Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 11
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This is what and whom we need
[Read the article: Barack Obama on the recession: "Government has a role to play"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This speech says so much about the virtues of Obama on so many ways, just as his "More Perfect Union" speech did.
He actually treats the audience, and America as intelligent. I hope he gets away on that risk.
He takes a basically liberal position, as he usually does, but frames it as good for everyone -- Wall Street and Main Street.
What makes him great is that he sees the interconnectedness of those that are usually divided by the political wedges, and proposes his solutions as wins for all.
The total superiority of that approach to that of the usual "win-lose" mindset so prevalent today is exactly what we need to address our huge national problems. And Obama is whom we need.
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Forgive us for not anointing the entitled one
[Read the article: Why Hillary Clinton should be winning]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Once upon a time the Democratic party had winner take all primaries, but that changed.
The current system and its rules, including opening p the early primaries to only 4 states that represented 4 different regions of the country, were well established ahead of time. All HRC and her campaign had to do was show some respect to the process and go to the trouble of learning how it works. I tend to think that the failings of her campaign, despite a massive initial advantage, is the first objective measure of her leadership abilities, or lack thereof.
As for this article, how about some rancid cheese with the whine!
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And the reason for hurrying into this was?
[Read the article: Debating debates]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why do any debates before the nominating conventions? They will then have platforms that they can proclaim or defend, and we'll be in the 6-8 week period where what they say and do might have bearing on the election. This early the only lasting outcome to early debates would be a gaffe or gotcha moment, and we need better than that.
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Calgodot : The name is Greenwald; Glenn Greenwald
[Read the article: Quote of the day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Calgodot wrote:
Why doesn't Salon have anyone capable of legal analysis like Dahlia Lithwick? (Or any analysis, for that matter.)
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that you can navigate around this site and find the post on this subject on Glenn Greenwald, posted on June 12 and updated today.
He is highly capable of legal analysis, and again demonstrates that fact in his post on the subject.
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Yuengling is great
[Read the article: And the next great American beer will be...? ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As an Arizonan for the last 38 years, this beer was not familiar to me. On a trip to Pennsylvania, my cousin introduced it to me, and I loved it. It's way better than your Budweisers and Millers.
I also hope no foreign firm gets a hold of the Sam Adams family, if that hasn't occurred already.
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Two beer points
[Read the article: The United States of cheap beer]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As a former resident of Belleville, I recall Stag. I remember a glass on draft at one of Belleville's many taverns went for fifteen or twenty cents back in 1969. I think the brewery is closed, and it is being made somewhere else.
When I moved to Phoenix in 1970, another cheap beer that was heavily advertised was A-1. The advertising emphasis was that you could chill it all the way to 32 degrees. I think it was taken over by Heileman, but don't know what happened after that.