Letters to the Editor
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Obama was right
I've listened to several conservative friends opine about how Obama has doomed his campaign by not severing ties with Rev. Wright years ago. What good would that have done? Does anyone really believe the Right wouldn't have dug his Trinity Church membership up in a nanosecond and brought the story to the fore anyway? The only difference would have been that Obama would have been accused of engaging in a cover-up of his past affiliation with Wright, making the whole affair far more damaging.
As for this nation's absurd, adolescent aversion to any questioning of our virtue, Gary hits it right on the screws. Look at the comment boards of mainstream papers like the NY Times after stories like the ones that have run today about reaching 4,000 dead in Iraq. You'll find the most pathetically brain-dead pseudo-patriots you can imagine, spouting the usual mindless lines about Islamo-fascists and Defeatocrats.
The fact is we're a nation bereft of its intellect, like a 14-year old boy on sugar and hormones. We think with our balls and react without reason. Cognition is too much trouble, and God forbid we might have to face the harsh truth that we've brought much of our trouble on ourselves. We can only hope that enough Americans have become grownups after 7 years of the GOP disaster to see past the Fox/Weekly Standard/Free Republic stupidity of this time and put the adults back in charge.