Letters to the Editor
tom payne
Published Letters: 1101 Editor's Choice: 3
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Only the Big States Count
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]For now, no dialect, and only a passing reference to Madam KoTexaco. A grad student in journalism, eh? That explains the fact that she knows everything, and the rest of us are peasants. There's a slot opening up for ya at Fuxxsnooze, KoTexaco, so you go, girl. Make sure you write you hair products off on your taxes. Now, regarding the Klinton Kligon Kamp's assertion that Obama's states don't matter 'cause they're small, or in the middle of the country, or have too many Afros to be valid representations of Democrats sentiments. Horse hockey. Howard Dean, no dummy he, made the fifty state strategy an axiom for the DNC approach to future elections. You can see how the "red" middle states get a little chafed when the coasts assume that the center of the country is there to be flown over on one's way from NYC to LA, perhaps for a Weather Girl interview after on gets one's masters in journalism. What Obama has done, among other things, is to take the DNC rules seriously, to organize in and contest for every state, and to out maneuver Ms. "Experience" at every turn. This apparently makes the "feminist" brigade, the Midol Millions, stomp their little feet and have a hissy fit. The reality is that Obama holds a significant lead where it counts: delegates, and no plausible turn of events will change that before the convention. The only way Billary can wrest the nomination, the turgid, throbbing engorged prize she was promised, is to have a Coup de Top, convincing the super delegates to ignore the weight of the voters and coronate a sure loser. Could happen. We have a way of losing elections we cannot lose. Hillary's the best friend McLame has right now (next to lobbyists), and every shrewlike outburst, every snarky commercial, makes Honest John's job that much easier. So, take a chill pill, slap on a hormone patch, and take a look at what's really happening. Since Hill's Big Tuesday, she has actually LOST ground in pledged delegates, and that's before Texas finishes counting their caucuses (guess they had to take their boots off to count that high). love heywood
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P51
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]You're right, of course. For me, this (the web) is entertainment, and I have, self-evidently, a wise ass streak a yard wide. But, beneath that, I have a lifelong commitment to progressive politics, starting with the '68 campaign for Robert Kennedy in California, for which he paid with his life. I was a senior at Berkeley at the time. That took the steam out of a lot of us. It was beyond disheartening. So, I'm not having a schoolgirl crush over Obama; actually, Edwards was my first preference. But, I am decidedly, dare I say, hopeful about what the Obama campaign has done, and what it could mean in this country, and around this broken world. I'll try to back off on the sniping, but some targets begged to be mocked and, at 61, I have a hard time restraining long ingrained habits. Wyoming went for Obama by 17 points; I'm sure someone here will piss in the lemonade because Wyoming is obviously reserved for cowpoke rednecks with high altitude sickness. Whatever. Now, you have two days to come up with reasons why Mississippi is irrelevant, 'cause the same thing is going to happen to the Hillster there on Tuesday. Drip, drip, drip. The gap ever widens. Dream on, Hillbots.
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Archaic?
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yes, the nomination process is a polyglot puzzle, but it's a lot more democratic (small d) than it was when I started in politics 40 years ago. You want archaic, try on the Electoral College. Now that's antidemocratic in the extreme, but it's in the Constitution. to change it, you'd have to get two thirds of the states to agree, meaning you'd have to convince all the small states to relinquish power. Beyond unlikely, that. The question at hand is how to deal with the selection process already long begun, and all but over except for the wild card super duper delegates. It is a hide bound cinch Obama will go to the convention with more pledged delegates than Clinton- probably at least a hundred, maybe a hundred twenty or better. So what do the supers do? Bow to Queen Hillary because she was the presumptive nominee before the people had the nerve to vote otherwise? Hello, President McLame, and war after war after war.
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Kotexaco Rides Again
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]So, referral to an obsolete women's product makes me a hater of women, KateTex? Talk about your conflation, or flatulence, or whatever. I'm an egalitarian. Humans deserve respect, or disrespect, based on their behavior, not on their God given plumbing/reproductive system. Age is irrelevant as well. I could care less if you're a grade school prodigy or going on line at a rest home. It's your blind allegiance to Billary that galls me. If you're a Democrat, support whomever wins the process as it was (imperfectly) designed. I will. If you like clean cut results and oligarchy, change your registration to republikan. doesn't sound like that much of a stretch to this vile, despicable, spittle spewing knuckle dragging misogynist. That enough vitriol fer ya, Ko? I sure hope so. Or, go off on your own diatribe, or adjust your med levels accordingly. In for a penny, in for a pound. love, mr. jablome