Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 121 Editor's Choice: 4
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We must be in the doldrum days of the campaign...
[Read the article: Debunking anti-Obama e-mails]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]to waste three pages 'debunking' the hate emails. I mean what was the point, clearly, for 90% of the Salon readers there's no need, we're intelligent enough to see through the GOP tactic. The 10% that don't are just trolls sent here by the GOP to stir the soup.
As for who the emails go out to, if you get one and buy it I am willing to bet the farm you're either an overt or latent racist to begin with and just looking for any sliver of confirmation in your beliefs. As an example, one of the letters you picked as an editorial choice declared that their family members are intelligent, or not stupid, but they couldn't understand why a black student would write a thesis paper on black and white relationships. Give me a fucking break, if they can't understand why a black student at an overwhelmingly white Ivy League school might be interested in writing about race relations then they are stupid. Perhaps even willfully so.
Attitudes like this lead me to be so disappointed with this country. Two of my best friends are ex-pats now with no intention of returning and I sometimes wonder if they have made the wiser choice. Half this nation seemingly wants to have the person in the most powerful position in the world be no intelligent or even less intelligent than they are. What the fuck is wrong with you GOPers?
You elect the C student who skated on his families coat tails, twice by God, and allowed him and his cronies to prison rape this nation for eight years and as if your bungholes don't hurt enough you want to put the guy who finished 895 out of 899 at the Naval Academy and was only there cause of his families connections in his place. I mean seriously, do you want the President to be someone that most of us could beat in Scrabble?
It would seem so, they lap up these bullshit emails like cheap two dollar whores pulling a trick and happily go to vote their economic future away each November. I understand why corporate America wants these tools in office, its been good for them, well until they realize that the regulations put in place mostly by Democrats actually benefit them as well (I'm looking at you fucking banking/credit/mortgage industry).
I mean Obama has his flaws, he's more than happy to let AT&T and gang slide on knowingly breaking the law for the last eight years but at least he's a smart mofo. One would have to think at least he'll be able to match leaders and countries (McCainiacs - Putin is not the leader of Germany) and have a basic sense of geography and perhaps not sell all of our civil rights to corporate interest behind the veil of the GWOT. He can't be any worse than the moron in office now or the one that wants to replace him.
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How about as rich as Bush chiding China for it's human rights record...
[Read the article: Rice: Military power is "not the way to deal in the 21st century"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]cause you know China can arrest people without cause, eavesdrop on electronic communications without warrants, suspend habeus corpus, detain people indefinitely without charge, torture people, trump up charges to skew the courts, censor free speech, and so on...oh wait, that's America.
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@terkoy
[Read the article: Debunking anti-Obama e-mails]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I thought the line was "Your doing a heck of a job Brownie..."
As for OJT let's see, so far McCain thought Iran was training al Queda, when in reality they are training Shia insurgents in Iraq, thought Putin was the leader of Germany, moved the country of Iraq so it borders with Pakistan, thought Somalia was Sudan, has magically promoted Patreus from commander of CENTCOM to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has put Czechoslovakia back together and probably most damning of all, he confused the Green Bay Packers with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
You're right, the White House is no place for OJT, or for someone losing his mind or for someone just too stupid to fucking be there.
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Call it what it is...
[Read the article: This Modern World]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]when folks say they are not sure about Obama because he is inexperienced they're really just saying it's cause he's black.