BuzzFlash Mailbag for November 18, 2008

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Subject: Joe Lieberman and the Democrats

Once again I was fooled by the Democrats. They don't want change. They are full of horsefeathers. I can't believe they did not kick that traitor out. He has betrayed them and all of the American people. I resign as a Democrat. Change, my eye! I hope by 2012 there is a new party. No more Republicans and Republican lite (Democrats.

Anthony Ward
Lockport, Ill

Subject: RECESSION? WHAT RECESSION?

After spending the last few years in denial and refusing to admit the economy sucks, the Republicans have finally had to admit just how bad things really are. But are any of them taking responsibility for the record high unemployment and historically awful economic conditions? Hell, no! Blame the Democrats! The Republicans are never responsible for anything bad that happens in America. It's always the Democrats' fault. And Bill Clinton's fault, too, of course. Hey, why don't we blame Jimmy Carter, Lyndon Johnson, JFK, Harry Truman, FDR, and Woodrow Wilson? And since I'm a liberal, I guess it's my fault too!

Shirley Dianne Jackson
Portland, Oregon

Subject: Joe Lieberman

Well, BuzzFlash, you can stop moaning and groaning about Joe. He won, you lost. Time to move on.

A BuzzFlash Reader

Subject: 70000 hungry children

Seems the banks wall street and the big three are more important then people (esp children).

700 bil would give each of these kids 100,000 that could be used to feed and educate so their kids never go hungry.

Go USA help the fatcats f*** the kids, what a great country.

robert mcnulty
chatt tn

Subject: of course there was bias

Sure they had some interviewing bias, but the media and society will still be biased against women. It was exhilarating to vote for Cynthia McKinney because nobody can take the vote for a woman from me. McKinney got over 144,000 votes nationwide and even got votes in every single solitary county in Arizona.

A BuzzFlash Reader

Subject: Media asked the wrong question again

During the debates, the media took great pride in asking both candidates "what will you have to give up in light of the bailout?" The question, asked repeatedly, implicitly assumes that the $700 billion figure was both sufficient and necessary to save the economy; that saving the economy, whatever that means, is more important than whether people are starving, have medical care, or are returned THEIR money that THEY put into Social Security when they retire.

We now know that the $700 billion figure was picked out of thin air and that the Bush administration has no idea what to do about the financial crisis. The only thing that has been done with the money so far is to pay executive bonuses (see Naomi Klein interview on Democracy Now.) So the question that should have been asked is what is the best use of such a large sum of money? And why the hell are we giving the Bush administration that can't account for billions missing in the Iraq war, billions more to squander?

Just as in the build up to the Iraq war, the central question, WHY, is MIA.

The soft-on-torture liberal

Subject: Cheerleaders for Obama no matter what?

First of all thank you for your service to the American public hungry for progressive news during the dark period of the last eight years. Next I am happy about Obama too...yet...

However ever since the election, I am getting a little tired of the cheerleading for Obama as the second coming of Jesus Christ of democracy and populism coming from BuzzFlash. Obama has so far taken a very dangerous middle of the road and not very progressive leadership strategy.

I really hope for a more critical view of his actions here and not so much of a celebratory tone no matter what.

For example, Hillary for secretary of state...same Hillary who voted for the war over and over. Next former Pennsylvania secretary of ag Wolff soon to be named to the USDA...same guy who voted to reduce the public's right to know what is in its milk supply.

I would hope some of these stories might make it to the top of your news alert page...and a little less of Obama/Biden...the rebirth of freedom message you have been pumping out recently...otherwise you become as much of party hacks as MoveOn.org. It's still a dark time in America and we depend on you to shed a little light.

If not you will have one less subscriber and I suspect I am not the only one out there.

Please remember we are still the loyal opposition even to the not very progressive goals of the mainstream democratic party...I hope you can realize this. Obama is a giant leap forward from Bush yet we are not all the way there yet and have much work to do during the next four years.

Thanks for your consideration of my comments.

john lippmann
Stockbridge, MA

Subject: Hillary Clinton

A message to Barack Obama:

Go into the background before you accept a Clinton into your administration -- please read the Clinton Chronicle. This is urgent!

Elka Bister
Hamburg, Germany

[BuzzFlash Note: Those are conspiracies that don't hold up in our opinion.]

Subject: An illusion of safety

Hark in the distance I hear bells toll another has died I make my way to the square sanity left behind in Pandora's box the key hidden

they announced his name he was a brother of mine this is no stranger on whose command did he die

I rush back home and search for the key it was sold eons ago I traded it for

an illusion of safety to my brother's master

Akhil Bhardwaj
Newport, NJ

Subject: Automakers

My father and all my uncles either have been or are now auto industry workers in Ohio. They all moved there to get away from the coal mines of PA. They thought they had died and gone to heaven. What great pay. Great overtime, etc.

Now, they are mostly old, some retired, as I said, and their benefits are threatening to be taken away from them. How do men in their seventies go out and buy good health insurance? My father, for instance, has had three heart bypasses. Something has to be done, but instead of going back to the old ways, how about building cars for this century? Get rid of the gas guzzlers and go to solar or whatever it takes. As T. Boone Pickens says, "This is America," "We can do anything."

Stand up and sing it if you have to, and get your lazy butts up off the couch and save our country.

A BuzzFlash Reader

Subject: hate crimes

We came home from another needed trip away, to find that "hate crimes" in this area have gone out of sight. I am sick of it and cannot understand it, but never knew...ever...that this state was so ruled by the rural class of people who would never vote for that "N" word. It shames me something awful...and it also scares me for the new President. Right after he was elected...my sister called to revel a little in the victory...the lucky woman had gotten calls from her son, daughter and grandson who was in college. No one else in the family really would congratulate anyone. I had no one to do that, except my sister, and friend...who are all in the same age group...thank God for them. She told me and I agree...and more so, after reading our papers...that the only fear we have for this man, are the crazy gun owners out there, who stocked up on assault rifles when they could see that the democrat would win. WHO NEEDS AN ASSAULT RIFLE EXCEPT SOMEONE WHO IS PLANNING TO USE IT? ...WE DO NOT HUNT GAME WITH ASSAULT RIFLES...MY FATHER DID NOT! We must stay alert...and just hope...I would like to think that the world is a different place than when Martin L. King and the Kennedy brothers were big names...but, you can never be sure.

Shirley ... St. Louis

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