Letters to the Editor
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right delores. baby steps
These gop propogandists want it both ways. They want their cake and eat it to.
they mock obama supporters as a cult. They say he is a messiah, mockingly.
then they demand he solves every single problem in the planet NOW, before he's ever set foot in office. It is HIS job to end racism. It is HIS job to end poverty. It is HIS job to give a health care plan. It is HIS job to end war in the middle east and come up with an alternative.
Since when did we become a monarchy? don't answer that. It is the gop who are loyal subjects to a monacrhy. Not us progressives/patriotic americans. Gop mindset.
It is not obama's job to solve all the worlds ills. It's yoru's and mine. Obama will facilatate that. He will allow the american people's voices to be heard. Baby steps. We can't change the world overnight. it takes work, right clinton supporters. Rather than stunting that growth and change, how about helping with it. Rather than siding with the red coat monarchy hell bend on keeping the american peopl eout of the equation.
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jebldumb
Gee, jebldubbledumb, how did the current supreme court members get there, including Alito and the current Chief Justice, Roberts? Democrats had a majority for them. You don't get it. It is extremely difficult to get the senate to disqualify a nominee, especially a young one with impeccable intellectual credentials. So, your premise, like your threat to hold your breath until you turn blue, will have the same net effect: helping to elect McCain, who will, without doubt, nominate candidates for the supreme and appeals courts from the Federalist fasicisti. If you want to wish away your complicity in having a fascist supreme court for a generation, go right (wing) ahead. It won't change the facts. We need the executive and the legislative, and 51 or 52 votes in the senate won't slice the ice if we have Warmonger John in the drivers seat. I implore you, reconsider. Otherwise, you'll have earned all those epithets, and a helluva lot more. Being a citizen is serious business. It's not about getting your own way.
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@jebldmm
You make some excellent points.
We fail to remember that America is still a baby vis-a-vis the other civilized countries of the world.
Some examples: (with a caveat; not all, but all too many)
In China, adult children fight with each other for the privilege of caring for their elders. In America, they fight with each other over who they can pawn them off on.
After the oil shocks of the 70's, the rest of the world taxed oil and built modern mass transit & infrastructure, downsized automobiles, and drove less. In America, we ramped up production of Tahoes and Expeditions.
When the world's scientists told us we were choking ourselves on petrochemical emissions, the rest of the world immediately began taking steps to address the issue. In America, we fought over destroying the last remnants of wildlife & beauty to get more petrochemicals into our system.
The current election scene is a perfect metaphor for the American story. The young want to "roll the dice" on a story teller; the adults prefer to settle for less than perfect grown ups.
The problem is our system, and why no Washingtons, Lincolns, or Roosevelts want to rise up to lead us.
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NYShooter I'm sorry
Did you say that a grown up starts after age 46?
Did you roll the dice on the governor of arkansas who was also a kid, Bill Clinton? Or was he a grown up at age 46? Did you vote for Kennedy?
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obama is that for me, and millions other ny
He is our jfk. Our mlk. He is who we are trusting and hanging our hat on, so to speak. May not be for you and millions others. that is yoru choice. You cannot destroy my dreams any more than I can destroy your's. You might say that is projection. You are right. That doesn't change truth.
Early american patriots hung their hat on washington. they projected their hopes and dreams on him. Same with many many other GRET LEADERS. Where are our great leaders? America. how many decades must you go in the past to find brave patriotic non partisan leaders? 50? Why?
Because no one is ever good enough for everybody. some like this guy/girl some don't. You say we have no great leaders. I disagree. Our great leaders are sports coaches. Business ceo's. Anywhere they can make money on their talents. Sad but true.
time to change that. I am for killing partisanship. Killing it. (out of many, we are one). We haven't been one since the cival war, regardless of what the histroy books say. Why?
Barack is my JFK. HE IS MY MLK. He is my george washington. Do not kill my dreams. I will not kill your's. Deal? :)
People need to rise above themsevles and their own private universes. Reality persists, even if american's left it. obama and his movement are trying to fix the damge done by the past. Recent and long past. Take solence in that. Can you say the same about clinton? Bush? gore? Reagan? Nixon? And on and on down the line? No.
A christian man believes he must make up for his fathers and grandfathers sins. Only then is his father whole again. Yet the son cannot do his work without the teachings of the father. In that unity and saving principleman is redeemed. Both the son and the father. The son's children are then free of the past burned. This is why the "religous right" are frauds. they create clones. they do not reddem for their fathers past sins. they create new sins to burden their sons, for eternity. Time to break the cycle.
Pretend obama is an asian if you must. Or a jew. Or an old white lady. Or a hispanic. He is not what you shoudl be focused on. his past, what he wants to do for the future, and his words, are what you should focus on. We are what we do and what we say.
Interconnected concepts, none having anything to do with each other. Just trying to do my small part. When you have a candidate you really believe in, profess truths and why and I will have your back ny. It's not always about you all the time. We are a nation of many. We all get our time of representation. now is my, and those like me (progressive, post racial, liberal, anti current gop), time. Please don't ruin it for us. you'll get your time soon enough. Share power, please. When and if he screws up, then bash him. Don't hate him for that which he has no control. He can just be him, as I can just be me, and you can just do you. WE are all americans. Respect the risk and the cahlleges he faces. If your not going to be part of the solution, please please don't join the gop and be p[art of the problem