Letters to the Editor
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"because you, like most Americans, have ceded to the corporate-controlled media your legal and constitutional right to select the best candidate. "
Not quite, Futhark. Just like I know I will never pilot a space shuttle or win an Ultimate Fighting championship, I know that in 2008 Dennis Kucinich will not be the Democratic candidate. It's called ceding to reality.
Ron Paul speaks a good game on Iraq, but he's a rightwing lunatic on every other issue. I can understand your principled support of Kucinich, but Paul too? Does not compute.
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Warfare between ourselves
Dick Cheney reading this batch of letters must feel as happy as he does watching Fatah and Hamas going at each other. We are no threat to anything because we're so enthralled with self-destruction. Throw in a few FBI/CIA provocateur's keeping watch on domestic troublemakers and adding to the ferment, and whaddya got? Impotence. Reading these responses to the Obama article leaves me tired, depressed, and lacking glimmers of hope. In contrast, Obama leaves me with some sense of hope. He can speak for me. Let him not be murdered.
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Ron Paul, The Rightwing Lunatic
1) spoke against and voted against Congressional authorization for and all funding bills in support of the Iraq invasion and occupation.
2) spoke against and voted against the Patriot Acts I and II.
3) opposes all government programs that snoop on the private affairs of American citizens and would shut down warrantless wiretapping and Total Information Awareness style data base collection.
4) opposes and voted against the Department of Homeland Security.
5) spoke against and voted against NAFTA and the WTO. organizations that expedite outsourcing American jobs and increase the balance-of-trade deficit.
6) opposes and votes against deficit-spending budgets that put our government deeper in hock, with 40% of the national debt now owed to foreign nations like China.
7) opposes a foreign policy based on military intimidation and aggression, recognizing the deep antagonism this causes around the world.
8) supports the Constitutional mandate that Congress be in direct charge of the money supply, reversing 100 years of wealthy private banker control through the Federal Reserve System.
9) opposes the personal, but not the corporate, income tax, which wrongly intrudes government influence into the decisions that citizens make about their own resources and is a major source of stress. The complex personal income tax is a system of government intimidation that is truly broken.
10) opposes Corporatism and will work to free the government policy makers from the pathological influence of self-serving big money interests.
11) opposes and voted against the No Child Left Behind Act, with its perversion of the educational process and theft of local control.
12) opposes and voted against the Real ID Act, under which everyone in the country will be required to carry a standardized identification card ("papers") so that government agents can track every transaction and move you make. This Act takes effect in May 2008.
I personally support a national medical insurance program, which Ron Paul opposes.
If any of the "front runners" of either party had a program that was half as consistent with the values personal liberty, diplomacy, local control, freeing the government from massive debt and the tentacles of corporate influence, as Rightwing Lunatic Ron Paul, I might consider offering my support.
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MULTIRACIAL CANDIDATE
BARACK'S GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER ON HIS MOTHER'S SIDE CAME FROM IRELAND IN THE 1850'S. PLEASE NOTE BARACK IS HALF WHITE.
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Where is Obama's 'conviction'??
During his campaign last year, Lieberman promised that if re-elected, he would initiate a Senate investigation into Katrina - including the slow pace of recovery.
But as soon as he was re-elected - he announced there would be NO INVESTIGATION INTO KATRINA!
Lieberman is Obama's mentor - so what has been Obama's response to Lieberman's rejection of a Senate investigation??
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/30/lieberman-katrina
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Lieberman: Worthless and not a supporter of Black Interests
he is against Affirmative Action, he supports more penal paradigms for young Balck youths and at the end of the day he resents and is envious of Black Genius i.e Obama....
Oh yeah I bet Larry Blumenfeld loves Lieberman
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Thrasher....i agree again
Thrasher I agree with what you are saying totally. I wish I could send you a message on here though.
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Ohhhh Obama...
I like Obama. He's nice, he's smart, he's inspirational and heroic.
He's just not my candidate for president. I don't have patience with this old skool way of thinking that because Obama is black (regardless of what type of black he is) that by default he has my black vote. Considering all the issues of the day, I can't afford to give my vote to someone just because they are black in America. Forget questioning his committment to the race, what I want to know is if he's a good administrator and if he had enough of a handle on the issues I care about to do something about them come the days, weeks, and years after the popularity contest has been won.
To my way of thinking, if Obama wasn't black, he wouldn't be in this race. He'd be tapped by party heads then seasoned for president in several years or for some higher position of power. Instead, for fear that he has no staying power now that the irons are hot, his handlers have put him on a pedestal and pushed it into the lime light.
If Obama becomes the Democratic candidate, then I'll vote for him. But until then he's my second choice.
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Obama
Thank you, Afro-Goddess.
I too am sick of this assumption that Obama's blackness is cause for instantaneous receivership of my black vote.
Guess what? Black people are as concerned with other socio-economic and global issues as any other ethnic group. Why is there still this mentality that we vote as some monolithic entity?! Black guy running, well you know the blacks are gonna vote for him....ummmmm...NO!
I know I have a crapload of other things that I am concerned about as a citizen of this country and planet, that don't have a damn thing to do with being black.
And it surely seems white people are more obssessed with his blackness than anyone else....and you thought we were all living together nicely in a melting pot....umm. NO!
It's still early and I haven't made any decision on who is getting my vote. The one thing you can count on is that it won't be a Republican...sorry, had enough of that, but I bet you already assumed that, didn't ya.
Frankly, I need for these candidates to start throwing down some specifics on how they are going to actually pay for and execute their many grand plans for improvement, prosperity and growth of this nation.
PS - Kudos on the call for some black writers on Salon!
D. Dickerson, I just don't even have the words...a sad representation...she does keep it spicy up in here, but she's no sista of mine.