Letters to the Editor
Chris Sinnard
Published Letters: 979 Editor's Choice: 7
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Chris Wallace...
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Even Chris Wallace, who actually does conduct decent adversarial interviews at times with figures who are otherwise glorified by Fox News, seems to realize what Giuliani is doing.
Did you happen to catch the Fox debate?
Chris Wallace acted like a real pro...
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The Neocons are finished, the Republican Party is not.
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think (nay believe!) that whatever percentage of the American public would agree with this--perhaps Bush's base-- that these people are truly beyond the pale when it comes to reasoning with them.
A small and ever shrinking group of Republicans believe this, they are called neoconservatives. A lot of people I know on the right feel like they have been duped, just like everyone else, but some peoples' pride refuse to allow them to let go of the lie. Ron Paul explained it at the Fox Debate while thrashing Mike Huckabee's Platitudes:
PAUL: The American people didn't go in [to Iraq]. A few people advising this administration, a small number of people called the neoconservatives hijacked our foreign policy. They're responsible, not the American people.
Regarding the "Unitary Executive":
PAUL: But you know, just going for increasing presidential powers, as has been discussed, is rather disturbing to me. This whole idea that we're supposed to sacrifice liberty for security, we're advised against that. Don't we remember that when you sacrifice liberty for security, you lose both? That's what's happening in this country today.
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PAUL: We have -- we have a national ID card on our doorsteps, it is being implemented right now. We have FISA courts. We have warrantless searches. We've lost habeas corpus. We've had secret prisons around the world and we have torture going on.
That's un-American, and we need to use the power of the presidency to get it back in order, in order to take care of us and protect this country and our liberties.
Expect the Republican party as it is now to not exist after the elections. The neocons are finished, they sunk the ship, and like Iraq, everyone is getting out. They are already scurrying back to the left, back to where they came. Some might be trying to prop up Clinton because she is so divisive and "unelectable", but others have no problem shedding their skin and crossing the isle. The Mainstream Republican "base" might agree with the War Party, but in reality the only hope for the Republican Party is Ron Paul building a new base on his current positions, a base that will rise out of the ashes left by the neocons and based on a real limited government platform, including foreign policy. Forget Goldwater, the roots of the movement that Paul is fermenting are much older and his message is resonating globally.
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Obama is a partisan divider just like the rest of them
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]"What I have the track record of doing -- the experience that I bring to the table -- is putting people together: Republicans, independents and Democrats, to make sure we're actually delivering for the American people."
If Obama's version of bringing the left and right together is submitting articles to the CFR in order to pander to the elites and get your platitudes published in Foreign Affairs then he is right on track. If it means going outside of the narrow political spectrum established by our masters and doing what you say then he has a long way to go.
I'm sure everyone saw Obama on The Daily Show:
Obama: So, we're preparing, and one of my staff said, "The thing you gotta understand is, this isn't on the level." And I think that really strikes to what people are frustrated with in politics is that so much of what we talk about in politics, so much of what we say — it's not true, people know it's not true, all the insiders understand that we're just game-playing, and in the mean time you've got these hugely serious problems which are true.
And then, less than five minutes later:
Obama: I think there are guys like Huckabee who I think are sincere and decent, but if you look at how they were trying to outbid each other on Guantánamo, you know, we're gonna detain even more people, and alienate even more folks outside our borders — that kind of stuff, I think, is not serving the Republican Party well, and is not gonna serve the country well.
Huckabee? Way to be on the level, Barack. Obama is nothing but a huckster, just like Huckabee. If Obama really meant what he said about being on the level, he would have mentioned Ron Paul and not Mr. Mike "The FairTax bought me a straw poll" Huckabee. Paul's following includes a mix of people all over the political spectrum, and Paul, Obama, and Brownback were the only three candidates at the time of the interview to sign an oath of transparency. I guess Obama just "forgot" who Paul was, either that or he doesn't want his fans to google Ron Paul and see what real change is from someone who doesn't take their marching orders from the CFR.