Letters to the Editor
Rambling Rose 22
Published Letters: 757 Editor's Choice: 6
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[Read the article: I should have gone to my aunt's funeral]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm so sorry you feel so badly. Another thing you could've done was compose a really personal testimonial as to what your Auntie Miriam meant to you and asked a family member to read it at the service, and sent flowers that you know she would've loved.
It's not too late. If you are cashless right now, please consider using that credit card for a small Memorial contribution in memory of your Auntie to an organization or other compassionate effort that will remind you of her, and help someone or something else.
New York City can wear thin after awhile. Go back home, where heart is, and see how it feels for awhile.
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DON'T BE LOOKING FOR A ...
[Read the article: The Gilded Age, past and present]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Messiah in the Democratic Party! Clinton is closer to pulling of an FDR moment than Barck Obama will ever be. He got his religion at Harvard before he got religion at Jeremiah Wright's church. He won't be recovering from either for about another 10-15 years - and only if he's lucky. Clinton had the same condition, but she had the benefit of being a gubneratorial First Lady in a very poor and uneducated state, and then not one when Bill Clinton lost. She got her comeuppance a lot sooner.
This article provides a fairly big explanation of why Obama doesn't resonate with the working-class. They don't see him as caring so much about their futures as they see him preoccupied with fixing a system that doesn't deserve that kind of time and energy. Besides, how ispirational would it be to watch Obama hire Republicans to work in his White House?
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AND WHY DOES IT FEEL SO...
[Read the article: When Democrats chase Hoosiers and Region Rats]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]so suspicious when Barack Obama starts talking about people's problems - and leaves is reason-for-being on the curb? It feels like he's just mouthing new words because somebody told him he had to.
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JUST THE FIRST SHAM OF SO MANY
[Read the article: I was wrong about Wright]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It is revealing that Barack Obama started going to church because someone told him he needed to find a one in order to establish some kind of credibility. It implies that he didn't so much seek out a place of worship on his own as he was cutting another notch in some self-serving game plan.
The guy couldn't even come up with a title for his book on his own. He borrowed the title, The Audacity of Hope, from a church bulletin. We aren't even sure he attended church the day that message was delivered, are we? Like just about everything else about the guy, it just sounded good.
To borrow a line from Rev. Wright, Obama's "chickens have come home to roost." The Obama people and the pundits are so busy trying to find a solution to Barack Obama's working-class blues that they have forgotten the guy got his religion at Harvard. You can tell by that big stick up his ass that he probably never listened to what was being preached at Wright's House of Wright & Wrong.
Why he doesn't connect with working-class and the other core consitutencies of the Democratic party? "He just isn't one of us." And I don't mean the color of his skin either. Gore was too smart and acted like it; Kerry just had to go wind-suring. And now here comes Obama who explains away the working, middle-class by diagnosing them with a "condition" called bitterness.
Obama,now in Indiana, needs to have someone else tell him what to do to act like "he's one of them." So, he's hidden his Messiah-like "we are what we've been waiting for" self-absorbing, elitist reason-for-being down in the same basement that he stuck Wright. No one should be fooled.
It seems that someone told Obama that average people those outside the lefties that he's been hanging with for the last 20 years) might be more freakin' inspired by having a better standard of living than watching him hire Republicans to work in his White House!
And that's what it's been for Obama - someone or another telling him what to do, think, act, and how to manuever his life to get where he wants to go. We're not really sure he has a core ideology - either political or spiritual - that belongs to him as much as we're sure he has "plans," the way the rest of us have "resume' builders."
No one should be concerned that Barack Obama was somehow negatively infuenced by another egotistical man with a plan, Jeremiah Wright. He hasn't. Like much of everything else in Obama's life, he just "borrowed" what he needed to get to what was next.
What is telling here is that Obama lied in that flowery speech on race and politics a few weeks ago. He stood there all somber like he was delivering the Sermon on the Mount and proclaimed that he could no more distance himself from Wright than he could his own Grandmother. The fact is, Obama deliberately cut Wright out the day he announced he was running for President. And again, someone else had to tell him to do it.
Barack Obama talks a good game, nice words, platitudes that resonate with many who listen to him. And for all his intellectualism, he is simply NOT ready be President of the United States. He may have run the better campaign, but he is clearly not the best candidate for the Democratic Party - or the country.
Unlike Hillary Clinton, who had the chance to get her first come-uppance as First Lady in a poor and uneducated state,when her husband was Governor and then lost re-election, Obama hasn't had his come-uppance yet. He's been able to dodge the bullet thus far on the campaign trail. But he won't escape his liberal dogma anymore than the rest of us were able to escape ours. He's due - long overdue.