Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 406 Editor's Choice: 7
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Cult of personality part II
[Read the article: Polls: Obama weathers Wright controversy ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How often have you heard this;
"If she isn't elected this time, I won't see a woman elected in my lifetime."
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On cultists
[Read the article: Polls: Obama weathers Wright controversy ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm fine with ending the whole cultist branding.
I'm just trying to show how easy it is to define anyone.
While we're at in, can we also dispense with the phrase "drank the kool aid" and "thrown under the bus"?
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Josephine, Hillary Clinton has lost
[Read the article: Polls: Obama weathers Wright controversy ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Somehow, you must start to come to terms. If you're going to vote for John McCain, that's fine; but you must accept that Hillary Clinton will never be elected President. Obama may never be elected either, but unlike Mrs. Clinton he still has a chance.
The super-delegates will not vote for her, and that's the her only path to the nomination.
But even if they did hand her the nomination, no Democrat can win without alomost 90% of the black vote. No Democrat has won the white vote since Johnson and she'd be no exception. Her husband won in 1992 with 38% of the white vote and 90% of the black vote. There's no way in hell she'd get even close to that.
If Obama is elected President, Hillary may try again when she's 68, but I doubt it.
Should Obama be defeated, Hillary Clinton will be almost universally blamed for bringing him down, whether she deserved the blame or not; and she'll be unforgiven in a way John Kerry or Al Gore will never know. So there's no 2012 for her either.
I believe that a woman will be elected someday to the Presidency. But that woman will never be Hillary Clinton.
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PA Sen. bob Casey to endorse Obama today
[Read the article: Polls: Obama weathers Wright controversy ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And join him on his PA bus tour
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@ dataguyx
[Read the article: Polls: Obama weathers Wright controversy ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Right, I think some misunderstand waht over sampling is.
If I ask 100 african-americans and 50 whites about an issue on race, I'm simply asking more african-americans os that I can get a more accurate picture of how african americans feel.
When calculating the poll, each african-america answer is calculated in respect to the african-american population at large as are the white votes, giving a very accurate interpretation.
If I were polling to find out how the Hagee endorsement hurt or helped John McCain, I might over sample the Catholic vote.
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It's not all Dems
[Read the article: Polls: Obama weathers Wright controversy ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Not when you look at head to head match ups with McCain.
In that respect, what would be the point of polling just Democrats?
I should hope that if they had only polled Democrats, our candidates would have fared better.
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@ AKA Smith
[Read the article: Professor Obama, I presume? ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The University says that Obama was indeed a professor.
You, (and Mrs. Clinton for that matter) should learn that when your in quick sand, stop thrashing. Just lie still and you'll get out quicker.
Spinning just digs you in deeper.
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@ Clinton apologists
[Read the article: Professor Obama, I presume? ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Re-read the article. Take special care to note the reply from the University
Senior Lecturers are considered to be members of the Law School faculty and are regarded as professors
If I put a job title on my resume, and my former employer says that yes indeed that was my title, then I think that pretty much settles the argument.
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So...Obama didn't go to Edwards, hat in hand, and kiss the ring.
[Read the article: Why John Edwards hasn't endorsed Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And he also wouldn't change his own platform to suit Edwards?
Edwards wanted Obama to become John Edwards, or no endorsement.
Whether he agrees with Obama's health care plan or not, didn't it occur to Edwards that Sen. Obama really does believe in personal choice over whether to buy insurance?
He's not going to drop a core tenet of his plan simply for Edwards endorsement. Would anyone respect him if he did?
Hillary won't make poverty a central issue, but she was really nice to him, so that makes all the difference!
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Off topic,
[Read the article: Rocky is not running for president]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But I'm wodering if anyone knows if it;s true that Hillary Clinton was fired from her job as a staffer on the Watergate investigative committee for lying?
http://www.northstarwriters.com/dc163.htm
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@ KateTex
[Read the article: Rocky is not running for president]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks for the background.
One should always consider the source.
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Proportional deledate distribution
[Read the article: Hillary Clinton's petition ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is the biggest problem for seating the delegates as they are. How many Democrats in these states didn't vote because they were told their votes didn't count?
The turnout in Detroit was about less than half what it was in 2004. Who do you suppose these voters might have voted for?
Had the DNC not stripped the states ahead of time and the candidates signed a agreement not to participate would the outcome be the same? No. And the delegate distribution would be different as well.
Had Democrats in NH known ahead of time that Mrs. Clinton would be pushing to seat these delegates, would she have won NH? Probably not.
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@ jebldmm
[Read the article: Hillary Clinton's petition ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hillary never pledged not to seat Michigan and FLorida?
Really?
Well, for one, that's demonstrably false. She said as much in an NPR interview in NH. Certainly, the folks in NH felt she pledged not to seat Michigan and Florida.
Had Democrats in NH not believed that she made this pledge, she may well have lost NH and we wouldn't be having this argument now.
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Its going to take a couple days to tell if something is buried in those returns..
[Read the article: Why did Clinton wait to release her tax return?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But if history is any guide, we have:
- Her huge and inexplicable winnings in a cattle futures operation
- Her role in the Whitewater development which was simply a land resort scam and one that was particularly aimed at seniors.
- Her role in the despicable White House travel (also known as TravelGate) office firings apparently aimed at favoring the travel firm that bankrolled Bill Clinton"s campaign by delayed billing.
- A case, still in court, involving the alleged failure to report over a million dollars in campaign contributions. Clinton's Senate campaign has already been fined by the FEC for failing to accurately report $700,000 in contributions.
Do a google search for the Clintons and Peter Paul.
- Her relationship with such indisputably dubious persons such as Johnny Chung, John Huang, Ng Lap Seng, Mochtar Riady, the McDougalds, Craig Livingstone, Webster Hubbell and Jorge Cabrera
NAFTA-gate. CAFTA-gate. Ireland-gate. Bosnia-gate.
Obama will have to wallow in the mud for a decade to even come close to this woman's dirt.