Letters to the Editor
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@red gti_2000 Expounding further and pontificating at length
Here are a few choice soundbites from said link.:
1. "While the so-called religious issue is necessarily and properly the topic here tonight. I want to emphasize from the outset, that I believe we have far more critical issues in the 1960 campaign"
Sounds relevant today.
2.So it is apparently necessary for me to state once again: Not what type of church I believe in, for that should be important only to me, but kind of America I believe in.
One of the main slights against JFK was that the pope would pull the strings from the vatican. Protestants today still call the Vatican the Great Whore (see Hagee, McCain endorser). Today I think a subtext of Rev Wright is "what kind of crazy black man will pull the strings on Obama. And I think separating the views of any church from the work of the state is as good today as it was in 1960. If you review the speechs and actions of past political figures, you get a good idea of how far down the rabbit hole we've fallen, when the policies of Nixon would be considered far too liberal. Not your 30 second soundbite, but life is like that.
Link again:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2Jr03ADQmk
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Langston Hughes
O, yes,
I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath--
America will be!
Quoted by Martin Luther King in his Anti Vietnam sermon.
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maureenodonnell further Illustrating a tendancy to make assumptions
What made you think I did not learn about probability at Trinity -- it was much of what I studied, in great detail as it happens.
As for my grandmother (indeed both grandmothers), if they used the term low to describe you, it would be in its meaning "as gaeilge" so to speak, and wow would it fit. I personally would not use the term culchie, it's a bit silly, but in many rural areas the term "peasant" is used to describe someone unmannerly and rude -- would you resent that?
Mary Robinson, as you evidently do not know, before she trooped off to make high sounding speeches, did in fact spend many years representing some of the very poorest people in Ireland, often without fees, including women is appalling situations. It was in those days that I first met her through other people working with her, long before her elevation shall we say.
Stay irrelevant, learn nothing.
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I just love maureen's insights..
...right from the drunken deadend back alleys of the 'ol emerald isle. Her insights into American politics are astonishing as downs another dizzy draught of piss and vineagar. The woman hates any "yank," and is quite frankly a friggin' crank. Maureen, don't drink the shampoo, it's for your hair, not your weakening liver.
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MacK, learn to spell "tendency", please, so that you can write in English and "as Gaeilge"
with the fluency that would delight the two Marys and the grannies too. We must never forget that they didn't get to Trinity but they loved dancing at the crossroads. They'd have been partial to keeping a pig in the parlour but alas! they didn't have a parlour. The Bourkes of Mayo did, of course, have parlours galore and President Mary Bourke-Robinson didn't acquire the brogue that annoys your accomplice, Tom Payne. Daddy even drove to Dublin to get a dispensation for Mary to attend Trinity, Being well-in with another gargoyle, Archbishop John Charles McQuaid, Daddy was able to ensure that Mary could avoid the rough-and-tumble of associating with "peasants" who had to attend UCD because of their religion. Mary Robinson was a "latte liberal" before the expression was even coined and it took us some time to cotton on to them but we're not so easily fooled now and Samantha Power is cast in the same mould.
Mary Robinson must be a rich woman now. She didn't even finish her term of office as President before haring off to some cushy number in the United Nations. The U.N. is full of them with their sinecures and insipid speechifying. I'm going now, MacK, and if I don't hear from you or find that you've been uttering my name in vain, that will do just fine because you're out of your depth.
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Everybody is out of their depth with you MCDowell,
Of course not all of us are coming at the issues of the day from inside of an Irish insane asylum.
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O! I mean O'Dowell
What the fuck ever, just don't pass out in the streets of Dublin darlin', if you do they'll probably have to put you in that little rubber room again to detox again, and you know you don't like that much. Ta!
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Maureen McConstipated
Odd. With all that cabbage I wouldn't think she'd be backed up. But she obviously is.
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Good article and the comments from Obama supporters show's who's supporters are more to blame
The first letter is a real "winner." Naive and blind telling everyone else that Obama has less negatives, and more crossover appeal?
Later letters "prove his point" by declaring the issues that the press is bringing up now - are just a big ta doo about nothing!!! Sure, nothing short of murder would turn some against Obama, but there are millions of voters for whom those stories are near poison.
To assume they mean nothing, because you have 'faith' in your candidate is beyond naive, it's purposeful self-deception. Any idiot who thinks the "Republithugs won't go there or there or there" hasn't paid Attn. to politics much.
The RepubliTHugs have NOT made a career out of mugging him at every opportunity, but should he win the nomination. They'll compress the 2 decades of demonization of Hillary into a single Presidential campaign in their effort to destroy Obama.
A far better idea of what they WILL DO is to look at what they say they won't!!
They're being honest, McCain won't, but those outside groups will.
Swiftboating Obama presents a goldmine of opportunities, because it's NOT about facts and truth, but innuendo and rumor. There is no greater source of such material than the insidious racism so prevelant in this country.
The kind that most people don't see, don't recognize, because the beliefs behind it seem so true!
It's an unending source of potential to turn innocent things like a simple photo of Obama standing with Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton into a CONVINCING photo of the "future Democratic president with his Sec. of State and Atty General."
Oh and please Obama supporters spare me the lie that Sharpton is neutral and Jesse too. They are NOT neutral, but have agreed to play behind the scenes to keep the conflict away from their candidate.
Obama supporters just wouldn't get it, but millions of Americans would recoil, and suddenly feel very uncomfortable about Obama, regardless of how utterly insane such a notion was.
The baldfaced liar who keeps accusing Obama of having gay sex with him, will suddenly hit front page news should he win the nomination courtesy of Social Conservatives who feel everything is fair game if its meant to keep a closet homosexual out of the White House.
Obama or Clinton, who ever wins needs to understand, that the RepubliTHugs fight dirty, they lie, they cheat, they will say whatever they have to - or rather their "independent groups which the RepubliTHug candidate doesn't control - uh yeah right" will do anything to ensure their guy wins.
Clinton clearly is prepared for this, and so are her supporters. They're ready to hit back. They've had decades of experience.
If the Obama supporter letters here are any indication, they're going to be sitting ducks for hungry wolves and will be so out of it come 11/2, they will forget who they support.