Letters to the Editor
bystander
Published Letters: 1348
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Whoa, Jebbie!
[Read the article: Joe Klein rewrites his role in the 1990s]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Because, one year from today, Joe Klein is going to want access to the administration and he is now beginning his rehabilitation period.
Well said. Add the public's notoriously short term memory and you have a ready made reset button. If for no other reason than the individual elected wants a good word or two from Joe Klein, and Klein's megaphone.
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Paging Chris Dowd - Chris Dowd, please pick up a red courtesy telephone...
[Read the article: Barack Obama: "Committed Christian -- Called to Bring Change"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Whoa. Isn't this exactly what Chris Dowd was saying the other day? That when the shoe was on a Liberal's foot, as opposed to a Conservative's foot, the shoe wouldn't pinch at all.
Chris Dowd:
What I was commenting on- was how then- when Bush got elected- how "conservatives" suddenly stopped caring about police state tactics and how they generally became party line flunkies not interested in truth or even reality.
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My guess- is that you will be the first to start defending a Dem President when he or she starts "rendering" people to foreign countries to be tortured. Since they will be "right wingers" or Muslims (who are Patriarchal womyn and gay haters) I doubt it will be much of a problem for you to switch gears and be a police state enabler while one of "yours" is in power.
The topic has changed, but the behavior of the supporters is the same. Has no one in the DLC read Whistling Past Dixie by Thomas Schaller? This campaign tactic by Obama is incredibly disappointing. If it was wrong for Huckabee, it's wrong for Obama, too. If it's not inappropriate for Obama, Huckabee's criticism was undeserved.
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Jeeze, Glenn
[Read the article: Barack Obama: "Committed Christian -- Called to Bring Change"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What a difference 4 hours can make. Twenty some pages of letters later... This is getting to be like Ron Paul in Obama terms. We've had the Pauliac swarm, now the Obamaniac swarm. Kind of like migrating colonies of killer bees. There's just all kinds of angry buzz. Someone trap the damned Queen!
All I can say to those outraged here is, it must be nice to feel so strongly about a single candidate. I've been denying myself the luxury until the primary reaches me. And, I sincerely hope that as many of the Democratic candidates as possible are still in the race, when it's my turn to vote.
I read Glenn's question as, Huckabee was criticized for his overt religious appeal to win votes. Given that Obama appears to be doing the same, in a state where explicitly it matters, should Huckabee have been criticized for using the same tactic that Obama is using now? To me, the answer is, no. And, to Huckabee's credit, that's been his position from the very beginning. I don't buy it, but it's been his consistent platform. Now that it's suddenly critical, Obama steps to the pulpit? And, I'm not supposed to snicker, or be suspicious?
Speaking of personal preferences, I didn't like it when Huckabee did it, and I don't like it from Obama any better. The message, from EITHER of them, has a fingernails on the chalk board appeal. Obama may be campaigning in a state that rates his Christianity highly, but it's still being reported in a state where this voter is pretty turned off by it.
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There are times...
[Read the article: Barack Obama: "Committed Christian -- Called to Bring Change"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... when particular individuals make me fall in love with the human race all over again.
Turns out, I was replying to my own comment.
-- Derbig Mooser
Thanks Derbig Mooser. That was simply spectacular. The human race at its best. Really.
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Derbig Mooser
[Read the article: Barack Obama: "Committed Christian -- Called to Bring Change"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Innocent? Hell, no! Too damned old for that. bystander is the abbreviated version of not_so_innocent_bystander which I started out with years ago. Dropped the prefix. Figured it was/or could be assumed. And, it was too long to type in at various sites, over and over.
Please don't punch that person out. S/he is way too terrific for a bloody lip.
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endlessly frustrating
[Read the article: Will the Democratic presidential candidates adhere to their rhetoric?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I've written and called my senators on innumerable occasions as the FISA fight has unfolded. I've emailed, and called, Harry Reid's office. I've signed every petition I can find sponsored by EFF or the ACLU and donated money/paid a membership fee to both to support their efforts. I've hounded my friends about doing the same until they've learned to fear their email inboxes. I've written to all three Dem front runner's campaigns as an uncommitted voter looking for someone to take a damned stand on something substantial. My own email inbox has been flooded with campaign contribution solicitations in return. I've donated money to Chris Dodd's campaign hoping the others would get the message. And, I'll do it all over again as Glenn and others indicate it's time to push once more.
But, I think the Dems figure they have me on the ropes no matter what they do. I can't see myself voting for any of the Republican front runners, so the only other thing I can threaten is to stay home in November.
I. Just. Hate. This.
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"Maybe he read it in the NY Times?"
[Read the article: Will the Democratic presidential candidates adhere to their rhetoric?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Can you hear me now?
My senator doesn't. The Democratic front runners don't.
But, apparently, the telecoms do.
Works for me!