Correspondence
Correspondence AN EYE FOR DETAIL AS A RELATIVELY NEW SUBSCRIBER tO THE WEEKLY STANDARD I have found myself anxiously awaiting the arrival of each issue. In the past, I have leapt to the articles...
...Leaving the issue of affirmative action to the courts, for example, is exactly what the Democrats want...
...TIMOTHY FURNISH Alpharetta, GA...
...There are no living survivors of slavery...
...Was the Cadillac supposed to imply that the best vehicle in political terms would be the party of Clinton and company...
...Without falling too heavily on the "a picture is worth a thousand words" cliche, I could not help but notice the not-so-subliminal messages conveyed by the Aug...
...Was Joe Lieberman's despondent look supposed to be reflective of his real mood because of the sacrifice he's making...
...21) raises some pressing questions...
...In the past, I have leapt to the articles without ever giving the multicolored caricatured covers much more than a passing ho-hum...
...MARK LANDSBAUM Diamond Bar, CA SAM GOLDMAN'S ARTICLE covers most of my objections to the reparations movement, but doesn't state them anywhere near strongly enough...
...Do the Bushies think the liberal judicial activists sitting on the federal bench will actually overturn this reverse racism...
...I want to win as much as any Republican...
...CARL W WATSON Demorest, GA STAANDING FOR ELECTION FRED BARNES'S ARTICLE on "The Bush Republicans" (Aug...
...Why can't any professional politician or pundit understand that taking a principled stand against these and other issues is not extremism...
...Shall we exempt them...
...Why don't we deal with those, and forget about what happened to, and was perpetrated by, the long dead...
...No one can directly claim to have either profited or lost by the institution...
...BILL MATWIJIW Chicago, IL GORE IS THE PROBLEM DAVID TELL'S "The Meaning of Lieberman" (Aug...
...21, 2000, cover...
...The dead are gone, and I can't help but think that their descendants aren't entitled to profit by their fore-parents' suffering...
...Those six letters say as much about those characters in the car as any six letters of the alphabet regardless of accent, tone, arrangement, or use...
...Who do I see about getting reparations for the shabby way my ancestors were treated when they were chased into central Europe a few millennia ago...
...CHRISTOPHER C. HORNER Alexandria, VA MONEY FOR NOTHING I GUESS REPARATIONS make as much sense as most of what John Conyers says (Sam Goldman, "The Reparations Bandwagon," Aug...
...The argument of our Democratic counterparts in pursuit of this angle is that Lieberman's selection is an assurance that the Clinton White House shenanigans won't go on in a Gore White House...
...How about southern whites who opposed slavery...
...But this week I learned something, or at least I think I learned something...
...I became a Republican because "the Democratic party left me," as President Reagan said...
...21) voices the frustration among Republican policy and political types watching the incredible lightness of being "Joe" unfold...
...If Conyers really wants to balance the scales of justice, he ought to figure out who are the present-day descendants of the black Africans who enslaved his people in the first place, then sold his ancestors to white buyers...
...But I don't want a candidate and a party willing to sacrifice principled stands for the sake of winning an election...
...Bite my tongue...
...Is this "diversity" and "inclusion" foolishness just for the consumption of the liberal media...
...According to Christopher Caldwell ("An Orthodox Liberal"), Gore-Lieberman is "considerably to the left of the Clinton-Gore ticket that Democrats rode to triumph in 1992 and 1996...
...Or am I just hyperventilating...
...Little did I know that the Republican party actually wanted to be more like the Democratic party...
...Was Al's strained smile supposed to indicate just how much he would like to dump the Clintons...
...Were the dark glasses Hillary was sporting an indication that she thinks she's too cool even for this group of wannabes...
...He can make a far better case against them than he can against the descendants of the people who freed the slaves...
...Tell me, was the green Cadillac supposed to represent Gore's support for the Kyoto accords since they would require a reduction in emissions levels to those of the 1970s...
...I have severe doubts about compensating the descendants of World War II internees, or even the descendants of victims of the Holocaust...
...DIANNA DEELEY Fremont, CA HEDGING OUR BETS YOUR AUGUST 21 ISSUE left me a little ideologically seasick...
...Okay, point ceded...
...Having been stopped dead in my tracks by the vanity plate I decided this issue could not be fully appreciated unless I scoured the cover for more messages, both subtle and direct...
...Not the least of these frustrations involves the height of irony in Lieber-man's being used to distance Al Gore from President Clinton...
...Surely justice does not have a sell-by date...
...Was Tipper's admiring smile directed at Hillary because she secretly covets the attention Hillary receives...
...But is money given to great-great-grandchildren justice...
...People who didn't do anything wrong to anyone are expected to pay reparations to people who didn't have anything wrong done to them because of things that happened long before either group was alive involving people who have been dead for decades...
...But wait: Tod Lind-berg ("Yes, There Is a Third Way") says, au contraire, that the "Gore-Lieberman ticket [is] slightly to the right of Clinton-Gore...
...U-turns on "principles" and other hypocrisy in the name of being on the ticket must be addressed only in the most oblique fashion—say, by praising his erstwhile conservative positions and wishing him a speedy recovery...
...But is that not also an admission that with a different vice president, the Clinton White House shenanigans wouldn't have gone on in the Clinton White House...
...Boy did you guys knock it out of the park with the vanity plate...
...Was the smoke from the tailpipe an indication that, true to Democratic politics, Gore's campaign is just an over-hyped smoke-and-mir-rors production...
...And what of those whose ancestors fought to end slavery...
...My ancestors never owned a slave, nor profited by slavery (unless you want to try to create a really complicated case for indirect profit), and didn't even get to this continent until after the Civil War...
...Maybe by the time President Bush is sworn in they will have figured it out...
...If the Republican party is no longer willing to take a principled stand against issues such as quotas, illegal immigration, bilingual education, term limits, or the reduction of the federal bureaucracy, then what, exactly, does the party stand for...
...There are wrongs done every day on the basis of race...
...Don't get me wrong...
Vol. 5 • September 2000 • No. 48
