Letters to the Editor
Green Job
Published Letters: 220 Editor's Choice: 3
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See - the Iraq war worked!
[Read the article: Our serious foreign policy geniuses strike again]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Just kidding, but I don't think people are being cynical enough.
The Adminstration, Fox News, etc might still keep pushing a war with Iran, but I won't be surprised if their new spin is
- Iran stopped trying to produce nuclear weapons in 2003;
- the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003; therefore
- the President saved us from Iranian Nuclear Annihilation.
Better yet, it's a twofer. Not only did the war stop Iran from working on nuclear weapons, it also prevented Iraq from ever developing them (actually it's a threefer since they already claim that Libya went nice due to the Iraq war).
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NBA turns its future stars into cannon fodder
[Read the article: The year in sports]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]One other insult to post: Black teens can die in Iraq but cannot play in NBA!!
White sports writers including King have yet to write any articles in depth about this travesty... I wonder if majority of players were white and jewish ( David Sterns is jewish NBA commish apparently is more concerned about dress code than facts that Black teens could die in Iraq but not play in NBA)..
Because we all know that anyone with any chance in hell of playing in the NBA never gets a scholarship to some basketball factory that hands our bachelor's degress for oxygen breathing.
And since Black teens can't play in the NFL either, I can only assume that Roger Goodell is also part of this dirty Jew conspiracy.
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Yeah - the AFC South's schedule was real impressive
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If the Patriots win the Super Bowl, maybe I'll concede their greatness. But when in the history of football has a team had such a weak division? Take away the Patriots and the rest of the division has a combined 12 wins. Three of the AFC South teams are in the playoffs with double digit wins-- I believe in those teams. But the Patriots had 6 games against the Jets, Dolphins, and Bills. Meanwhile the Colts, Jags, and Titans all had to play each other twice. If the Jags play the Patriots in 2 weeks, the Patriots won't even make it to the AFC championship game.
The mighty Titans only have double digit wins because the Colts laid down for them. Moreover, the Colts, Jags and Titans each played 8 games against the AFC West and the NFC South. Last I checked 8 is greater than 6. Even then, both the Colts and the Titans lost to the Chargers and they both struggled to beat..........wait for it..........that team for the ages known as the Oakland Raiders.
And when the Colts, Jags and Titans didn't play with themselves, they didn't play well against other playoff teams: 4-4. 2 of those 4 wins were against the Bucs. True, the Bucs won the NFC South, but somebody had to win it. Even if you include those victories against the Bucs, the Patriots still beat more playoff teams outside of their division than the Colts, Jags and Titans combined.
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Edwards knows a lot about giving up
[Read the article: Edwards on Clinton: Not tough enough?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]since he gave up on his Presidential campaign Saturday night.
Newsflash John, you don't get to be Co-President if you tag team with Obama during the debates. You get to be, maybe, the Secretary of HHS. Even if you want to be VP, which I doubt, you won't be because no one wants to be reminded of 2004's crash-and-burn Democratic ticket (and your craptastic performance in the VP debate against obvious Republican Attack Machine points).
If you really want to be President, as opposed to just talking about it, you have to take on Obama. I notice that Hillary's tough enough to do this without whining about how she needs a mano-a-mano with Obama to figure out who's the better Change Candidate. You had a perfect opportunity on Saturday night to do that...and you blew it.
What? Bill Richardson got in your way?
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History keeps humming the same tune
[Read the article: Obama's double magic]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Barack Obama's stunning victory in Iowa was a moment of national alchemy. It represented an outpouring of righteous Democratic anger, and its simultaneous transformation into hope. That double process -- the cathartic expression of rage, and its purification -- is exactly what Democrats have needed after seven nightmarish years of Bush. It is politics both as payback, and as spiritual transcendence. And the fact that it is a black man who is serving as America's philosopher's stone, turning the base metal of bitterness into the gold of forgiveness, is extraordinarily moving. The possibility that our nation's deepest wound, and the source of our political divisions, could also be the agent of our redemption is like a banner appearing in a darkened sky.
Sounds a lot like:
Jimmy Carter's stunning victory in Iowa was a moment of national alchemy. It represented an outpouring of righteous Democratic anger, and its simultaneous transformation into hope. That double process -- the cathartic expression of rage, and its purification -- is exactly what Democrats have needed after five nightmarish years of Nixon. It is politics both as payback, and as spiritual transcendence. And the fact that it is a Southerner who is serving as America's philosopher's stone, turning the base metal of bitterness into the gold of forgiveness, is extraordinarily moving. The possibility that our nation's deepest wound, and the source of our political divisions, could also be the agent of our redemption is like a banner appearing in a darkened sky.
Maybe I'm being too cynical. Carter beat Ford...barely.
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Don't forget the Jesus party was out of power for 300 years after the crucifixtion
[Read the article: Obama's double magic]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]@Green Job
So...you would have preferred Ford?
-- AJCalhoun
Comparing Obama to Carter (and Bush to Nixon) isn't the same as supporting Ford. It's just observing that we've heard this song before and that in reviewing Carter's accomplishments -- the Camp David Peace accords, beating Ford, Billy Beer & the boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics -- Political Transcendence isn't among them. But then beating Reagan and the Iranian hostage crisis weren't among them either.
So I'm little skeptical about the second coming of a Jesus who preaches change while endorsing Joe Lieberman.