Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 200 Editor's Choice: 9
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Wrecking Paris
[Read the article: How the long primary battle helps Democrats]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hitler proposed a scorched-earth policy as the Nazis were retreating from France so that the opposition would be deprived of any useful materiels. He didn't care about the French and whether they might starve to death in the face of such a strategy. He didn't care, either, about the beauty and history of France and the wonders of Paris. He only wanted to make the point that either the Nazis ruled or the world could bloody well end as far as he was concerned. Fortunately wiser heads prevailed and the generals didn't torch the city.
I hesitate to compare Hillary with him but every scorched earth policy has something in common -- it wrecks the place and neutralizes any value that might come of the victory. Whatever benefit that the country could gather from not having McCain as President is lost if Hillary destroys the Democratic Party in her quest for the nomination. When the country gets more and more enmeshed in Iraq, when the battle spreads to Iran, when the economy goes down the tubes, when more people lose their jobs and their insurance, when the morale of the nation deteriorates, she can be blamed for it and, God forbid it happens, she should be.
She needs to step aside. She needs to be part of a team as Senate Majority leader working with Obama, contributing her ideas and energy to his Presidency and making sure that the country thrives -- or at least gets its balance back and stops being the werewolf on speed that we are now.
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Good judge of character --- and intelligence
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think John McCain is right. If I recall, Eisenhower hated war. Colin Powell hates war. Anyone who has been in war hates war. It takes a chicken hawk to love the vicarious manhood that war conveys on the cowardly.
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Resume padding
[Read the article: Clinton: Wright "would not have been my pastor"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The poor woman is up against the wall and she is firing randomly. If she had the brains to say she had some first class experience being a senator and has done it longer than Obama, she might get some traction. Right now, she reminds me of one of those steers Temple Grandin wrote about -- slipping and sliding on the way to the end of the road before someone shoots a merciful piece of metal into her and puts her out of her misery in the abbattoir.
She is a first class legislator and she ought to be able to say that she gave it her best shot rather than try to bring the party down with her.
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The problem
[Read the article: Polls: Obama weathers Wright controversy ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What Wright did was to say the right thing in the wrong way. There are several things wrong with this nation and racism and economic inequality are aspects of that kind of skew. That said, if you put the diagnosis in a way that the patient can't hear it, you're not doing your job as a critic of the nation. The people of color who are suffering know it. He doesn't have to address THEM. He needs to address those of us who are white and who, either knowingly or unknowingly, have contributed to the situation. I don't know of anyone who feels well-disposed to a slap in the face.
There is a lot I don't agree with him about but he could have taken a constructive tack. I have heard that most of his sermons are not destructive but those who are not friendly are not going to give him credit for anything.
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Lying down with dogs
[Read the article: Hillary's team crosses the line]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I am fascinated that Hillary Clinton would sit down with Scaife. Given the man's views, that's sleazy in and of itself.
Look, she is in a desperate situation and she knows she is drowning. She will grab at anything, including a paper controlled by Scaife. If you were drowning and a person with Ebola virus hemorrhagic fever reached out to help, wouldn't you take the help? On one hand you would definitely die in the water and, on the other, you MIGHT die of the Ebola virus. You reach out and grab on, don't you, and take your chances. Scaife is a carrier of the intellectual equivalent of the Ebola virus.
Karen
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Die, harlot
[Read the article: Abstinence only strikes again]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That's what the right wingnuts are saying to young women. No instruction on how to help your boyfriend use his condoms if he doesn't seem to. No protection for you against STDs, HIV, herpes and pregnancy. And if you get pregnant, little whore, you cannot have an abortion but, guess what, we won't pay for the expenses to raise the kid to 21 and educate it.
The right wing has already had a baleful effect in Africa, where Uganda had a superb anti-HIV program going based on realism as well as idealism. A=abstain if you are not in a stable relationship. B=faithful to your partner if you are in one. C=condoms if you are having multiple partners. In comes the religious right wrapped in the flag, the notices about condoms go down and the rate of new HIV cases goes up.
I am disgusted. They have their hands where they don't belong.
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Surge?
[Read the article: Americans in Green Zone under siege]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The only thing I can imagine surging is the uptick in the use of Lomotil for those who are ****ing in their drawers. We ae losing, people. Lives, materiels. Reputation. You name it -- we are losing.
Nothing can save the ship and I suggest that we get the heck off it before we are left floating on rubber boats trying to figure out WHICH iceberg sank us. The answer, of course, is that we never should have been there in the first place but the captain is too delusional to hear it.