Letters to the Editor
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GK
I'm disappointed in you. Not even a passing mention of Clinton? What relative of ours is she supposed to be? The Obama-McCain matchup is not yet a done deal, in case you hadn't noticed.
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Umm...
Yeah it is.
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Speaking of Change
How about a former POW as president? Has that ever happened before?
To go from 5 years in the Hanoi Hilton to leader of the free world - now that is inspiring.
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Right on!
I'll leave the country if that bloated old skirt chaser McCain gets to be in the White House.
Hillary? Don't even get me started.
We need a decent, devoted family man like Obama. Plus he's smart and inspires people - not a moment too soon for such a candidate!
I'm a white middle of the road/liberal non-church goer but spiritual 40 + woman living in a big city - just for the record.
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USS Forrestal
Citizen McCain wants a punic Hundred Years War or his middle name isn't Milhouse and Homer Simpson never heard of rebranding.
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We're taking a poll here?
I'm a white middle-aged middle-class woman in a smallish, struggling Northeast city. I like Obama and not because Oprah told me to, thank you. I also like Hillary. I'm torn.
McCain is out of the question. He's too old and possibly has severe psychological damage, and a bad temper. Plus he's a Republican. I'm afraid he could do something horrible, because after all, he's old and maybe crazy and what does HE have to lose? Plus he's a Republican.
I like Hillary, and I think it would be interesting to have Obama for president, too. Haven't made up my mind, but believe me, the party of old men, warmongers, women haters, bible thumpers, and closeted sex scandal cases does NOT figure in.
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Making the sacrifice
Yes, we baby boomers must, for the good of our country and the world, suck it up and do our democratic duty -- even though it will mean (gasp!) the president will be younger than we are -- making our status as Old Farts official.
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We need the skinny guy because we've been waiting 9 years for a 21st century president.
It's just time, way past time, in fact.
I'm a boomer, white, feminist female who's voting for Obama (and who finds Hillary's cred as a feminist unconvincing for drafting in Bill's slipstream for much of her life).
Please, oh please: let's enter the 21st century at long last. Besides, I think Michelle Obama will revolutionize the position of First Lady, in ways Hillary never did, or even could. I can't think of a better First Family.
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The "Whiz kid brother"? C'mon, Mr. Keillor, get past that crap.
You betray your own antiquity by applying the word "brother" to Barack Obama, a candidate who is not running on his race but instead on his character. The many people who support Obama are doing so, in part, to drag this nation out of its race-obssessed past and into a new era where it is not necessary to note an individual's skin color. Comments like yours serve only to pull back against this progress.
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Thanks
Thanks for this piece. I'm always glad to see a new column from Mr. Keillor, one of our more thoughtful public figures.
Indeed, spring is near, both literally and figuratively. Things can only get better, and they will.
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Hey, Durian
I think he was using "brother" in the sense that McCain is the father figure and Barak was the brother figure. Like family relations, not race relations.
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Papa or the whiz kid brother?
Well, I'm more than a middle-age, white woman! In fact, McCain is younger than I am, and I think he's too old for the job!! And too many melanoma hits - he'd have to pick an awfully good vice!
His survival of the 5 years in the Hanoi Hilton show stamina and courage, but I've often wondered how that is supposed to qualify him to be President, or even Senator for that matter. This is
signed Trish72, but I am now Trish74!
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@MrsBug
Could be. Perhaps the author will clarify.
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kellior
Why does anyone listen to this over the top live in the past simpleton. We have alot more problems than to listen to this has never, will never, have a clue has been. He has and always will be a poor example of the fine people of this area. GO F UCK YOURSELF. That is if you truly would be attracted to a low class, lame a ss piece of garbage like yourself. Get a life (hopefully in a different part of the universe). By the way your Proctologist just called: He found your head.
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Pardon me?
Ford's pardon of Nixon was one of the "...great moments when we turned the clock forward..."?
What?
Did I miss something? In my eyes it was the moment that has allowed the subsequent white-wash of Nixon's noxious legacy and led directly to his Golem manifesting itself in the Current Occupant.
Rove, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Fielding - all of them worked in Nixon's white house, and would have had that much less respectability and subsequent clout had we been able, as a country, to collectively clear our throats and hawk up that huge loogie known as Nixon.
In general, I find your positions well worth the effort to understand, but on this one, I respectfully submit that you have missed the boat.
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Oops
Sorry - Rove did not work in Nixon's White House. He was the president of the College Republican National Committee, and active during Nixon's Re-election campaign, working closely with Segretti and Atwater.
A semantic difference, I would submit, but an error on my part, nonetheless.
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Skinny Guy is Generation (X)erox's Man
Yeah, I dig the whole "New Breed" stuff, but what you have to realize about these characters is they really are a bunch of copy cats. HRC did hit the nail on the head about copying, because Generation (X)erox is essentially a repeat of the 60's, but with more tattoos. The Black Crowes are the Sticky Fingers-era Rolling Stones and Amy Winehouse is the Exile on Main Street-era Rolling Stones.
So, trying to throw your lot in with the youngsters probably isn't going to work for you, because they're more interested in getting the bureaucrat jobs for themselves than in reforming stuff.
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Who is the conservative Garrison Keillor on our national public radio network?
Who is the conservative counterpart to Terry Gross? The conservative Ira Glass? The conservative Tavis Smiley? What is the conservative equivalent to the polemic "Democracy Now!" program? And on and on and on...
In talking about public universities, Garrison Keillor groused that "it ain't public if it costs an arm and a leg."
I say, "IT AIN'T PUBLIC IF IT IS A CLOSED ENCLAVE OF LIKE-MINDED LIBERALS."