Letters to the Editor
Sandy Yago
Published Letters: 86 Editor's Choice: 3
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Deluge of tears for the Counselor
[Read the article: John Edwards exits with honor]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well I'm just besides myself, positively suicidal.
Such a nice man, champion of the downtrodden, blue collar hero! You think I'm talking crap? See for yourself! Yes, there he is on the picture, and his collar is blue! Not purple, not chartreuse, but bee ell yoo ee! In fact, his entire shirt is blue!
Ladies and gentlemen, if that is not serious journalistic realism then what is? What is? - I'm asking you!
That's Salon.com for ya! Tha Trooth!
BUT SERIOUSLY, folks, who but a guy with hedge funds could bring back the Democrat Party to its blue collar roots. Which is long overdue, who would argue with the crushing need for this root-returning jouney, in an age where the Democratic Party is symbolized by multimillionaires like the CEO Steve Jobs, celebrity Oprah Winfrey or malpractice lawyer John Edwards (no relation - o wait, never mind).
Yes, the counselor with the irrelevant, humongous house put his heart on his blue sleeve, a blue windbreaker on his back, hired an ATLA president as his finance chairperson and spoke passionately of injustice. He took 86% of his campaign contribution from trial lawyers and began championing the cause of fathers who work 3 jobs just to pay rent. That's how it went, yessireebob, nokidding, seriouslyfolks. SEE-REE-USS-LY! Kick my butt and call me a dawg if ahm lyin.
With sometimes raw and wrenching emotion (thank you Mr Shapiro), speaking to jurors as if he were the unborn baby, begging for help, begging to be let out of the womb (thank you Mr Hurt), he had set out to eradicate poverty, one multimillion dollar verdict at a time. He ridded the little blue collar people, like those little blue collar women whose little blue collar husbands had to work 3 little blue collar jobs, of the big evil white collar doctors whose 6 figure malpractice premiums chased them out of their little blue collar towns. What a victory! I'm not kidding! I'm not kidding!
And now his quest to put the first blue collar president into the incongruously named White House is over. It is a devastating news.
But that's the way it goes. Sic transit gloria caerulea mundi.
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republicans at Berkeley
[Read the article: Young voters are stoked]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]poster feels bummed out that such a thing exists
gets red star from Salon editor as sign of appreciation.
rich...
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Ms Shapiro: bowing to the master of understatement
[Read the article: The qualms before the storm]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Off with the hats.
"insurmountable learning curve!"
I wish I had thought of that.
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Mrs Clinton vs Mr McCain: the giant ho-hum
[Read the article: Super Tuesday showdown]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]O what a letdown if after all this excitement it will come down to this.
Two egomaniacal centrists, one from the left, one from the right. Both unacceptable to the ideologically committed of their respective parties. If it comes down to a 2 way race between these, prepare for an unusually irritating spin-fest wherein these two will try to woo their respective fringes while trying to hold on to their side of the center + hoping to snatch some form the other. There will be promises after promises, and more promises and then of course the indispensable banging on the chest about "WHEN I will be the president ..." showing the unwashed that they have "fire in the belly". The truth value of their statements will be in the ballpark of absolute zero, unfortunately there will be enough lip-readers who will believe their calculated lies.
Oh, well, another election day to spend with sailing off Point Loma.
If only the fringes raised their respective middle fingers and put up independent candidates of their own! It is not entirely inconceivable if there is no overwhelming winner for either of the two parties and if there are remaining disagreements on endorsements even after the conventions. Imagine that! A 4 way race with Obama (I) Clinton (D) McCain (D) Romney (I).
Or, to make it more interesting, Dean - Clinton - McCain - Gingrich. Throw in Bloomberg just for the heck of it. Maybe the entire 2 party system would finally fracture.
Ironically, the more important regime change Dubya cold become responsible for is in our own country.
Okay, enough of this idle daydreaming. I will keep my winches greased.