Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 76 Editor's Choice: 1
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Read Bram Stoker
[Read the article: Can Hillary Clinton come back?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Being dead never stopped Dracula before. As long as there is a drop of blood left in the Democratic Party, the curse lives on.
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The New Threat
[Read the article: Jihadis throw a wild bash over the Protect America Act]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]These people are the descendants of the ones, which when I was growing up, inferred that if we didn't stop the Communists in Vietnam they were going to land in San Francisco and steal our color TVs. When their gloom and doom prognostications did not prove true, they didn't lighten up, they began training and funding another generation of paranoid extremists who would lie in wait for the next opportunity.
This is the new (neo) group which all people who are the actual "Good Americans" are fighting today. This group as been spoon fed from birth to spread fear and discontent in order to further their right wing agenda. The fifth column of treachery they project onto anyone who opposes their twisted ideology is actually themselves. The real irony of ironies is that they label the Muslims as "Islamo-Fascists". Fascism is the corporations running the totalitarian State, the very agenda which they themselves seek to further.
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A More Appropriate Question
[Read the article: Bill O'Reilly's tortured logic]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A more appropriate question is do you feel safer living with a corporate culture which not only subsidizes but encourages the views of Bill O'Reilly?
Someone is not only paying him to spew his vitriol but actively propagating his conclusions. This is a good example of someone whose advertisers should be boycotted IMHO. It is only when citizens group together and take action against those who are paying for this venom that any real change will take place.
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Breathlessly waiting
[Read the article: Former President Bush to endorse McCain]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]All the snooze, all the time
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New Regime
[Read the article: Fidel Castro steps down]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Since the United Fruit Company no longer exists, I assume George II will make every effort to subordinate the natives to its successor, Chiquita Brands International. He's already blathering about "Democracy", which is Bush code for replacing the poverty of Castro with the poverty of globalization.
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That reminds me
[Read the article: Quote of the day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Speaking of Nuremberg, when do get to send the Bush gang to The Hague?
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Viva Presidente Obama! Viva Libertad, Igualdad y Fraternidad!
[Read the article: "Viva Obama"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If there's enough money to keep these on the air 24/7 in Texas, Hillary is toast.
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So Sorry
[Read the article: A gay-marriage anniversary]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So sorry to hear you're still cursed with the politician which convinced the nation in 2004 that Democrats were anarchists who believed they were beyond the law. You have my heartfelt sympathy.
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The drugs have him
[Read the article: Limbaugh: Liberals -- can't live with 'em, can't shoot 'em]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Martial fidelity is "liberal"? Sounds like too much oxycontin to me. Try that new choking craze going around instead Rush. You'd probably like it since it since I'm sure it comes close to having your head up your ass which you seem to love.
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Goodbye, Good Riddance & Please Don't Come Back Again
[Read the article: Hillary Clinton's Texas-size moment ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Goodbye, Good Riddance & Please Don't Come Back Again to the Clintons. If you weasel into the nomination, I'll vote Republican for the first time ever. There is no difference between you and McCain except he's more competent.
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Speaking of More of the Same
[Read the article: McCain's other lobbyist connections]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's nice to see the Pro-Clinton camp at Salon survives, ignoring stories like this one from the NY Times.
Clinton Donors Worried by Campaign’s Spending
By MICHAEL LUO, JO BECKER and PATRICK HEALY
Published: February 22, 2008
This article was reported by Michael Luo, Jo Becker and Patrick Healy and was written by Mr. Healy.
Nearly $100,000 went for party platters and groceries before the Iowa caucuses, even though the partying mood evaporated quickly. Rooms at the Bellagio luxury hotel in Las Vegas consumed more than $25,000; the Four Seasons, another $5,000. And top consultants collected about $5 million in January, a month of crucial expenses and tough fund-raising.
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s latest campaign finance report, published Wednesday night, appeared even to her most stalwart supporters and donors to be a road map of her political and management failings. Several of them, echoing political analysts, expressed concerns that Mrs. Clinton’s spending priorities amounted to costly errors in judgment that have hamstrung her competitiveness against Senator Barack Obama of Illinois.
“We didn’t raise all of this money to keep paying consultants who have pursued basically the wrong strategy for a year now,” said a prominent New York donor. “So much about her campaign needs to change — but it may be too late.”
The high-priced senior consultants to Mrs. Clinton, of New York, have emerged as particular targets of complaints, given that they conceived and executed a political strategy that has thus far proved unsuccessful.
The firm that includes Mark Penn, Mrs. Clinton’s chief strategist and pollster, and his team collected $3.8 million for fees and expenses in January; in total, including what the campaign still owes, the firm has billed more than $10 million for consulting, direct mail and other services, an amount other Democratic strategists who are not affiliated with either campaign called stunning.
Howard Wolfson, the communications director and a senior member of the advertising team, earned nearly $267,000 in January. His total, including the campaign’s debt to him, tops $730,000.
The advertising firm owned by Mandy Grunwald, the longtime media strategist for both Mrs. Clinton and Bill Clinton, the former president, has collected $2.3 million in fees and expenses, and is still owed another $240,000.
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RE: Tax exempt?
[Read the article: Huckabee looks to broker a convention]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yes, Focus on the Family is tax exempt.
Why? Surely you jest. I thought it was quite apparent that it is a handmaiden of the forces interested in dumbing down the population to produce docile workers and unquestioning cannon fodder for the military. In other words, it is a bastion of ignorance reenforcing the Fascist State.