Letters to the Editor
MostlyMaynard
Published Letters: 4
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Will the real cult stand up!
[Read the article: Hey, Obama boys: Back off already!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]For months now the Hillary Clinton campaign and Senator Clinton’s supporters have used repeated claims of sexism to try to get other Democrats to keep their mouths shut. The strategy is simply: equate all criticism of Hillary Clinton with sexism, so that we say nothing. That’s over now.
We’re repeatedly told that Senator Clinton is a great candidate of outstanding achievement, but her chief talent seems to be for exaggeration. No she did not play any significant role in creating FMLA, and she did not have much to do with creating SCHIP. We’re not especially interested in listening to her long list of bullet points on health care, because she has a proven record of failure: do you Clinton fans remember that she failed to move the country one inch toward universal health care while working with a Democratic President, Senate, and House of Representatives. Finally, her vote to enable the Iraq war was an act of either stupidity (the intelligence really was garbage) or more likely political cowardice (she though the vote was necessary to remain politically viable.) In either case she was a follower, not a leader, on the most important vote of her life. So, no we don’t really think she is a good candidate at all.
We are also stunned by the readiness of the Hillary supporters to support an effort to create a political dynasty. No, Hillary Clinton would never have become a serious candidate if she were not the former first lady, and in fact she would never have become Senator from New York. We have kept our mouths shut, so as not to offend, you but this is not a real test case for breaking glass ceilings.
To continue in this open vein, we also detest the campaign she has run. Her main strategy was to crush all opposition by collecting bags of money and running on name recognition. When this did not work she turned to manufactured victimization and the Republican playbook. We believe the Clinton campaign was devastated that Samantha power was a woman—how much better it would have been to have a man term her a “monster!” Senator Clinton does not seem to care much about electing a Democrat—only herself. She has regularly elevated Senator McCain as good prospective Commander in Chief, and now seems thrilled to have the chance to try to smear Barack Obama as an “elitist”
To overlook all this, and still repeat the “Hillary, Hillary” mantra seems as cultish as anything you will see from the Obama fans. We should pull out some old video (if any exists) of the Albanian apparatchiks applauding their dictator Enver Hoxha and see which candidates supporters more closely resemble the last years of Albanian Communism.
Sincerely,
Mostly Maynard
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Worse than I ever could have imagined as a Clinton backer in 1992
[Read the article: "She's not as bad as you think"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm sure Hillary Clinton can turn on the charm for a few minutes when it is in her interest jsut as she can jump on to a ridiculous question about William Ayers and throw Hamas and Louis Farrakhan into another attack. I was a loyal and enthusiastic Clinton supporter in 1992, but I've learned the hard way that the most authentic thing about them is the drive for power.
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Another day another article that hearts Hillary
[Read the article: Attention, pundits. It ain't over]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I am sure that the examples are real, but the overall picture is just not credible. The campaign is great no matter how long it goes on, no matter how often Hillary Clinton uses, creates, or seconds Republican arguments.
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NYT columnist hearts blue collar voters for their astue policy analysis
[Read the article: Krugman asks "what's gone wrong" with Obama campaign]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is rich. Paul Krugman thinks that Hillay Clinton should be the nominee because he agrees with her policy, so from within his Princeton office he praises working class voters for their policy analysis. How remarkable it is that they agree with him and (he believes) support his candidate for the exactly same reasons that he does!
Both HRC and BHO have plans with bullet poins, but Senator Clinton's own past history demonstrates that the fine details don't matter if you can'g get something done. Why would anyone in their right mind trust her to get universal health care when she already failed to do so when working with a Democratic President, Senate, and Congress?