Letters to the Editor
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Kate, queen of wounded virtue
you claim to be a Democrat, but you're a Hillary lapdog. IF you don't get your way, screw America, and, by extension, the world, 'cause some people talked naughty on the net. What an adolescent prima donna. Stay home. Watch for the popup timer in your beef. Moron.
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The internet is toxic to democracy
Saying horrible things to people you don't know at all? Getting people so worked up they're willing to vote against their own best interests? Welcome to the internet, folks.
I must confess, it's occurred to me that it would be satisfying to see young females having to really give a hard look at where their rights were going. I get so fed up with the 20somethings of today. I'm ashamed of this impulse of mine, though. I will vote for Obama, not for the 20somethings, but for my 7-year-old niece. The thought of sacrificing her rights because I'm angry is unconscionable.
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@ CeliainSF
Here's my plan for changing violent behavior:
1. Outlaw ever hitting a child in the face.
2. Outlaw any form of spanking or child correction that leaves a mark.
3. Require pre-marriage counseling before obtaining a license.
4. Give government "scholarships" (stipends) for college to every girl and boy who reaches the age of 18 without giving birth to or fathering a child.
5. Put men and women who commit sexual offenses against children under the age of 14 in prison for a minimum of twenty years. This should include incest offenders. No more get out of jail cards for sexually abusive moms and dads.
6. Stop punishing people for going on welfare by making it impossible for them to get off welfare. Some so-called deadbeat dads are really poor, uneducated dads. Women who do manage to collect back child support should have it go to their families and not to the state. Reinstitute programs that help welfare parents to go to college rather than workfare. No make-work job programs for welfare recipients. Work requirements have to be designed to lead to real jobs.
7. For God's sake give people universal health care. Health care costs put a tremendous burden upon poor and (many) working class families. Severe financial stress leads to violence.
8. Stop treating drug addiction like a crime and treat it like a medical problem.
9. Insurers should have to treat mental health problems at parity with physical health problems.
10. Provide more safe options for domestic violence victims to get away from their abusers.
11. Keep military recruiters out of high schools.
12. Raise the age for joining the military to 21. Raise the age for serving in a combat zone in any capacity to age 22.
13. Start throwing some real money at education and take the education college lock off of certification so that people with real subject knowledge (graduate school) can teach in the public high schools.
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micro ms
The coarsening of language throughout our country is undeniable. Most of it is just sloppy and unimaginative. I'm certainly guilty of this myself, though mostly on playpens like this one. But terms that may be technically related to genitalia- prick, pussy, dick, douchebag, et al ad nauseum, are not inherently sexist. To me, Dubya is a prototype for pussy. Am I describing female privates? I don't think so, Tim. Bill Clinton has been far more a bitch than his wife, although her "hard working white American" statement today sure qualifies. Professional pissoffs like AKA Smith, chips on their shoulder the size of redwood trees, find slights in every nuance of lingo, when most of it is just mindless. That's a problem, too, but a different. Smitty's still back bitching (meaning whiney complaining- it's in the dick-tionary) about HIStory and HERstory. Her mind is down the personhole cover along with the rest of the sewage. In the interest of equal time and egalitarianism, if Bushit can be a pussy, Smitty can be a prick. Turnabout is foreplay.
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@ AKA
I'll bet that if I were to walk into an all black church to worship, I would be made to feel unwelcome. Many white churches would make blacks also feel unwelcome.
And you'd lose. I go to a church that is about 90% black. They came to my house one saturday morning about 12 years ago and invited me and I've never left. Like wise, I think you sell people short to say the reason church is segregated is because of racism. It's more cultural than anything, and I'd bet 99% of the white churches in America would be more than happy to have black members. Your view of America is depressing and not based in the reality of 2008.
I'm an old guy and remember way back. The young people I talk to today (and by young I mean under 50) simply don't see race the same way folks did even 20 years ago. I simply don't believe white Democrats voted against Obama because he's black. I think most of the base of the party, (except black Democrats) voted for Hillary out of loyalty. Once black voters saw that Obama was viable, they voted out of pride, but not out of hate for Hillary. Blacks voted for the same reason older women supported Hillary by overwhelming numbers. A sense that history could be made. People some times vote identity. But there's a big difference in voting FOR and identity (black for Obama, older women for Hillary) and making a broad speculation that whites will vote against Obama because he's black. There's simply no evidence that that is the case.
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Obama confident about winning Clinton voters
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24524627/
In the interview with Brian Williams Obama also did not reject the notion of Clinton serving on the ticket as his vice presidential running mate.
Obama said his campaign would embrace all voters, including those backing the former first lady.
“That doesn’t mean though that I don’t have lot of work to do if I end up being the nominee," he said, adding, "It's important for us to systematically reach out and describe for people — with as much specificity as possible — what, exactly an Obama presidency would mean."
“If I can say to people, 'Look, I might not have been your first choice, but here's how I'm going to allow you to send your kids to college, here's how I'm going to protect your pension, here's how I'm going to expand healthcare so you don't have to lose sleep at night trying to figure out whether or not you can afford to get sick,' then I think people will respond."
Obama's confidence about potentially winning over Clinton voters referred to opinion polling done in 2000 when Republicans John McCain and George Bush fought a fierce battle for their party’s nomination.
McCain supporters, disappointed after he lost the nomination, vowed they wouldn’t vote for Bush — but ultimately they did.
As for the idea of Clinton being his vice president, Obama said, “There's no doubt that she is qualified to be vice president. There's no doubt that she's qualified to be president….I think anybody who has been in a political contest with her can tell you that she's no pushover."