Letters to the Editor
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A Reprise From The Previous Thread
Barack Obama is "actually a bluesman from Chicago."
"When Obama links the thirteen colonies fighting the Revolutionary War to the abolition movement against slavery, and that to Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, and that to women getting the vote and unions being able to represent workers, and that to defeating Hitler and European fascism during World War II, and that fight to the Civil rights struggle in which black and white people, some young, some not, brought this country much closer to its democratic destiny, Americans feel both purified and closer to each other."
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"Americans are beginning to believe in the country as a whole again. Americans have longed for this feeling throughout all of the sellouts to the Christian right, to the remaining reptilian rednecks of the bigoted South, to the big-money special interests and their lobbyists and to the general incompetence and lack of integrity that have left the greasy fingerprints of self-interest and the squalor of greed on our national policies."
---Stanley Crouch
---2/18/08
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Hillary is progressive!
Obama stands for aggressive!
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@Paul Dirks
The Chicago Tribune is a conservative paper that has endorsed Obama for president. This is a link to an 8-part series on Obama that was run last summer. The Tribune team looked hard for both positive and negative stories on him. It gives some insights that help to fill out who he really is.
http://tinyurl.com/2m6jbv
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Obama the poser gets to have it both ways
VinnieTheSnake gets it.
Now Glenn Greenwald promotes it, and if Mr. Obama continues to get away with it he may be our president after all. Barack Obama always gets to have it both ways.
It was not too long ago that Barack Obama's surrogates were sliming the best President for civil rights in at least the last 28 years, but somehow Obama has the reputation for being a victim of attacks. Funny how all those misunderstandings happened just before the South Carolina primary. Suddenly, Obama got the momentum he desperately needed due to the sudden outpouring of the African-Americans vote for him.
Not too long ago, the Obama supporters were vigorously telling everyone that the big, bad Republicans hate Hillary too much. She can never be elected.
At the time we were told how the Republicans really like Obama, so that is another good reason to nominate him. Now, the media is saying all those distortions and hatred from the Republicans will not affect Obama's chances. When it suits the Obama campaign, the big bad Republicans are too powerful for a Democrat who is hated by them. Now, that Barack is the Democratic front runner we are told that perhaps the Republican slime machine is totally impotent.
Meanwhile, Obama is both the most liberal Democratic candidate and the most bipartisan. How does that work?
It is dizzying how Obama gets to play both sides of every argument. If you just close your eyes and don't ask any questions, he supports exactly what you want.
If he can get away with it, more power to him. But please do not hand me the BS about how he is all about moving politics in a new, more cooperative direction. The man is a magician, but he is certainly not practicing a higher, less contentious brand of politics. George W. also got away with his uniter facade too. So, Barack won't be the first to pull it off, if he does. Charisma is seductive, but it does not necessarily produce positive change. One person's charisma is another's self-absorbed rants.
So far, the way that Barack has successfully screwed Hillary has left a bad taste in my mouth. But do not count her out.
I agree that most of the Republican attacks are scurrilous. On the other hand, for the sake of journalistic integrity, the media should stop giving Barack Obama a free ride. And tell Barack Obama to drop the pretentious holier-than-thou act.
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anon 7:52, 8:03
wow, go have another one and you might actually convince yourself of something
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-- Dirigo
"Well, back to the poll. Nine out of ten officers questioned say today that they have concerns about a presidential candidate who cannot show military service."
Tough shit. I have concerns about military officers who don't have the balls to stand up for what's right when they are given orders which are clearly illegal.
In short, I no longer give a shit what military officers think.
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The Moon
Bop.... Here, the moon which is so often invisible, is a beautiful orb, mostly brown and dark, with a brilliant cat claw of white at the bottom. Life on the 13th floor is dangerous, I suppose, but nights like this I can stand it.
I've been scaling up the down escalator all evening, but I finally got to the top, panting but glad for the trip. Who is this elephantine person? He makes shooter look smart. Can any human capable of fogging a mirror think that a disfugured septugenarian with a fascist Barbie for a trophy wife really capture anybody's imagination?
It was mentioned many hours ago, then lost in the discussion, but I would like to remind y'all that the sound bite of Michelle Obama's speech wherein she said that in all of her adult life, this time was the first that she was "proud" of her country was a crudely edited piece of RWA crap. She said "really" proud, but her determined and brazen detractors thought it proved their point so much better without that pesky and context-altering "really." So they took it out. It's quite fascinating... you can see her lips say "really" even as there is a gap in her words. Better yet, there is a clip of the real quote against the false one, posted at ThomHartmann.com.
Now, if I were an African American woman her age, or really any normal American of any age, the quote even in its edited form would be perfectly fine, and long overdue, but it's pretty revealing that such absurd shenanigans are what the Noise Machine is now reduced to.
Guardedly as always, I'm optimistic.
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I believe the right wing smear machine failed before.
I recall them going after another man who still believed in a place called Hope.
As I recall, he left office with a very high approval rating.
It's a shame his wife couldn't run the same positive, "hopeful" campaign.