Letters to the Editor
Majorajam
Published Letters: 275 Editor's Choice: 11
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@Notorious Hillary Supporter
[Read the article: Today's coverup of surveillance crimes and Barack Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If Obama is Willie Stark, how come Hillary was the one delivering stump speeches out of the back of a pick-up truck?
Brother. It's Hillary for this reason, that reason any reason, and by God don't let them be remotely consistent.
Let's face it, progressives lost their chance when Feingold (inexplicably) decided not to run. He was my horse, he was the best and only outside of possibly Gore worth backing. Not Dodd who clearly picked up on this issue by way of political opportunism. Not Edwards whose single term in office was marked by a voting record at diametric opposition to all of the positions he ran for President on two years later (see: what Feingold made of that). No, there was manifestly no Democrat in the field that remotely resembled Feingold as a person of conviction- there simply wasn't. Embarrassment of riches my left testicle.
And after all that, the fact that we have Obama now is, actually IMO, the best outcome we could've expected under the circumstances. The least offensive pile of merde of the festering putrefied mass of candidates we- the only side of the political spectrum bearing any remaining sanity- legitimately could choose from.
But of course, don't let that slow the dead end die hards out there- the true cult worshipers- the Hillary supporters, for whom it's about the ground breaking nature of a woman's candidacy, only not any woman but Hillary, or it's about the ability for a 60's radical gun control champion to rally the hillbillies from the back of a pick-up truck, or the progressive anti-amnesty, anti-illegal surveillance activist that essentially picked up on these issues after Obama went to her left. Who's really taking the cultish supersized gravity bong hits???
The Democratic Party is not a progressive party. Deal with it. Our efforts now need to be targeted at the electorate, and in support of candidates and media outlets that carry our message. The politicians and the power follow popular opinion. They do not shape it. In the meantime, voting third party or not at all in this year's election, or not making an effort to get a Democrat in office will only contribute to the destruction of everything we consider important. Subverting the constitution. Denying health care to the sick and the poor. War with Iran. A permanent plutocratic ruling class. A banana republic. If that's what you want, if that's what you want us to be, by all means don't vote for or help to elect Obama. At least you will be able to say that you earned your fate.
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@mchebert
[Read the article: Today's coverup of surveillance crimes and Barack Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Actually, you vote for Barr over Obama, you have not only placed your imprametuer on this FISA legislation, but also on everything a conservative stacked Supreme Court will do to further evicerate the Constitution, (including for example their thus far unsuccessful attempts to tear usunder habeas, and for one conservative justice in one case, even for American citizens captured on US soil), not to mention unending foreign wars, and a further entrenchment of a Latin America style plutocracy in this country and attendant ramifications for the under class. Good luck with that.
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@mocaldem
[Read the article: Today's coverup of surveillance crimes and Barack Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sell the tired canard that Obama is with the conservatives on the SCOTUS or even more laughably like Scalia elsewhere. Seriously. Spare us. His only testament on this subject that matters, is not his take on the second amendment or on habeas (on which he applauded the majority upholding) but on whom he would nominate for the court as POTUS. And he has said that he would nominate justices like Ginsberg and Breyer (and possibly even HRC). So enough already with the contortions of PUMA cultists who will sell anything to satisfy their monomaniachal devotion to their goddess.
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@Aaron Burr
[Read the article: Today's coverup of surveillance crimes and Barack Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bob Barr's platform could be to harvest the moon for green cheese for all I care. My argument was that voting for a 3rd party candidate without a prayer in the world of winning a single electoral college vote is fig leaf from throwing away your opportunity to help choose between the only two viable candidates, and a no more impressive one than writing in Daffy Duck on your ballot. If you count yourself in that happy camp, and your vote would've otherwise gone to Obama, you are indeed effectively voting McCain and should at least muster the decency and intellectual honesty to admit as much (oh yes, and own up to your small part in all attendant ramifications of a McCain Presidency: more wars, less democracy and more destitution amongst the underclass).