Posted on 01/23/2010 2:12:39 PM PST by raccoonradio
To the editor:
When Martha Coakley was not voted into Ted Kennedy's seat — and it was Ted's seat, he was in it for 47 years — not only was it a slap in the face of his legacy, but it was a mistake of gargantuan proportions by the people of Massachusetts.
A year ago, the people of this nation and Massachusetts rose up with emotion and passion to exclaim that it was "time for change," and voted in Barack Obama and his policies to ensure that the mistakes of the previous eight years would not repeated. Then, a year later, we turn around and put another representative in office with the same policies as the ones we rose up to change in 2008.
How many times are we going to make the same mistake? How many times are we going to vote in white, upper-middle-class men who are so out of touch with the majority of people in Massachusetts? It's ridiculous.
I guess good looks and a winning smile have now become solid qualifications for getting an important seat like Ted's.
It's like Massachusetts has amnesia. Or perhaps we were just thinking of ourselves.
Universal health care should be a human right. It should not be debatable, argued or blocked. All citizens of a developed nation should have access to quality health care. Anything less is a violation of those basic rights and should be unacceptable.
Almost every other large nation has a form of universal health care, even countries not yet developed: Canada, France, England, Japan, Australia, Brazil, Sweden, Columbia, Peru, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Singapore, Finland, Thailand, Northern Ireland, Wales, New Zealand and virtually all of Europe — I could go on. Aren't there models enough to base our system on? We already know it works. What more proof do you need?
The rest of the world seems to understand something I guess our nation and the people of Massachusetts don't.
Jennifer Perry
It doesn’t apply to demorats.
...and the moonbats are wasting no time. I just checked my facebook and under suggested groups there was “Mike Capuano For Senate 2012”
“How many times are we going to make the same mistake? How many times are we going to vote in white, upper-middle-class men who are so out of touch with the majority of people in Massachusetts?”
Uhhhhh.... Tell me how many times you elected that white, upper class man who was out of touch with the majority, ie. Ted Kennedy, and I’ll answer your question.
Apparently Salem missed one of the witches.
Jennifer, why don’t you just go to..............Canada, France, England, Japan, Australia, Brazil, Sweden, Columbia, Peru, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Singapore, Finland, Thailand, Northern Ireland, Wales, New Zealand and virtually all of Europe —...and leave us the hell alone.
Are you sure its not from Ellie Light?
A couple of thoughts:
1. The same mistake? How about fixing the problem by getting rid of most of the jobs in this country, allowing illegal immigrants to stay and use our social services, taxing the hell out of the remaining companies that stay in business even though no one has any money to spend and making the law abiding folks who still have jobs pay for it all. How long do you think running a country that way can last?
2. Ted Kennedy cheated at Harvard. Ted Kennedy was a drunk. Ted Kennedy left that girl to struggle under the water in Chappaquidick alone in the murky dark. Ted Kennedy would never have been a Senator without his brother as President. His brother would never have been President if their father hadn’t fixed the returns in Chicago, West Virginia and Texas for him. Ted Kennedy’s father could never have fixed the election if he hadn’t been a Wall Street criminal of the first order.
3. Isn’t it ironic that our friend in Salem wants more Ted Kennedys to go to the senate from Massachusetts so he can fight for the little guy against the big corrupt Wall Street criminals. Duh, who do you think got him that seat in the first place but a big corrupt Wall Street criminal.
4. Scott Brown is not an upper middle class white guy. Anyone who knows anything about Wrentham knows that only working class families and mentally handicapped people live there. That is what Wrentham is known for.
5. Salem on the other hand is known for wealthy elitists who want to live on the water...working class back in the triple deckers and cheaper climbs...and witches who protesteth too much...as in the case of the shrill writer we just heard from.
That’s all for now...
I bet every sentence that Jen-i-fur says ends in an up-swoop. Like oh my God.
Twit.
The sentence above says it all ... "emotion and passion". If we're going to let our emotions dictate our policies then we'll deserve all the suffering we're going to get. This is the essence of what today we call "liberalism".
I'm getting old, but if I remember correctly, Teddy got his seat when brother John was elected president. They held it for him, until his birthday, because he wasn't old enough at that time.
What an idiot. She never even listened to what Scott Brown and Martha Coakley were saying and DOING! This line in her letter is almost a verbatim quote from several of the Coakley campaign TV ads that were running in the run up to the election.
And these morons call us Rushbots!? What a laugh.
I love the comment from someone that “if it were Ted’s seat it would be upside down and under water”.
Via Brown on Carr’s show, yes, for the moment.
Though Scott Brown was from Wakefield which is definitely upper middle class. But not ‘upper class’ which is what the swimmer was.
Too bad the author doesn’t realize it’s not about healthcare; more about enslavement.
Here’s another letter from someone in NC blaming the Mass. Education system for producing people who would vote for Scott:
Mass. voters cast ballots without thinking clearly
Saturday, January 23, 2010
(Updated 3:00 am)
The editorial cartoon of a “Boston Tea Party” (Jan. 21), depicts only a part of Republican Scott Brown’s winning of the U.S. Senate seat in the Massachusetts “special election.”
Another part of the story may be that the Bay State education system has failed in teaching some of its citizens in the important areas of critical-thinking skills and the fundamentals of logical thinking. And the results are that sections of the electorate can be (and recently have been) easily misled.
Sir Winston Churchill told the truth when he said: “The biggest argument against a democracy is a five-minute discussion with the average (Massachusetts) voter.” (I added “Massachusetts” just to make my point.)
And Brown may be a male Sarah Palin! Whatever.
Bill Burnett
Greensboro
And Mary Jo’s human rights?
Something will have to be done to eliminate weapons grade stupidity like this before America will be safe.
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