Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 8
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[Read the article: Hillary's time of troubles]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I am the "anonymous" immediately above. Or below, depending on which way you are threading.
Thought I'd add that when you have wanted Noam Chomsky to be president since you teethed, everything in the real world is a little bit relative. Cheers.
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blanks. @Tom:
[Read the article: Hillary's time of troubles]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Hillary has 47% of the public that won't- that mean will not, anonymous pusillanimous- vote for her."
Maybe. That's a belief. Beliefs are not facts. Please don't quote POLLS. You know better. Shifting sands.
Nobody knows.
It's gonna go the way it's gonna go, Tom. I voted Obama in part because I think you MIGHT be right. But there are a lot of unknowns there.
Hillary's dirt is already pretty old news, you know? Not much more muck to rake. Obama? Who knows?
If Hillary runs? As I said, there are a lot more cards to be played before this is said and done. I'm sure not going to eat my fooking Kumbaya until Big Bad John takes charge. I don't think he can. And that's also a tentative, hopeful belief, not a fact. Best way to serve that hope is to promote it. Seems to me.
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Get over it
[Read the article: It's OK to vote for Obama because he's black]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Oh, come on.
He's outa Kenya, Kansas, Indonesia, Hawaii... can you see past "black" and whatever complex inner conflict that signifies to you-in-particular?
Doesn't signify that way to me in the least.
Look, Gary, the world is getting smaller and smaller and smaller. America's race-talk is increasingly stale, creepy and weirdly provincial. Thank you for sharing your complicated issues re race. But many of us really have gotten over it. Gender junk, too. It really is best to get over it.
Those who haven't gotten over it need to feel embarrassed about writing neurotic, obsessed screeds like this. Sort of like having a very elderly relative who talks nervously about "nice colored ladies" too much. Those ones have all died off in my family. Catch up, OK?
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Forget It
[Read the article: The crazy uncles in Obama's attic]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]From the Root:
"It has not just been the conservative pundits who have been gearing up for this type of attack. Salon.com for example, a liberal website that has tilted consistently toward Clinton, had a story today that was one stop shopping for anti-Obama forces looking for ties between the Senator and "scary" black progressives, white sixty radicals, and thoughtful, moderate Palestinian scholars, who -- horror of horrors-- are pro-Palestinian."
Creeps.
I have had a Salon subscription since the beginning of time. I won't be renewing. You have sunk to a real low with this one. Disgusting... and when we actually have a chance to...
Oh never mind. Creeps.
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Ack
[Read the article: The GOP attack plan for Hillary Clinton]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]WHY are you bothering with this? Virtually everyone who fiddles the math agrees that Clinton cannot possibly win the nomination. The rest is spin and it's hateful, divisive spin that's eating the party and undermining every progressive hope. Clinton needs to step down. I've moved from respect to hearty loathing of her, and so has everyone else I know. We need to stop this fruitcake McCain, and stop being so absurdly cynical about Obama. He represents an extraordinary chance to get out of the old polarities... he isn't even really a liberal. I thought he was too fiscally conservative initially. He can be a fierce hawk. He is just not in a box. (McCain actually is.) I had to do what I knew needed doing a long time ago -- realize that "left" and "right", "liberal" and "conservative" have very little coherent meaning any more. They are lazy slogans that usually appeal to fairly reflexive responses. They are obsolete and constricting terms functionally, and too useful for manipulating the great unwashed. If Clinton and the gibbering media would be quiet so that we could stop spinning and focus on our candidate, I think the party would come together pretty quickly around Obama and pull a lot of independents and republicans, too. Why is Salon becoming so politically noxious? Used to be a decent rag.
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Salon's the pot calling the kettle black on this one.
[Read the article: Rum, Romanism and James Carville]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Blegh.
Your own coverage has been biased and close to the tabloid bar, Salon. And when all is said and done you will have assisted in the Democratic Party's self-cannibalism. All these years of healthy, quasi-progressive Bush-bashing and you will have to start all over again with McCain. Salon has long been distracted. Not my 'zine any more.
Disgusted all around.