Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 160 Editor's Choice: 14
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Beside the point!
[Read the article: Dan Rather stands by his story]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]All this technical debate about how the documnents were produced is TOTALLY BESIDE THE POINT! Whether the documents were valid or not, the following facts remain:
. The key witness asserts that the INFORMATION in them is TRUE, and there is additional corroborating evidence. The underlying story is true. Therefore, the man who got himself elected by cultivating an image of military toughness while his campaign denigrated the service of others, who led us into a disastrous war under premises that have been demonstrated to be false and who staged a carrier landing and posed in a flight suit in order to bolster false claims of success in that war is revealed to have used his family's pull to get into the National Guard in order to avoid going to Vietnam and then SHIRKED a good part of his obligation.
. CBS News failed in its obligation to report the truth and inform the public of the significant facts they needed to make an informed decision. They were more afraid of offending those in power and the effect that might have on their financial bottom line than they were of failing in their basic function.
Those are the things we need to keep the focus on! I fervently hope that Rather's suit will serve to bring the truth to light in such a way that all will finally be forced to acknowledge it.
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All the questions?
[Read the article: True confessions]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is there somewhere I can find all 100 of the questions posted?
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Editorial Cartoon
[Read the article: Dan Rather stands by his story]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My local paper carried an editorial cartoon on this subject yesterday. There were two panels. The one on the left showed a younger Rather holding a paper saying "CBS News with Dan Rather". The word balloon above him said "Courage". The panel on the right showed an older Rather holding a paper saying "CBS Lawsuit". The word balloon above him said "Self-pity". Shows you the take that's being put forward by much of the MSM.
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Poor Fred!
[Read the article: Quote of the Day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Poor Fred! It sounds like he isn't turning out to be quite the savior that many in the GOP were hoping for.
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If I didn't remember...
[Read the article: Brownback: Censure for Craig?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Actually, I might consider a censure of both men a reasonable response to their activities...if I didn't remember that the Republicans insisted on a lot more than censure when it came to Bill Clinton's personal misbehavior. In that case they insisted that nothing less than impeachment would do!
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Earth to Broder!
[Read the article: The remaining GOP base -- the 30%'ers and the Broder/Ignatius pundit]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Earth to Broder!
Can you possibly get your mind around the concept that it's the Republicans who are obstructing everything that the people of this country want done?
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The Democratic Candidates
[Read the article: Remember President Dean?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It is way too soon to be labeling anybody "inevitable".
Personally, I haven't quite made up my mind yet. While there are things that I like about each of the "top tier" Democratic candidates I also have certain reservations about each of them. I'm holding out to see if Al Gore might possibly make a late entry into the race. That would certainly shake things up considerably. At this point my dream ticket would be Gore as the nominee with Obama as his running mate.
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Free market
[Read the article: Rudy on hedge funds: Too bad the Yankees lost]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Giuliani goes on and on about the wonders of the free market. Well, I'm not about to argue that the free market isn't the best basis on which to build a prosperous economy. But, like any system ever created, if it is adhered to too absolutely, significant problems are exposed. The trouble with so many of those who preach its wonders is that their devotion is so slavish, so blind, so absolute, that they can never acknowledge that there are areas where it isn't working quite right. In our current economy we are seeing far too many results that are wildly and irrationally out of balance (i.e. CEO salaries, the exploding gap between the very wealthiest and everyone else). Reliance on the free market must be balanced by an acknowledgement that not every result is a sacred revelation and a concern for the needs of those that its workings leave behind.
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It's so simple
[Read the article: Let's abolish the Electoral College]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's really so simple. The essence of an election is supposed to be that the candidate that has the most support...wins. The fact that the electoral college system actually allows for the candidate receiving less popular support to wind up as the winner is, in a word, unacceptable. It's sobering to think of how often the system has actually failed, giving us a president that the people did not in fact support. It's even more sobering to think of how difficult (I'm not quite ready to say impossible) it's going to be to try to change it, because of the resistance of those forces that we see every day in the news doing everything they can do thwart the will of the majority on behalf of their conservative ideology.
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They're ALL calculating!
[Read the article: He wasn't talking about Ron Paul]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]EVERY politician is calculating! EVERY politician considers how their words and actions are going to come across to various target groups and how they will impact all aspects of their campaign. I have a hard time understanding why Hillary is singled out about this to the extent that she is. It seems no matter what she does there are a lot of people out there who are all too eager to interpret it negatively.