Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 357 Editor's Choice: 7
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@ petralyn (to a post you made about 24 hours ago)
[Read the article: Americans more ready for a black president than a woman?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You say there are more African-Americans in a position to run for President than women.
How many black Senators are there? Answer 1
How many black Governors? Answer 2
Now how many Senators and Governors are women?
14 in the Senate and 8 are Governors.
And none of these women have what it takes to be President? Does a woman HAVE to be the spouse of a former President in order to be ready, on day one?
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Predictable Irrationality - Dan Ariely
[Read the article: Americans more ready for a black president than a woman?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This book written about how we make irrational economic decisions based on predictable models has interesting connections to the Democratic primaries. The chapter describing how when faced with two choices of almost equal value is almost spooky.
He actually adds a parable about a donkey who walks into a barn, with two equally desirable piles of hay on either end.
The donkey is so frozen by indecision, he dies from starvation.
How the power of a known brand name and brand loyalty can help one overcome the product's poor quality.
For instance Coke and Pepsi. When taste testers knew which was Coke and which was Pepsi, they chose Coke. But in blind taste tests, they chose Pepsi.
Very intersting book.
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@ jebldmm
[Read the article: Americans more ready for a black president than a woman?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I find it absurd to point to Obama and say, I can't support this man because he is inexperienced at the federal level and has in the past surrounded himself with questionable individuals and the proffer Hillary Clinton as the solution.
If you were making a case for neither candidate, you might have more credibility. But in the end, you're grasping at straws; shilling for you proferred candidate.
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@ won'tgetfooledagain
[Read the article: Americans more ready for a black president than a woman?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What does it take to bring ideas to fruition?
Electoral mandates? A willing Congress? A clear moral victory?
How two rational people can look at the same Presidential primaries and see two starkly different contests is amazing.
I see nothing but negativity and cynicism from the Clinton campaign. It even seems that everyone of her stump speeches these days now requires someone to die in them; pulling at our heart strings with the most wrenching stories from her campaign trail. Or she's trying to scare the hell out of us with her 3AM ads. Either way, she is not trying to appeal to our better natures, but going straight to the lizard part of our brain.
On LBJ, Obama never made mention of the remark. Many who did were Hillary Clinton's black supporters. And while she is correct that in the mid 1960's America did need a white man to see through the promise of equality, this is 2008 and we can now cut out the middleman. So the Hillary's point about LBJ and MLK in the 1960's is a moot one in 2008. We now can have high ideals, soaring rhetoric, and political leadership from our President.
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@ won'tgetfooledagain
[Read the article: Americans more ready for a black president than a woman?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Look, you prefer Hillary (as far as I know) Clinton and overlook the negative aspects she has brought to the Democratic campaign. She says that the Republican (who wants to bomb Iran and be in Iraq without a discernable end) has passed some C-in-C test, but a fellow Democrat whose stance is very close to her own, has not.
But that doesn't concern you. That's all fair.
She implies that Sen Obama is not electable.
Here's the reality. No Democrat since Johnson has won the white vote. In order to win the White House, a Democrat MUST receive 90% of the black vote; the most consistent Democratic constituency since the Civil Rights era. If Obama wins the elected delegate count and the popular vote, but Clinton wins the nomination, do you really think she will get even close to 90% of the black vote. I can guarantee she will not win the white vote, despite her votes in Democratic primaries.
Her nomination will turn blacks into the new swing voters.
Her nomination threatens Democratic majorities in the House and the Senate.
Her nominaion will set back the DNC's successful 50 state strategy.
Her nomination will be a victory for large donors and the party elite.
I'm a Democrat first. I'll vote for the Democratic nominee.
But for the sake of the party, the WHOLE party, I pray that nominee is not Hillary Clinton.
If you dispute anything I've said here, please show me where I'm wrong.
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@ KateTex
[Read the article: Barack Obama in suspended animation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What latest news from the Rezko trial are you taking about?
In fact, it seems to be just the opposite; that Rod Blagojevic is more deeply involved and Obama is at the periphery. I live in Chicagoland and watch the local news closely. There have been zero, zilch, no new revelations concerning Obama and Rezko. So I have to ask, are you a member of the reality based community or are you trying to emulate Mrs. Clinton and are just pulling reality out of your ass?
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@ Katetex
[Read the article: Barack Obama in suspended animation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wow, you've found a story from a syndicated columnist who has endorsed Hillary Clinton that isanti-Obama. What's more, there's nothing new in the story. Where is the illegality in this story? What is Obama supposed to have done here? So you give us an op-ed piece written by a Clinton supporter about a Sun-Times story written over a year ago and you call this news?
Here's another story from Evelyn Pringle you'd probably enjoy. Yeah, she's not in the tank for Hillary at all.
(http://www.bestsyndication.com/?q=20080305_hillary_clinton_versus_barrack_obama_democratic_presidential_preliminaries.htm)
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Sorry here's the correct URL on that "news columnist" Evelyn Pringle LOL
[Read the article: Barack Obama in suspended animation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://bestsyndication.com/?q=clinton-v-obama-hilary-most-qualified-job-part-i
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The Davis and Levine stuff isn't new
[Read the article: Barack Obama in suspended animation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's been reported over a year ago.
If this is news then what is it when Martin Waters says that he invested in a ponzi scheme with Norman Hsu (once a huge Clinton fund raiser) on the advice of Ron Burkle (who we just found out gave the Clintons 15 million dollars)?
The law firm he worked for? 70 percent of his time on voting rights, civil rights and employment, generally as a junior associate.
He did do real estate work as a junior associate as well; but I can't believe that someone supporting Hillary Clinton is really wanting to count one's early work as a litigator against them. After all, have you seen MOST of Mrs. Clinton's early client list?