Letters to the Editor
sajwan
Published Letters: 487 Editor's Choice: 13
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Mix-up at the ad agency
[Read the article: Dem candidates up with new ads in North Carolina]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Was there some mix-up in the ad agency, weren't those Obama ads really supposed to be for McCain?
Cythera45 I'll bet you know all about "working the streets"... --Hutman
Cythera45 attacked Hutmans claim of expertise, Hutman attacked her gender and sexuality.
More misogony from the Obama camp...yawn...
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Goes to show...
[Read the article: Brian Williams' "response" to the military analyst story]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...the media is made up of mostly saps.
Hello Brian, I got a bridge in Brooklyn for sale. Special deal. Just for you. Exclusive. Give me a ring. We'll work out the details.
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And so...
[Read the article: Dem candidates weigh in on "Mission Accomplished"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I was against the war from the beginning. Obama was against the war in the beginning.
And so, the question is when he decided to stop being against the war. I'd say when he started to vote for funding it.
Words do matter but only when followed up by action, as in taking a stand and a vote.
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wealthy, naïve, arrogant
[Read the article: Luxury community of "conscience"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thats about right.
Intent is important. That Dokken and friends are doing environmentally sound land development is good, but their intent reeks.
If one gave a large charitable donation in order to get tax breaks and favorable publicity - is that the same as giving a a large charitable donation without any consideration of or actual personal gain?
Not asking these people to be saints, but 2, 3, or 4 huge extravagant homes, huge lots, private jets, commandeering of public land, for ones family use is not extravagnace of eco-spirit, but extravagance of waste.
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sickness and panic
[Read the article: Did Sidney Blumenthal cross the line?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Since when does emailing links constitute “circulating” something that has already been published and widely available on the web.
Repeat, since when is emailing a reference to a previously published article already available to every person in the world with an internet connection part of a conspirancy?
Maybe Obamas campaign should have free access to every journalists emails to see what is acceptable or not acceptable for them to email. Not even Bush/Rove/GOP, the great media manipulators would even pretend that one.
Goto RCP, they publish some of the most stupid articles on behalf of or against all the candidates. Are they part of this conspirancy only when they publish an anti-Obama article?
Clinton cut Obamas lead in NC in half and is ahead and surging in Indiana. This whole thing is stupid, it smells of sickness and panic in Obamas campaign.
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Disengenious
[Read the article: Wright's theology not "new or radical"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"When Cone employed the terms "whiteness" and "blackness" in his theological interpretation of the Gospel narratives ..., he was referring to them not as a physical descriptive category but as a cultural notion and spiritual concepts"
Sorry BS. The White race oppressed the Black race, not the white concept oppressed the black concept. It is not surprising that blacks would think the whiteman evil. Didn't the jews think the people that enslaved them were evil? How many oppressed people believe their slave masters are really just the best, really sweet people with a heart of gold?
This back-pedaling on what Wright or Cone "meant" is disingenious and crappy politics. It's clear. Wright is saying the White man has fukked with the black man, and continues to do so, which is accurate. The issue with Wright is his preaching is easily perceived as declaring that the black race can and should be be dominant. The issue with Obama is that he is campaigning as a uniter, while being closely aligned for 20 years to someone who feels much differently.
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It's like Chamopinship Wrestling - everyone knows it's fake, but it's great to watch...
[Read the article: The media, the right and 1988: Endless deja vu]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It is surprising to hear the notion of electing a president based on policy or even competency. There is little if anything coming out of the Democratic primaries like that - making the news anyways. Axelrod has made it clear he has designed Obamas campaign as selling a story, a narrative of a man presumably born to leadership, not on selling the brave new policies of the brave new future. Notwithstanding Obamas claims of his “new” politics, the techniques Glenn decries have come from ALL sides of the current candidates campaigns. Using a drudge sludge report as a smear against Clinton is not “old” politics?
So maybe I am hopelessly cynical in saying the issue is not about what the GOP does, it’s about the DNC not being as good as the GOP in slam-bam politics. You’d think with all the failed policies AND the failed personalities in the GOP, the DNC would have an easy job. Instead Bills blowjob was made iconic by the GOP, but not one out of the endless list of Republican sexual calamities has been turned into an icon of conservative immorality. Look here’s an icon candidate : “wide stance” – run with it DNC.
Howard Dean screaming at a rally falsely edited out to eliminate crowd noise remains iconic of those crazy liberals. Everyone by now knows it was a false representation, but it remains an icon. Here’s another icon candidate : anyone of a dozen of Bushes outright lies – run with this one too, DNC if you can. Or can the GOP derail your train by just saying Bush is no longer running and old news, or can you forcefully and convincingly respond that Bush is the GOP and the GOP is Bush. If you can’t, you can’t sell snowshoes to Eskimoes.
We are better than a lot of countries in that we practice internal politics without murder, violence, and mayhem, but we do practice Championship Wrestling soap opera style politics. I don’t even know that Jesus could change that, so certainly do not believe the DNC can, but they can get better at it.