Letters to the Editor
Tideswimmer
Published Letters: 383 Editor's Choice: 47
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Oh, God, I'm so tired of this.
[Read the article: Hey, Obama boys: Back off already!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is about, what? The one millionth article on Salon trying to equate a preference for Obama as being the sign of being in the clutches of some cult-like worship of the great Obama God, and probably a closeted sexist, too?
Here is a quote from the article: "There is this Obama-mania, where these young men get glassy eyes and start spitting out vague things about how Barack Obama is going to save humanity. Really, have you seen their eyes? It's this faraway look. It's scary."
I've seen that exact same look in the eyes of some Hillary supporters. Both sides have their fanatics. So what? Why does Salon keep pushing this sexism thing over and over?
As for me, for the record, as I've said in other threads, neither Obama or Hillary should be viewed as saviors of the Progressive Voice in America. I'm weary of all this in-fighting. McCain must be defeated, preferably overwhelmingly, a tsunami of passionate rebuttal to the past eight years of total insanity. The victory should be complete and undeniable. Think of the election as hurricane Katrina. The day after the election, McCain and the whole Republican agenda should look like the Ninth Ward, and years later all these warmongering assholes should still be living in toxic FEMA trailers. THAT's what I'm hoping for in November.
THAT is the ONLY fanaticism you will see in my eyes.
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@ Person
[Read the article: Hey, Obama boys: Back off already!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thank you. Enjoyed your perspective very much. It was refreshing.
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Wow... Just... Wow
[Read the article: The rubes and the elites]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yet another long anti-Obama hit piece on Salon. Ill-conceived and executed; so desperate to fling mud at its target that it is barely coherent. Obama points out the obvious: that vast numbers of Americans are bitter and disengaged to the point that most of them don't even bother to vote anymore; that they don't even believe that their voices are heard anymore... and that makes him an elitist????????????????
I really don't understand how that equates. For me, it makes Obama into a politician who is truly and genuinely trying to find the real pulse of America, find out where they really live, what is really in their heart, and trying to deliver a message that it is okay to come out of hiding, to come join a discussion. That is where I would be if I was a politician.
For years, the norm has been that if you can't get them to come out and vote for you, it works just as well to convince them to stay home out of disgust at the whole stupid pointlessness of voting when you no very well that ALL of the benefits will go to the rich and entrenched. You will still lose your farm, the factory will still close and the jobs shipped away, wages will remain stagnant and your only hope, possibly ever, of buying a home is to take a crap shoot in the sub-prime mortgage in the hopes of a better tomorrow. And when the better tomorrow doesn't come, remember, it is all YOUR fault, and you should have known better, and Republicans will say that it's not the government's job to reward you for your bad decisions even as they arrange bail outs for the lenders who fucked you over.
Bitter? Sure? Aren't American's entitled to a little bitterness?
Surely it is infinitely more elitist for McCain and Hillary to behave as they have for years and expecting people to remain good little Americans, endlessly being fucked over while maintaining a "Can Do" smile on their face, never complaining. How cynical that position is; how truly condescending.
Thank you, Senator Obama. Yet again you have shown yourself to be the only candidate running who seems to truly be listening to the people, not just packaging sound bites and slogans that you think they want to hear.