Letters to the Editor
sajwan
Published Letters: 612 Editor's Choice: 13
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Elitism
[Read the article: McCains owe more than 100K in credit card debt]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't think liberals/pregressives/democrats ever got that elitism has nothing to do with the amount of money you have or make or even what college you went to.
It may be a good idea to start figuring that out.
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Nuke it
[Read the article: What's wrong with Obama's FightTheSmears.com]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ignoring that some may not appreciate being spammed by friends or associates for any reason, any site (one representing a government official no less), that asks for your password is enough to make the Electronic Frontier Foundation throw up on their shoes and so should be nuked from existence.
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Sooner or later
[Read the article: Quote of the day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That aide whomever it was, has a terric sense of sarcasm.
As far as Obamas technology savy, Obama got some silicon valley heavyweights to get creative and further exploit the internet for fund raising. Kind of how evangelists figured out how to use TV to increase their revenue stream. Isn't communication technology great at getting money from the most amount of people possible?
Yes technology at work, like over at the Obamas fightTheSmears.com, they actually ask you for your email password. Ignoring that some may not appreciate being spammed by friends or associates, any site (one representing a government official no less), that asks for your password is enough to make the Electronic Frontier Foundation throw up on their shoes and should be compared to killing babies and then nuked from existence.
In the end it's a choices between young and stupid and old and stupid. Apparently that's progress.
Instead of debating young vs old lets get real, let's focus on our similarities. Young, old, doesn't matter, we are all going to be dead sooner or later.
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Don't understand endosements
[Read the article: Gore endorses Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What are they supposed to mean. Is it like when Ebert gives a thumbs up for a movie, I am supposed to go out and watch it? Or if I am thinking about watching a movie I'll decide after seeing if Ebert "endorses" it?
I read Ebert and other critics only to get some feedback and information about a film and what it's about. I could give a rats ass if they like it or not. If I vote for Obama, it won't be because Gore or anyone else endorses him.
At the same time I realize the great graphic novel Vendetta hits it on the head; the masses are more than willing to give up responsiblty for their lives and their decisions to an authority figure like a politician or government.
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Jump the shark
[Read the article: MoveOn, AFSCME hit McCain on Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Keep the same video but instead lip-sync a new voice that compains about how liberals would allow the murder of precious babies like Alex and voila you have a pro-life commercial on the cheap.
Move-on jumped the shark when they promoted Obama in the primaries further fragmenting democrats, stupid move. But they do keep their hard-core base fed with this junk but annoy and disappoint everyone else.
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The funny thing is...
[Read the article: The new racist, anti-Obama fashion statement]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...the pin can work both ways.
Imagine a hip-hop artist wearing the same pin. I think it would work. Wouldn't surprised to see it happen. Make a great picture - a white guy with a buzz-cut and a suit standing next to a hip-hop guy in full gear both wearing the same button.
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Thanks for clarifying
[Read the article: The 527 monster hiding under Obama's bed]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's about who can spend the most money, not who has the better ideas, principals, character, or policies.
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More Obamites
[Read the article: MoveOn closes its 527 for good]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]like the princess who can still feel a pea through twenty mattresses and twenty feather beds.
The responses to Salon from Obamites could not be worse if Salon published articles proclaiming Obama as a baby killing, soldier hating, Muslim terrorist with ties to flesh eating cults, and beats up homeless people, and has at least 24 illegitimate children a year.
This level of blind obedience and loyalty to all Obama reminds me of right wing authoritarian structure with left wing idealogy.
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Move-on Ad
[Read the article: The self-aware Bill Kristol]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I supported Move-ons Betrayus ad, because I did not like watching a soldier turning into a political hack. But regardless of Kristol being an unprecendented hack himself, the move-on Alex ad was mis-leading, stupid, and based on fear mongering.
We in fact never will elect a president who is not willing to spill the blood of our young people. That will never happen. Every young person since the birth of this nation has been expected to potentially sacrifice their blood as needed by the nation. Don't see that changing anytime soon and Obama has already begun to sell his cability to engage in war in his movement toward the center.
Overall this ad gives no reason to give any credence to the politics of hope trope.
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They love those three syllable phrases
[Read the article: Clinton, Obama go heavy on the symbolism]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Being in a city called Unity is cute also, but also notable for Obamas first humiliating defeat.
This saccarin slogan reminds me of how the word change is going thru an Orwellian ringer. After Obamas campaign is complete, the word change in dictionaries will be newly defined as "same old, same old".
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Roves World
[Read the article: Rove: Obama "coolly arrogant" ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So is it a choice between the guy with a beautiful date, a martini, and a cigarette or the fat cat in a back room with a cigar, brandy, and a bunch other fat guys like Rove?
I like cigars but not if a room full of fat guys comes with it, so I'll go with the babe, the cig, and the martini. Thanks Karl for helping me clarify that in my head.
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Detritus or Marker
[Read the article: Obama camp ditches its take on presidential seal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama self-acknowledged it was a stupid logo and a stupid idea. So the apologist crowd can go find something else to be Obama apologist about. The bottom line is the Obama campaign farted up a stinker.
The question is will this be a long term marker identifying Obamas arrogance (kind of like Gores I invented the internet) or will it be lost in the $100s of millions of campaign funded political detritus.