Letters to the Editor
Neese
Published Letters: 10
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She said it!. Sort of
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I didn't believe the President, why did Hilary? By October 2002, to me at least, it was clear that the President wanted to go to war and was using 9/11 as the excuse.
I'm sorry, Joan, Hilary's rational doesn't count.
Neese
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Why David Vitters matters
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Dear Joan,
Just saw you on TV tonight. What is with Tucker Carlson? I listened to him talk about privacy of an elected official. I am sure that he wasn't so forgiving of President Clinton.
The problem with people like Vitters, Cheney, Guiliani and others of the moral police, is that we are supposed to abide what they say no matter how uncaring, silly and just plain wrong and ignore what they do because that is private. Cheney can say and support amendments and laws about gay marriage and children of those relationships, but his daughter is out of bounds, because that is personal.
Do you remember the phrase from the 70s "the personal is the political"? How I live informs my politics and allows me to understand issues of others, not tell them how to live.
I'm not for smearing people, but I am for holding them to a standard that they think is only for others.
Sincerely,
Denise F. Alexander
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Priorities
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]MoveOn was created, because of the "politics as usual" crowd. It has opened the eyes of millions of Americans of what their power is and what they can do. MoveOn has empowered millions of American citizens to take their role as citizens of a free country seriously.
It may not be nice to attack General Petreaus because he is a decorated war hero and such, but believe me it is is not nice that Iraq is in the process of being destroyed and untold numbers of Iraqis are dead and thousands of American soldiers are dead or grievously wounded.
The General is a "soldier" he should be able to take the criticism (which by the way is well deserved). When the generals play politics with the facts, then they at risk of being attacked. The Republicans need to find another dead horse to beat.
What is the difference if American soldiers secure the Iraqi country if there is no government to rule. Must the Congress be reminded, both the Republicans and Democrats, that the Iraqi parliment went on vacation last month (Baghdad is hot in more ways then one). There will be no military victory in Iraq unless we totally destroy the country (which we seem to be doing quite well). Maybe one of the reasons the Anbar province is less violent now is because the popoulation is either dead or has fled.
Don't get upset with MoveOn.(of which I am a proud member) because they tell the truth, get upset with the politicians and the generals who are playing with the lives of thousands of people, because no one wants to tell the President, that he is so completely off the wall about Iraq that just leaving isn't even going to fix it.
Denise F. Alexander
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Profiles in Democatric Cowardice
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Here’s the deal.
American soldiers are dying in droves in Iraq and other places, but what are we debating, whether MoveOn.org was disrespectful to an active duty general? So what, doesn't the Senate have something better to do? Reminds me about the beginning of the war and France wouldn't go along with us, so the House of Representative voted to call "french fries" "freedom fries". Idiots, the French don't even like that name. When are we going to put our intelligence to good use?
General Petreaus has allowed him to be used as a political hack and is being treated as such, deal with it. This is the man who wrote the Army’s' latest manual on counter-insurgency. What is happening during the so-called "surge" runs counter to his own words and experience. Sounds like part the definition of a hack.
I tried to watch the show tonight, but I am sorry Joan, I can't get past Pat Buchanans' down right ignorance. You may try to talk sense to him, but the problem is not generational or anything else but ignorance.
Comparing MoveOn's ad to the swift boating of Kerry implies that MoveOn lied. Did they lie or did they express an opinion that some people disagree and many others agree? That ad was paid for by a lot of Americans who are not lefties or crazy, they are ordinary people who want to express their feelings.
Stop yelling at the messenger and pay attention to the message, we want the war ended and the carnage stopped. I believe that was to point of the November 2006 election. duh!
Denise Alexander
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It Just Gets Worse
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think you are looking at this in the wrong way.
I saw Perino the other day and I agree that she was terrible, but it is the classic slippery slope. Over the last few years, I have been listening to people I respect give a pass to the other previous press secretaries, from this administration, who have bullied, lied to and otherwise jerk the Washington press corp around.
Guess what? Perino is what the press deserves. I haven't heard a good follow up question from even the people who know what is going on. They all go on various televison shows and say how they were either ignored, or didn't get a chance. The Washington press corp is on par with Congress. What would happen if the President gave a press conference and nobody came? Probably what happens when they show up, nothing.
There is no reason for the White House to invest time and energy looking for a press secretary with talent, the press corp will take anything that is thrown at them.
Denise
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I don't Remember what I said yesterday
[Read the article: John McCain, selective denouncer]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It is absolutely amazing that politicians seem to forget that this is the age of video and instant replay.
In this country where too many citizens seem to have the attention span of a gerbil, even they are beginning to understand that they are being played.