
{"id":629,"date":"2007-07-25T08:18:30","date_gmt":"2007-07-25T16:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2007\/07\/25\/letters-to-the-editor-72607\/"},"modified":"2007-07-25T08:18:30","modified_gmt":"2007-07-25T16:18:30","slug":"letters-to-the-editor-72607","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2007\/07\/25\/letters-to-the-editor-72607\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to the Editor: 7\/26\/07"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cradle of what?<\/strong><br \/>\nSo the 100-member Grassroots Impeach Movement (GRIM) seeks to change Carrboro\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s embraceable nickname, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Paris of the Piedmont,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Cradle of Impeachment\u00e2\u20ac\u009d until the 2008 presidential election. I declined to comment when a local reporter (not from this paper) ran the idea by me last week. My immediate reaction would not have been fit to print.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The proposed temporary nickname strikes me as a swell idea for a collectible t-shirt, and it does a fine job of portraying Carrboro as a temporarily pissed-off little town. If these are GRIM\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s flimsy objectives, then let the fun begin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Catherine DeVine<\/strong><br \/>\nCarrboro<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hair-raising tales<\/strong><br \/>\nA lot of people call John Edwards a hypocrite because he campaigns against poverty and lives in a big house. But this accusation makes no sense. He believes there should be no poor people, not that there should be no rich people.<\/p>\n<p>Is it true that no one can be wealthy unless others are poor? Apparently, Edwards has a more optimistic view of American capitalism. He seems to believe in prosperity for all, and that some may also have more than others.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe this is mistaken, or even naive. But it is not hypocrisy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>James Coley<\/strong><br \/>\nChapel Hil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cradle of what? So the 100-member Grassroots Impeach Movement (GRIM) seeks to change Carrboro\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s embraceable nickname, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Paris of the Piedmont,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Cradle of Impeachment\u00e2\u20ac\u009d until the 2008 presidential election. I declined to comment when a local reporter (not from this paper) ran the idea by me last week. My immediate reaction would not have been&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}