The Editor’s Desk

First we have weeks of nothing but Obama on the cover, then last week we had a cover in Arabic and now Rush with ENOUGH over his mouth. ENOUGH is correct sir. After 10 years subscribing to your magazine, I am canceling my subscription. I subscribed in the first place because the magazine USED to be more centrist and reported pretty evenly on the actual news. Now it's nothing but the Democratic free press. You truly have lost my respect in your organization. If I wanted to have just one side of the news, I'd watch Olberman and Matthews at night. So...in one sense your cover was right. For this reader, it truly is ENOUGH!

I continue to choke everytime I hear Rush Limbaugh and other Republiican Conservative protectionists use the work "Liberal" in front of every description to descibe Democrats. It has truly been "Liberal Republicans" who "liberally" deregulated the financial markets to allow this entire economic meltdown to take place. From Phil Gramm taking millions of special interest money from Wall Street executives (and his wife taking in over $1 million from Enron and sitting on its Board) to eradicate the Glass/Steagall Act to Republican "do nothing" Christopher Cox as the head of the feckless SEC, the term "Liberalism" has been contorted and misused to mindlessly point the blame at every other party except the Republicans and Limbaugh is their biggest mouthpiece. R.Orloff

America doesn???t need a thousand flowers borne from the seed of gamblers, ones who doubled down on the supply side with all the government chips, and let demand wither as little more than a red haired stepchild. For every good thing from the crest of the conservative movement, say 401K plans, one must also consider the ushering in of the management style that killed the Teacher in Space. This management style was gambling. Gambling stripped out safeguards and ignored risk, and doubled down on the pursuit of unbridled accumulation of wealth. Professional gamblers know the house always wins in the end. Now, many are clearly saying, ???Let it stay in Vegas???.

The elevator many rode to the penthouse, is the same one ridden by the Chinese prior to the 1990s. For them, it was to achieve full employment. Here, many rode it to achieve incredible wealth under a spirit of ???Americans can do anything???. Both were powered by supply side economics, and both failed. Both were misallocations of capital and led to idled or wasted inventories, given little consideration for demand. And both, though different sides of the same $100 chip, were forms of gambling that harmed the public. Essentially, we now know ???Americans can also SAY anything???. But does this elevator go all the way to the top, and should America continue to ???comp??? the behavior?

The conservative wave crested on American shores, flooding American neighborhoods. As the tide ebbs, and we slog through the outcome, knee-deep in a backwater of idled inventory, salvaging what we can from our waterlogged pasts, leaving behind so many failed beliefs, we shake our heads at the tin-eared diatribe passed off as public debate. As we move on in search of higher ground, we care little for "movements", or ???carpe diem???. We are truly tired of politicians and gamblers, ones who have never considered us as anything more than red-haired stepchildren. We simply push forward through the flood.

The speakers of division do owe us a deep apology. When we view America???s past, we find battlefields stained with American blood, both conservative and liberal, and that's what made America, not some cynical triangulation designed to disenfranchise Americans. ???There are no Red States, there are no Blue States, there???s only the United States of America.??? If all one hears is slogan, then they miss the gentle whispering carried on the rising tide. As some head down this old creek away from the mainstream, remember: The American public has the paddles. Your businesses will fail. Your banks will fail, and lastly, your ideology will fail, until you become foremost, the honest guardians of the American public. To protect and serve the American public, and not the corporate gambling interests of the few. That???s our strict bottom line. And you should already know what's said about heading up THAT creek without paddles.

Man must find and know his limitations, before somebody or

I just read the article by Peter Singer titled ???The Science Behind Or Generosity.??? By the end of the article, I was inspired to donate 1% of my entire income to charity. However when I visited the Web site he suggested in his article, it was nothing more than an advertisement for his book ???The Life You Can Save.??? In the article, Peter claims 27,000 children are dying every day and really sheds light on the importance of giving. I got the feeling however, that he???s trying to sell something here, make profit for himself. Here???s an idea: instead of wasting our money buying your stupid book about the importance of charity, why don???t we give THAT money to charity too? I get the feeling Mr. Singer cares more about his books sales than how many children lives are saved. Did you know that if 10 people boycott this book and give their money to charity, that would be enough to save a child???s life?? It makes me want to puke when I see this kind of capitalist greed feeding of of the world???s poor.

Oh give me a break Jon. After spending two years sucking up to Obama during the campaign (remember the Purple cover? How bipartisan do you think Obama is now that he is using the White House press room to go after Limbaugh?) Now you are going to carry water for him by promoting their "spin" of the day. The VAST majority of Conservatives support Limbaugh and think he is an asset but, of course, you have to go out and find the Conservative that disagrees with Rush in order to make your point. Just like you had to go out and find the most obscure Republicans in order to manufacture a phenomenon called Obamicans. Then in this issue you do an article on how Obama is going against the establishment when he has just created the largest give away of government money to core Democrat constituencies? You have lost all credibility when it comes to covering Obama. You created him and now you have to cover for him.

The only reason why the GOP is not able to be an effective opposition with new ideas is because both the Republicans and Democrats are intrinsically the same, with slight variations. There are also many instances that they think alike.

I would suggest actually listening to Rush's show in its entirety, that is if you at all WANT to have a full picture. The Democrat-dominated media and of course the White House purposefully takes him out of context and demonizes him based on this, that or the other thing.

The difference between actually listening to his entire show regularly, and just hearing maliciously selected snippets, is vast.

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Dole and McCain? Bob Forsberg, you have to be kidding.

WHY are you printing anything from David Frum.?? This is one of the main villains that drug us into IRAQ and costed us soldiers, contract workers, our Army and hundreds of billions of dollars. WHY DOES TIME-WARNER INSIST ON LISTENING TO REPUBLICANS THAT ARE CONSISTENTLY WRONG. STOP IT.

Using a NEWSWEEK pole to determine the popularity of Rush Limbaugh vs Pelosi is like using the readers of Rush Limbaugh's newsletter to determine the popularity of liberals in the House & Senate.

The real problem with the Republican Party is they allow the media to pump up the weakest Republican candidate unchallenged and wonder why they keep loosing elections. Bob Dole & John McCain demonstrated a history of service to America, but neither appeared Presidential. Bush squeaked by in both his elections because the opposition had track records that frightened most of middle America.

With newspapers and magazines going out of business about as fast as house foreclosures, maybe in the next election there will actually be unbiased reporting and less Obamagasms.