Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 186 Editor's Choice: 14
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It's about choice
[Read the article: Don't call Oprah a "traitor"!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The struggles have been and will be about choice. Choices about your body and choices about your politics. But also you must consider who is speaking for the various choices.
Oprah, last year she was pushing the Secret.
Maria Shriver, married and supports Arnold.
Caroline, what if any political stature does she have? Yes, the daughter of JFK. Wonderful. But why should they speak for us and who we choose to be our President? Of course they have all the right to choose, but are you sure they speak for you?
Political choices are not about evoking the past or some mythical figure. Political choices are hard and they involve looking at what we face in our future.
Thank you for offering your opinions but they are opinions. You , like Ted Kennedy, Kerry and Leahy are not the kingmakers. The people will choose. By they way, Robert Kennedy's children endorse Hillary. So, it's not that clear cut. The torch is not yours to pass or assign. What an arrogant class of aristocrats, thinking that we are in their pockets.
I mention to you some other voices, Dolores Huerta, Maxine Waters and Maya Angelou just to name a few. They speak eloquently as well. Women of the struggle. Women that have risked their lives and their blood. Why should they not be the kingmakers? Because they are not rich or aristocrats? How arrogant of you Mr. Obama.
What and how your lives will be impacted? Do you want to "hope" for a health system? or would you prefer that someone work on it from day one? Do you want to go for someone who already is negotiating away bits and pieces of that health system?
Don't listen to the idiocy of who everyone thinks can win, think who you believe in. No one knows who will or can win. But you must vote for what you believe.
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Like Ronnie said
[Read the article: "Islamist extremists ... don't distinguish between Democrats and Republicans"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Here they go again"
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Dynasties
[Read the article: Don't call Oprah a "traitor"!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama does not want us to vote for Hllary because he does not believe in dynasties, neither do his supporters, but he has no qualms with taking dynastic endorsements and being their foster child. Sort of ironic.
The JFK analogy: The inexperienced young president went to the White House with all the charisma and brought us the Bay of Pigs: The 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion was an unsuccessful attempted invasion by armed Cuban exiles in southwest Cuba, planned and funded by the United States, in an attempt to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro. This action accelerated a rapid deterioration in Cuban-American relations, which was further worsened by the Cuban Missile Crisis the following year.
Obama talks of going into Pakistan without Pakistan's approval. Ok, I get the patterns.
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Michelle Obama: has to think about it
[Read the article: Clinton "cries" again]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wow, this is wonderful, she will have to think about it if Hillary is nominated.
ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOVHf9HPEJM&eurl=http://www.talkleft.com/story/2008/2/4/124123/6787
Its called a political party not a cult. Disgusting.
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Michelle betrays party
[Read the article: Clinton "cries" again]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's all about the Obama cult. Hillary teared up, but she never betrayed her party or risk the agenda for a cult following:
Watch the video from today on Good Morning America"
"GMA: Could you see yourself working to support Hillary Clinton should she win the nomination?
MICHELLE OBAMA: I'd have to think about that. I'd have to think about that, her policies, her approach, her tone."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOVHf9HPEJM&eurl=http://www.talkleft.com/story/2008/2/4/124123/6787
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Great writing
[Read the article: Biracial, but not like me]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama wrote a compelling book about these issues. His campaign and his followers obviously love him but did not like him being compared to that "old school black guy" Jessie Jackson. Was he not trying to run away from being identified as black and all his supporters screaming "racism". Were not liberal whites the blog world and MSM screaming to the heavens that it was marginalizing him? Marginalizing him in whose eyes? White America? Racist America?
His cutting line about "multiracials" not wanting to "get lumped in with the losers" hints that those who reject the label "black" are somehow
Was he so outraged of being lumped in with the losers? Of course the white supporters see Jessie as a loser, I don't I see him as a hero and a man of courage, who still fights for social and economic justice. But of course, he blamed Clinton for his racial insecurity. A man of courage and pride would have embraced the comparison in my eyes and not have allowed the media to consider a comparison to Jessie Jackson as anything but an honor. What Alice in Wonderland World are we living in?
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Great Analysis
[Read the article: The race for California]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Joan,
Thanks for a wonderful summary of both campaigns and for your keep observations. I do think the most ironic and iconic photo of the whole campaign is Obama with Oprah, the plutocrat, and the two Shriver aristocrats. This I guess is the new populism. The Hamptons crowd telling us how to vote, and somehow it has been twisted to be multicultural populism.
Man, my old lefty bones are creaking. I am with Bob Dylan: " You got to serve somebody."
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Interesting The Ted Effect
[Read the article: Exits: Latinos, Catholics for Clinton, youth for Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ted and Kerry, I guess they did not close the deal.
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But..but
[Read the article: Obama talks hope, but not before attacking Clinton]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He was transforming and transcending. You just don't get it, it's a new kind of unity. He somehow has managed to transfer the Bush dislike and distrust to Hillary. Not so cool. People pick up that vibe and they don't like it.