Letters to the Editor
melthough
Published Letters: 1212 Editor's Choice: 98
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Ohio WAS my state.
[Read the article: What Clinton once said about tax returns]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And let me tell you, DaytonDem, there is a reason I left. I am not sure what Samantha Powers' point was, nor what yours is, but I didn't see anything that came near resembling comparing Ohioans to Neanderthals.
Are there any reputable news organizations reporting the "monster" quote? I'm not familiar with the blog/magazine/whater-it-is you linked me to, but the reporting seemed rather ... tabloid-like.
Are you familiar with the Clinton campaign's constant running down of all the states whose voters "don't matter"? It is more than a little offensive. Some offhand remark by Powers is a very different thing from an orchestrated campaign to discount every single one of Obama's victories because of the category of people who voted for him.
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"I leave the presidential candidate black"
[Read the article: What Clinton once said about tax returns]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Was that a Freudian slip, ShawnWM? "Black" instead of "blank" (which means "white")?
Aren't you the same guy who called Vermonters "FruitLoops" the other day?
Are you actually trying to pretend you are a Democrat? That was a pathetic attempt.
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I use a spoon.
[Read the article: Single? Hand over your briny vegetables!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My man is not a jar-opening tool. I slip a spoon between the lid and the glass and use it as a lever to break the vacuum. Aren't I a clever girl? While I am breaking the seal, we discuss politics, religion, philosophy, cooking and/or who is willing to shovel, wash the dishes, back up the hard drives or fold the laundry.
There are plenty of things I need and want and love my husband for, and he knows it. That is important to humans - to feel they are needed, wanted and loved. But the jar thing is a pickled red herring. And one that just feeds the anti-feminist "girl power" idea that we are stronger, bester, faster and more clever than boys but we need to treat them like children so that none of that hurts their feelings. Women feeling superior to their husbands is NOT FEMINISM.
Genuine equality - feminism - as we read here on Broadsheet a couple months ago, makes for a happier marriage. This pickle thing is the 50s in a jar. And all the other decades before that.
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Obama needs to send out a memo
[Read the article: Obama advisor calls Clinton a "monster," apologizes]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]about undisciplined messaging.
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@ShawnWM, Republican Concern Troll
[Read the article: Obama advisor calls Clinton a "monster," apologizes]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hey, wait. I thought you were out yesterday! And weren't you already out the day before that? And last week?
The idea that you were ever "in" is ridiculous.
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Is there anything they don't use as a fundraising appeal?
[Read the article: Clinton camp uses "monster" comment for fundraising appeal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Both campaigns send out e-mails when they lose, when they win, when they go on the attack, when they get attacked, etc. I expect to start seeing e-mails from them every time they change their socks. What I would like to know from you, Alex, is whether there really ARE radio attacks in states where I do not live that anyone besides Senator Clinton and her surrogates consider "deceptive." Because that's not something I can find out very easily without driving to Wyoming.
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Matty D.
[Read the article: The return of Rudy's master strategy?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Let's have a moment of silence for the slippery slope as well. It used to be the name of a logical fallacy. Now saying someone is headed down a slippery slope is actually considered a great argument.
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It's true the charges have been answered ... in Chicago.
[Read the article: Some free advice for Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think Joe's point is that Obama needs to answer them in a national forum, or it's going to come back and get him. He feels he has answered the charges, but John and Jane Voter don't all read factcheck.org. Obama needs to speak to the American people on the subject, and look good doing it, and he has appeared to avoid that. I am an Obama voter, and I believe there is no There there with Rezko, but I still agree with Joe.
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AKA???
[Read the article: Some free advice for Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Did you just become an Obama supporter today? Or was that tongue-in-cheek?
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AKA...
[Read the article: Some free advice for Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm still not sure whether to take you seriously, but I adore you, as ever. You are one of the sharpest tacks here.
I voted for Obama and have given a little to his campaign, but I don't call myself an Obama Supporter because the term has come to have herd-mentality implications - thanks, in part, to Hillary Clinton. Furthermore, I have never experienced "the Big O," as you so hilariously call it. For me, Clinton represents the worst of the Democratic party. For a while I thought I could happily vote for either, but after he failed to do in her campaign on Tuesday, I remembered the dread I used to feel, long before she officially announced. I am tired, tired, tired of the Democratic party's centrist, loser candidates. I do admire her, but I don't actually think she would be a better president than Obama. Of course, I will vote for either in November. I feel that Obama will win the nomination and the presidency, but in the meantime I am going to have to stop reading so much about xGate or I will lose my mind.
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To AKA Smith
[Read the article: Some free advice for Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I hope you will not leave. I have gotten very good at skimming the first few words of a post and knowing which ones to skip. I can name most people's tunes in fewer than five words now. I can name manos', W.E.S.'s, maureenodonnell's and certain other posters' tunes without even reading a single word, in fact. So no, I didn't see the "violently" thing. But I respectfully, humbly, admiringly and extremely adverbially implore you to stick around. I think this time is just a lull in the news cycle, and people are uncomfortable with uncertainty and trying to push things in what they see as a favorable direction. It feels more ominous than anything else to me - because there are clouds on the horizon, and surely something big is going to happen, and no one knows yet what it is - but whatever does happen, I will come back to read what you and Juliebird and Slackie and even Xrandadu, who has mellowed and grown on me, write about it. Thanks for being here.