Letters to the Editor
TheF79
Published Letters: 45 Editor's Choice: 7
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If Obama is so awesome...
[Read the article: Krugman asks "what's gone wrong" with Obama campaign]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why can't he cure cancer, bowl a 300, pass Dragonforce on Expert in Guitar Hero, create a rock even god couldn't move, and get every single goddamned person in the state of Pennsylvania to vote for him? You kool-aid drinking, latte-sipping, possibly Wyomingian, Obamabamatrons are deluding yourselves, clearly he's toast.
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Tax incidence
[Read the article: Clinton, Obama trade ads on gas tax]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If Clinton wants to wave a magic wand to make the FTC ensure that the gas tax isn't passed on to consumers, why doesn't she just wave the magic wand to stop the current gas tax from being passed on to consumers?
So we're going to replace the existing producer tax with a different producer tax, and magically violate the laws of supply and demand which produces a short-run best-case consumer savings of somewhere between $30-60 dollars per household. Clearly anyone who opposes that is a pointy-headed elitist Obamaton or something. I thought McCain's plan was just silly, but Clinton managed to top him with a plan that is both offensive, gimmicky and silly.
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Guess who said it?
[Read the article: Clinton, Obama trade ads on gas tax]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"I find people who are the wealthiest who are most dismissive of a plan to give low-income Americans a little holiday" so they have "a little more to give to their children and enjoy the summer a little more," XXX said today. "Thirty dollars means nothing to a lot of economists -- I understand that. It means a lot to some low-income Americans."
HRC or McCain? The McClainton Express speeds onwards towards idiocracy
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Wow
[Read the article: Obama is wrong about the gas tax]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Apparently all you need to be an opinion writer for Salon is Wikipedia, Google, and a JSTOR subscription. Just a tip, if you're running an article about physics, run it past a physicist. If you're running an article about energy economics, run it past an energy economist. Calling these two measures "similar" wouldn't pass the laugh test.
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Local sports radio
[Read the article: What did Clinton do wrong?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You know that guy that calls into the local sports radio program after the home team loses in the conference playoffs? That guy who complains that his team should be going to the Super Bowl because his home team had more first downs/passing yards/running yards/field goals/yards-after-catch/big plays over 20 yards?
Wes is that guy.
Of course, I'm sure if the result had come out the other way, plenty of Obama supporters would be just as obnoxious as local sports fans. "Homers" abound in sports and in politics...
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Much of the heated feelings...
[Read the article: AP: Obama has clinched nomination]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]in this primary stems from a desire not to see another third term from McBush. If you sincerely believe that your candidate has the best chance of making sure that doesn't occur, then anger and even resentment are likely outcomes. The faultlines in the Republican primary went beyond demographic lines into some serious fundamental policy disputes, yet Republicans (or at least the Republican machine) have settled into backing McCain. I see no reason why that won't occur on the Democrat side as well.
Also, I think there is a big story to be written about the role that the primary schedule played out and how the media, which loves a horse-race, used it in their narrative. For example, what if the Appalachian/Rust Belt primaries had been held before the 11-win streak that Obama ran off? Even if the votes and the outcome had been exactly the same, it's easy to speculate how different the media narrative would have been. The even trickier question is how the primary schedule + media narrative shaped the later races, and how the final outcome might have been different with a different schedule. I've seen a few blog posts on this topic, but it seems ripe for a serious, rigorous analysis.
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How mysterious!
[Read the article: Dem congressman won't endorse Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What are the odds that the past two presidential election cycles, Democrats have put up the "most liberal" senator in the US Senate? Even more amazingly, if Clinton had received the nod, she would have become the most liberal member of the Senate. And if it had been Edwards, he would have become the most liberal senator in 2003 by traveling back in time to wrest the title from that flaming Marxist John Kerry.
I know these pundidiots get paid to piss down our backs and tell us it's raining, but it would be nice if the media and those who should know better didn't give support to the idea that it might just be yellow rain.
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Trailers
[Read the article: "The Love Guru"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm just amazed that I've probably already seen 15 minutes of the movie through the insane number of trailers constantly running on TV, and there's not a single funny bit in the lot of em. (I think I gently snickered when he told Verne Troyer to "calm down, Frodo")
You'd guess that this would be the kind of movie where all the funny gags are in the trailer... but you know the movie must be awful if they can't find one funny gag to stick into a trailer.