Letters to the Editor
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To Aycharaych
You have a high opinion of yourself. I was responding to BabyGrumpus vitriolic letters, not your's.
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fetboy..
We are all the hero in our own story.
And Obama is still a hypocrite.
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Just for the record:
Issues that matter to me are:
Poverty
Health care (including everyone and parity for mental health)
A woman's right to choose
Getting out of Iraq (safely)
Social Security (including Medicare and Medicaid)
Disability rights (including mental health parity)
Not funding Halliburton and other war profiteers
Restoring habeas corpus
Limiting the patriot act
Separation of church and state
My reading of Edwards' record makes me feel secure on all but that last issue.
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My concerns for my nation.
My list of what should be held in the highest of priorities goes as follows.
1. Assuring that every American has unfettered access to exercise their vote, regardless of their economic means, economic back ground, racial back ground, ethnic back ground, gender, values, or sexual orientation. If we can't all vote, then we are not a nation of "one out of many."
2. Assuring that our constitution is always preserved and protected, because without a constitution we are not a nation.
3. Assuring that every American has access to the highest level of education that they can achieve, regardless of their economic means, economic back ground, racial back ground, ethnic back ground, gender, values, or sexual orientation, because our success as a society and as a nation will be directly proportional to scholastic level set by every citizen.
4. Assuring that every American's health and well being is assured and insured, because the health and well being of everyone in our nation affects everyone else in our nation.
5 Maintaining a strong homeland defense, and by that I mean 100% port security, 100% nuclear facility security, 100% airport security, and 100% security of all rail road lines, of all public highways and bridges, of all dams, of all schools and hospitals, and of all public venues, and 100% disaster preparedness for all natural disasters.
5. Gathering as much international support as possible to secure and destroy all nuclear weapons and the means to build them, and to make all nuclear testing illegal by UN mandate.
6. Eliminating the insane belief that inherently psychopathic, soulless, self serving, and un-inprisonable corporations are entitled to the same rights as a conscience bound individual.
7. Environment protection by assuring that all individuals are held responsible for their environmental "foot print", and assure that no environmental damage is written off as an "externality".
8. Ensuring that every woman possessing a uterus, has sole jurisdiction of her uterus, and that no one else can dictate that what she can and cannot do with her uterus.
9. Respecting all art as art, and assuring that government doesn't put regulations on what can and cannot be considered art.
10. Assuring everyone has privacy in their bedroom.
11. Providing funding for research in renewable energy sources, fuel efficiency, and anything that could advance the health and welfare of living human beings.
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thank-you AKA Smith
and for the list of issues that matter to you...
I agree and I add two:
meeting world protocol as the vast majority scientists suggest because we have the important opportunity right now to help protect the planet against further environmental damage through "climate change"--waiting isn't going to make it easier.
and corporate reform including not allowing corporations to set up shop on what Naomi Klein discusses as Export Processing Zones where there is no accountability....people from the third world work in prison-like conditions (also see maquiladoras) without the right to organize. women are fired for being pregnant. We need to do this to protect our reputation in the world, and we should just do it because it's right. Treating people like animals is not the goal of a democracy and it should not be the objective of democratic capitalism either. I support sustainable growth and corporate reform in this nation and globally.
I'm not sure I completely trust any of the candidates on all of these issues, but I "fell for" Obama when I read his book "Dreams from my Father" so I think I understand the way he thinks and I trust him do the best he can with these issues and to be authentic. (btw I'm not a rich liberal either, AKA Smith....I'm currently a temp worker/substitute high school teacher in a large city where I'm just scraping by. I worry about the poor too....and partially because I'm not homeless, but I'm not so removed from being homeless either. And thanks to horrible health care bills I have an ugly credit report at the moment.) I guess I should work on my resume instead of sitting glued to my computer over these issues. But thanks for your thoughts. If Edwards (or Clinton) receives the nomination, I'll gladly give him (or her) my support. I just really believe WE need to win. Anyone who believes in prayer is lucky at this point. Go to it.
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NEW POLITICS? HARDLY.
That as a political reporter you cannot figure out by now exactly what Obama's message is represents the dilemma that Obama-makers would love us to have: Choose either, or... Choose what Obama-makers refer to as "old-style politics" or the "politics of hope." How interesting it is when veteran Democratic consultants get ahold of new blood! They would have you believing the moon rises and the sun sets on Obama's bland prescription for "hope" for us all.
By the way, isn't the "one America" line already being used? Hmmm. Guess stealing lines is new politics of hope too. "I HOPE John Edwards doesn't comment on the fact we're using his lines out here." That crap is older than dirt. Obama may think he's coming up with something new, but his consultants certainly are not. Kerry started using Edwards' stuff in 2004 just before primary elections too.
Obama doesn't have policy answers - he has platitudes. Guess that's what comes from "being normal." Or so Obama and the Obama-makers would have us believe. Ufortunately for Obama, he and his wife are not normal. Few of us are dual Harvard Law couples simply trying to make our way in America. Nope. He and his wife are the same elite liberals as the Kerry and the rest of them. Give them a few more years and they'll resemble Bill and Hillary more than John and Elizabeth.
The guy doesn't have a clue and it's time that the media started taking our democratic process seriously and stop all this nonsense of creating personalities in order to have a horserace. Do your homework and you won't have to be standing around dropping the names of high-priced spread consultants, and whispering in their ears, "What exactly is it that he is saying here?"
He's not saying anything. Report it and move on.