Letters to the Editor
Ossifer Mancuso
Published Letters: 34 Editor's Choice: 1
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@ Electricbrotha
[Read the article: Obama co-chairman: Clinton didn't cry for Katrina]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So if Hillary Clinton's voice cracks when a question shows that they understand something she's suffering on a personal level, this makes her the "Marie Antoinette of American politics"? Pardon my snorting.
There are gobs of people who think they're ready to do more than play the role of "voter" in the symphony orchestra of American politics, who only know how to play one note, on one instrument - and it looks to me like you're one of them.
This Jr. thing is going to hurt Obama if he doesn't get out in front of it and repudiate it. It's the sort of thing which that part of his base which is non-black notices. (Comments like Electricbrotha's are another similar thing). I like Obama as a candidate. I am not a fan of Hillary. I intend to vote Democratic in '08 no matter who the party nominates. This little Jesse Jr. imbroglio is the worst news about Obama that I've heard during the entire campaign.
If Obama thinks he can be elected President of the United States by racially polarizing the electorate, he'll receive his head on a platter in November if not sooner - Marie Antoinette notwithstanding.
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@ al loomis
[Read the article: Obama co-chairman: Clinton didn't cry for Katrina]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Saving your shift key for a rainy day, you wrote, "maybe this is the time when macho behavior is no longer the standard of 'human' behavior. there's a lot of female voters in the usa, with a high standard of education, most work, many are well paid professionals, and just maybe it's time for 'female' standards of behavior to become the norm. this has to be an improvement, from such a low base, anyway is up."
This is an unintentionally ironic post. You, the male, are ready to accord value to "female standards of behavior", but only, apparently, since "there's a lot of female voters in the usa, with a high standard of education, most work, many are well paid professionals". Presumably, if that weren't the case, "female standards of behavior" would be unworthy. Am I missing something here?
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A note about the democratic party
[Read the article: Obama co-chairman: Clinton didn't cry for Katrina]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Before the democratic party was hijacked by upper middle class pro abortion feminists, it stood for the disadvantaged. A reading of the collected speeches of Franklin Delano Roosevelt is bracing. I dare say, the disadvantaged are always a majority within a capitalistic economy - and I have no desire to overthrow capitalism. Like FDR, I would like to use the power of government to mitigate the power of the rich to exploit the poor. If Jonah Goldberg wants to call this "fascism", let him.
I say again, "the disadvantaged are always a majority within a capitalistic economy."
The Democratic party needs to find a way to engage the disadvantaged majority in the political process.
Inviting Republicans or unscrupulous Democrats to use the issue of race as a way of dividing disadvantaged people against each other in the voting booth is not a good plan.
Inviting feminists to govern based on their economic accomplishments is not a good plan.
Go back to the source. *Read* a little FDR. It's good for the soul.
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@ aka smith
[Read the article: Obama co-chairman: Clinton didn't cry for Katrina]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]nah, smith, much as it may astonish you, I'm a pro-lifer (ever hear of Pennsylvania Governor Bob Casey?) who will vote Dem in '08.
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A little more explanation for AKA Smith
[Read the article: Obama co-chairman: Clinton didn't cry for Katrina]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Smith, I am willing to vote for a Dem who radically opposes my pro-life position. I'm willing to do so, because I see the Republican party as the party in favor of whipping up sentiment in favor of war. And my experience is, once you go to war against someone, the problem just gets worse.
I regard the Republican war thing as more anti-life than the feminist abortion thing.
Hopefully I'll gain a hearing, here or there. Be well!
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Clinton on "Meet the Press"
[Read the article: More about race and the Democrats]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I lean toward supporting Mr. Obama, but Mrs. Clinton strikes me as sincere and convincing in arguing that her King/LBJ remarks, and Bill Clinton's "fairy tale" remarks, are being taken out of context in order to maximize racially polarized indignation. In any case, in hindsight, the Clintons comments were ill-considered, and the opportunistic distortion of them by Clinton opponents, unfortunately, is to be expected, as you noted, in any political campaign in the USA these days.
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Addled Opus Lover's $0.02
[Read the article: Opus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Even when the texts leave me utterly unmoved (which is seldom), Breathed's graphics strike me as hilarious. The man's a genius of cartooning in my book; a few strokes of the pen convey a tremendous amount of visual information, notably in Opus' facial expressions. Gotta love the iconic "creation" scene within the scene, too, in this one. I love it.
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08 Dems Blow Chance for Historic Realignment
[Read the article: More about race and the Democrats]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Dems are blowing an opportunity to win an historic realignment election in the wake of the dismal Dubya years. Why? All they know, anymore, is identity politics. And identity politics can't keep a coalition of blacks, feminists, white male liberals and white male trade unionists together when the top two contenders are a black man and a white woman.
Don't get me wrong, the Dem nominee may well win in November - the Republicans have even worse problems (read the comment thread under Jonah Goldberg's op-ed in Sunday's WaPo, for evidence).
But it will be a crippled Dem president, not a realigning one, who emerges from this ugly process.
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Overused meaningless phrases
[Read the article: Bob Johnson's after-the-fact apology]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]OK, I get it, Johnson's a shameless liar.
Now. Suppose that every journalist and blogger in America *never* used the phrase "campaign trail" again. They might actually have to speak plain English, and say interesting things.