Letters to the Editor
catnick2
Published Letters: 37 Editor's Choice: 5
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Deserting the GOP
[Read the article: Deserting the GOP]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The first person interviewed for this article, Hugh McCabe, really puts the finger on the button of just what is wrong with the GOP:
1. Would vote for someone, in one case John McCain, simply because they served on the same ship; doesn't anything else matter?
2. "Anybody who is an incumbent, vote 'em out. That's my feeling,", sounds like someone who doesn't really take any time to figure out who to vote for, but I suppose it is easier just to look at the ballot and not vote for the incumbent. Doesn't anything else matter? Not without the intelligence to know the difference between candidates
3. Doesn't care what Mark Foley did or didn't do? What kind of a grandparent can he be? If this doesn't matter to him, does anything?
He isn't, as the author says, the worst fears of the GOP come true, but he is the worst fears of people who care about America and actually think about candidates: what they do, how they think and act, etc. The very fact that people like this are allowed to vote is what scares a lot of us, regardless of his party affiliation. People still pissing on pictures of Jane Fonda and bad-mouthing Bill Clinton? Do these people even know what planet or time period they are living in? (Judging by the Republicans for re-instatement of the rebel banner, they're about 150 years out of date, so Jane Fonda happened just yesterday for them). Time for an IQ test requirement for voting. I hope that doesn't disqualify ALL the Republicans. Mr. McCabe represents all that is wrong with the Republican Party, so pandering to him and his ilk do a huge disservice to the entire country. These are the true traitors to the American way, and I wonder why they bother with a pinned up copy of the Constitution. Do they piss on that, too?
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And just in time for Christmas!
[Read the article: Happy holidays from Fox News]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I was just wondering a couple of days ago whether those "defenders of the true faith" would once again wage their holy war against those who don't celebrate the same holidays they do. I'm glad that O'Really hasn't disappointed me again this year. Onward Christian soldiers!!
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O'Really reilly is divisive. And obviously insane, by any definition of the word
[Read the article: O'Reilly beats WalMart into submission]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hard to believe (but seeing is believing), that these Fox guys are still running around like little insane people given their own network to play with, still trying to find something to divide the American people and polarize them even more. What a sick bunch of people, who live only to create divisions in society so that they can...what? Just what is their point? Just to prove they can? Okay, they can, now will someone please remove them from our midst? Before they can celebrate our own American Kristallnacht.
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Ah, the Phone
[Read the article: This would never have happened in Baghdad]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What would you give to have the super-secret phone numbers that must be in Tequila Twin #1's cellphone?
Whoever he or she was, they were probably very surprised to get to talk to the resident-in-chief directly. I wonder if Rove's number was in there. In any event, it probably engendered many changes of phone numbers.
And kudos to the Secret Service; true to the name, they were very secretive about why they blew it.
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Rummy's Iraq Visit
[Read the article: Rumsfeld's Iraq regret: Calling the war a "war on terror"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm confused by this article. First the author says that Rummy was accompanied by just one U.S. journalist, and then mentions Sean Hannity by name. Hence my confusion: since when has anyone thought of Hannity as a journalist? A mouthpiece for the administration, yes. A liar, yes. A divider of people. Of course. But a journalist? An early ho-ho-ho on that one.
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Hating Bush Forever...and beyond...
[Read the article: Is there life after Bush?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It isn't simply a matter of moving on past Bush once he's no longer president. As long as any traces of him remain in effect (signing orders, line-item vetos, presidential/imperial decress) then it is important, no, essential, to continue hating him. Only with a powerful emotional motivator will it be possible to turn around the ship of state that Bush has repeatedly tried to run aground.
Will you feel less hatred when ten years from now we still lag behind the rest of the world in energy conservation, global warming concerns, stem-cell research projects?
Will you feel less hatred when you realize that a third of U.S. children will never be scientists, astronauts, physicians, geologists because they believe the world is only 6,000 years old (the president said it's so, so it must be so) and can't do or be anything but grist for the military?
Will you feel less hatred when, even though he's out of office, you realize that the damage he has done to the environment is irreversible, or when you realize that your children and their children will never know what it's like to be protected by habeus corpus and other legal safeguards abolished by this pseudo-emperor? That the knock on the door in the middle of the night that we knew we didn't have to fear is now back as a reality.
Will you hate him less when you realize that the U.S. can never regain the reputation is once had as a leader in the world in such areas as liberty, personal freedom, democracy and rule of law?
Hate him less? The more I think about him and the long-term effects of his 'rule', the more important it becomes to hate him, if only because we can then stay on our toes, and ensure that someone like him never ever gets a chance to hold office in this country.
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What? Clinton's Fault Again?
[Read the article: Is there life after Bush?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As if to prove the point, No Name Given (what a clever name, but I understand why he hides behind it) comes out to show how much the extreme right wing clings to their hatred of Clinton. It's Bill's fault, even the stuff that Bush did, right No Brain Given? I expect this to unleash a flood of like-sounding absurdity. How many Republicans still vote Republican because they think Bill Clinton is still running against their candidate? Personally, just the thought of Hillary becoming president, for what it will do to the constitution haters, makes me smile.