Letters to the Editor
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Oh Puh-leeze!
Excuse me, but your bias is showing. If you think the Democratic candidates are filled to the brim with nuance and truth-seeking, you apparently live in a different dimension from me. These are politicians we're talking about!
The Democratic candidates danced just as fast as the Republicans. Yes, the Republicans want to present a father figure and the Democrats want to be Mommy Dearest. Obama is a very charismatic candidate, but right now he's more like a blank page that we can put our own impressions onto. Hillary's record is dismally similar to the average Republican in every way.
I'm no fan of either of the Dems or Reps, but you could at least give a little nod to substance. Ron Paul made some good points about America's place in the world and ended strong with a promise to not abuse habeas corpus -- something I've heard no other candidate, Dem or Rep, do. And Paul has the record to back it up. Where have Hillary and Obama been in relation to Gitmo, rendition, domestic surveillance? They appear to have been sitting on their thumbs.
You like to rant about this ridiculous and awful war, but you failed to mention that Ron Paul voted against it and is alone among the Republican candidates in calling for us to extricate ourselves from it ASAP.
You could also have mentioned the sad spectacle of several candidates raising their hands to profess that they didn't believe in evolution.