Letters to the Editor
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Jordan Rules and the Triangle Offense
Here's the thing: Hillary has been the subject of a great many unfair and inaccurate attacks, and apparently has come away from them with a certain respect for those tactics and pride in her ability to withstand and deliver them.
Obama, who is reluctant to embrace the politics of "personal destruction," and would rather talk about old-fashioned principles and realities, is clearly is pantywaist.
Hillary Clinton, who (I guess?) has a mean pool shot and attends a barbeque a week, stands with the economic elites but has scorn for those of us who don't agree with her "ends justify the means" strategy of oligarchy and trickle-down help for working class people.
Some fancy-pants elitists would argue that support for working class Americans should be largely symbolic rather than practical.
[Similiar to flag-burning debate: better to venerate the flag as abstraction than do the hard f'ing work of trying to embody the principles it represents.]
I was raised in the enlisted soldier class, which doesn't make much money but does have a certain attachment to ideas like "duty" and "honor."
There were time when I erroneously believed that supporting the troops meant 1) using force only when necessary, 2) having a plan, 3) delivering the troops the best equipment, 4) providing adequate health care to the troops we ask so much of, and 5) doing our best to strenghten the democratic republic they're sworn to uphold by engaging in susbstative adn relevant policy debates.
Thanks, Salon, for helping to set me straight. I see now that distorting the truth to play into people's biases is far more important than not sending their jobs overseas.
Go Hillary!