Letters to the Editor
TinyBubbles
Published Letters: 102 Editor's Choice: 15
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Lame and boring
[Read the article: Salesgenie's Super Bowl success]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I was amazed at how lame and boring MOST of the commercials were. I guess the bragging rights is the whole game now, and it answers the question, "Why would they pay THAT much to air THIS crap?!
BTW, I found the Planters nuts commercial was also insensitive, offensive, and worst of all STUPID.
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@SalilM
[Read the article: Super Tuesday showdown]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yes, if you are Democrat, there is compelling reason not to vote in th Republican primary: BECAUSE YOU ARE A DEMOCRAT!
I don't want Republicans picking my nominee, why should have a say in picking theirs? There will be time for me to chime in about the GOP, in November.
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Jameka and cythera45
[Read the article: Making sense of Super Tuesday]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I agree with you about this blackmail coming from Obama and I don't like it one bit.
I voted for Obama because I do think he splits the Republicans whereas Clinton unites them against her. I was not happy about it.
I have detected a certain meanness on Obama's part. This is not all bad in politics, particularly in government, but it is bad form here in the primary.
First of all, Obama doesn't have to make this argument himself. There are plenty of pundits and surrogates who have made this argument. HE should be talking about unity, hoping his supporters, publicly, will support the Democratic nominee. Whether they do or not is up to them, but Obama should be talking as much about unity as Democrats as well as Americans.
But, hasn't he already taken me, a Democratic Edwards supporter, for granted? Seems to me, Republicans and independents will be more important to an Obama administration than Democrats will be. Yes, I know, Obama will be better than Bush, I am voting for the Democrat because I would be happy with either. However,I am not looking forward to more bipartisanship which means Democrats lay down and get stepped all over by Republicans (see Glenn Greenwald.)
It is truly unfortunate and maybe speaks more to his inexperience and not some wrongheaded sense of entitlement. I voted for him, so that is what I am hoping.
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to mkburr
[Read the article: Making sense of Super Tuesday]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And if the only choice presented to us in the general election is the past, we will seek the future elsewhere.
So, McCain is the future? Or are you saying now that you have found your political savior, if he doesn't win, you will go home and not participate? Either way, forgive me, an Obama voter but not kool-aid drinker that I am, it seems pretty thin inspiration.
And that is part of the point here. I think one of the reason us old foggies are Obamamania hold outs is because we have been so thinly inspired before (I am old enough to remember the Carter administration) only to have all that inspiration fall of its own weight.
Edison said that genius in 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Changing politics is a LONG, HARD road, with lots of bumps and fall backs along the way. Go luck if you choose to throw in the towel just because your guy didn't win the first round. Got to break a sweat people!
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@Amerigo
[Read the article: Making sense of Super Tuesday]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Oh, and another thing. All this about us Obama supporters saying we will not vote for Hillary in the general. Has no one ever heard of SPIN. The whole point of writing letters here to Salon is to try to win thousands of readers over to our side. We want the floating voters in our camp, so we scare them into thinking Hilary will have no chance if cut loose alone in the shark infested waters of the general election without a life preserver. In the unlikely event of our man not being on the ticket, we will have to decide when the time comes which is the most evil of two evils. -- Amerigo
The so called spin in NOT FOR THE CANDIDATE. Obama should be leaving the blackmail to his supports, and they don't even have to do that because the media is taking care of it for them.
Scaring floating voters into voting for your candidate is a Rovian strategy, and I expected more from Obama. It is the reason I voted for him, and I am beginning to regret that I didn't vote for my cat!