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cythera45
Published Letters: 729 Editor's Choice: 5
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@sunspot
[Read the article: What exit polls say about the Virginia vote]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You obviously don't understand the situation. You seem to think "Latino" is a monolithic category. Most white folks do, sadly. The Latino vote in Virginia is substantially composed of Central American immigrants, whereas the Latino vote in Texas is mostly Mexican-American. The pattern of voting in Texas is much more likely to follow the pattern of voting in California than in Virginia, at least among "Latinos." Not all Latinos think alike, but all evidence shows, from the Nevada caucus to Arizona and Cali, that Mexican-Americans have not warmed to Obama at all.
Besides, as Josh Marshall posts on TalkingPointsMemo.com:
"We're hearing on the cable shows that Obama won the Latino vote in Virginia 55%-45%. And clearly Obama is having a very good night. But we shouldn't necessarily read that much in to those numbers because Latinos were only 5% of the Democratic primary electorate. So the sample size is just too small to be reliable. So maybe Obama kicked butt among Latinos. But we can't know that from these numbers."
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McCain is gaming the press already
[Read the article: McCain targets Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]They adore him, and Obama, if he gets the nomination, had better make himself widely available to the press, or McCain's claim that he is more accessible and not afraid of the give-and-take of hard questions (as if he ever really GETS hard questions from the MSM lapdogs) will start to become a resonating meme.
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@tangerine
[Read the article: McCain targets Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wow, I figured from your name you must be some sort of New Age prophet (or maybe an exotic dancer). But you know the actual results of the November election already! Very impressive!
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If Obama surrenders the press to McCain
[Read the article: McCain targets Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]they will eat him alive. They did it to Gore, they did it to Kerry. They will be happy to do it to Obama. He will have to court them, make himself available to them.
For my part, I hope he does try and stay aloof, to hide behind scripted events. I want to see what the press does to him. It will be very entertaining.
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Obama the weakest Dem nominee since at least Dukakis
[Read the article: McCain targets Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]or maybe even McGovern. McCain will shred, abuse, and eviscerate him. But since you take political predictions from a cat, I can't expect you to know a good candidate from a goofy dunce.
What is bitter now will be sweet when McCain dances on Obama's grave.
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@Villemar
[Read the article: Obama's surge extends down the Potomac]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And I predict that blue aliens will come and establish a reign of peace on earth and everyone will get lollipops.
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@Madame Defarge
[Read the article: McCain targets Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I will Lift up Mine Eyes Inspiring Words of Comfort and Hope
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@Anonymous
[Read the article: McCain targets Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"I have watched this same sort of election with differnent names too many times.... Unlike the Republicans who put aside their ideology and put up their strongest candidate in the general election, the left more often than not does the precise opposite."
Very well put. They almost foisted Dean on the party in '04. Now they have a candidate who actually has less credible experience (none of it executive). Oh well. Get used to saying "President McCain." Barack and Michelle will soon have to.
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The Drudge Report could not be happier
[Read the article: McCain targets Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]They have the candidate they wanted:
http://www.drudgereport.com/
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Too bad McCain is such a stiff speaker because
[Read the article: Obama's surge extends down the Potomac]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think these 'graphs are very effective in drawing a contrast between him and Obama:
"To encourage a country with only rhetoric rather than sound and proven ideas that trust in the strength and courage of free people is not a promise of hope. It is a platitude.
"When I was a young man, I thought glory was the highest ambition, and that all glory was self-glory. My parents tried to teach me otherwise, as did the Naval Academy. But I didn't understand the lesson until later in life, when I confronted challenges I never expected to face.
"I do not seek the presidency on the presumption that I am blessed with such personal greatness that history has anointed me to save my country in its hour of need. I seek the presidency with the humility of a man who cannot forget that my country saved me. I am running to serve America, and to champion the ideas I believe will help us do what every American generation has managed to do: to make in our time, and from our challenges, a stronger country and a better world."
Having run against one messianic loonie in the Repug primary, he can position himself as someone well suited to beat another in the general election. Humility and selfless service to country are very effective notes to strike against Obama's grandiose self-aggrandizement.
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@Jerm
[Read the article: Obama's surge extends down the Potomac]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I do agree with Clinton that caucuses are ridiculous and fundamentally undemocratic. But all the candidates understood the system that was in place, and Obama played the caucus system much better than Clinton.
Likewise, the superdelegate system is in place. They are not necessarily bound by any vote process--that is precisely how the system is designed to work. Meaning, Obama could go to the convention 10 pledged delegates short of the nomination and still not be the nominee.
Personally, I'm hoping that's what happens--that bribery, corruption, and other chicanery insure the SDs steal the nom from him. Then we can scrap and change the whole damn system--no super-delegates, no caucuses, a one-day nationwide primary, winner take all.
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@YellowDogDem
[Read the article: Obama's surge extends down the Potomac]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"And is the thought of Obama in the White House really worse than the thought of another Republican administration? Really? So much so that you're not going to vote for him?"
Yup. Yup. Yup.
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Plenty of room still to steal this from Obama
[Read the article: Defying Clinton campaign's predictions, Obama takes delegate lead]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Those who cheer on Clinton's attempt to pull this out through the results of illegimate contests (MI and FL) and Superdelegates deserve the likely loss as much as Clinton does."
But these delegates likely WILL be seated and the superdelegates can readily be bribed. There is plenty of opportunity remaining to halt the creepy messiah in his bid to take over the world.
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We can only hope the Superdelegates have the good sense
[Read the article: What's the Obama campaign's position on superdelegates?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]not to let Obama, the weakest general-election Dem prospectively since Dukakis, anywhere near the nomination. If they have to be bribed or threatened, it's worth it.
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Roger Clemens is going to jail
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]for a very looooong time.
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Keep hammering away
[Read the article: Clinton: "My opponent gives speeches, I offer solutions"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]at the Obama lies and corruption. Slam him down!