Letters to the Editor
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I am a JW fan, but
I think his complainingabout the quertions that really showed his
poor handling of situation. On the otherhand, HRC is always graceful, even in that "teary moment", I thought HRC really handled herself well and gain some real support.
On Obama's supporter, I think not only college kids who does not remember the CLinton good years, African Americans who likes his
half blackness, left coast Hope Liberals, You may find some indications that Rove Republicans might have voted for him, plus I saw a few Arab names in his donor list.
(I have been wondering where he gets all these money. If these names are truly Arab names, than may be some of his money are "Oil Money".) Does Obama supporters include many raab names?
Certainly his buddy buying house together with him came from a foreign country will have some Arab frineds. Certainly if Obama gets the Democratic nomination, there will be a few Arab Boat coming. 1000 Boats or a fleet coming.
Certainly, Arab have reasons to like Obama, Since Clinton or McCain have good relationships with Iserael.
Yes, I am bitter too. If Obama takes away the chance that should be Clinton's, I will not vote for Obama because Obama has really been arrogant and disrespectful. If he has any wisdom at all he will say he is running for president but should not say he will not be on VP ticket.
Also, "Bitter" should replace "Hope" as his campaign slogan.
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@madam and tom
i'm tired. it's tiring as well as late. what we have in common is that all three of us find hope in Obama and desperately want him to become the next president. as for any other commonalities - there aren't many. i think there's a general left idea that all people and all peoples are the same - not only in legal equality but actual emotional and intellectual equality except for some unfair governments or cultures. i don't think so. i think peoples have their strengths and weaknesses and i think individual people are very different. i think jews are cleverer than others and that africans are more creative. those are my most basic positive prejudices. individuals can trump it of course, obama is simultaneously very creative and very intelligent. some folks got it all. but i'm sure we would argue about that as well. enough. sleep now.
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Tired
Jews are more clever- would that be Shyiock? And are Jews a race or a religion ? if you convert, do you become clever? Africans are creative. Hmm. Were Shakespeare, Galileo, DaVinci, Michaelangelo, Beethoven, et al Africans? I do agree that political equality does not confer creative, intellectual, or spiritual equality. It's late. My wife is upstairs struggling with post surgical pain. I end with only the notion that any other premise than egalitarianism is self congratulatory. I ask: if you propose that jews are inherently more clever, how can you castigate someone else for attributing some less favorable trait to all of "your" people. That cannot work. Otherwise, you're back to blacks can dance and sing, jews are good at business, Italians are emotional, Germans are precise and aggressive, and on and on. How can that possibly be a means for finding common ground? to be charitable at this late hour, it defies credulity. Humanity. We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men (sic) are created equal. Believe it, or don't. MIddle ground is a place to explain away your own inadequacies, or to imagine your own superiority. A heavy burden, that. Almost like keeping body counts as if they are proof or refutation of the holiness of the cause. That is the devil's bargain. I reject it.
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@maureenodonnell I'd forgooten the only real Irish people come from Munster
Isn't cork chauvinism grand ...
Of course I could give you a laundry list of people from Munster who have shady connections -- "Stab City" is after all in Munster, and the more extreme elements of the Continuity IRA are to be found in West Cork and Kerry.
But still you are from Munster -- so the rest of us are not fit to kiss the hem of your robe.
Feck off you vain, misinformed parochial edgit.
You know nothing about me, where I am from, where I have been, where I am now. So I went to Trinity, you went ... So f*cking what, only to an ingnoramus would having an education be a flaw. And since you are on that tack, why not try explaining away Hillary's attendance at Wellesley and Yale -- on your analysis that should condemn her.
But you are much to dishonest to do that.
By the way, I notice that nothing you said addressed the point I made - it is very hard to join any public organisation in Ireland without finding some dodgy people in it, Amnesty International being a good example ... from your comments I take it that you condemn its work because of the presence of Sean McBride (and by the way I share your opinion of Maude Gonne.)
Guilt by association is a tawdry tactic, your embrace of it makes you a tawdry person.
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The sort of Article I wished Salon had published, but I am very happy to see in the New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/opinion/20rich.html?hp
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MacK, Sunday morning in Munster.......
I didn't even have to consult your previous posts to remember you and the way you went wild when I criticised Samantha Power for her injudicious comments on Hillary Clinton while promoting her own book in this part of the world. Your attack was like that of a bull in a mist and you certainly did a lot of bellowing about Harvard and your connections with the two Marys. I'm not sure whether you're wilfully obtuse or whether you just can't help yourself. Education is great, of course, but what's not great is the assumption of superiority in some of those witless ones who have had the financial resources to swan around some university while their dilettante lifestyle is being subsidised by the taxpayer.
My favourite saint is Audrey and since "tawdry" is derived from her name that would explain why I'm so tatty. Your attempt to link me with violent subversives is laughable. You should look more closely at your hero whose political career was facilitated by Bomber Ayers while poor oul' Alice Palmer was "thrown under the bus", as you put it in the US. Although Alice had "walked the walk" in the struggle for civil rights I suppose she didn't "talk the talk", having never gone to Harvard or some such place. Ayers wanted someone smoother, more cosmopolitan and less definable and Barack fitted the bill. MacK, you should do your homework more assiduously because, as sure as death and taxes, the Republicans will. I'm bored with all this anyway. Some of the people posting on this site have interesting ideas which they express in fluent language but you're not one of them. You misuse the word "chauvinism" which is French and was associated with extreme nationalism and you make totally exaggerated assertions about Cork, Limerick, Kerry.....as hotbeds of madness and mayhem. MacK "I'm going outside and I may be some time", as Captain Oates said when facing out into the blizzard during the doomed expedition to the Antarctic, led by Robert Falcon Scott in l9l2. Yeah, there's a point when staying around isn't worthwhile especially when it involves blather about one of the four provinces. I hope Samantha is well. She has very nice hair but she talks too fast as so many people from Cork do but I suppose that's understandable as her mother hails from that "chauvinistic" place.