Letters to the Editor
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Voting Accuracy
I find it extremely suspect that 72% of this country is against the war but we now have two pro-war candidates - McCain and Clinton - as front runners. With the bloggers going nuts over the incredible discrepency in the result in New Hampshire, I am hoping that we start sounding the alarm in regards to our screwed up voting system. We will not get an accurate count this time, or any time for as long as our machines incorrectly tally the votes. The republicans want Clinton. She is the perfect candidate for them. I don't think anyone understands how much righ wing..heck centrist republicans despise her. I don't really get why, but that's the reality. They will come out of the woodwork to vote her down. They don't want Obama, which the majority of the people in this country do want, because he is highly electable.
I think Clinton is a good politician but she comes with an incredible amount of baggage.
We must, as citizens of this country, push for accurate measuring devices for our voting public. This is going to be one of the biggest turnouts in our history - especially for our youth. We must show them that their vote is worth something otherwise, we will lose them to apathy and contempt. And we will end up, again, waiting another four years for sanity to be restored and healing to begin.
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GOP candidates no better than Hillary they will trash MLK in a Harlem Minute
I am just trying to wake up and not hear yet another attack on my country's icons that look like me..
Praytell I do not know if I can survive a slew of GOP presidential attacks on MLK and the like, the Hillary canage has forced me to inhale...
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Another reason to think long and hard about Clinton
What being endorsed by a black billionaire for president over Senator Obama means to me: Yet another big business honcho who feels he has a lot to gain by putting corporation-friendly Hillary in the WH. Race aside, this guy is looking at his bottom line, which is enough of a reason for me to stick with Edwards first, Obama as a reluctant second.
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@"Hillaary has a high IQ" (sic)
No doubt Bill and Hillary both have high IQs and are very smart. The question is, does their "intelligence" have anything to do with wisdom? I think Bill's presidency proves beyond any doubt that there is no connection between intelligence and wisdom. Smart people have the most amazing rationalization engines and it's incredible to watch them work. Witness Hillary's defense of her Iraq vote using verbal smoke and mirrors to defend what is plain lack of wisdom.
I don't like arrogance, it really pisses me off and both Clintons wear their IQs on their sleeves. I'm convinced that one of the reasons we have a moron for a president how is because folks don't like people who do that, they (we) don't like to be talked down to. Bill has less of a shrill demeanor than Hillary but both of them have an air of superiority that makes them lightening rods for attack and not just from conservatives, from liberal Democrats as well.
I voted for Bill twice but in retrospect I think he sold us down the river, not to mention his unwise decision to lie about his pot use, affairs, etc. Had he owned up to those things (if Hillary owned up to her Iraq vote) the world we live in would be different. He blew it, continues to blow it, and she's blowing it too.
Obama is far from perfect but he seems to be smart enough, shows some worldly wisdom and doesn't seem to wear it on his sleeve.
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What being endorsed by a black billionaire for president over Senator Obama means to me:
And Oprah is not a black billionaire? Oprah who hearts Arnold.
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...heh...heh...heh ...my little pretties...
It's happened again! I keep waiting for a candidate to mention the economy, the Iraqi war, the non-"war" we are conducting in Iran, and other topics that are soooooooo more important than some big baby guy and some woman who should know better but noooooooooo..here we go again.
Sex and gender, sex and gender go together like a rightwingers chicken wings feather...they just keep flapping in your face.
Not a word in this article is worth a damn, not a word is relevant to the stresses that are bothering this nation...OH, by the way, in case you haven't noticed....THE US IS IN ONE HELL OF A MESS and it has taken the world with it...
This is just so much chicken shit.
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Disgusted
I am disgusted by the Clintons and their surrogates, who ever they may be. If Edwards or Obama are not the nominees, then I am voting green or for Bloomberg etc, but there isn't any way I will vote Clinton, not ever again.
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Oliphant Cartoon Misinterpreted
I want to comment about the brouhaha over the Oliphant cartoon about Hillary and the Bad Guys.In my high school NY Regents exams, we were always asked to interpret historical editorial cartoons in light of what we had learned about that period of American history. This would be an excellent one to use. Initially, my disgust with the cartoon was balanced by hilarity at the cartoonist's delusion that 60-year old women suffers from PMS. One of the great things about being 62 is that both PMS and menopause symptoms are a distant memory. Hillary is an excellent exemplar of the postmenopausal zest of older women that the anthropologist Margaet Mead spoke about. Free from PMS and the Menopause, women Hillary's and my age might be the safest guardians of the nuclear button, provided the country summon up the courage to watch us age.
The more I thought about it, the more I realized the cartoon has been completely misinterpreted. According to Wikipedia, Oliphant's trademark is a small penguin character named Punk, who is often seen making a sarcastic comment about the cartoon. The PMS remark is an important clue. Hillary is depicted as an old women and people still rant about PMS.
In 2005, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee expressed concern that some of Oliphant's caricatures were racist and misleading. That is important to know. Oliphant is criticizing sexist media attacks on Hillary by equating them to the rampant misogyny in some of the Arab world. After all, the world leaders repeating the US media attacks.
The demand of some liberal bloggers for Oliphant's firing is far more offensive than the cartoon even it if was really as offensive as it had been misinterpreted. . Pat Oliphant, 72, has been described by the New York Times as the"most influential cartoonist now working." In addition to winning the Pulitzer Prize, Oliphant won the National Cartoonist Society Editorial Cartoon Award seven times in 1971, 1973, 1974, 1984, 1989, 1990, and 1991, the Reuben Award twice in 1968 and 1972 and the Thomas Nast Prize.
The responsibility of political cartoonists is to offend us enough to shake up our knee-jerk assumptions and reactions. When a cartoonist with such a superb reputation produces something at first glance so offensive, we owe him the respect of thinking about it. My 31-year old daughter instantly "realized that it was completely tonguein-cheek and making fun of the idea that some people actually think this is what it would mean to have a woman president."