Letters to the Editor
RIRedinPA
Published Letters: 121 Editor's Choice: 4
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You defined Obama nicely here:
[Read the article: Looking past Pennsylvania]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you think our process is corrupt and broken, he's your man. If you're either fine with the process, or too busy to think about it (filling out your FAFSA, trying to save your house from foreclosure; breaking up your kids' latest fight), he might lose you.
That's pretty much it as much as the Clinton's like to peg Obama supporters with the elitist tag (a quick look at PA exit polls would clearly shows different) and as the latte crowd (ha, I can count on one hand how many times I've had coffee, my wife, however, who voted for Clinton Tuesday can't live without her Starbucks) they miss the whole point of his campaign.
It is about changing our system which is as rotten as a clogged sewer line. To me, a vote for Clinton is basically saying I am fine with the vitriol and partisanship that is politics in our country, the fear of the new or to change things. I happily admit that Obama is a neophyte and untested waters, that is the appeal! I know what I am going to get with Clinton, a capable bureaucrat, hated by 50% of this nation, who speaks great policy on the stump but we all know in reality very little of what she promises to change will happen. Ya I know, Obama's stump promises aren't worth the air they are uttered in, what politician's are? But he speaks of change on a larger scale, it's not just about changing the current tax law or government sponsored healthcare but changes to the entire process of how we think of politics.
I do take issue with the "too busy to think about the process" comment though. I am the father of four, all under the age of 8, I work full time, am trying to start a media business on my own on the side, coach baseball and have all the worries and concerns from the price of gas and milk to watching the equity in my house plummet. As each day passes with more worries of how am I going to put them all through college to what terrorist is threatening us now to watching gas tick up past $3.40 the "process" is what I think about because our broken and, pardon my French, fucked up process is at the core of what led to all these problems.
Obama is not a magic elixir, he won't solve all the issues bludgeoning the middle class but he, in my opinion, moves things in the right direction as opposed to staying status quo with Hillary.
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Your joking, right?
[Read the article: Will McCain denounce Floyd Brown?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]McCain must tell the Republican faithful, including the high-rolling donors who may finance Brown's advertising, that he is a pariah -- and that anyone who underwrites that kind of campaign will be unwelcome in a McCain White House.
When pigs fly.
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I love how you own all these alleged journalist...
[Read the article: Brian Williams' "response" to the military analyst story]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]by doing the radical act of gathering data and facts and then reporting them.
Like I said before your the best reporter out there.
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Between you and Greenwald...
[Read the article: Roger Clemens and his planeloads of women]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]there is absolutely no reason for me to go to any other news outlet.
The sheer fact that you dug up that transcript and in the process acknowledge the facts that professional sports is escapism, corrupt, filled with characters with Shakespearian morals and has little bearing on everyday life was just a superb bit of writing. Something the likes of Woody Paige et al could never conceive of unless they read your column and couldn't copy regardless...
I'm going to stop cause I am beginning to sound like one of young Eddie Fischer's problems.
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So her's some simple math on the tax break...
[Read the article: Hillary Clinton throws economists off the bus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Currently the government taxes (Federal gov that is) 18¢ on the gallon. Let's say you have a 20 gallon tank and gas is holding at the national average of $3.65 (which by the time the next President is in office it won't).
So your dropping $73.00 to fill an empty tank. (20 * 3.65)
Without the federal tax, you will save $3.63 (.18 * 20) so your bill now is $69.37 instead of $73.00
She's proposing this to be for the summer driving season, I think nine weeks. I figure I am average and I fill my car every week and a half. So that works out to six trips to the gas station. I will now save a whooping $21.78. Even if I factor in my wife's car (which we fill up less often but for sake of argument I'll double it) we're looking at $43 in change in savings.
Well, economic stimulus here we come!
Oh wait, that is, unless the oil companies just don't pass that $8B in windfall taxes she wants to use to make up for the lost revenue onto us, say by raising the price per gallon 20¢, 18¢ to say FU to her and the other 2¢ cause they can.
Stick to something you know Hillary, like health care reform...
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It's a stupid sport...
[Read the article: Eight Belles' last run]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]and I am using the term sport here loosely.
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@vbjack
[Read the article: Hillary Clinton throws economists off the bus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's all academic anyway because if no one has noticed she is not the President, there is no bill pending and even if there was one the current sitting President, if the bill even passed through Congress, would never sign it. And there is no way it would be veto proof.
But I bet Hillary, born wealthy, educated at Wellesley and Yale is having a hoot playing populist Presidential candidate.
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@Steve Fox
[Read the article: Hillary Clinton throws economists off the bus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You are fighting the wrong fight here. The price of gas isn't your problem, it's your health coverage. You might want to look into some of these options. Arizona seems to do a lot for it's seniors, especially those with medical disabilities:
http://www.medicarerights.org/maincontentwhatmedicarecovers.html
http://www.ahirc.org/seniors_arizona.html
http://phoenix.about.com/cs/health/a/copperx01.htm
http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2004pres/20040325.html
http://www.ssa.ocgov.com/Health_Care/Medical_Services/Aged_Blind_Disabled/default.asp
http://www.arizonaseniornetwork.com/CommunityServices.html#anchor_184
And if $30 really makes that much of a difference for you each month you might want to consider dropping the internet service.