Letters to the Editor
cythera45
Published Letters: 729 Editor's Choice: 5
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I have no problem with superdelegates deciding
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]That is the system that has been in place, it's the rules everyone has played under, and everyone should accept the result. Because the fact is that they ARE going to be the ones who decide this.
My guess is that, after the big March 4 states vote, Howard Dean will start twisting arms to get the undecided superdelegates to go public with their choice. This will gradually add to the delegate totals and someone will be over-the-top by the time Pennsylvanis votes in April. If he *doesn't* do that, he's no party leader, and the Dems are in for a roasting in November. I love Shapiro's fantasy that the Hillary-Obama race will steal all the limelight from McCain as long as it goes on. Keep dreaming. He would LOVE to watch the Dems fight all the way through to the convention, love it, love it.
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@Axordil
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thank goodness you are not a political strategist for either campaign. I would assume both Hillary and Obama have better criteria for judgment than that adolescent nonsense you just spouted.
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Obama.Edwards would be a huge mistake
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama, if he gets the nomination, needs to shore up his right flank against McCain--he needs someone with national security/military credentials and/or foreign policy experience. Someone like Jim Webb would be ideal since he would also put Virginia in play. Edwards was a horrible VP, too, in '04--didn't win any states for Kerry and got his face munched by Cheney in the debate.
That said, I'd personally prefer Edwards at the top of the ticket, with Webb at the bottom. But oh well.
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Shapiro just blows, blows with the wind
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yesterday it was "Hillary's times of troubles," she was going to get buried in February, now it's scenarios for either candidate to win the nomination. Puzzling. I'm telling you, Shapiro blows in the wind. Or maybe he just blows.
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Where does this silliness come from?
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]"I hope at some point, HRC understands that she is facing someone who could become very special in the history of our country. She is Douglas to his Lincoln, Adams to his Jefferson, Al Smith to his Roosevelt."
This is just nutty, cultish stuff. Obama has done nothing to earn such grandiose praise. Nothing. I mean, Barack Obama, who hasn't even served out a single Senate term, is now the reincarnation of Lincoln, Jefferson, and Roosevelt? Please.
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@pwoxby
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]You said: "The majority will support the popular will of the voters as expressed in pledged delegates. California and NY notwithstanding, Obama is now leading in pledged delegates."
How are the pledged delegates expressing the popular will of the voters? Doesn't the popular vote express that?
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I could care less how the nominee is decided
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]as long as it is not Obama. If they have to bribe every superdelegate with cash, whores, and vacations in Aruba, that's fine with me. I'm willing to contribute to a kitty to get the palm-greasing process started. How much do you think Kerry wants?
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@Greywolf
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I've made my case against Obama several times in several threads. Don't pretend you really care to hear it, though. If it makes you feel good to vote for him, enjoy yourself!
For my part, I hope he is cheated, in the most egregiously obvious and corrupt way, out of the nomination, so I can dance on his political grave. Then I can come in here and revel in the shrieks and moans of his dying cult.
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Most of the posts on this thread from Obama supporters
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]prove Krugman's point conclusively.
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Obama is an agent of division and discord
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Just listen to his followers on this thread. They have no interest in commity, especially if you raise any questions, any at all, about their candidate. It IS like a cult. They will accept you so long as you genuflect to their idol. If not, watch out. Obama as President will be a duplicate of the last candidate who ran as a uniter, not a divider.
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Obama needs to lose in the general election
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]to teach blind cultists (like Markos at DailyKos, for example) that you need to actually pick competent and experienced candidates, not Johnny come latelys who make you feel all squishy inside. Obama will be the worst general-election candidate the Dems have fielded since Dukakis and possibly since McGovern. Once it's clear it's Obama versus McCain, the press will turn on him like starving dogs and his many weaknesses will be glaringly exposed. Race-baiting by Rovian minions will turn white voters across the South and Midwest away from him. Most of all, the sight of him, skinny and doofy, standing on the stage debating McCain will make a lot of voters think, what in the world are the Democrats doing sending this lightweight up there? The attacks will make his black and far-left supporters even more vocal in his defense, further alienating Independents and conservative Democrats. He will be absolutely eviscerated and destroyed. And it will be a very good thing too.
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That's an Obama supporter for you
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]"And you know what? I don't care if the Supreme Court DOES overturn Roe v. Wade."
Yup.
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The guy's right
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]and it will be sheer joy watching him proven right. Obama has Kerry's glass jaw combined with Al Gore's nose-in-the-air elitism. The Rovian minions will bring him down as easily as Cheney bags ducks.
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Legend640, do you write Hallmark cards?
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]A poem forsooth:
People want to believe that they are instruments of change.
We are all rebels at heart.
We all grew up wanting to be
more than our parents.
We cannot move beyond where we are
without the innate belief and aspirations
that the future is an exciting, rewarding place
worthy of the struggle it takes to get there.
Obama supporters realize
they can escape the hole
and find the incessant voice of a government that dictates from fear
is replaced by the sounds
of eager enthusiasm.
Doo-dah doo-dah...
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Part of the joy of this election, if Obama gets the Dem nod
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]will be watching him systematically dismantled by the Repug smear merchants and then watching the smug looks slide slowly off the faces of his duped supporters. I'm stocking up on popcorn--can't wait!
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@tom payne
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I agree. Billary will soften Obama up and McCain will take him down. Yessir!
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@terry
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]My candidate is ABO--Anyone But Obama. He must be stopped--and he will. If not by Hillary, then by McCain in November.
P.S. I'm surprised you can count!