Letters to the Editor
drichmond
Published Letters: 235 Editor's Choice: 18
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Smart answer
[Read the article: McCain: I was against Roe before I was for it before I was against it]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Cloaking it in a "federalist' approach lets McCain have his cake and eat it too. Abortion would stay legal and accessible in 'liberal' or blue states along with a host of other issues such as gay marriage and red sates could re-establish slavery, deny non whites or women the right to vote, etc.
I'm sorry but such an approach if taken seriously only threatens to Balkanize our already fractured and divided country.
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Network
[Read the article: Base instincts]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Reading this I couldn't help but think of Network the great film with Holden and Dunaway, et al. I am no fan of Murdoch and most of what he has touched or brought upon us but if "we" buy into a free market ideal then he represents the 'highest' kind of capitalist in his reading and taking advantage of the marketplace and sadly that means that most people or at least Americans have butter for brains.
Sad that I am to label butter as such but as soft and fat and spreadable, we are as a whole are such. Most of us as we get older get conservative, I have somehow managed to remain 'radically' left as have my parents who are both still alive but Murdoch and Reagan whose roots were/are left went far right. Murdoch plays it for the bucks and unlike Michael Richards has and will get away with it for the foreseeable future.
What would be bright would be for someone of his economic clout to support real education and change to support the ideas that father might have felt, I can dream can't I?
"I'm mad as hell and I won't take it anymore!" Murdoch taps into the American psyche but the psyche is feeble, ignorant and a stones throw away from a modern version of the early years of the Third Reich, at least to my ear and eye.
And as an aside and a throwback to previous War Room, good old Rudy Giuliani fought tooth and nail to get FOX news on NYC's as a balanced 'other' version of news on cable here in his day as major, I mean mayor.
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longest serving...
[Read the article: It's not like there's a war going on or anything]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]add incompetent, belligerent, truculent.....
now the Presidential Medal of Honor will be just a formality
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cynical but..
[Read the article: Salvaging Bush's Mideast disaster]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think it would be a miracle for any peace being established regarding Israel and Palestinians in my life or in my son's life but then the Berlin Wall did come down, apartheid ended in South Africa and the Soviet Union collapsed as an entity. Two for the better and the latter, well Putin certainly seems to be another Czar.
I agree with the gist of the article but one thing I do disagree with- "The growth of radical Islam throughout the region, and the increasing weakness of the moderate Sunni states, is in large part a result of rage at Israel and its patron America." Radical Islam has grown as a result of that BUT also the tyranny of Arab states that humiliate and threaten their own share the blame, when people have no hope then radicalism finds many easy adherents. For an interesting opinion of this I recommend Edward Said's essay "enemies of the state" http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2001/539/op10.htm, which as a whole doesn't address radical Islam but does illustrate Arab tyranny towards their own.
That aside though, Bush and Co., even in his new bi-partisan clothes (or the naked emperor) doesn't have the political will or foresight to make such a bold move, nor do many of the people in power in the Middle East.
And the Democrats here too often follow blindly and without a broader vision lockstep with Israeli political will and demands, which is one of the major reasons, I do not support nor like Hillary Clinton. Hence my increasing cynicism.
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Hillary- Obama?!!!
[Read the article: Who's afraid of Barack Obama?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I won't vote for Hillary in the primary and I will be hard pressed to vote for her should she win the nomination. She represents 1% of my views, her support of the war, her muddling to the right on a number of issues and her complete approval of Israel without any discussion of addressing the Middle East and Palestinians makes it a no brainer. She would not be and is not the lesser of two evils, as far as I'm concerned she is the archetype of a politician, slimey.
She is an "ok" Senator but as President? No f'in way. The dems need fresh blood and new ideas, Obama is a better start. The dems might have won the recent elections but Pelosi's poor judgment of late does not bode well for the rest of the party and 2008. Derail Hillary already.
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On Newt-
[Read the article: The words they said]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I usually try to live by the attributed quote of Voltaire's "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" but when it comes to Newt I would like to be the first in line to stuff a damn sock in his mouth.