Letters to the Editor
Bluecatt
Published Letters: 43 Editor's Choice: 2
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Can you ever forgive McMurtry?
[Read the article: Misbegotten "Moon"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I continue to read every novel that McMurtry writes, however I never will forgive him for killing Augustus McCrae in Lonesome Dove or maiming Woodrow Call in Streets of Laredo. And I punish myself every few years by rereading both, and I enjoy every word until McMurtry crosses the line with the violence to these great characters. It is true that neither Dead Man's Walk or Comanche Moon rises to the level of Lonesome Dove, but both are entertaining, and because they are prequels, the reader knows that neither Augustus or Call can be mortally wounded or die. Sometimes I believe that McMurtry wrote these novels to appease those of us that were so goodamned mad at him for his sins in Lonesome Dove and Streets of Laredo. He let Augustus and Call live again, and I cannot and will not fault him for that.
Bluecatt
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A Republican friend
[Read the article: Uncle Charlie stories]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A Republican friend (lawyer) told me several weeks ago that he will vote for Obama simply because he feels that the timing is right for electing an African-American as president. This is a man who has never voted for a Democrat. He says that it will create good karma for the country. This is the same person who eight years ago told me that Darth Cheney would be a great vice-president, and Bush would be a great relief after eight years of Clinton. Now, he is looking beyond the party line of tax cuts, second amendment, pro-life, etc., and sees what would simply be best for the country. He will not say that Obama will make a better president than McCain, only that he will be better for the country. Here, in Kentucky, his vote (and mine) will be all but meaningless, and it may end with his divorce (his wife has jokingly made a threat), but it is something. I told him to lie to his wife.
Now, if I could only convince my dad that an old white guy will be bad for the country...(will continue working on that one, but I fear it is hopeless).
Bluecatt
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Four more years of the past eight years
[Read the article: What'd you think of Hillary Clinton's speech?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hillary's words were directed to those Hillaryites that have considered a vote to McCain with a thesis of why a vote for McCain was a vote against everything that she had fought for during the past eighteen months. A vote for McCain is a vote for four more years of the past eight years. A vote for McCain is a vote against universal health care. A vote for McCain is a vote against women's rights, gay rights, minority rights, etc. A vote for McCain is a vote to allow big oil to continue to dictate our energy policy. A vote for McCain is a vote to continue the ware in Iraq.
The speech was inspired, emotional, and centered. If this does not rally the party, if this does not unite the party, then the Democrats are doomed. God help us.
GKP
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If it proves true
[Read the article: More dirt on Palin on the way?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If it proves true, the republicans will spin it so that adultery is really a good thing the same way the republicans have spun her absolute lack of experience to having experience greater than Obama, Biden, and McCain combined. I can hear it now: All of us are tempted, and all of us grow weak and succumb to the temptations, and when poor Governor Palin yielded to it, she overcame it, she grew stronger and ended the affair, but did she end her marriage? No. She recommitted her love to her husband and together they had another child. She is morally stronger now than she was before the affair. She is morally stronger than Obama, Biden, and every Democrate alive...
Okay, now I'm getting silly. But you get my point.
Bluecatt
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The point
[Read the article: More dirt on Palin on the way?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The reason it would would be important that Sarah Palin committed adultery, if it is true, is because she holds herself out to be a moral voice in the community. Every person who puts himself or herself on a pedestal, does so at the risk of getting pounded when he or she fails to rise to the levels so created. Sarah Palin has placed herself on a huge pedestal. She can only fall. (God help us that it happens before November).
Obama has also put himself on a pedestal: That he will bring change if he is elected. He has to say it to get elected, but if he fails, I fear he has a long way to fall. I believe he has a chance of making life for us better, and that would be some change. There is that. I believe McCain has no chance of making life better. I believe Palin will make life unlivable.
I joked today that I was afraid to comment of my real fear that Sarah Palin would become president if McCain won in November because of McCain's poor health; I feared being accused of being ageist and sexist by my republican friends (I admittedly have a few...friends, that is). Republicans turn everything to a different angle. Life is a bitch.
Bluecatt
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THE TOUGH AND GUTSY misLEADER
[Read the article: You can't kill a dead bridge]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When someone offers me a stick of gum, and I say "Thanks, but no thanks" that usually means that I do not want the piece of gum. It does not mean that I'll take the piece of gum and use it for something besides chewing later. When Sarah Palin says that she told the federal government, "Thanks but no thanks" it misleads us into thinking that she gave the money back to treasury department. It gives the aura the tough leader she is. Instead we find out she is a tough and gutsy MISleader (or should it be Mrs. Leader...that always confuses me) (kidding).
Bluecatt
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No longer available
[Read the article: New Obama ad attacks McCain-Palin "maverick" claim]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Did Obama Campaign pull it? The Obama website no longer has it available either...
Bluecatt