Letters to the Editor
rkr327
Published Letters: 43 Editor's Choice: 5
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McCain's 'Gaff'
[Read the article: Journalists, McCain and the false Iran/al-Qaida link]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Glen,
You nailed it.
The critical point isn't that McCain might be confused [improbable!], but that his very openly agressive stance towards Iran receives impetus from the particular confusion he has been making. THAT is what our media should raise as a question, and raise insistently.
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Hypocrisy Unbounded
[Read the article: The rubes and the elites]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Has it occured to ANYONE [ANYONE, ANYWHERE] that a short time ago Obmaba was being excoriated for standing by his long association with his Church and its sometimes controversial pastor, when to do so quite plausibley could help hold in place, or otherwise shore up, his support with a constituency it is believed he very much needed to demonstrate his appeal to. Now he is being accused of not taking committment to religion serisously? How does 2 + 2 get to 4 here?
Of course if your intent is to attack (read cheap shot) Obama . . .
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Hypo
[Read the article: The rubes and the elites]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Has it occured to ANYONE [ANYONE, ANYWHERE] that a short time ago Obama was being excoriated for standing by his long association with his Church and its sometimes controversial pastor, when to do so quite plausibley could help hold in place, or otherwise shore up, his support with a constituency it is believed he very much needed to demonstrate his appeal to. Now he is being accused of not taking committment to religion serisously? How does 2 + 2 get to 4 here?
Of course if your intent is to attack (read cheap shot) Obama . . .
[Note reposted to correct a spelling error!]
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A different take
[Read the article: Obama Veepstakes]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama has a unique problem. He is talking change, but all of the proposed candidates are associated with the politics of the present or past. They all have political positons that are either largely undeveloped - e.g. Wesley Clark - or too developed along specific Democratic historical/political lines, i.e. tied into old contentions and old politics.
One specific campaign point that will be bought out, and that does resonate with voters, is Obama's relative inexperience.
As a solution I would recommend Michael Bloomberg. His highly successful Mayoralty in New York is winding to its conclusion. [He has recently re-registered Independent]
A Vice President Bloomberg would address the experience question in exactly the ways it needs to be addressed, and he is about as non-ideological a figure as could be picked. The upshot would be that those who see Obama as a figure for change would see someone as his running mate who is a centrist, and credibly open to pursuing change from a non ideological, and thereby less contentious, point of view. One of Obama's consistent strengths has been a call to just such an effort.