush administration. Anybody know what's driving Obama concerning this request?
Bill came up with a peace dividend, Obama like McCain is coming up with a more military for more war deficit. Change you can believe in and the straight talk express coming at ya.
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Weasel Watch
[Read the article: FactCheck.org: Obama statement "a little too slick"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama in his PA ad. "I don't take money from oil companies..."
As the article notes no presidential, House or Senate candidate can take money directly from oil companies since it's against the law.
His inferring that other candidates do take money from oil companies but he, mister nobility, does not, is a weasel statement. As factcheck.org points out, the whole ad is weasel like. (cunning, sneaky, misleading, feeds on small rodents, etc).
More weasels in government - change we can believe in.
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Collusion
[Read the article: Book news and media campaign coverage]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"...and further denied that excessive socializing among reporters makes them less adversarial."--Cox
Cox is delusional.
Defense lawyers and prosecutors can remain adversarial and maintain very good social relationships because access to the court room is not controlled by one or the other and there is a judge to make sure they both play within very well defined rules. There are no such controls or structure within politics that can maintain the integrity of the adversarial relationship regardless of the social relationship.
An effective journalistic relationship between a reporter and politician has to have almost zero socialization, otherwise socialization is really just another name for collusion.
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Lee Hamilton joins the bandwagon - promises to play the kazoo
[Read the article: Lee Hamilton is backing Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama is surging in the polls in PA and McCain has been surging in head to head polls with Obama and Clinton. Go figure, the better Obama does, the better McCain does.
WES knows the bottom line, Obama and Clinton will head to the convention with neither having enough delegates to win. The super delegates will decide.
Most like to say we got to follow the rules, but some say we need change we can believe in, change like cowardly and dishonestly ending the contest before the game is over.
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Even throwing gutter balls, Obama is at ease
[Read the article: The Obama difference]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So is Bush.
So what?
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Just like polls...
[Read the article: Richardson said Obama can't beat McCain?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...the only anonymous sources telling the truth are the ones that favor your candidate. Go figure.
In the latest Rasmussen Tracking poll McCain is winning by 6% head to head with Obama and 4% Head to Head with Clinton. In the latest Gallop Tracking poll McCain is ahead by 2% over both candidates.
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I wish...
[Read the article: Yet another "3 a.m." ad released]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]all of these useless candidates would explain how they want to spend our tax dollars. The too much taxes is a smoke screen to avoid the country really looking at itself and it's priorities.
The federal government is spending 20% of the federal budget on security, 14% on National Defense, another 6% for cops and prisons, 20% on Medicaid/Medicare payments, 12% on Elementary and high school education. Interest payments on borrowed money is the 5th largest single expense item in the budget. and then a lousy 2% on Highways, .5% on air transport.
Can at least one empty headed politician actually define a priority in terms of spending priorities.
Just for examples, "We need to spend the same amount on infrastructure (highways, bridges, air traffic) as we do on National defense - 8% for Defense and 8% for infrastructure."
or "We are not getting our moneys worth spending 12% of our budget on education. The amount is right, the execution is wrong."
or "Spending only .2% of our budget on Public libraries is a disgrace. Knowledge is power and libraries are great sources of knowledge. The country needs to grow this power."
or "Spending 20% of federal revenue on Medicaid/Medicare, in addition to the non-tax expenses Americans pay in direct medical cost and health insurance premiums show Medical costs are wildly out of control. We need to cut Medicaid/Medicare costs to 10% by "governing" Medical costs and bringing them back in line with socially responsible levels."
Instead we get dumb ass "too much taxes", or "not enough taxes", or "tax the rich", or "trickle down economy", or "Stop taxing the poor" or other stupid political bromides.
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Imagine...
[Read the article: Would you vote for a smoker?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...Obama giving a speech swaggering around the stage with a cigarette like Sammy Davis Jr used to do.
Now there's a picture, Obama pointing his cigarette at people while enforcing a point.
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The whole damn DNC primary season...
[Read the article: Hillary Clinton's petition ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's too long, MI and FL is fukked up, add the bizarre mixing of bizarre caucus and popular voting rules and you have a cornucopia of different flavors of disgrace.
Dis-enfranchising MI and FL voters should never have been an option, it is and was not a solution to anything. Whatever positions either Clinton or Obama take, they are both going to come out looking like a-holes.