Letters to the Editor
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@RealityCounts
Sorry, I had to run off an actually work for awhile...damn job interfering with flame wars!
I guess I do agree with Wright, tenatively, so I don't find his comments horrifying. I don't see how you can't. The terrorists didn't pick America at random; the attack was directly tied to our foreign policy. That doesn't mean I blame the American people for us getting attacked or even the American government. It was inevitable, at least that's how I see it. I have family in New York and my aunt was on her way to WTC when it got hit, so it does hit close to home. However, it doesn't turn off my ability to be rational about the whole thing. (She is, btw, very anti-semitic but I still love her.)
I think it's very hard for people to see the distinction between, American foreign policy led to 9/11, and it's America's fault they got blowed up. We should never change our foreign policy just because we're afraid of offending extremists. However, we do have to realize that because the way the world works now, we are more vulnerable than we've ever been in our history. What we do abroad CAN come back to bite us in the ass, violently, not just in high oil prices and saber rattling from foreign governments. We, as a people, have decide if our policies are worth whatever collateral damage might occur.
Also, I don't think just because you associate with someone doesn't mean you have to swallow lock stock and barrell all of their ideas. Even if you admire one part of person. Human beings are flawed by nature. Living in the South has really helped me realize that; there are people down here who have the exact opposite political views as I do, but are so friggin' NICE! A world where everyone only associates with people they agree 100% with, would be a world bereft of the interplay of ideas. (or whatever.)
I don't even know if it's worthwhile posting this...and I have to go back to work so, I guess this will be my final world. I just want to clarify that I don't blame the 9/11 victims, or even (gasp) George Bush for 9/11. (Please don't hurt me!)
Happy Friday, ya'll.
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@Neal J coulda been a contendah, I coulda been somebody!
The distinction between the necessary and the sufficient cause is crucial. Agreed. I just don't think Ferraro made that distinction. That doesn't make her rascist. Just Wrong. Maybe you have some follow up verbiage I haven't seen that clears this all up.
[..] had he not been black, I think there would be a serious question whether he would be a contender at all at this point.
An interesting question, but speculative. And that brings up another point. Hillary Clinton hasn't run a great campaign, IM!HO, starting with deciding it would be over on Feb 5th and ending with her choice of advisors/consultants like Mark Penn. I personally think the change mandate was waiting for anyone to pick up. Hillary could have. She did not. Hillary could have had a strategy for capturing the ellusive youth vote. She did not. So I'm skeptical that only a lucky and black Obama could have threaded this needle. The champ showed up to fight out of shape and overconfident.
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Who cares?
She's a nobody now, she's always been a nobody, and always will be a nobody. No one had heard of her before this. WHO CARES????
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@vmcla1 Moonies?
[...] labelling everyone who remembers the legacy of LBJ as racist, then GF should apologize.
What are you talking about?
Remember LBJ? The president who passed the civil rights legislation? The same one who got swept away in the revisionist history about MLK getting it passed all byhimself?
Again, what are you talking about? We remember LBJ.
Here's what Hillary said: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9LhWUsrJnM
Hillary is saying MLK was a dreamer; LBJ was a doer. MLK had no power. LBJ had the power. She's also saying that Obama is a dreamer; Hillary is a doer. I think her statements were a major disaster that has nothing to do with race. She diminished a mythical hero by implying the hero couldn't get it done on his own; it took one of the hero's oppressors to make it happen. And she's implying that the same situation holds today, that you can't be a dreamer and a doer. At least not Obama. It's really inaustute to attack a hero. Look at how the Republicans defend Reagan and ignore all his shortcomings as a more recent example.
LBJ did a great thing with the civil rights act that caused great damage to the democratic party. He also escalated Nam, which didn't turn out to well. His historical level of government spending has only been exceeded by Bush 43. So we remember LBJ.
Finally, there is a MLK holiday. There is no LBJ holiday. It's always the dreamers that shift our view of what we are and what we can be. It's a lot of work to shift the view of the public, and soemtimes it's fatal.
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Joe
Stop picking on a women ... who dares to tell the truth instead of sucking up to Obama like yourself and otehrs.
If you are a tru American, you would ahve denounce the Irrev, Wright istad of the rubbish you write.
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rehashing republican talking points
I want to say first i think she should apologize.
I don't understand what this article has to do with it though- it seems to be just a rehash of how she lost the 1984 election?
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@ lateagain
As a sometimes college instructor I would just like to say... Write your paper ! ... :-)
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Thank You Mrs. Ferraro!
It took 27 years but you finally gave me something good to say about Ronald Reagan. Again, Thanks!
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reality counts,
I suspect that where reality really counts that you're probably a sometimes instructor in cut rate kindergarten. And you're JUST and an instructor? Was a PHD a little out of your reach or beyond your abilities? Well, you know what Woody Allen said, "Those who can't teach teach gym." Maybe you'd better get back on the ball bro...
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A Glimpse of Billary's Future
A shriveled bitter douche bag, resting on laurels that never existed: that's our Hillary 20 years hence. Incompetent, irrelevant, and immaterial. And, moron, it's "sometime college instructor" not sometimes. The Hillbots are speaking Bush. Either sense will suffice.