Letters to the Editor
drichmond
Published Letters: 235 Editor's Choice: 18
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margins
[Read the article: James Dobson: Gay marriage is like slavery, only worse]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Remember when Pat Buchanan said it was a "culture war" and some bristled even within his own party at that extremism? Well he was right and the right is better organized and fired up than what remnants of the left remain.
Hillary and Reid supporting albeit in different forms laws/amendments about flag burning, Hillary with the war and abortion and don't even get me started on Joe Lieberman.
What voice of eloquence and every day speech to not only power up those who feel our democracy is at stake but the person who might believe in health care initiatives, or has concern about job outsourcing and the future of our economy not to mention the future for their children but then votes Republican because of the flag waving patriotic double speak despite the fact that they work possibly at Walmart and have massive debt, exists?
Sadly there is none. The democrats may not have Abramoff in their playing field but their respective lack of "balls" or more any true sense of what is really at stake is to me personally frightening and in the end their need and want of the corporate cash that funds the Beltway and everything within it's confines are just as tarnished and dirty.
In my darker moments I think I might just vote even more radically right because I fear that it might just take the extreme loss of our civil liberties, jobs, and future before citizens finally wake up and fight for anything. But by then I think I’ll take my son and move to Europe which isn’t ideal but at least doesn’t suffer the complete breakdown as yet that we seem headed and besides I never liked jackboots and marching in step.
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Lessons learned from Kerry's mistakes
[Read the article: Swift-boat this]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Giving fire to chicken hawks, it's about time they get called to the carpet for their b.s., I only hope it continues.
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Crack is whack
[Read the article: Gingrich vs. Gore in 2008?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I can't for the life of me figure out what democratic focus group thinks Hillary has a chance in hell of winning a national election for President.
As a New Yorker I would like to send her back to Illinois for her support on the war and recent flag support. She is a political 'whore' (a word I use with regret and hesitation) without any real values and beliefs, she is symptomatic of everything that disgusts me about the Democrats and makes McCain (at least until recently) more of an appealing option because he at least (again until his recent pandering) was willing to state his own opinion regardless of the hardliners in the Republican party.
I wouldn't vote for McCain because of his beliefs but he at least earned my respect (until recently) because at least there was the illusion that finally here was/is someone willing to actually say what they mean, want and believe.
Gore at least is beginning to sound like a human being and surprisingly defeat has also made Kerry more animate. I laugh to think of a Gore/Kerry ticket.
But then maybe I should start smoking the crack the Washington insiders are smoking that think Hillary has a chance.
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Guliani?
[Read the article: Gingrich vs. Gore in 2008?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think you mean Giuliani and liberal???
hahaha
stop it you're killin me.
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puppet master
[Read the article: And who would that be, Karl?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]if cheney resigns, who will make the puppet talk?
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train wreck
[Read the article: Tom DeLay, the sequel?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Here here, to the previous letter and not only do I want more corruption, as it is the American way, I would like the trains to run on time. But alas even "il duce" Rudy couldn't do that here in New York.
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secret intel?
[Read the article: Another secret intel program?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Are there anymore secrets save for those in our bedrooms and closets? I doubt that too now. I for one, would not be at all surprised at how deep and far the homegrown internal security is at this point.
I wouldn't be surprised if every Salon, Nation, New Republic, NYTimes subscriber doesn't have a dossier.
In fact, I'm becoming so paranoid that I might just willingly set up security cameras within my own home and keep track of every email or web site visited if good old Uncle Sam (or Dick Cheney for that matter) if the govt would let me know where to turn myself and my incriminating evidence in.
At least then I won't be outsourced.
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put a fork in it, their done.
[Read the article: It's about the candidates, stupid]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Democrats are dead. They lack central leadership, organization and more importantly a cohesive agenda to attack the Republican's War Machine.
Even wounded with scandals, corruption, a war policy that is a shambles, revelations about spying on citizens monthly and propaganda lies out the ..., the Republicans still manage to circle the wagons and beat the Democrats.
The Dem's are unable to realize that playing fair is out the window, not that they market playing nice to win with but the Dem's need, sadly to say a 'visionary" like Rove on their side to rally the troops and fight the viciousness of the right, tooth and nail.
What's at stake is more than the Democratic Party's survival but the very fundamental roots of our democracy. With a three part system nearly controlled by a party that has forsaken the basis of our democracy and all in the name of naked power and despite the wrapping themselves in the flag, we are, I fear doomed. I'm sure hope I am wrong, I hope that civilized rational discourse could prevail but fear, hate and propaganda seems to be winning.
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reminds me
[Read the article: Who's "quaint" now?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]of the skit with Martin Short and Harry Shearer with Shearer playing Mike Wallace of 60 minutes and Short, even when caught in a lie then and there says "I didn't say that." Too bad the stakes are much higher now.