Letters to the Editor
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Canthus
Your ingnorance is showing. Bush and a whole host of people before him have tried to settle the internal war in Israel by over emphasizing support for Israel bt it has not worked.
When I was in Israel a Palestiania boy was just walking down the street and the Israelie police jumped out their jeep pushed the boy against the wall and made him stand in one spot for 35 mins. Then they let him go. Do you think that boy is going to grow up with love in his heart.
The Palestianians in the Gaza and places like Bethlehem getthos can look up and see brand new housing, do you think they are going to want peace. Someone with a new outlook is going to have to put pressure on both sides to compromise.
The Jewish people have seen bombs blow up innocent people too. Do we think they are going to love the Palestinians. NO.
But a real broker who is a more even handed is all the Palestianians want. You have to go there and not just listen to the propaganda. Both sides are locked into hate and fear. Both sides have legetimate issues and can't get past their stuff. Canthus you just want to blame one side.
You don't really want to see change. I believe Barack would be better then this administration. But the real deal is I don't think anyone is going to solve that hate.
Believe me the hate was intense on both side. So much so the Jewish delegate we were with told one of our observers they were no longer welcome because he ask for more input from Palestinians. I did not tell you I was their on a fact finding trip.
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An article up at Daily Kos...
...has a summary of the majority of PA newspapers.
Guess how many mention bittergate.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/4/13/111644/425/469/494812
The MSM cannot tell you how we feel. Only we can tell you how we feel.
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The Media's Obstacle Course to the Presidency
Besides pundits like Brooks making up opinions for the populous, I am so tired of hearing their vacuous argument that this whole “Gotcha and Hot Seat Journalism” reporting and questioning is somehow a test of mettle for the presidency. Where is the proof that needling a politician to the point of frustration yields the true character of the candidate? And if that is the case -- to test one for the Presidency -- why were the majority of political pundits defending McCain’s mistake of confusing Al Qaeda and the Shia or ignoring his voting record against Veterans care -- instead of attacking him endlessly on these errors and contradictions?
Further, if “Gotcha Journalism” is really the true test of character for the highest office in the land that the media claims, why does the Associated Press host an event (http://www.ap.org/annual08/) with the first item on the agenda being “Straight Talk with John McCain” when there has been nothing but 180 degree changes in his positions (or in the words of Kristof of the NY Times – weaves and bobs). But not only that, the AP Online Political Editor takes it a step further and presents John McCain with donuts and coffee (with a little bit of sugar and cream, just the way he likes it) – how is that putting John McCain on the hot seat and making sure that he is fit to be Commander in Chief?
The fact of the matter is that the press appears to want to justify its “gotcha attacks” on the Democrats by painting it as an “obstacle course” all politicians must go through to prove how impervious they are to such attacks and earn the presidency. But their justification falls flat when they do not provide the same challenges to the Republican candidates. Case in point, in the 2000 race, some verbal gaffe of Al Gore (the press turned it into him saying he invented the internet) was made more important by the press and 99% more reported than then–candidate Bush’s sale of Harken stock. (Bush, while serving on Harken's board of directors and member of the company's audit committee, dumped more than 200,000 shares ($848,000-- a bit more than Martha Stewart sold) of the company's stock shortly before Harken publicly announced massive losses.)
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/1030-06.htm )
Shouldn’t the fact that Bush was willing to illegally dump stock be more proof of a character flaw than some comment Gore made? Not to the media – Gore is an exaggerator and Bush is the guy you want to have a beer with -- mainly because he can afford it after cheating the system. And I think his dumping of the stock would be an indication that he would have no problem taking us to war under false pretenses. Just a guess.
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Sol Invictus?
More like Heliogabulus, you ask me.
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Obama's Bowling Score
So he can't bowl. I think I heard he was using a right-handed bowling ball (he's left-handed) and he quit after only 7 frames where he got his 37.
I've thought that if he really wanted to stuff the yammering yahoos he could 1) get a correct bowling ball and 2) take about 15 minutes on his own getting a handle on the game (he is a good athlete, after all).
Then he could go out and bowl a full game for the cameras again. Would he break 100? Beats me. But he could show that he can improve greatly with not much effort and then kind of have a laugh at both himself and everyone else making a big deal of this.
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@Majorajam
I think you would agree that Americans are more concerned with after tax income than the amount of tax that goes to government, no?
No. Especially if you have to write a check for it rather than be subject to withholding.
I wait with baited breath for your serious introspection over how your judgment could have gone so wrong.
It's going to be a long wait. I hope you catch something edible with that breath of yours.
PS It was you who intimated that the country had 'erred' by overlooking Clinton's 'character issues', not I.
No, I said "the Clinton era taught us that "character" counts for a lot". That issue turned the coronation of AlGore, into a hotly contested race. It would seem that scenario is being replayed again today.