Letters to the Editor
sajwan
Published Letters: 487 Editor's Choice: 13
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No tool like an old fool...
[Read the article: I was wrong about Wright]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well, except for a young fool...especially ones with chips on their shoulders in regards to their elders.
I love how unifying Obamas race has become. It would be better if Obama came out and clearly said we are taking the power from the old folks, this world is for the young and not the old. Kick the old fools out! And then he can end that speech with "Hope I die before I get old" line from that great Who song.
That would be honest, and so something Obama would never do.
With over 90% of blacks voting for Obama, the only people Wright and Obama has unified is blacks. I am sure this has always been one of Wrights and Obamas goals (again Obama shows dishonesty in not declaring this, at least Wright is honest about it), and a minority unified can be a much stronger minority. On the other hand it can bring further polarization between blacks and whites.
Time will tell.
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Finally I get it...
[Read the article: What should Obama do about Rev. Jeremiah Wright?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Finally I get it...
20 years of close association with mutual financial, political, personal, and spiritual support never happened. Wright describing Obama as a typical politician that will "do what they [politicians] do based on electability, based on sound bites, based on polls." thereby throwing Obamas "new politics" theme under the bus - never happened. Salon just made that up. Salon just made Wright up. Wright doesn't really exist, it is just a Joan Walsh fantasy.
Here's the reality, there is nothing good that can come about from Obamas association with Wright in terms of his presidential aspirations. Nothing. Supporters can try to intimidate non-kool-aid liberals into accepting Wright as a fantasy by calling them evil, biased, and racist. Won't work. They can charge a FOX/Salon conspirancy. Won't work and in fact helps create the net effect that Obamas campaign is on the verge of lunacy.
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Christopher Michael Neill pretty much said it all
He did. He proves Obama addicts are coming down off their high. Salon doesn't need to shup up, anyone can stop reading Salon. See that little thing called free-press also means we are free to read or not read what we want to. It's not that complicated unless you are in an embittered, withdrawal consumed state of denial. Here's a clue, Salon not being an Obama propaganda machine, does not turn Salon into Fox news.
And here's another clue - if you do decide to stop reading Salon, fine, but then stop fukkin posting - don't need to post stupid comments self-importantly declaring you're no longer reading Salon.
Get some help.
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Is this enough...
[Read the article: Obama "outraged" by Wright]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Seriously, to all of Obama's detractors: Is this enough? --Xrandadu Hutman
A better question is why have Obama supporters had to denigrate everyone and everything who in the end have been expressing the same sentiments as Obama finally expressed today?
For the ethics_professor - Politics is personal, it is not an academic exercise. Ultimately war is a form of politics. Are we in Iraq for political reasons or because we just like blowing up people people and getting our young people killed? Republicans have understood politics is personal for awhile now, and even though it is discouraging that some of the vitriol on this board borders on sociopathic, overall I for one am encouraged by the passion.
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Yeah gee wiz...
[Read the article: Why the Jeremiah Wright story deserves more attention]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...we could all be talking about change and hope and yes we can, and the "new politics" which kind of like is the "new" shampoo that really makes your hair glow and the "new" detergent that really makes your clothes soft and all those other great "new" products out there.
It's fine to rail how the media is vapid, but you fail to notice that like Bush before him, Obama is trying leverage a vapid media, with a vapid campaign. A vapid media has to be fed and all politicians are there to do it with their doggie biscuits.
Axelrod wanted Obamas campaign to be about a story, not issues, not experience, not votes, not history, about Obamas story. Well he got a story.
Wright is Obamas Judas. Wright is Obamas Brutus. Now thats a story.
Happy Axelrod?
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The dubious cult of experts
[Read the article: The gas tax battle continues]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"if the supply of a good is more or less unresponsive to the price, the price to consumers will always rise until the quantity demanded falls to match the quantity supplied."--Krugman
I think this dumbass is saying, in the most convulted way possible, that supply and demand controls price, not the other way around. Yeah, duh, so? What does that have to do with getting a break at the pump at the OIL COMPANIES EXPENSE?
"In one pocket, out the other." --Krugman
I interpret this to mean in terms of Clintons plan, out of the oil companies pocket into the consumers pocket.
Again this is supposed to be bad?
If he is trying to make the point that this will not solve the problem of rising gas prices, bravo, brilliant. But who is claiming that giving consumers a break at the pump will lower the price of a barrel of oil?
This is relief for people being squeeezed by high enegy costs, not a solution to the nations energy woes.
Beware the dubious cult of dumbasses disguised as experts and political pundits selling strawman arguments.
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Wheels are falling off
[Read the article: Obama camp files complaint against pro-Clinton 527]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Moveon.org whom explicitly endorsed Obama, is variously a 527, PAC, and 501(c)(4).
I am looking forward to Bauer submitting a complaint against MoveOn on Obamas behalf to the justice department. Or how about someone re-surfacing how he won his Ill. Senate bid by hiring a lawyer to get rid of his opponents campaign due to technicalities.
There's a guy who is only interested in the peoples issues.
Pathetic.
At this point even if Obama wins the nomination due to his early momentum, his candidacy is a wreck.
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The Democrats' God problem...
[Read the article: The Democrats' God problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...especially sucks because God is a Democrat.
Ok God I was kidding. But if after hearing for so long, self-serving politicians, preachers and religions falsely represent you, you decide it's time to do a re-boot on the universe - I understand.