Letters to the Editor
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Tom Payne
Okay, I'll bite. Who is "Heywood"? I notice that when you are particularly, shall we say, animated in your posts, you sign them "Love, Heywood." Please explain.
P.S. Did you watch the 3rd installment of John Adams? Not as good as the first two episodes, I'd say.
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point of order
I believe you're mixed apples and quinces with bananas. the rethugs are bananas. I profoundly doubt that 25 or 30 percent of each blue "base" will abandon the party in November. If so, we need to formally disband and form a real party. You don't win 'em all in the primary season, and feeling will be hurt, some deeply- mine for example. But if you think I'll sit home and let McLame take over without a fight, think again. I'll vote for HIllary as if she were RFK/FDR/MLK and Eleanor Roosevelt all together in one lumpy package. This is not a game, fans. The time has come to suck it up, or tacitly approve four more years of death in Iraq (figure at least 1500 more dead, and 20K more grievously wounded, and maybe another trillion down the septic tank), and more wealth welfare, more reich wing court appointees (sealing the fate of the Supreme Court for AT LEAST fifteen or twenty years). so grow the hell up. If the Democratic Party can screw this up, it's time to dissolve it. I do not yet despair. It ain't even April, and the Murkan attention span is about two weeks. tom
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ethics prof
I, too, found the third episode of "Adams" less compelling than the first two. Going hat in hand around Europe looking for a loan lacks drama, but it happened that way. I guess ol' Ben had a better way around the concubines. Regarding heywood, I'd rather not elaborate. Let's just say it's a shorthand online insult I learned from my sons when they were in college years ago. It's a very rude invitation, shall we say, and I'll leave it right there. tom
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Tom Payne
Thanks for explaining the handle (and showing restraint).
Regarding John Adams: I don't know who looked like more of an ass--Franklin, the French, or our dear John Adams whose ego is a character in itself.
Cheers.
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Adams, et al
Actually, that might have been the de facto first democratic convention, that many asses in a room. Franklin was dissolute but brilliant, self serving but fiendishly clever, Adams was priggish but stalwart, honest but self-important, and the French dressed well if you enjoy foppery. I do not. The lesson of Adams, for those few watching who know little of American history, is that these amazing, tremendous characters were deeply flawed men. Adams' wife is the most heroic of the lot; any long married man would so conclude. The point, which I have again successfully obscured, is that we expect "vetted" cartoons, two dimensional men/women, not flesh and blood humans. Spitzer took it too far; but if we want heroes or heroines, we might want to actually know the manifold flaws of the statesmen we revere with lip service, and defile with our policies. tom
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Thanks Tom @ 5:11 p.m.
Its true. Let's hope so at least. You are ever more optimistic than I am.
remind me every now and again will ya?
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The long battle? HA! Speak for yourself!
It was just 2000. We the people were openly swooning to learn we'd see a total of 2 debates between the Party Nominees. Each VPs name and background info seemed to arrive much too late, not to mention the truth! "And who are you, anyway?" Who needs cabinet member choices before the election?? In 2000, our current arrogant didn't know any world leader's names, but then he was ok with it. No one seemed to mind he never did reveal his platform before the election. It was in 2000 that Gore seemed so disorganised-he changed his campaign center location mid race-and then failed to even carry that state. Some champ. 11 million voters were disgusted enough to simply stay home that election day while Democratic Party heads spewed their GUTZ out because some guy who'd been keeping consumers safe for the past 30 years dared enter the race.
After being treated like a drone my entire adult life, I happen to be enjoying the level of the current performance bar right where it is, thank you. But then, I don't. have. to. fill. those. minutes. in. each. 24. hours. either.
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maddie
A brooder by nature, I try to project optimism. I believe in the foundations of this country, eroding by the moment. Off to band practice, and back to review the remains in a couple hours' time. tom
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Truth is inconvenient and Texas is correct.
Obama does NOT have anything resembling a 700,000 lead vote.
If you want to disenfranchise Florida and Michigan, than he has a slight lead. (of course the vulgarians and black panther militia's of the Obamateer's do even if any inteligent and reasoned person can understand that is a disaster.)
This too assumes that there is no "buyers remorse" on those who voted for Obama early. I think given the ever-more imploding all the time characteristic of the Obama campaign, it would be quite silly to assume he'd render the same votes again.
Finally let's let go of that tired caucus crap about delegates being somehow democratic. According to the Obamateers "for the people" it's convenient to argue the Obamateur's delegates in Texas are worth more than the votes of the people when that's convenient - Similarly loser dinosaur's like Kerry and Kennedy (who surely have seen their LAST Senate terms now) awarding their states to Obama is all fine and dandy, despite the Obamateur losing by a full 14 percentage points in Mass.
If you want Democratic you have a full primary of Democrats in ALL states only and you aware the nomination to the popular vote winner.
If you don't want that than STFU about what's "fair" as you obviously have no interest in it.
Anyway, Maddie, I'm sorry but you're right. Once again the leftwing of the Dem party has cost us the election and this time they've unfortunately taken black voters who are usually far more pragmatic then liberals, down with them. There's no way folks here in soybean country will ever vote for Obama now , not even Democrats except the AA's and a few liberals where they exist in a few university towns - if they show up to vote which I doubt once McCain is leading big. College aged kids unfortunately are the worst voters to turn out of all.
And it's not that they won't vote for him because he's black. Please. Lots of black people have been elected in flyover country after all. But rather it was the race-baiting, the bogus charges against a black friendly Administration, the Wright stuff and then laying on a big dose of liberal guilt when folks are paying sixty bucks or more to fill up their tanks and with their homes in foreclosure is just not a good sense of timing.
The Wright thing is a big disaster with a capital D and I can tell you that nobody from Montana to Tennessee is going to forget it either.
Now go on "tom payne" put your vulgar slurs right here
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and don't forget to then login as manos and madame and do the same
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