Letters to the Editor
Green Job
Published Letters: 220 Editor's Choice: 3
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You mean you didn't like
[Read the article: Quotes of the day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa)- “I’m too old to be vice president. But I am young enough to be reelected to the Senate.”
Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.)- “No. I enjoy life too much.”
Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.)- “Absolutely. Absolutely. I think I would be great. First of all, I know how to behave at weddings and funerals. And I know how to be commander in chief. I’d bring a lot of fun to the job. We would rock the Naval Observatory.”
Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.)- “They can do a lot better than me.
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Re - I have this crazy theory...
[Read the article: Racism on the trail]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...that America became used to the idea of the black president during the first two seasons of 24. Sounds insane, I know, but I think people are effected by the pop culture they are sunjected to. Show a charismatic, strong, and intelligent black man as a president during someone's favorite show, and they will begin to identify with that character. I don't know. Maybe I'm nuts.
It's not crazy, but don't forget that President David Palmer was tough enough to order, and then watch, Jack Bauer torture the National Security Advisor. See http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/22/arts/television/22gree.html (Normalizing Torture on "24").
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At least McCaskill is realistic enough to know
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]that someone who was first elected in 2004 isn't going to pick someone who was first elected in 2006.
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Shame on you Joan for suggesting that Obama should reach out to white, working class voters
[Read the article: Some thoughts about West Virginia ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Don't you realize it's up to them to reach out to Obama to prove their not racist?
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John Anderson wasn't the difference
[Read the article: Why Ronald Reagan didn't completely suck]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Watching him on his current book tour, it strikes me that we are all idiots for elevating Reagan over him. If only that peabrain John Anderson had stayed outta the way the whole world might be a much better place.
-- rustyaustin
Carter received 49 electoral votes in 1980.
If one assumes that everyone who voted for Anderson would have voted for Carter instead, Carter would have also won Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Delaware, North Carolina, South Carolina, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Michigan and Wisconsin, for an additional 158 electoral votes, or 207 in total.
Reagan would have still won 331 electoral votes.
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Re - Don't disparage Reagan
[Read the article: Why Ronald Reagan didn't completely suck]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Anyone who compares McCain to Ronald Reagan knows nothing about at least one of them, maybe both.
McCain wraps himself in the flag, supports world-wide warmaking, respresents inside-washington special interests, and wants to subject this nation and its treasury to National Service (like Obama), He has almost nothing in common with either Goldwater or Reagan. He just likes to fool people by using their names. He's big government, big military, and big business. McCain's a neo-Rockefeller Republican.
-- rphillips111
I see you have a very ironic, dry sense of humor.
Thanks for the laugh :)
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Re - 25% of White WV voters said race was a factor, Joan
[Read the article: Some thoughts about West Virginia ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I and other Obama supporters don't scorn working class voters, black or white. We scorn white voters who won't vote for Obama because he's black, and they make up at least 25% of Hillary's voters in West Virginia, according to the exit polls. And since I lived in Kentucky for six years amongst the 25% or so of white Kentuckians who feel the same way, I can tell you that they deserve scorn. Well, actually, they deserve a better education (or am I being contemptuous or condescending by suggesting this?).
27% of Black NC voters said race was factor
See http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/epolls/#NCDEM, page 4.
For every 100 voters who were asked if the race of the candidate was important to them:
8 were whites who said yes
52 were whites who said no
9 were blacks who said yes
24 were blacks who said no
4 were all others.
So 9 out of every 33 black NC voters said that race was a factor.
Do you scorn these voters?
If not, then stick it up your sanctimonious, self-righteous ass.
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Nevertheless, McCaskill did come across as a complete dip shit
[Read the article: Quotes of the day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]with her answer.
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Keep deluding yourself Slider
[Read the article: Some thoughts about West Virginia ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you don't know the difference between African-Americans voting for the first AA candidate who has a chance to be President after, or, say 400 years or so of second class status, and white voters voting against an AA candidate because he is black, then I'm afraid there is not much I can do for you, except conclude you are one of the people who need some education. And, yes, I am being condescending.
-- Slider
that reverse discrimination, and the public advocacy of it, is justified, or even a smart political tactic. So please tell me the difference. In fact, why don't you start-up your own 527 so you can explain to the voting public that if a white person votes based on race, it's racism, but if a black person votes based on race, it's (insert euphemism here). I'm sure Obama will thank you for it during his concession speech.
Notice, by the way, that Obama has publicly stated in several debates that he doesn't want people voting for him because he's black or biracial. But if you honestly believe your racist nonsense, and if you honestly want Obama elected, I suggest you take a break from the former so that you increase the chances of the latter.
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Re - What is Not Said in Koppelman's article:
[Read the article: Democrat tarred by anti-Obama attacks wins congressional seat]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Childers expended a great deal of energy trying to distance himself from Obama's endorsement. I fail to see how this is good news for Obama...
Exactly. It may be possible for some Democratic candidates to win House and Senate seats by distancing themselves from Obama, but I don't know how Obama can distance himself from Obama.
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More on how much Childers hearts Obama
[Read the article: Democrat tarred by anti-Obama attacks wins congressional seat]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I could find only one instance on Childers website where Obama is even mentioned by name. And that was as a re-printed newspaper endorsement.
Childers himself refers to he who can't be named as a Senator from Illinois, http://www.childersforcongress.com/42908.htm, much as the Ancients avoiding speaking the name of the God of the Dead for fear of bad luck.