Letters to the Editor
Uncle Fester
Published Letters: 1751 Editor's Choice: 14
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Smith: Identity Consciousness
[Read the article: One of Instapundit's favorite blogs speaks on race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My own style is distinctly non-political. I want to be myself and only myself. I don't want to have to please people. So sometimes I get pissed off at Obama.
I can agree with not wanting to get into ass-kissing as a profession. To each his or her own, however. I don't begrudge Hillary or Obama their career choice. It doesn't make my angry to see it in action up to a certain point. And the most blatant ass-kissing this election cycle, at least to my reckoning has been done by John McCain.
That is part of what I mean by trying to have it both ways. I do think Obama is sort of a phony. I think he is his own creation. I actually understand this but I also resent it.
You've gotten my attention with this. By my own lights, being one's own creation is the height of authenticity and individualism. Something along the lines of "I got my own life to live through and I ain't gonna copy you". If I was Obama I would be pissed at black people that wanted me to be "black" and pissed white people that wanted me to be "white". I would want to be whatever I wanted to be . Suicide for someone in the ass kissing business, I know. We all carry our identities around with us a like a bag of rocks; some of have black rocks, others white. But travel somewhere like Korea or Thailand for awhile without a tour group bubble and suddenly you have a very different bag of rocks.
But you're calling it phony. So I gotta think you're taking a different tack. Must admit it's left me mystified.
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@Madam book of oracles
[Read the article: The Democrats' anti-momentum]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Do not be at all surprised to find her on the ticket with McCain. Remember who said that first when that happens.
We will annotate the book of oracles with your entry
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@tom payne: bmaggie's straw man
[Read the article: Moving beyond Obama and race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]bravo for the new look! I think it suits you better than the chaotic jokester. You watching Adams or somethin?
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we have never elected a President by threatening and intimidating the voters.
[Read the article: Moving beyond Obama and race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What about LBJ and his mushroom cloud commercial, the granddady of the 3:00am call?
What about "Vote deomcrat and the terrorists win"?
http://www.nysun.com/article/42560
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=vote+democrat++and+the+terrorists+win&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f
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@RealityCounts: Split decision
[Read the article: Moving beyond Obama and race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think the reality is that if one candidate gets the delegates and another gets the popular vote, then the democratic party is in deep kimchee. We'll be flipping over rocks to find the SD's and checking out all the smoke-filled rooms. Supporters of both camps have proven themselves to be both threatening and intimidating. If only all that energy can be channeled in the general.
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The Other REAL Bosnia Story?
[Read the article: The Democrats' anti-momentum]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Now there are at least three stories about Tuzla:
We were put on a C17– a plane capable of steep ascents and descents — precisely because we were flying into what was considered a combat zone. We were issued flak jackets for the final leg because of possible sniper fire near Tuzla. As an additional precaution, the First Lady and Chelsea were moved to the armored cockpit for the descent into Tuzla. We were told that a welcoming ceremony on the tarmac might be canceled because of sniper fire in the hills surrounding the air strip.
Contains Hillary's speech about landing at Tuzla and apparently contains real viedo showing Hillary walking out from the back of her plane to meet and greet. (Somewhat snarky)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It6JN7ALF7Y
For what it's worth, Lissa Muscatine, sounds the most plausable.
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ixnay on the rubber stamp
[Read the article: The Democrats' anti-momentum]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I agree that the superdelegates should excercise their judgement, to the extent available.
Hillary's won the last two big contests and is about to win a third by a pretty big margin.
I guess MS is not big enough. If you reckon by delegates, Hillary lost Texas. If you are interested in the popular vote, then a surge of Republican voters put her over the top:
For a party that loves to hate the Clintons, Republican voters have cast an awful lot of ballots lately for Senator Hillary Clinton: About 100,000 GOP loyalists voted for her in Ohio, 119,000 in Texas, and about 38,000 in Mississippi, exit polls show.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/03/17/many_voting_for_clinton_to_boost_gop/
A lot of people here think that only democratic votes should count in the democratic primary. I'm not one of them, but her margin of victory shrinks considerably if you remove the Republicans. SD's may mull this fact over.
As of now, she's likely to win PA. The question is by how much. After PA, she really has to win either IN or SC. If she doesn't, the lead she gained in PA is mostly likely canceled out by Obama wins in IN and SC as the two have more delegates combined than PA. OR is also a possibility, but less meaningful if IN and SC go Obama. It's pretty close to being down 3-1 in a best of 7 at this point. Not impossible, but she really has to start hitting some balls.
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The Real Issue
[Read the article: The Democrats' anti-momentum]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think the real issue here is telling us X when video of not X is readily available on the internet. Sorry. I don't begrudge Hillary her war story. I'm just not going to add it to her list of foreign policy credentials. That to me is the real point.
And I remember being a witness to a shootout between cops and an idiot some 30 years ago. Gunfire is something you're not likely to misremember, unless it's an everyday occurence.