Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 11 Editor's Choice: 1
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values voters don't have a soap box to stand on
[Read the article: Forcing Larry Craig's resignation while embracing David Vitter]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I grew up among values voters, and while I have retained those values, I am deeply skeptical of their pronouncements in politics. In the craig/vitter cases there is an obvious double standard. Values-voters have divorce rates similar to other demographics, so you don't find much huffing and puffing about that issue, but anyone who is gay gets shunted out. I find this deeply distressing. I don't think values-voters ought to make many public pronoucements about gays or gay marraige until their community starts keeping the marraige vows of thier own. values voters care about principles that are easy for them to keep, but avoid their own difficult issues.
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tv is garbage
[Read the article: TV's triumphant overclass]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I remain grateful that the best things in life are free: friendship, kindness, the beauty of nature, my church.
I used to tell people that I don't have a tv because I was too busy doing the things that people on tv were doing - so why would I want to watch instead of do? but after reading this article, perhaps this is no longer the case....
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great idea
[Read the article: Let's abolish the Electoral College]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]let's abolish the senate too. and let's give the District of Columbia a representative. and let's let Utah secceed from the union if they get mad about it.
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re: the veep needs to take a nice long vacation
[Read the article: Cheney in the bubble]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Maybe Darth ought to spend some more time with this "vast majority" and not just go on Fox or give speeches to sympathetic audiences. He might also want to trade his hunting buddies and military men for some folks who don't go ga-ga for guns. They could help burst his little bubble.
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Hypothetical?
[Read the article: A muted response from Bush]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Not listening to Bush? Acting like an honest-to-badness Dictator? Doesn't sound like a hypothetical to me.
Bush can't rattle his saber this time, because the fear-mongering is a bit too close to reality in Pakistan. Whoa...let's not get too close to reality.
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re: mr. good-natured
[Read the article: Mike Huckabee, on a wing and a prayer]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Compared to most of the people who posted on this board, Mr. Huckabee comes across as a pretty open-minded guy who at least gives reasons for what he thinks. Not only that, his reasons are understandable for ordinary voters. I certainly won't vote for Huckabee, and doubt any Salon readers would, but he's one of the better candidates in a bad bunch of Rebublicans this year.
I hope he wins the Republican nomination so that we don't have to put up with candidates who take themselves way too seriously.
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blizter was terrible
[Read the article: Clinton, Obama and the yes-or-no question]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I agree with heyjude and the professor that blitzer was awful. His yes/no questions kept trying to get the candidates on the wrong side of the issue on some gotcha nonsense.
i though obama made quite a few sensible points, and we wouldn't even be talking about whether he messed up the question if blitzer had engaged him on the issue instead of pressed over and over for a yes or no response.
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please... no more!
[Read the article: The Clinton-Obama contest gets rougher]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This primary campaign needs a referee and occasional vacation days.
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re: it's only a video
[Read the article: "Yes, we can"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obviously, nobody should ever base their vote on a video, but people who deride it as "dreadful" or whatever ought to remember that the only thing the video is really asking you to do is vote. And it wasn't created by the Obama campaign.
I liked the video because it creates a feeling to accompany the eloquence of the speech. Sure, it's open to interpretation, and you may have a different interpretation, and that's fine. It's terrific that we have a candidate who inspires these sorts of videos, though like I said at the start, this sort of thing is not the reason why a person should vote for Obama.
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re: north of the border
[Read the article: Sports vs. schmaltz]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm up in Canada for the summer and enjoying the extended coverage the CBC provides. I think they show more actual sporting events. However, when they do put on one of those human-interest stories they're awful. Worse, the feature is usually followed by the Canadian losing badly at whatever sport they're competing in.
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re: that one
[Read the article: "That one?"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]GET OFF MY LAWN!!