Letters to the Editor
rlsumi
Published Letters: 21
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Don't hold your breath
[Read the article: Bush's New Year's resolution: Pretend to care]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Let me know how that works out for you, Matthew C.
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WaPo takes its ball and goes home
[Read the article: Can't stand the heat? Turn off the comments]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks to Democratic Underground, you can decide for yourself if the response to Ms. Howell was so "hate-filled" it had to be stifled.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/archive/2006/wapo
Will this nightmare never end?
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WTF?
[Read the article: Jon Stewart, John McCain and "Bullshit Town"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It sounds like someone's been run over by the "express." I'm not sure how a thinking person can still be riding that train after McCain's atrocious rollover on officially sanctioned American torture. Rather than actually standing up against the administration's systematic torture policy (for that's exactly what it is), McCain used the same window-dressing techniques that have proved so successful in persuading otherwise intelligent people like Farhad Manjoo that the Arizona senator is some kind of "maverick." Not only did McCain vote to approve the administration's chief torture apologist, Alberto Gonzales, as Attorney General, he then stood by silently as Bush plastered his anti-torture amendment with a "DOES NOT APPLY" signing statement. The sense of honor McCain defended so mightily in 1965 North Vietnam became just another political chit to hand over in Washington 2005. This is the kind of "independent" we should all hold up as an ideal? For shame.
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Does it really matter?
[Read the article: The end of the road for Scott McClellan?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Does it really matter who the White House has shilling for it? There's not an honest speaker among them, not a single person who cares one whit about the quaint concept of objective truth. The Administration should do us all a favor and replace McClellan with a cardboard cut-out animated by a continuous loop recording of whatever the daily dose of BS happens to be, thereby saving taxpayer dollars as well as the continued debasement of the White House press corps.
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And Russert calls himself a journalist -- why?
[Read the article: Obama, Schroeder, Bush and God]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Those are strong words," Russert said. "When you say 'messianic certainty' . . . you’re suggesting that it’s almost as if he believes God wills it."
Where the hell has Russert been the last six year? Honestly, the incompetence of mainstream journalists in this country is downright criminal.
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Uh, Sherrod Brown
[Read the article: The conventional wisdom that would not die]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]voted for the torture bill. That disqualifies him as a liberal in my book.
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Stop -- it hurts!
[Read the article: Tony Snow on Iraq, or how "winning" is the same as "not winning"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm really not sure how any of these press conferences can be conducted with a straight face. Talk about a Snow-job!
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How about Bush's 2003 State of the Union speech
[Read the article: Bush's criminal confessions]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]in which he stated, "All told, more than 3,000 suspected terrorists have been arrested in many countries. Many others have met a different fate. Let's put it this way -- they are no longer a problem to the United States and our friends and allies."
Was I the only one who heard that line? This man is a thug through and through. His election to office has stained us all.
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as delusional as a "senior administration official"
[Read the article: Slip sliding away, or Cheney on Afghanistan and Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Joe, if you think the world would have stood by after 9/11 while Saddam "reconstituted" his (non-existent) WMD programs, you're as delusional as any "senior official" of this poor excuse for an administration. To argue in the face of every fact available today that the war in Iraq has not been (and won't continue to be) a disaster of epic proportions is a demonstration of such ignorance as to require hanging one's head in shame.
One more thing: Like it or not, on the issue of the Iraq War, France had it "exactly right," to coin a phrase.
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This can only mean one thing!
[Read the article: Thank God we invaded Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's time for a new deck of cards.
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RIght-Wing Priorities
[Read the article: The people who claim "the surge is working"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Pence says he's a "Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order." I wonder, where does "American" fit in?
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Time to pay the piper
[Read the article: Can Republicans save themselves by changing Bush?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]These Republicans spent the last six years competing to see who could lash himself the tightest to their idiot-in-chief. I can't wait to see the whole party sink under the weight of his enormous cement boots; I pray the rest of the country can cut itself loose in time.
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Glenn, if you use that word again, my head will explode -- literally
[Read the article: Various items]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Glenn Greenwald, you are my favorite blogger. I eagerly anticipate your every column. I admire your lawyerly expositions and marvel at the thoroughness of your arguments. I laugh out loud at your pointed zingers and cheer when you aim your Mighty Gun of Sarcasm.
But I cringe at your overuse of the word, "literally." I understand the temptation, since it's next to impossible to accurately describe the parallel universe our political world has become, but my darling man, that word must go!
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All it takes for evil to triumph ...
[Read the article: Reply to Dan Drezner]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Do you believe that the "foreign policy community" enabled the Iraq War? Given the political facts of life in the fall of 2002, do you really think that think tank protests would have derailed the war? Is a failure to oppose Iraq the same thing as cheerleading the invasion?"
... is for good people to do nothing.
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Molly Ivins said it best
[Read the article: WSJ Op-Ed page decries hatred of the president]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The great Molly Ivins addressed this topic way back in November 2003. Her column: "Call Me a Bush Hater."
http://www.alternet.org/story/17190/
Every time I hear about "Bush derangement syndrome," my head wants to explode.
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Ever hear of a guy neamed Glenn Greenwald?
[Read the article: And sometimes, people are just wrong]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You should really check him out. He has a great piece today on this very subject!
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More than a dozen letters and still no mention of
[Read the article: "The Other Boleyn Girl"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Benedict Cumberbatch?
I laughed till I cried.
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me?
[Read the article: The unsung heroes of Iraq war coverage]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I am only a housewife in San Jose, but I knew this was idiocy from the start. I had plenty of hushed conversations with people just like me -- in the grocery store, at school, on the softball field. I could never understand how I, the most average of citizens, could foresee exactly what would happen in Iraq when it seemed everyone else saw the emperor fully-clothed. It felt like a secret that our leadership and punditry class had gone mad, a secret that you could only discuss furtively, with like-minded individuals. How could those in charge be so oblivious to the consequences of what seemed so obviously like taking a bat to a hornet's nest?
I'm tired of hearing about those who got it wrong. Let's open the floodgates to those, like Al Gore and Barack Obama, who got it right.
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How about standing up for democratic principles?
[Read the article: Will Obama's "new kind of politics" involve new policy ideas?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama breaks with Democratic orthodoxy simply by standing up for Democratic ideas, instead of cowering in a corner whenever some Republican says "boo!" That in itself will mark a refreshing 180-turn from what Democrats -- including Hillary Clinton -- have been doing for the past eight years. (Did I say eight? I meant 14.)
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I sure hope
[Read the article: Republicans slink into Denver]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]the Democrats are planning to do the same thing in Minnesota!