Letters to the Editor
VolunteerOfAmerica
Published Letters: 10
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More districts that were missed
[Read the article: Salon's great races of 2006]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You talk about the Ohio Valley, but you miss that there are TWO sides to a river.
Indiana's 9th and 8th districts, though the state is gerrymandered ferociously, have been close for years, and are set to advance to Glory!
In his second attenpt (two years ago), Mike Sodrel won the 9th from Baron Hill by ~1500 votes. He's a sleazeball of major proportions: a draft-doging Vietnam ChickenHawk, who has sucked up to Tom Delay at every voting opportunity (in exchange for the dirty money, never giving it back), who wants to destroy Social Security (to fund the tax breaks that he's sharing with Paris Hilton). He has declared repeatedly that the Social Security Trust Fund is "not worth the paper it's printed on" [so has W.] He's the smiling boss who steals your pension, personified.
John Hostettler, from the "bloody 8th," has barely held on in the past, thanks to his reputation as "the dimmest bulb in the house" [check out, for example, his weapons bust at the Louisville airport]. He campaigns on the "the Democratic War on Christianity." This time he's facing the Vanderburgh County [Evansville, another Ohio river town] Sheriff, and with only a 34% approval rating he's sucking pond water.
I'll leave it for someone else to discuss the 4th, or situation in Kentucky [AKA "the old country" for many a Hoosier family, including half of mine].
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Where does Obama stand?
[Read the article: Enough with the new bipartisanship]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama may be engaging in happy talk to some extent, since it only takes one side to start a fight. But his record is clearly progressive. And give him some credit for this:
“I am not currently, nor have I ever been, a member of the DLC.”
www.blackcommentator.com/48/48_cover.html
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The anti-democratic wing of the Democratic party
[Read the article: DLC to Ford: Don't drop dead]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't get this "oddly polemical" nonsense. The DLC is a corporate-funded and controlled front group which frequently repeats Karl Rove's daily talking points, to attack progressive Democrats. Their attacks on Howard Dean are only their most recent attempt to carry water for their corporate overlords. Why is it odd that someone might fight back?
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It's a matter of priorities...
[Read the article: Michelle Obama's sacrifice]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You may not have noticed, Debra, but running the community and external affairs of the Obama movement is a much more important job than running the community and external affairs of the U of Chicago, now.
Do try to keep up.
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Wall Street , Wall Street Uber Alles!
[Read the article: Has Ben Bernanke announced his true allegiance?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]IIRC, Greenspan responded to "irrational exuberance" in the late late 90's stock market NOT by raising the percentage that speculators must actually put down, in order to buy stocks, but by raising interest rates, and thereby taxing the entire economy. Was that a "Greenspan put"?
I thought it was just Republicanism.
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A treasure is lost
[Read the article: Farewell, Bat Boy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'll miss the WWN. I used it to teach my kids to read, on those long car trips across country. The world was a little brighter, with the weekly weird news along for the ride.
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Morel mushroom madness
[Read the article: The truffles are coming]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"We have no history of mushroom picking in this country"???
You must have somehow missed the Morel season in the Midwest each spring.
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How does it play in Muncie?
[Read the article: Obama hits back at Clinton ad]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is a great ad, If the election is still tight until May 6, the Lugar reference will play very well in Indiana.
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Limbaugh's fake outrage
[Read the article: Limbaugh: Obama "stoking racial antagonism"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It has been a common tactic for Limbaugh to use a sarcastic tone while repeating racist attacks, and then feign innocence when called upon it. That's not acceptable. You don't get to cackle about "stupid Mexicans" and then snort "Ha, Ha! It was a JOKE!"
Limbaugh is a professional, and he has no moral code to restrain him. He does not deserve the benefit of any doubt, and it serves no legitimate purpose to cut him any slack.
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McCain is no angel
[Read the article: Dissecting Cindy McCain's private world]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Her youthful [or whatever] indiscretions are irrelevant to the national debate, but her father's service to the Mafia, which led to the I-can't-count-my-houses lifestyles J Sydney McCain III enjoys, certainly is. McCain is still a principle front man for both Las Vegas and the Indian casinos.