Letters to the Editor
tom payne
Published Letters: 1101 Editor's Choice: 3
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Ko-tex
[Read the article: Let 'em duke it out]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hillary was the heir apparent, the presumptive nominee. Only a couple months back, she held huge leads everywhere. That's evaporated, along with the Klinton Kredibilty. Any mud Obama may eventually sling will be indistinguishable from the mud she's been rolling in since the first Stupid Tuesday. Obama has built, from the ground up, the most amazing campaign in modern American history. He may not win the nomination, but it won't be because he hasn't outorganized, outwitted, out worked, and out thought the Princess Broad. Is he relatively inexperienced in Washington terms? Yep. So was Lincoln. Teddy Roosevelt. Ike. You want a great DC resume? Check out The Dick or Rummy. Experience for decades. I freely admit there is an element of risk in the Obama phenomenon. I've tried not to believe it. I worked in this party in 1968, before Martin and Robert were murdered. Those of us from that era have been looking, not for a Messiah, but for vision and inspiration in a credible individual. Obama is no rookie, and undeniably brilliant. President of the Harvard Law Review. Elected to an Illinois senate seat when Abe the Railsplitter lost in the same state two years before he became, arguably, our greatest President. My entire family, save for one drunk brother in law, is on board for Barack. We know the risk. We also know the upside. Hillary is what she is: a very ambitious, very bright woman with some relevant experience (if her White House record is so luminous, why is it she won't release her phone logs, to show her contacts? Visiting 82 countries, or whatever it is, doesn't make her a foreign policy expert. It makes her a traveler. The past month, to me, has shown her to be manipulative, unprincipled, and concerned only about her access to power. The whole MIchigan/Florida dust up show that, nakedly. So did her nuclear bitch act about Obama's generally correct brochures about NAFTA and health care. And her attempt to block union workers in Nevada from voting. I will vote for her in November, if it comes to that, but it will be with no joy or enthusiasm. Call me naive, but I'm no college student. I was, at Berkeley in the late sixties. I saw Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy speak about the struggle for justice and the madness of the war. Obama comes the closest since that horrid year to offering, yes, hope. Call it irrelevant, call it rhetoric, call it speechifying. The same could be said of Churchill, or FDR, or JFK, or Lincoln. Words matter. They move people, and can galvanize a nation. God knows we need that. Hillary is many things, but inspirational is not one of them. Don't hand me that "women need a role model" crap. Strong, smart women do very well these days (especially if they're white). I have a family full of them. They don't need assertiveness training. They give it. Every one of them is for Obama. So am I. It may be the death knell of this party if arm twisting and backroom leveraging outweigh what the voters have said. If Ms. Rodham wins fair and square, more power to her. If not, may she have the grace to concede with honor. tom
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Bullshift
[Read the article: Should Florida and Michigan vote again? ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When Hillary was presumed to be the inevitable nominee, no one thought that the fact that Florida and Michigan openly flouted the rules of the DNC didn't matter. Now that the Midol Maid is in deep doo-doo, every Hillbot is outraged, outraged I tell you, that the voters in these two states have been rendered irrelevant. What a crock. It's as if we're in the eight inning of a baseball game, and one team wants a review of two calls in the third inning. Horsehide. Play the game straight, Hillary, assuming you are, and win, if you can, under the rules that all the candidates, and their staffs, knew were in place a year ago. If she wins legitimately in the upcoming primaries, congratulations. Otherwise, shut the fuggup. She has no right to the nomination because she happened to pick the color of the drapes in the White House and the Arkansas Governor's Trailer. Win in outright, or bow out with grace. If not, join Joe Lieber-thing as a turncoat and a leech on the flesh of what remains of what was once a noble party. The Clintons have proven themselves dynasty- and I do mean nasty- equals of the Bushit family when it comes to naked power grabs. Put up, or shut up. Win, or take the consequences. Don't move the foul pole while the ball is in the air. Their behavior is not progressive, it's regressive. A woman once worthy of respect has turned out to be a mud wrestler. What a pity.
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Here's Your Difference
[Read the article: Obama advisor Power resigns]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hillary can shrew up and scream "shame on you", and then just continues the dung flinging. Obama has a staff member make a serious mistake and that staffer's gone. Done. With a complete apology. The Klinton Kamp never apologizes for anything. Ever. She did not have sex with that woman, either. I think.
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Ko-texaco Ethical Crappola
[Read the article: Let 'em duke it out]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is the internet, ethical poseur, not the floor of the Senate, so piss off with your misogyny blather. I've been married to an amazing, strong, brilliant woman for almost 38 years, and we raised two daughters who could kick your sorry ass, physically or intellectually. What does "duke it out" mean to you, Einstein? College basketball? Besides my poor pun, and your pathetic overreaction, is that we have a choice now between Hillary, her "experience" as first cuckold, and her baggage, which takes five porters to carry, and Obama, thin in experience but potentially great. All of you who actually worked on the Robert Kennedy campaign, and heard him speak in 1968, feel free to take issue with my impression. Otherwise, sod off. Hillary has no up side, and has an excellent chance of providing us with at least another four years of Eye-rack. love, mr. jablome