Letters to the Editor
Renegade Iconoclast
Published Letters: 660 Editor's Choice: 11
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Oh, and P.S. again Maureen
[Read the article: Obama's support for the FISA "compromise"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If there's one thing I'm not, it's a coward. I'm not running from anything.
I just can't, in good conscience, support mass murder and mass torture. If there was a real anti-war movement, I'd be on the front lines. But it seems my countrymen are so enamored with their IPods, and their IPhones, and their SUVs, that they've become complacent and apathetic.
Over 70% of people are fed up with this war. Why isn't anyone taking to the streets, and marching on Washington? What happened to, "1, 2, 3, 4, we don't want your fucking war?"
No, it's my country that has abandoned me, not I who has abandoned my country.
I have hope that Obama will win, and that he will be a good president. I will campaign for him. I will fight to stay. I don't want to leave. I feel very strongly, that if McCain wins, I have no other choice. If there's anything I feel cowardly about, it's that I didn't stick to my promise to leave if George Bush won the first time. I got out of that one by pointing out that Bush didn't win.
Besides, back then, it was a tongue-in-cheek joke. Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine he could be as terrible as he's turned out to be. If there's any justice left in the world, he'll be frog marched to the Hague, in irons, as the common war criminal that he is, and summarily executed, after a fair and speedy trial. Even a war criminal who denies POWs habeus deserves a trial.
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Sherwood
[Read the article: Obama's support for the FISA "compromise"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't believe in blind allegiance, but a tiny bit of faith in Obama's savvy and good intentions would be nice.
He's a witch! Burn him! A witch, a witch, a witch, a witch, we've found a witch!
Good intentions? The only way you could get that impression is if you consider his words, his platform, and his record as a legislator. You Obamabots are all alike. You shouldn't talk with your mouth full of Kool-aid. I forget, was he born in a manger in Bethlehem? Only by letting Mr. Murderous Psychopath McCain win can we get any real change, everyone knows that. That's change you can believe in!
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Feeling fine, Maureen, and you?
[Read the article: Obama's support for the FISA "compromise"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I knew the colonized remark would get a rise outta you. You've been pulling my chain for a while now, I thought I'd tweak you a little. I'm fully aware that only Northern Ireland is still under British rule, but I liked your colorful analysis.
As to running in to folks who look like John McCain, well, aren't we Irish types supposed to hate the Scots? Does that apply to Scots-Irish too? I lose track sometimes.
Hey, as long as he doesn't become president, he hasn't really done the country any more harm than your typical right-winger. I'd sit down and have a pint with him. I'd be sure to ask him why, after his first visit to the, "open air market," in Iraq, when, coincidentally dozens of people he had met and spoken to were killed the next day, he decided it was okay to return for another photo-op. (look it up)
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Well, AKA, this is one of the things I'd love to be wrong about
[Read the article: Obama's support for the FISA "compromise"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You better be significantly older than me to be calling me pup. Grrrrrr... yip!
I'm not asking you to vote Obama. That's completely up to you, obviously, and I read your letters anytime I see 'em, so I know the score on that.
I'd love it if you'd apply your acumen and intelligence to making sure McCain doesn't get elected, though. There's a difference there.
I'd also love it if I'm just being paranoid, but, yeah, I think the right to vote is slightly more important than the FISA bill. Our franchise already been eviscerated by Bush, and it's hanging by a thread. All McCain needs now is a sharp pair of scissors.
So, if McSatan comes to power, hopefully you'll get your chance to vote for Hillary in 2012. I'll vote for her too, if she wins the primary. Even if she did plagiarize several lines from her husband's speeches (just kidding, cribbing a few lines from a few speeches isn't plagiarism).