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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
You are quick to condemn and imply that these actions were immoral. However, I do believe him showing up at the games had a beneficial effect on all the people that the city will rebuild and return to normal. Why could you not at least address this in the bias article?
the letters and article before responding. Me included.
timbuktom's first sentence was a little broad, but goes on talking about certain "middle-American ding-dongs"...who "believe they are cool to choose Giuliani versus Romney or McCain" which does not represent an attack on all midwesterners, just Republican midwesterners with "their mullets and printed T-shirts and wrinkled pants and giant shoes." Now do we really want to misread and dis this letter as "One person attacks the entire population of the Midwest..." ? Not me! Its funny! And limited to a subset of Republicans who may very well exist, for all I know.
And, Garry Owen was, as I read it, defending Clinton for not exploiting the site, not criticizing her, kweberlit.
And the anonymous blah blah blah letter was sarcasm, natural1. And its informative, to naive me, to know that there really are people, somewhere out there in America, who believe that Rudy's going to games was a public service. Thanks gck4061, maybe in 1942, but not so much today, just my opinion.
In all, except for thrasher's rant (excuse me, mr just my opinion's rant), and the guy who prefers the trains on time to America, most of the current letters on this article seem to qualify as 2-3 or better. But please read the letter you are responding to or they are 6s and 7s.
system and post.
If you lie (or is it lay?) down with dogs you get fleas. Rudy Guliani and the Yankees are so symbolic of our current culture. Money, corruption and sound bites.
What Koppelman failed to mention is that Giuliani paid a token amount for the Yankee rings $16,000 when they are worth over $200,000.
Want a war that "will not end in our lifetime", an unending series of attacks and counterattacks? Want to be reminded daily of the dangers of Islamofascism and how we must continue to sacrifice our money and our children to fight it? Just vote Rudy Giuliani or just about any of the other Republican candidates into office. The hatred and fear they engender will provide the collective emotional fuel to keep the U.S. in perpetual war.
Want a candidate who has taken the trouble to understand the various situations of current conflicts objectively and from the other side's point of view, whose goal is reconciliation, not retribution.? Look into the campaigns of Republican Ron Paul and Democrat Dennis Kucinich. They offer a reasonable alternative to endless warfare that only serves the purposes of the already economically privileged and politically powerful.
"No, Garry...he doesn't deserve a break."
For the love of pete! Read my letter again. Where in the world does it say that Il Duce deserves a break? Where was that even implied?
Nita, Nita, Nita. I'll give you a break this time for possibly skimming my letter and judging in haste. But honestly! I prefaced the whole letter and then reiterated that I have no love for Giuliani.
Now as for Kweberlit's idiotic reply, I am under no restriction of friendship to be even a little bit nice:
He said that I missed the point. Gah! and sweet love of Jesus! How much more clear would I have to make myself? Go for bold type? Kwe-less writes:
"The point is that GIULIANI CLAIMED to have spent as much time at ground zero as the rescue workers, which is total self-aggrandizing baloney. Clinton made no such claim."
Look, you choad. I wrote this:
" he was a fool for saying he spent so much time at GZ that he felt like one of the recovery and cleanup workers (The rescue itself being over long before)."
You missed that? How about this:
"Aside from Il Duce trying to make some cheap political point with his lie, ..."
You missed that too?
And you say that I missed the point? You are missing the cognitive ability to read and understand simple English.
Would anybody care to weigh in on my question:
What useful work could he (or any other politician) have done to make a difference down in that smoking hole in the months following the collapse? A highly visible public figure who needs security protection, like Il Duce, or Hillary, or any politician, is only going to halt or limit the recovery effort while they prance around in front of cameras. They really have no business down there other than a photo op. Neither one of them could lift as much as a 25 lb. chunk of concrete. What do you expect them to do there?
Chris Swart got it right. It was so easy for him to read my letter and understand what I wrote. I would expect nothing less from other readers, especially my friends here.
C'mon! If anybody needs a break around here, it's me!
>one blames whitey...<
Dude, if you have problems with reading comprehension, you really should get that taken care of before you try to talk with the grownups. Anyone who followed Giuliani's record knows he was racist scum. Just a look at how he handled the Dorismond and Louima killings (by denying, distorting, and--in Dorismond's case--trying to defame) was proof enough. He gave the NYPD free reign to treat black men and teenagers like crap--a problem the city is still suffering from today. And we won't even get into how he routinely shut out African-American city politicians and groups from having fair imput into issues that affected _their_ communities. Just because you don't follow the news, or have drunk the Kool-Aid...or just can't handle facts doesn't make the latter go away.
...that Giuliani, Bush, and all the GOP ilk got a ton of mileage out of white fear of Arabs/black folks/immigrants/whoever. Hell, without dark-skinned folks to freak people out over, half of Bush's platform would be gone.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
