Letters to the Editor
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AKASmith
You, like your defeated leader Hillary, have no grace. Instead you are condescending, tiresome and full of bombastic claims. Take a break. The race is over and you are whistling in the wind. Looks like you are caught in a time warp and refuse to learn. Change is in the air. Don't let it pass you by or you will continue to remain a bitter old girl. (I say girl because you don't sound like a grown up woman).
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@squalorholla re: troll infested waters
ya, the idea that it is promoted seems to be the case. I have noticed many more popup adds and Joan et al could do a bit more to not encourage more stupid posts by people who can't do math...It must be the clicks
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What's Sometimes Mistaken for Arrogance, imho
Maybe off-topic, but I'd like to offer to friends of Hillary this piece of why I'm a friend of Obama.
I don't see arrogance. I do see something very unusual. He is sensitive. I think he has an introverted personality, and he's spent a lot of his life reflecting on the meanings of cultures and divisions and opportunity (and the lack of it). He's absorbed a great deal more than average of how people react to other people, based on skin color, cultural habits, assumptions. I think his personality is reserved but his observations, perhaps his "emotional IQ" is quite high.
That's not the same as snobbish or arrogant. He just has a core quietness and faith. To me, his demeanor doesn't say I'm Better Than You. It says, I'm here about you.
Personally, I think that some of the business of politics isn't natural to him. No face-clawing, and little that's below the belt. But he's human, not an angel, so he'll do some snark now and then.
I just offer these thoughts in the hope that people who assume he's arrogant might take a fresh look. Is it possible that Obama is an unusually fine person? And is it okay with you for someone "fine" to represent our country?
Is there any desire to have him be shamed by his ambition? As though he has no right to be as fine at moving and engaging and inspiring as he actually is?
What if you just set aside your anger and regrets and considered him as a somewhat introverted man who has learned to speak from the same place in him that first registered with the public...that amazing speech at the Democratic Convention?
I know when I first heard him, I immediately said to myself, I wish he were my president. Nothing I've heard from him since has changed that.
Intuition gets little respect in this culture, compared to data points. But I think well more than half of this country has allowed the despair of the current administration's ruthlessness to soften their hearts and open their minds to a new kind of president.
In hope, and solidarity...
Sure, he's a politician. But there ARE authentic public servants who see that their best way to serve America is to use their personal charisma and eloquence to bring us together.
You don't have to drink Koolaid. But you might
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lobelia
I, too, get that sense of introspection, of a calm center, of reflection from Obama. I've not seen it in a candidate in a very long time. the problem, if it is that, is that introspection is little valued in American public life. bombast, phony patriotism, a permanent salesperson's grin- you know, Ray-gun, the fascist Idol, the prototype of politics for the last 25 years. It doesn't have to be that way. Hillary seems to be tempering her rhetoric. That would be a blessing, and a credit to her. Let's see if she can bank her fire without bursting into flames. I hope so.
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jeffersonian Been meaning to ask
Sir, how is the family these days? I hope all is well.
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fester
considering our demographic, about average. My wife is getting over extensive shoulder surgery, which will take six months or so to get past; my dad continues to disappear down the well of Alzheimer's; my wife's mom is wheelchair bound. But we all have health coverage, complete and lifelong, our children and grandchildren are close both geographically and emotionally, and we are, beyond doubt, blessed. Seeing pictures of Burma or whatever they're calling it these days, or Darfur, or Iraq, and we know how well we are off. Many Americans cannot say the same. The election is about starting to change that. No one should have to choose between a mortgage payment and an operation, between food and medicine. It's criminal. thus, deluded as I am, I intend to vote Democratic from the top of the ticket to the bottom. That goes for everyone in our extended family. thanks for asking. Hope that all is at least tolerable with you and yours. jeff.
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Thank You, Mr. Conley
This article is fantastic. It shows you real politics, not the kind political pipers play to teh beatific faces of the gullible. Surely something similar happened in 1960, between Joe and Jack Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson.
If anyone thinks deal maker Barack Obama and his backroom advisers is not capable of cutting something similar with the Clintons, call Virgin for your free ticket on the first space tour.
The Marxist express is on its way to Washington D.C. I think by now some of those people who saddled the Republican Party with "decorated veteran", "straight talk express" McCain, are seeing the writing on the wall. I already see excuses like "Well, McCain is the best we can offer this year", or "Well, who else is there?" to justify picking picking loser.
If Barack Obama doesn't get the presidency this year, he never will. They can't keep the paint on the pig long enough to fool the voters again, or amass such pervasive media support for a candidate. Trouble is, I think the engineer driving the marxist express will get to the White House station. And if he gets there, he will stay 8 years. The country will be dramatically "changed" forever, most likely.
Lots of tears are shed over answered prayers.