Letters to the Editor
EconCCX
Published Letters: 82 Editor's Choice: 6
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@Nancy
[Read the article: Man on the street (in stilettos)]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]McInnes didn't have to walk a mile in pumps while wearing stockings and a constricting skirt and jacket and simultaneously juggling a purse, laptop briefcase, and cell phone.
And neither does any woman in the world have to do this. Both genders are free to reaffirm their dignity by dressing for comfort and suitability to task.
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Which means that when Bristol missed five months of school for "mono"...
[Read the article: OMG: Palin's daughter now pregnant]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...the Palins were curtailing this young woman's education for the sake of political appearances.
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Of course parents can't control their 16-year-old
[Read the article: Conservative reaction to Palin pregnancy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Nor can many 16-year-olds control their impulses. This is entirely about the candidates' poor judgment, knowing what they knew. So many qualified veep possibilities to choose from, and yet John McCain and Sarah Palin purposefully turned this teenager's pregnancy into a global public spectacle.
Bristol did nothing to deserve becoming a punch line. It was McCain and Palin's conscious choice to make her one.
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Definitely a double standard...
[Read the article: Sexism and Sarah Palin]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...since no male candidate with a knocked-up minor child could ever be a major-party nominee for national or statewide office. That's a privilege reserved for women alone.
Exceptions in living memory?
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Pretty sure Friedman said McCain missed all eight votes...
[Read the article: Thomas Friedman wants a revolution]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...rather than all eight boats.
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McCain refusing to meet Obama at Ole Miss?
[Read the article: McCain's flailing panic]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]His name would have been stained forever, whatever the moment's rationale, pretext or outcome.
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OK, so you linked to Krugman...
[Read the article: Krugman scorches McCain]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...but War Room's piece, with about a seven-word creative contribution, makes a mockery of "Fair Use."
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Railin' against Judith Warner for something she didn't say
[Read the article: The Sarah Palin pity party]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Traister represents Warner as:
positing that world leaders sitting across from Palin at the U.N. last week were recognizing that "she can't possibly do it all -- the kids, the special-needs baby, the big job, the big conversations with foreign leaders. And neither could they."
Traister is outraged and trots out a handful of exceptional women who met the task (to a lesser extent, i.e. with grown children rather than newborns.)
Warner's actual quote:
I’ll bet you anything that her admirers — the ones whose hearts really and truly swell with a sense of kinship to her — see or sense it in her, too. They know she can’t possibly do it all — the kids, the special-needs baby, the big job, the big conversations with foreign leaders. And neither could they.
Do you get it now, Rebecca? Warner is referring not to world leaders but to Palin's fellow Wal-Mart moms, identifying with someone like them who truly cannot do it all. A pit bull, overburdened, careless, condescending, impervious to English syntax, and a bit out of her depth as to the facts, particularly when on an ideological tear.
In other words, a Traister with power.
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Alex, ever notice the misspellings in spelling flames?
[Read the article: Another look at the ACORN furor]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]They're invariably words that convey superiority and expertise, such as "diligence."
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Talk about tone deaf
[Read the article: "Great American Hypocrites": The paperback]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Not only has McCain, scion of a Mississippi plantation, pledged to "whip" Obama's "you-know-what" in Wednesday's debate...
...but now Sarah Palin promises to make the chant "Mine, Baby, Mine!" a staple of her campaign. Glad to see our pubricans haven't lost their sense of providential entitlement.
Per: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/10/sarah-palin-ton.html
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Palin herself is leaping ship
[Read the article: Noonan: Palin is new vulgarian]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]She sees this disgraceful campaign is diminishing her own personal brand, and wants you to know that she's in it but not of it.
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In a candid interview with the reporters travelling on her plane, Palin said voters "get a bit irritated with just being inundated" by her campaign's "robocalls" linking Obama to the 1960s radical William Ayers.
"If I called all the shots, and if I could wave a magic wand," Palin told CNN, "I would be sitting at a kitchen table with more and more Americans, talking to them about our plan to get the economy back on track and winning the war, and not having to rely on the old conventional ways of campaigning that includes those robocalls".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/20/uselections2008-democrats
(and at sig)
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Grim view from the sky
[Read the article: Rays tie up the World Series]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hope everyone enjoyed those spectacular aerial shots over Tropicana Field. That fabled auditorium might as well have been closed for the season, for all there was to see.
Kudos to the Rays for sparing the light pollution, but they might at least have emulated Beijing and augmented the scene digitally. And their fans should have left those cowbells in the cellar. No class.
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@rleonen
[Read the article: Obama defines the moment]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No, an increase for those above $250K. A cut for those below $200K.
That two numbers are used is frequently cited by smarter pubricans as an inconsistency.
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Coulter
[Read the article: Fake hate crimes: not just for liberals anymore]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This list wouldn’t be complete without links to Michelle Malkin -- who, to her credit, called Todd's story what it was early on -- and Ann Coulter doing cruder versions of much the same thing.
"Doing...the same thing" links to a 2007 Coulter piece that accuses liberals of false attack claims. Dog bites man. Certainly not equivalent to Malkin's questioning the claims of a McCain worker.
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Middle of the sixth....
[Read the article: Let it snow]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...not fifth.
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@chapka
[Read the article: Let it snow]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Calling it in the fourth was out of the question, because the game as it stood would have to be wiped from the books. The contest would have to start over, its true outcome forever in dispute. Once the game became official, there'd be consensus to pick up where it left off...but doing so would nonetheless violate the rules of the game and thereby, in effect, deny Philadelphia a tarnished, yet earned-by-the-rules, Series championship. Or worse, deny Tampa an untarnished championship.
With the score tied in an official game, postponement and resumption were beyond dispute.
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When will Palin take a definitive stand...
[Read the article: Fawning over Palin]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...on whether convicted felon Ted Stevens should remain AK's U.S. Senator? Whom will she be endorsing for Senator this Tuesday?
Is it "Country First" for Ms. Palin, or "Pork 'n' Party First" ?
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Update: She's done it
[Read the article: Fawning over Palin]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Called on Stevens to quit, voters to vote for him.
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We know Katie Couric can be trusted...
[Read the article: Ladies of the nightly news ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...to give her viewers "both sides."
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Enjoli
[Read the article: "I can bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A few readers may not be aware that the Enjoli ad is an updated rendition of Lieber & Stoller's "I'm a Woman," released by the great Peggy Lee in 1963.
Lyrics at the link.