Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 977 Editor's Choice: 5
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The Wrong Criticism
[Read the article: A week of petty though typical attacks on Obama produced nothing]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I agree with Glenn about the scumminess of the current right wing ugly-machine. I am especially ticked off by the pouncing upon of Michelle Obama--for christ's sake, things have only started to improve for african-americans in her lifetime. Of course, she has a right to say that this is the first time she is proud of her government. I can't imagine anything a black person would feel proud about here.
But it is important to remember that Obama has several glaring weaknesses that have nothing to do with his race or ideology. The right wing will certainly whittle away at his credentials; I voted for him, but even I concede that he hasn't accomplished much of anything noteworthy enough to lead him to the White House. Second, his hope, hope, hope message will have undoubtedly become rancid by the end of the year. My guess is that people--rightly or wrongly--will undoubtedly backlash against the holier than thou stuff. Also, an array of politically expedient and objectively cowardly acts and decisions on his part are bound to get more attention in the coming months. Its fine to be a politician I suppose, but if you've set yourself up as the anti-thesis of the washington insider, everyone of those 'present' and 'absent' votes are going to burn like acid.
Finally, Obama's own discomfort with race will come back to haunt him and I suspect that it will become greater the closer he gets to the White House. I think rather than representing a sea-change in America's race dynamic, Obama is instead a black surrogate. Unthreatening, and not descended from slaves, he provides white people with a way of cleansing themselves of this country's racist legacy without having to actually vote for an African-American politician.
Just saying. Support Obama, but let's not check our brains at the door folks...
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Michelle Obama
[Read the article: A week of petty though typical attacks on Obama produced nothing]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I was just watching Hardball--what an infuriating experience!!!!!!
Discussing, Michelle Obama's comment about her "first time" being proud to be an American...on one side, a right wing bigot avoiding the race issue and claiming that she was taking a 'hate america' liberal stance. On the other, a black woman mincing words and trying to recast the comment.
30 years after the civil rights acts, can't a black woman say t loud...the US royally screwed black people in the most offensive way for hundreds of years!!! Jesus H. Christ, its certainly not a secret....
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Mmmm Prunes
[Read the article: A week of petty though typical attacks on Obama produced nothing]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No, just heard the quote twice and still had to go looking for a virgin copy of the original clip to find that yes, she did indeed say "really". The scary part about the fact that so many media vehicles went out of their way to edit the clip. BUT!!! Its hardly a smoking gun. It sounds the same to me either way. My point is what the hell is wrong with saying that? For christ's sake the problem of democrats has been not confronting our past as a nation--giving McCain a pass on all the bombs he dropped on Vietnam before he was shot down, excising Jim Crow from our proud tradition.
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A Jerry Bruckheimer Production
[Read the article: GOP politics in a nutshell]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]god, what's more depressing than this? The fact that a good number of AMericans are dumb enough to buy this kind of crap...
I also like how the only media outlet used is Fox.
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Hardball Alert!!!
[Read the article: GOP politics in a nutshell]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I just can't believe this---watching Hardball's coverage of the McCain story in teh NYT. Totally mischaracterized as a sex for favors scandal, didn't go after other questionable McCain lobbyist scandals, at all! And then gave a virtual pulpit for Bennet McCain's lawyer to defend McCain, and even gave him openers. Disgusting,....
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Yes I agree, Proximity Warning is an idiot
[Read the article: GOP politics in a nutshell]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Plus, anyone who uses the word 'sockpuppet' is obviously a troll.
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Bad Journalism?
[Read the article: Newsweek catches McCain in a serious contradiction]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I've certainly seen worse coming from the New York Times...attribution, not their strong suit.
However, I think, in a sense, that this is good timing. Whether or not the info is old, it certainly has been under a greater level of scrutiny this time around and has gotten the old press gangs to drop their straight talk express bullshit. To my recollection, this is the first time I have ever heard the words Keating 5 pronounced in the same sentence with McCain on television.
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redacted
[Read the article: Newsweek catches McCain in a serious contradiction]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I also believe that the story was probably edited to death, and that more direct evidence was left on the cutting room floor...And I also think that one of the biggest stories around this is the mainstream media's reluctance to investigate other issues around McCain's bullshit straigh talk image, viz Keating and many others...
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Is there anyone out there trying to start a boycott on AT & T et. al.?
[Read the article: McConnell/Mukasey: Eavesdropping outside of FISA is "illegal"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Surely, someone must have noticed we live in America, where boycotts on stuff actually work. Is there any organization otu there trying to start a boycott on the big telecoms that cooperated with the Bush admin. It seems like a direct action that could do an end run around our pitiful democratic reps. Anyone know? Anyone want to start one?
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@ Antrastan
[Read the article: McConnell/Mukasey: Eavesdropping outside of FISA is "illegal"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I like your poetry, "/ / / /" (that is the electronic equivalent of four finger-snaps, man).
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@Taoban and Ondellete
[Read the article: McConnell/Mukasey: Eavesdropping outside of FISA is "illegal"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm not so sure viz, the lid-lifting theory...
Certainly there are many lids that are lifted and shut on a daily basis and we don't know jack all about them--mostly becuase the president doesn't get up on a soap-box and draw "me thinks he doth protest too much" speeches to them. In this regard, I would offer the issue of signing statements, which all of us NPR-Ipodding, latte guzzling Salon readers know well about, but that probably the other 99.991 percent of America has never heard mentioned. I would assume that is because the president has never come out and said in a national address, "signing statements are right on". Like most things that he doesn't want mentioned on the airwaves, he doesn't talk about them...
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JSTRICK
[Read the article: McConnell/Mukasey: Eavesdropping outside of FISA is "illegal"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]People don't say it very often, so SAY IT, SAY IT!!!