This letter is associated with the following article:
Letters
Tuesday, August 26, 2008 12:00 AM

Mitt Romney joins the mile-high club

John McCain's former rival shows up in Denver to slam Barack Obama and, officially at least, not audition for the GOP's vice-presidential nod.
Mike Madden

Read other letters about this article

  • Tuesday, August 26, 2008 04:41 PM

    As far as the Soviet line is concerned

    He's really not that off calling them such. The territory has been whittled some, and the name on the map now says Russia, but the folks tightening their grip on the country over there are the same folks who held it for so long during the Cold War. The days of Perestroika, Gorbachev and Yeltsin are over. This could indeed be the new Soviet Union arising, for all intensive purposes.

    —zenbooty Read zenbooty's other letters

    Flag
Read other letters about this article

Most Active Letters Threads

740

The commendably missing element from Obama's speech

There was no pretense that human rights is our goal, or the likely outcome, in escalating the war
Glenn Greenwald Read article
405

Do Obama officials know what his Afghanistan plan is?

What explains the completely contradictory statements from key aides on a central plank of the war strategy?
Glenn Greenwald Read article
402

America's regression

It's almost impossible to find a nation with as many torture advocates as the U.S. has.
Glenn Greenwald Read article
317

Palin: Birthers have "fair question" about Obama

Of Obama birth, the ex-governor says, "the public is still, rightfully, making it an issue" (Updated)
Alex Koppelman Read article
211

The poster boy for progressive self-delusion

Read Hayden's 2008 Obama endorsement to remember the way the left sold our centrist president to itself
Joan Walsh Read article

View all »

Letters Help

Currently in Salon