Letters to the Editor
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Liberals need to reclaim G_d
David Kuo is on to something, though he makes the mistake of assuming that the very religious are either going to stick with Republicans or do nothing. While modern political definitions don't map well to religious thought from thousands of years ago, Jesus is, perhaps, the most liberal religious figure of any major religion. Feeding the poor, taking care of the sick, forgiving enemies, money isn't as important as doing the right thing, etc etc. But somehow, all that got usurped into tax cuts for the rich, cuts in Social Security, death penalty, wars and lying for political gain. One of the lessons of 9/11 is that the conviction of misplaced faith is as strong or stronger than the conviction of faith. Too many on the far right don't live in the world G_d created, instead cowering in their own world of misplaced faith to justify rejecting evolution, denying global warming or killing doctors. There is room for faith in the hearts of people in political office, but merely mouthing the words isn't good enough. The left needs to make peace with the peacemakers. We need a New Enlightenment, where the moral lessons taught by spiritual leaders helps guide political decisions today. Bush fooled a lot of people, including David Kuo at first. Now it's up to the left to show how it's really done.
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Can we please please dump the airhead.
Anyone else more than nauseaous with Paglia's moronic diatribes and anti-Democratic banterings entirely void of substance.
This woman needs a REAL job and did about 40 years ago.
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Huh?
"Americans hate George W. Bush in 2006 just as much as they hated William J. Clinton in 1994, proving that hate is an American family value after all."
Putting aside that Dumbya only wishes he had Clinton's popularity, you're comparing a first-term mid-term election to a second-term mid-term election. Not the same thing at all. The Democrats gained under Clinton's second term. The con that Gingrich and his band of thugs pulled on America in '94 had nothing to do with a supposed hatred by Americans of our country's last legally-elected Commander in Chief.
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A Sad Day for Camille Paglia
Nice try, Camille, but everyone who has ever read your writing or heard you interviewed knows that you're a dittohead in Democrat's clothing. In your heart of hearts, you're suffering today, because your beloved Republicans lost. Go sell your faux feminism and pseudo-liberalism somewhere else. The real progressives don't need interlopers.
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What you mean "we"?
Paglia writes, "Democrats scored big in my neck of the woods. Statewide in Pennsylvania, we brought down Senator Rick Santorum...."
"We?" This woman has been determinedly, stridently, militantly anti-Democratic for years now. She likes to claim membership in the party but she shows no evidence whatsoever of being a Democrat. Instead, whenever and wherever possible she excoriates the Democrats.
She's no more a Democrat than I'm a member of the Workers' Party. Don't let her get away with these blatant lies.
I'm sure this morning she's mourning Rick "Man On Dog" Santorum's loss.
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moronic contributions from paglia
There's not much substance in Paglia's screed, but here are some remarks.
"[w]e brought down Senator Rick Santorum -- though not all of us are thrilled with his oddly effete and often maddeningly vague replacement, Bob Casey, Jr."
No, Camilia, you and your bizarre homophobia have a hell of a lot more in common with Santorum than any of us Dems fighting the fight.
"After three or four days of it, as soon as I heard Foley's name, I turned the sound off or switched channels. It was gargantuan overkill, and I felt the Democrats were shooting themselves in the foot. I was especially repulsed by the manipulative use of a gay issue for political purposes by my own party."
OK, so being effete is "odd" and damming, but calling Foley on his hypocrisy -- not for being a gay man, but for being a creepy pedophile -- is repulsive?
"But my mood of the day is jubilation over the advance of an Italian-American woman, Nancy Pelosi, to the speakership of the House of Representatives."
Mustn't forget to put that ethnic tag in, eh? I've got news for you -- I'm an Italian-American as well, but the time for "white ethnic pride" has long passed over to the racists of the GOP. Get over yourself, paysan.
"Though I've sometimes despaired at her girly, wide-eyed Marlo Thomas mannerisms, Pelosi has proved her toughness by her staying power and her deftness in outmaneuvering her rivals."
Let me get this straight -- "acting female" is a cause for despair. Women should act, as much as possible, like men.
"This is where feminism is right now -- not in the mewling complaints of greenhorn mini-media types about the well-deserved triumph of pro-sex feminists..."
Got it. Nancy Pelosi's victory is a clear vindication of Girls Gone Wild.
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Retching at reading the Paglia by-line
Why do you insist on giving that harridan Camille Paglia a forum? Wasn't it just two weeks ago that Paglia was gleefully maligning Democrats? And now she claims to be "we" (as in "we Democrats")? The amount of intellectual dishonesty that passes for insight on the right is truly staggering. Go fuck yourself, Camille.
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Really?
Really, Mr. Conason? Sherrod Brown is a "proud progressive"?
You are talking about the same Sherrod Brown who, when called upon to oppose something as universally abhorrent as torture, caved to Bush and voted for the Torture Bill? That Sherrod Brown?
He surely makes this progressive proud!
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Please!
Stop it with the C. Paglia already.
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One more victim of Paglia poisoning
Pro sex feminism? Clearly a misnomer for the participation of deluded young women in their own objectification. And something women progress DISPITE of. Paglia's identity as a woman is so screwed up she should just get a sex change and join a gender where her rantings will be given thier proper name--misogyny.
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What pride?
I rolled my eyes at Conason's description of pro-torture, anti-habeas corpus Brown as a "proud progressive." Brown defenders seem to think his "economic populism" -- whatever that means in Corporatist-Run America -- makes up for this UNprogressive vote. Conason would do well to take another look at what the words "liberal" and "conservative" signify in a post-Bushco world, and it's not really all that complicated. "Liberal" means trying to get back some of our Constitutional protections. "Conservative" means conserving the new unitary executive and the President's right to rule by Royal Fiat. Brown has a lot of work to do to prove that he's still a liberal, let alone a "proud progressive."