Letters to the Editor
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How come
Freudenthal is picking a republican? You can bet if the reverse was true, Republican governor and Democratic legislature, there is no way that would happen...
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Onion nitpick
Though the Onion may not have been well known outside of Madison at the time, it predates the Web by a bit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Onion
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How Come....
Rusty, Wyoming law requires that the governor appoint a replacement from the same political party as the Congressman being replaced. If Gov. Freudenthal does, indeed, plan to run for the Senate seat himself, it will make his very choice interesting.
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Lynne Cheney
If you watched Crossfire years ago you would know that Lynne Cheney is a hateful liar. And there is obviously a large right-wing hateful-liar constituency out there so she might be perfect.
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Baton twirling Twit from Casper Wyo.
I had the most terrible bad luck during the oil boom of the early '80s to spend six weeks in Casper, Wyo., a town of assholes, rednecks, redneck assholes, oilfield trash hillbilly transplants from Texas and Oklahoma, and a few cowboys.
So Dick and Lynne's behavior in Washington is about what you might expect, coming from a place like Casper. Casper is basically a pipeyard and storage tank facility servicing the oil exploration and production facilities of eastern Wyoming, a place so desolate and depressing that alcoholism and suicide are the number one occupational hazards.
It's generous to call Casper a shithole. When its not buried in snow, there is a perpetual dust storm. Everybody is grossly obese. You've never seen so many fat people anywhere. Haute Cuisine in Casper is Burger King. While I was there a couple of kickers tied a gay man behind their pick-em-up truck and dragged him to death. Even the local paper thought it was funny.
This is the town that Lynne and Dick came from.
There are beautiful places in Wyoming. Casper is the anus of the state.
It pretty much explains everything about Lynne and Dick.
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Hillary Wants to Be Called Hillary
I heard you on NPR today Joan, and appreciated your answer on why Hillary is being called Hillary, but the issue is more than that, and I am interested in when it's going to come up in the election. As I am sure you know, what those callers are really getting at are the "female issues" i.e. her voice, her hair, her dad, and Americas' mysogenist army.
I admire your professionalism as you must have an emotional stake in the matter, yet it's "hands off" when it comes to the great imponderable: A WOMAN PRESIDENT.
It's astonishing at this point, really, that her being the first woman candidate is NOT discussed, nor is the discussion being initiated by those who opinionate. At least, the crap about her vote for the war has been eclipsed. How about this for the question:
How do you think Hillary's being a woman is impacting the positions she is taking, especially her courting of moderates, and then some.
And what about the lack of credit she has received for her work on health care, which puts her in a different league than the others. Cindy Sheehan's parting shot at the "left" is worth recognizing. It isn't the right who disappointed her NOW WAS IT.
The same spectacle is unfolding with Hillary, and narry a voice is being heard. But maybe Paglia is still planning to run, and that will fix everything.
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From Joan Walsh
Thanks Ben Sen, I know the issue is bigger than I discussed; I just can't get worked up about Hillary being called "Hillary." And I think I said on the show that I thought her tough debate reply about the US being "safer" since 9/11 was another example of her trying to seem more moderate and tough on terror than Obama or Edwards, especially after her base-pleasing vote against the supplemental funding bill. And part of that certainly stems from her desire to reassure voters that a woman can be a tough commander in chief. But that's a whole piece in itself, which I hope I eventually write someday.
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The "webby's" are such
horseshit. Nobody watches or cares.
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Hillary markets *herself* as just "Hillary"
Go back and look at her Senate campaign - all the buttons and banners were not for Hillary Clinton or Mrs. Clinton but for "Hillary". I think it was a savvy move to distance herself from Bill and pick up any latent female-voter-bloc support (not that there has been a terrible lot of that, then or now) at the same time.
It's not a gender issue - it's a positioning issue that Hillary, herself, has defined. Mostly to her benefit, I might add.
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About "Hillary"
I'm so sorry that I probably won't vote for her.
First woman running for Prez, some decent credentials, etc.
Should be good.
BUT, I truly believe that she is a go-with-the-flow, say-anything-to get-elected pol. Just like all the (male) others.
I'm so fed up. Call me jaded.