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...sure Richard Corliss and I watched the same movie [Nov. 3]. Oliver Stone most certainly did have a point of view in filming W., his slice-of-life depiction of George W. Bush. The genius of Stone is that he can duplicate the emotions in the movie theater that we all feel in real life: confounded disbelief that a person like Dubya could ever become the President of the United States. Bush is perhaps the worst President we have ever had or, hopefully, will ever have. The first election, in 2000, was engineered, jockeyed and ultimately stolen. The second...
...media make much ado about the so-called Bradley effect [Nov. 3]. And it doesn't take a genius to see that John McCain and Sarah Palin have counted on this racial motivation to help them overcome the consequences of their poorly run campaign. But we must now factor in an even more potent quotient: the Obama effect--that quality whereby the more you get to know a politician, the more you like and trust him or her. This likability and perceived trustworthiness continue to grow over time. Across the board, Obama's ratings have steadily increased with key groups...
...Mike Murphy's "Here Be Monsters" [Nov. 3]: To compare the ACORN incident, in which a few paid workers filled out bogus voter registrations (which were detected, reported and purged by ACORN) for financial gain, with the massive and well-documented efforts by the GOP to suppress and steal votes is beyond biased. Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004 were called Democratic on the basis of exit polls before mysteriously ending up on the GOP side, costing the Democrats both elections. In the two cases, state officials at the helm of the electoral process were GOP loyalists, intimately involved...
While a small part of our hearts goes out to Bryan Walsh for his support of perennial also-rans the Philadelphia Phillies, we decry his suggestion that baseball is "past its prime" [Nov. 3]. It is true that the '08 season saw a small dip in attendance, but that probably had a good deal more to do with the loss of discretionary income than a problem with the game itself. This year the Fall Classic may not reach as many viewers as some previous contests, but we find the game as it ever was: entertaining, fair and fun. Swing away...
...Nov. 4, in brilliant early-morning sunshine, Harry E. Brown made his way with a walnut cane along a Kansas City, Mo., boulevard, carrying the heavy metal folding chair that had helped him through a two-hour wait to cast his ballot. He had a mile and a half still ahead of him. "The only reason I'd walk this far," Brown said, was for Barack Obama. "It's not because of the color of his skin--it's because of the change he will bring to America." Back when King was dreaming a father's dreams for his children...