NYT LTTEs on What's Wrong with Democrats Lately?

[BurtWorm]

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/04/opinion/l04dems.html

A sample:

To the Editor:

Re "So What Happened in That Election, Anyhow?" (Week in Review, Jan. 2):

What happened in the election was that Democrats continue to play politics as if it were a gentleman's game. They are polite to the opposition and, despite a decade of vicious abuse, expect Republicans to be polite to them.

Democratic pundits booked onto news programs smile at their adversaries and make reasoned arguments; their counterparts on the right smile back and then spew a torrent of lies and invective.

John Kerry politely overlooked the distasteful facts of George W. Bush's first term, starting with the bald lies about committing our troops to war. Why didn't Mr. Kerry pound on the administration's lies day after day? Why didn't he scream from the mountaintop about its hubris and unbelievable incompetence?

It wouldn't have taken much to defeat George Bush, just the truth.

William Davis
New York, Jan. 2, 2005

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Another call for some vertabrae in the spine of the Democratic Party!!

They had a chance with Howard Dean, and they blew it!!!!

Wasn't it Michael Moore who used the analogy of the Democrats acting like the abused spouse who just keeps coming back for more...and wondering what they did to deserve being treated like this?

[BurtWorm]

2. It seems as though only members of the Congressional Black Caucus

among those currently in office have the guts to stare down Republicans. Am I wrong?

[BrklynLiberal]

4. You are NOT wrong!!!!!!!

The only speech at the Dem Convention that really told it like it was was that of Rev Al Sharpton!!!!

[yurbud]

6. Another sport blacks better at than whites

DEMOCRACY.

If my rep, Henry Waxman, wasn't one of the few kickass white democrats, I'd vote for whoever the black candidate is in the dem primary. They seem to be the only ones who know what the stakes are.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

3. kick, kick, kick

[papau]

5. kick

:-)