Letters to the Editor
Kenneth Cavness
Published Letters: 44 Editor's Choice: 2
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Wow, don't even go there...
[Read the article: The New York Sun picks up a little Joementum]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Joementum, the spineless senator from Tel Aviv" -- wow. Don't think that we didn't notice that little bit of anti-semitism, there.
Lieberman is a Democratic quisling, yes, but there's no need to go Jew-baiting.
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There's a difference...
[Read the article: The New York Sun picks up a little Joementum]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Between an actual, nuanced and deliberative disagreement with overzealous pro-Israeli policy positions and accusing someone of being an Israeli plant, Jim. Guess which you actually did.
I'm a lifelong Democrat who supports the Jewish nation of Israel and disagrees with their policies. Not to mention, Jews have been traditionally liberal in this country, and except for a few prominent loudmouths in the AEI, most Jews still ARE Democrats. I will never understand why some people want to alienate such a beneficial minority from the party.
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Obama's senate race
[Read the article: Who are you calling a "coot"? ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Obama lucked his way into the senate by happening to run against a candidate whose messy public divorce hit the fan right during the election, and victory prior to that was by no means assured."
This is actually not true, and I hope you can back up the statements in the rest of your diatribe against Obama better than this one. As a Chicagoan, I remember that race.
Jack Ryan had a lot of things going against him: his name was uncomfortably close to a very unpopular governor (George Ryan), and yes, that was a factor in the campaign. The Republican Party was extremely busy melting down in the state of Illinois at the time (the fact that Alan Keyes was able to paratroop himself down into the state tells you something about just how bad things had gotten).
What he didn't have going against him was a divorce. He divorced Jeri Ryan (of Star Trek fame) in 1999; what he had was a PAST, and it came back to haunt him.
The stars were aligned for Obama in 2004, and they were aligned for him in this race too. Whatever you might say about Jack Ryan's star-crossed 2004 bid for the Senate, Obama still had to defeat a primary opponent then, and he did so handily (with about 20% more of the vote than his nearest opponent).
No candidate's assured a victory, and had Obama run against someone real, he may well have lost, and our current situation would be quite different now. Obama got to take advantage of a primed political climate, but that is in no way a strange occurrence in our weird republic. To hold it against him is quite silly.
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Ow, my ears
[Read the article: Who are you calling a "coot"? ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I always FIND that adding RANDOM capitalizations TO words really MAKES the letter have THAT EXTRA punch.
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Quislings
[Read the article: Who are you calling a "coot"? ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If I didn't know better, I would honestly think that there were operatives planted in the Democratic party, hell-bent on seeing it cannibalize itself year over year over year. I'm NOT that old, but I can remember at least 5 presidential elections where the only thing that stopped the Democrats from winning was the Democrats' tepid endorsement of their candidate because he wasn't absolutely *perfect*.
Look, my fellow morons. The Democratic Party -- my party, your party! -- is a hodgepodge of special interests that have binded themselves together in the hopes of preventing the counter-reformation from occurring and having the country start marching backwards. There is simply no way that your candidate is going to match every single goal you want. No candidate can, because some of the positions in our party are explicitly contradictory! We want good manufacturing labor, and we want tough environmental restrictions on factories? I mean, come on.
All this stupid sniping at Obama is as unutterably dumb as it would have been had Hillary won and the Obama-ites started clawing at their clothes, gnashing their teeth and wailing at the injustice of it all. But that's really just too specific a point. This happens every single time, and it's just so damn annoying.
If we could all just make it so I don't put my hand over my eyes every time a Democrat stands up and starts talking about their fellow Democrats, that'd be great. We have people out there who are just itching to tear the party apart. They're called Republicans. We don't have to be so inclusive that we start handing them the hammers.
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[Read the article: Novak has tumor]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think that if we're reading the war room for its political commentary and views, we know who the hell Robert Novak is.
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Rosenkranzer
[Read the article: Novak has tumor]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's a national news magazine. Were you hoping for something more local? There are probably blogs in your area that cover that sort of thing...
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Liberals are the new reactionaries?
[Read the article: The mother's milk of Nebraska politics]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Seriously, stop dissing every single new thing you see, guys. Schaller is fine. He's just new. And if any of you people proposing to know what it's like to milk cows on a farm actually DID know, you would know that state and county fairs have had this kind of pissing match for YEARS.
And yes, while you use milking machines, you still have to know how to get the milk out of the damn udder.
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El Topo...
[Read the article: The attention-driven Warren]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you don't like him, don't read him.
I mean, seriously -- I can't stand Garrison Keiller, but I don't post in his articles that I think he's insipid, dull, and supercilious. I might find his articles drab and bland -- like most of the Upper Midwest -- but I don't just heap it on. I simply figured out that I didn't like him, and so I stopped reading him (or listening to him).
I actually personally like Tom Schaller. I've enjoyed reading him since he first started. I don't think his writing is in any way painful. Your opinion is not universal, and it's not going to Kansas O' him out of here.
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Please revise this
[Read the article: No October surprise by Rev. Wright]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I was almost taken in by this already-debunked claim, and the longer it sits on Salon's website, the more people will be taken in by it. I wish I had someone's phone number so I could let them know right now...
(I still like ya, Tom!)
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Thank you!
[Read the article: No October surprise by Rev. Wright]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I appreciate the correction. :)