I voted from abroad for the first time in almost 30 years of voting. I watched with trepidation and hope from abroad.
Sadly, I realize there is still much hate and racism in my country. But yet the hope is still there that my country fully embraces the diversity that makes it so great and to quote President Obama: I (we) believe in a generous America, in a compassionate America, in a tolerant America…”
Kristine Tolman
Mesa
Rich posted at 6:53 pm on Tue, Nov 13, 2012.
"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving
hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry
fix,
angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the
starry dynamo in the machinery of night,
who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the
supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of
cities contemplating jazz,
who bared their brains to Heaven..." HOWL Allen Ginsberg
You choose the easy things to tolerate, like skin color. When, in the end, the only things worth your toleration are ideas.
Leon Ceniceros posted at 8:18 pm on Tue, Nov 13, 2012.
HELLO.....HELLO.....ANYBODY IN THE EVT'S EDITORIAL OFFICE.....HOW'S ABOUT SOME CONSERVATIVE LETTERS FOR A CHANGE. WHERE IS ALL THIS "DIVERSITY" AND "OUT-REACH" THAT THE LIBS ARE ALWAY TALKING ABOUT ???
AND HOW ABOUT GETTING SOME......"UN-BIASED"....REPORTERS TOO WHILE YOU ARE AT IT.
EVER SINCE THE EVT WON THE LEFT-WING LIBERAL "PULITZER PRIZE" (SPEAKING OF WHICH.....THE LAST I HEARD ABOUT THE TWO REPORTERS IS THAT ONE IN WORKING FOR THE OBAMA PENTAGON OUT IN THE BOONIES OF AFGHANISTAN AND THE OTHER ONE IS A REPORTER/JOURNALISM TEACHER AT SOME PO-DUNK COLLEGE IN THE BAY AREA.....SO MUCH FOR "FAME".......BY THE WAY...THE "TARGET" OF THESE TWO REPORTERS' ...MULTI-COLUMN, MULTI-PAGE, MULTI-DAY "EXPOSE", NONE OTHER THAN THE "TOUGHEST SHERIFF IN AMERICA", MARICOPA COUNTY'S VERY OWN .....SHERIFF JOE ARPIO..........JUST WON RE-ELECTION FOR THE 6 TIME....SO MUCH FOR LIBERAL JOURNALISM "EXPOSES".................GETTING BACK TO MY POINT....THE EVT HAS BECOME A ...."ONE HORSE RACE".....THE ONLY CONSERVATIVE PIECES IN THE PAPER ARE THE ...."COMMENTS".
WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO ...."FAIR AND BALANCED" REPORTING, FOLKS.....YOU KNOW.....FACTS, DATES, INFORMATION......INSTEAD OF LIBERAL "PROPAGANDA".
THE EVT USED TO HAVE "SECTIONS"....NOW IT'S LUCKY TO HAVE ..."PAGES"........LET'S GO BACK TO THE OLD WAY OF GIVING THE READER........"BOTH SIDES OF AN ISSUE"...AND ..."LETTING THEM DECIDE".
Dale Whiting posted at 5:20 am on Wed, Nov 14, 2012.
Leon,
You are the EVT's balance, you and Rush Limbaugh!
Dale Whiting posted at 5:21 am on Wed, Nov 14, 2012.
Rich,
Racial equality is an idea whose time has come long ago!
sockratties posted at 8:36 am on Wed, Nov 14, 2012.
leon is a troll... don't feed the trolls
Bluepoet posted at 11:37 am on Wed, Nov 14, 2012.
Apparently, The Trib doesn't care if Leon is a troll...they printed his letter to the editor. Proof positive that the Trib is a liberal/conservative, commie/fascist yellow journalism rag.
Or, is it just that they find provincial ranting somehow---entertaining?
chatmandu002 posted at 11:50 am on Wed, Nov 14, 2012.
Kristine,
When trumped up hate and racism brother you more than deficit and debt then we have lost our country to the progressive socialists.
Bluepoet posted at 12:15 pm on Wed, Nov 14, 2012.
Kristine,
While it's very true that hate and racism are still very much alive and well, in this country, it's also true that most people find that repugnant. It is also true that, on a broader scale, this is used as a tool by powerful men, to keep the populace in fear and to deflect from the more insidious manipulation--that being, to keep a market going for military arms, influence peddling, and control over oil.
At present, there is no political entity that exists, to stop this train of inertial entropy. The political parties we vote for, or against, only serve as, at most, referees, in this struggle for power, while we are merely the pawns...
Arizona Willie posted at 11:42 am on Thu, Nov 15, 2012.
Anyone who believes in a tolerant America has NOT been paying attention.[censored]We have people making up petitions to secede from the U.S. and flying flags upside down etc. etc. all because the skin of our President is not white.Organizations have called for armed revolution -- because we have a black President.Oh yeah, they don't come out and say it in plain English but you can take it to the bank that racism is indeed the reason for their opposition.
chuckles3 posted at 12:30 pm on Thu, Nov 15, 2012.
Yes, you got me. I oppose Obama because he is half black.
Not because of Obamacare. Not because of $6 trillion in new debt. Not because of 16 million more people going on food stamps in the last four years. Not because more people are going on disability every month than are getting newly created jobs. Not because of the disaster in the Middle East. Not because he added two raging liberals to the Supreme Court. Not because of his job killing energy policies. Not because of his wasted stimulus with our money. Not because of Obama phones. Not because his Senate has not passed a budget in 3 years. Not because of his Amnesty by executive order. Not because more Americans have been killed in Afghanistan during his tenure than Bush's.
I could go on, but what's the point? I am just a racist hater. Abortions on demand! Don't you know most aborted babies are minorities?
Masterrogue666 posted at 1:43 pm on Thu, Nov 15, 2012.
Wow! AZ Willie played the "race" card? THAT'S a FIRST! As I recall, Willie, you don't approve of Obama's attempts, and then finally Presidential Order giving certain CRIMINALS the right to stay in the USA. Does what you wrote also apply to you as well? Or, perhaps someone else is now using your avatar/login, it's a possibility.
As for flying the flag upside down, I've been told it's "Freedom of Expression" to burn the American flag in protest (Although you'd better not do that on MY PROPERTY!). How is flying it upside down any different? At least it isn't being destroyed.
Yes, there are racists ON BOTH SIDES! It seems that some people are forgetting that FACT!
VofReason posted at 1:54 pm on Thu, Nov 15, 2012.
So when the Media and all the smart people in Hollywood were calling President Bush the most vile things they could think of, was it becuase they hated white people? Hatred and racism exist. Most people do not hate and are not racists. Some can find hate and racism in anything. The problem there is not with others, but with them.
mrconservative posted at 12:53 pm on Fri, Nov 16, 2012.
About Planned Parenthood:
I wonder, is anyone is aware that Planned Parenthood was begun by a racist woman? It was started for the purpose of aborting black babies. Margaret Sanger is her name. She is a known racist. Doesn't it strike you as odd that Obama wants to continue to fund this murderous group?
I wouldn't give them a penny if my life depended on it.
Engaged Voter posted at 11:59 am on Thu, Nov 22, 2012.
But you'll give 10% of your money to the Murderous Mormons.
Gosh mrconservative, are you a hypocrite? LOL
"The massacre at Mountain Meadows on September 11, 1857, was the single most violent act of religious hate in the USA untul September 11, 2001"
Guess who committed the massacre? ;)