Letters to the Editor
truck51
Published Letters: 30 Editor's Choice: 2
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Uh oh.
[Read the article: The crazy uncles in Obama's attic]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I hope this "uncle" stuff doesn't stick around long enough to haunt Obama, but I'm afraid it's already in the Republican scripts for the fall (or Fall). Worse than Pastor Wright, who is not so off base in many of his sermons, is the presence of Ayers and Dohrn.
I was in SDS in the late sixties and had a fair amount of contact with some Weatherman before they went, uh, ballistic. At the time, they seemed romantic outlaws, privileged (*way* privileged, naive about who Americans are, obnoxious, ideological, and...did I say privileged?
I mean, they didn't do any time, did they? Nor did most of the Weathermen who turned themselves in. They had rich parents and trust funds that protected them from prison. But, bombings were so stupid and so unrealistic. Nobody but this self-declared "vanguard" was going to get behind them. No one was "educated" by these condescending thugs. They were heroes only in their own minds.
So, this letter is more about Weatherman than Obama, but I don't like the connection and he should have been a little more selective about some of his supporters. It makes him look naive.
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Ben Franklin
[Read the article: Rev. Jeremiah Wright isn't the problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Late in his life Benjamin Franklin wrote this:
"I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if they are such: because I think a General Government necessary for us, and there is no *Form* of Government but what may be a blessing to the People if well-administered; and I believe farther that this is likely to be well administered for a Course of Years and can only end in Despotism as other forms have done before it, when the People shall become so corrupted as to need Despotic Government, being incapable of any other."
Gettin' close...
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@odog11
[Read the article: Rev. Jeremiah Wright isn't the problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No, just reading the New York Review of Books. (12/1/03)
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Why?
[Read the article: Evernote: Software to help you remember everything, forever]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Who wants to remember everything? Especially now when there is so much information flying at us, I am damn glad sometimes when I don't recall something. Most of the time it wasn't important enough to remember anyway. And think of the trouble it takes to snap pictures, scan postcards, and enter or manage data manually.
Do we really want computers managing *everything* in our lives? It's getting so the Internet is creating more and more problems that only it can fix.
"A search engine for my life." That why I have a brain.
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Lame.
[Read the article: Can Barack Obama win West Virginia?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Boy, these other people who criticized this article are right on the money. Lame, a rehash, and it serves no particular purpose. I couldn't read the whole thing, just scanned it. Could tell how lame and useless it was anyway.