Letters to the Editor
bignose
Published Letters: 370 Editor's Choice: 22
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How many angels can fit on the head of a pinhead?
[Read the article: Obama campaign: Clinton should renounce remarks]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Echoing several posters above, please , let's get off this.
All sides insist on adorning their particular candidate with the attributes that they see fit, while demonizing the others. Halos and horns. No one person could possibly support the great weight of expectations that the letter writes in these pages and others have laid on them.
We have (or had) such an opportunity here, with a woman, a black, a hispanic, a fine field overall, and also overall a true desire by all to steer this country toward a more progressive direction.
But no, in typical Democratic fasion, we have turned them into bitches, niggers, spics, whores for those who disagree, cutting ourselves to ribbons in the process.
There is no such thing as the perfect candidate. We have some damn good ones. Lets get back to issues. Issues that matter, I guess I should say.
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Way too early
[Read the article: The 2008 presidential mash-up]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]To tell anything. I have a feeling that all these poll numbers will shift around (Dare I say Shuck and Jive?) once the nominees are in place, and voters will take a fresh look at their choices, and there will be plenty of time to do that, due to the extended election cycle.
By the polls now, McCain is the biggest threat, but I think this will change. No matter the Democratic nominee, they will run over him in the debates, paint him as old and out of touch, and a vocal minority on the right may finish him off for us.
As for any of the other Republicans, losers from the gate.
The election is a long, long way off
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Stevio
[Read the article: Mike Huckabee's mission from God]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We are arming everybody.
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One good snippet:
[Read the article: "It almost seems like everything sort of leads back to Iran"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"If you're sitting back home, and this is such an important issue, and you just haven't followed this -- but sitting back home in the United States, how do you tell the American people that this is so important and why it is that we try again to get these two sides to talk?"
Bad, but accurate, phrasing.
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Stuff
[Read the article: Our house is so messy my husband's threatening to leave]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have an ongoing, and often acrimonious, "discussion" with my wife about her stuff. She has a lot of stuff. Our garage, about 800sf, is filled floor to ceiling with her stuff. In our house, her stuff has replaced most of my stuff. There is stuff everywhere.
We have too much stuff. Most people do.
I want to live in a home, not a warehouse.
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OK, which is funnier?
[Read the article: Ron Paul to visit Bob Jones University]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ron Paul visiting BJU (Not his natural environment, I would think)
BJU endorsing Romney (Seems like the least likely candidate next 911 man)
The acronym for this institution being B.J. University
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BS
[Read the article: Ron Paul to visit Bob Jones University]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Your quote:
"Does not mean people have given up on all morals and values. People still prefer to err on the side of religion"
It is clear to me that religion and morals do not walk hand in hand.
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"Obama accepts the apology. We're going to leave it at that."
[Read the article: Bob Johnson's after-the-fact apology]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Now, can't the rest of you do the same? Don't you have to go eat your firstborn, or something?
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Who's on first?
[Read the article: "Where are what?"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What?
No.
No?
Know what?
What?
What what?
You know what.
I don't know.
"And we have been responsive to requests in the past. "
Yeah, they responded with a big FU
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Hmmm
[Read the article: Mike Huckabee's selective federalism]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"You don't like people outside the state telling you how you ought to raise your kids."
Unless you're gay
"we'd tell 'em where to put the pole."
So, gay sex is out, animal sex is out, but sex with poles is goverment sanctioned
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Congress should assign ...
[Read the article: "Where are what?"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]a person to Bush, a person to Cheney, and others, to shadow them, verify what goes in and out of each office, and other specific tasks. I think the case could be made that they are simply not qualified to handle these tasks.
Almost better than impeachment, it would solidify this administrations reputation as incompetant.
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Like many of the writers here..
[Read the article: TV or not TV?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I watched a lot of TV as a kid, and vowed that my kids would not.
With no cable, and no reception, we only watch DVD's, and although our oldest (almost 4) watches something almost every night, at least there are no commercials, which is most of my objection to TV. And we have absolute control over what movies he watches-except when the grandparents come.
As an earlier poster noted, the Brady Bunch didn't fry our brains.
Even so, he picks stuff up at daycare, so there is no escaping it, I guess.
Be a parent. Do your best.
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Hey Anon
[Read the article: TV or not TV?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Would you consider crack a modern convenience, also?
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Gore Bashers
[Read the article: Is Obama getting "testy"?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Please keep in mind that:
Gore. Won. The. Popular. Vote.
And that's only among the votes that were counted, and not considering considerable suspected fraud.
Gore is a good man. Then and now.
Lay off.
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Primary Colors
[Read the article: Clinton: I'll take those delegates now, thanks]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This whole mess just helps make the case for getting rid of the primary system that we have. Recently, I was thinking that all primaries should be held on the same day. Now, I think we should ditch them entirely.
Red and blue - That is how we have colorblinded our political system. When the DLC fst said they wouldn't seat those delegates, I was appalled. This re-enforces the arbitrary primacy of certain states, and that is bad enough. But then, this primary system also shuts out not only less visible (read: less well funded) candidates within the parties, but also creates the inevitability of the two party system.
Suppose there were no primaries. The election would roll around, and the parties would be forced to take responsibility for deciding who would run. This might appear to favor back room dealings, but in the end, any party that put up crappy candidates would be relegated to irrelevancy. And, if there were a strong 3rd party candidate, voters could focus on that rather than on all the infighting that we have now. The billions that get funneled to the 2 parties, especially in the primaries, would more likely stay in peoples pockets.
I don't know. I'm rambling a little here. But this election cycle is ridiculous. I'd rather have the Democratic nominee leading the charge against this lame duck president, banging away at him, not kneecapping ourselves.