Letters to the Editor
Marie Montgomery
Published Letters: 39 Editor's Choice: 9
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Just, Yuck
[Read the article: Maine parents kidnap daughter to force abortion]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I can hear the wheels of Spin warming up as we speak, and it's sickening.
This poor young woman. Her life is not a cautionary tale; it's her life. She's about to feel pressure from all sides to make it Symbolic Of A Greater Struggle.
I feel terrible for her and for her baby, who will (we hope) grow up healthy and strong, and one day find out that his grandparents tried to haul mommy off and have him aborted.
I'm strongly, strongly pro-choice, but those two "parents" are batshit insane. Nobody but a pregnant woman has the right to decide whether she is able, willing, and ready to bear a child or to end a pregnancy. NOBODY.
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Gerechtigkeitfreude
[Read the article: Reynolds' chief of staff resigns, blames Democrats]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Taking joy when justice is served.
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Ho Hum, another day, another meaningless "apology"
[Read the article: Breach of faith]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I am half-expecting a press release any day now announcing the entire rabid Right Wing is checking en masse into alcohol rehab. That's the newest all-purpose moral-transgression-remover, right?
Apply directly to reprehensible behavior and watch the need for reflection, repentance, and corrective action disappear!
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Only a matter of time now...
[Read the article: Googling "stupid"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...until some disposable chick-lit "novel" about sexy, young, misguided Manhattanites on their way to finding true love and happiness includes a line like "I Googled(TM) Brock Hutchins and was a little put off by some of the things he used to post in the Letters section of Salon(TM)."
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Well, it's official....
[Read the article: Kerry apologizes, Hillary attacks]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]AP Headline: Kerry apologizes for comment about troops.
Got that?
"Comment About TROOPS."
Orwell thought he was writing a cautionary tale; turns out he was unwittingly writing a manual.
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Shooting a Gift Horse in the Head
[Read the article: Obama on tour]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wow. Reading the letters so far, one would be hard pressed to figure out that we're talking about a liberal (scratch that--realistically liberal) Democrat--and one who, by virtue of an unpurchasable thing called Star Quality, stands a better chance of winning back the White House than any of the long-in-the-tooth Usual Suspects who've been lurking in the lobbies of D.C. for the past two decades.
Remember when a previously obscure guy from Hope, Arkansas with Killer Charisma and no national experience ran against an experienced incumbent VP who was the product of a well-oiled, well-seasoned political machine? Try to keep that thought in your head for the next two years.
Memo to my Moonbat Comrades: Try to remember what's at stake here. Barack Obama is one of our own, and while he may not be everything your purest heart could hope for, let's not lose sight that he's one of the Good Guys.
If you really can't figure out the difference between Barack Obama and Duncan Hunter, all is lost. Please, get a grip, before 6% of the party decides to run off and pledge their undying, idealogically pure devotion to a 2008 version of Ralph Nader (because he, like, really stands for my IDEALS, man, not like Obama, who's, you know, like, this total sellout...)
Yeesh. There are days when I suspect the RNC doesn't really need to do much but sit back, watch, and cackle.
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Huh?
[Read the article: A party today, then the work ahead]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"He said the American people have given Democrats 'a chance to prove that we can work with the Republicans.'"
That's funny. I thought I was voting for Democrats so that they could UNDO ALL THE DAMAGE THE REPUBLICANS HAVE DONE IN THE PAST SIX YEARS. Those of us who poured hours, dollars, and hearts into this campaign did so because we understood how toxic the Republicans have been to the country that used to be the U.S.A.
If this hard-fought, hard-won, hardscrabble election results only in Democratic leadership that rolls over and plays nice with Republicans, I will, I swear to God, never vote again as long as I live.
Senator Reid, I hope to high heaven you're just trying to make pretty soundbytes here. We could use a bit more civil discourse in DC...just as long as all that "cooperative" rhetoric is backed by the spine and stones it's going to take to do what needs to be done to mop up the mess those Republicans have left for you.
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"Father absence is the biggest problem we're facing in this country"
[Read the article: Littlest Cheney will have two mommies]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I couldn't agree more.
Well over a hundred thousand fathers are missing right now, and it's a serious, serious problem.
Furthermore, they're in danger of going missing permanently, not just on their current tour of duty, should they run into an unfortunately timed RPG, IED, or other weapon of fast destruction on the streets of Iraq.
(Fundies so, so sickening. After a while, it's hard not to scream or vomit every time one of them says something stupid.)