Letters to the Editor
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@AnaHadWolves (and others)
Since you seem to be one of the cadre driving the back and forth in these letter columns, I have a challenge for you: Take a break from the over-the-top sniping with other equally over-the-top accusers and instead respond to my previous letter.
Or respond to this one: Take a break and turn your passion on McCain.
What are McCain's shortcomings and problems which can be exploited and emphasized to win? How can we break the media's tendency to give McCain a free pass? How can we shame the biggest offenders into scrutinizing him more?
How can we get lazy journalists including Salon to spend less time on Democratic infights and more time on Republican failures? Not just the current problems, it's eight years of malfeasance and incompetence in every aspect of government. How can we get the media to examine an epic pattern of misrule extending from lying about stolen W keys to the current FAA disaster?
Also how can we get both candidates to promise to dismantle the unitary executive, close gitmo and other fixes which are just as important (and easier to do) than Iraq. Right now, McCain is the only one of the three who has vowed to stop the abuse of signing statements - one of few ways he doesn't suck.
More importantly, what are all the strategies and tactics needed to not just win the white house and win the congress, but also to make the Democrats fix things? What will be the most pressing problem to correct (the Justic Department)?
How can voters force a change to the primary system so this doesn't happen next time?
And again How does the public force the media to alter the lazy outrage mining and rhetorical falsehoods which worsen the discourse and serve the right wing?
And no, "Vote for Clinton/Obama and Obama/Clinton is dumb." doesn't answer any of this.