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5.7.08 @ 12:01AM

ALWAYS A PLEASURE
Re: Bill Croke's To the River of No Return:

I always enjoy Bill Croke's wry sense of humor in his delightful articles. As a Montana native, Bill's tales of the West bring about a feeling of nostalgia and hankering to return to my roots. But, having lived in southern California for too many years, my blood has thinned to the degree that the area's cold season from late September to early June keeps me from returning to the Big Sky Country. I look forward to Bill's life and times in Salmon, Idaho.
-- Thomas Bullock
West Covina, California

Oh, to pick up and move! While tethered to aging pets and growing grandchildren here in NY, I've been living vicariously through Bill Croke's columns, daydreaming about visiting the West and his Rocky Mountain Bohemia. So move to Salmon, if you must; just keep writing your columns.
-- Kitty Myers
Painted Post, New York

PROPPING UP THE CLINTONS
Re: Philip Klein's Don't Stop Worrying About the Clintons:

Thank you for saying what I've been feeling for some time now. I'm a conservative and I can't believe the type of support conservative commentators have been showing the Clintons. Are we that afraid of Obama?

My feeling is that it is all serve serving. Many conservative commentators don't care one bit about advancing the conservative cause but advancing their own careers. I've grown to dislike Rush, Hannity, O'Reilly, Fox and I'm a hardcore card-carrying member of the vast right-wing conspiracy.
-- Ray Rivera

Election 2008 is made bearable only by the comedy of it all. We have Sir Edmund Rodham Hillary blasting the Chinese, Wall St. and big money. That after Norman "Soft Money" Hsu's gift of $845,000 had to be returned. Surely she will soon provide the cancelled checks payable to the ghost waiters from Chinatown. And character references from J.Chung, C. Ya Lin Tre, and J. Riady. Now that would be funny.

For an encore, bring forward Baab Rubin. Baab left Treasury to join Citi. And trousered some $100,000,000 while serving as Enron's banker. Further success including bundling subprime loans and peddling CDO's. All the while, news reports claim she is the league leader in funds raised on Wall St. See what a comedy we have here.
-- JW

Philip Klein is correct on a number of points in today's column. Ms. Clinton is a cynical, power-hungry termagant, whose turbid and pandering campaign should disgust anyone who got out of the sixth grade and isn't a bunch of dopes. But he waits until his penultimate paragraph to nail his most telling and depressing point: the declining Republicans don't have the testosterone to fight this harridan with even a modicum of fire. Pathetic! Warriors come to fight; this bunch comes to minuet.
-- James C. Eaton
Chetek, Wisconsin

It is obvious that Philip doesn't listen to Rush Limbaugh's radio program -- on which, Mr. Limbaugh repeatedly explains the purpose of "Operation Chaos."

Both Democrat Party hopefuls are Saul Alinsky-inspired Marxists. Having had a little taste of autocratic power, one has already graduated to Stalinism ("I'm going to take away those profits"). The other likely will make the jump shortly after his coronation -- which ceremony the Fourth Estate (perhaps "Fifth Column" would be more appropriate?) is doing its dead-level best to assure.

To that end, there have even been calls from within her own party for Mrs. Clinton to discontinue her campaign. If she does so, Mr. Obama's skids will be well-lubricated with the snake-oil he routinely peddles to the ignorant rubes.

"Operation Chaos" exists to keep Mrs. Clinton in the race right up to the DNC convention, so that she and Mr. Obama can deflate their own war-chests as they go at each other hammer-and-tong. When they're hurling vitriol at each other, they're less likely to spatter any on John McCain, who isn't having to deplete his coffers by answering their attack ads.

In August, whichever candidate manages to crawl out of the fighting cage to square off against Senator McCain will be a whole lot poorer (and a damned-sight bloodier!) than if Mrs. Clinton is forced out of the race now. Perhaps, by that time, Mr. McCain will have become a tad more pugnacious.
-- David Gonzalez
Wheeling, Illinois

To answer Philip Klein's question, the answer from this New Yorker is a resounding NO! And I have yet to meet an upstater that is willing to vote for her. We all know her game. She doesn't want to be President to "save the U.S. and the world," she wants to get EVEN for all the perceived wrongs done to her and her husband over the years!! And OBAMA! Well, as I say to my Democratic friends (both of them), you guys are between a rock and a hard place. Thank God for McCain!

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