Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 357 Editor's Choice: 7
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@ jebldmm
[Read the article: What should Obama do about Rev. Jeremiah Wright?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You seem to assume Obama will be running against Mrs. Clinton in the general.
On issues, Obama and Clinton are almost identical.
So in the primary, the campaign is run on more process and identity than issues.
Once we get to the general election and people begin seeing the differences in what Obama and McCain offer, the choice will be clear.
But for starters there's middle class tax relief while McCain wants to lower taxes on the richest Americans.
Obama would create a 10 percent universal mortgage credit for folks who don't itemize.
Obama would raise the minimum raise while McCain wouldn't.
Obama would reform bankruptcy laws, McCain wouldn't.
Obama would expand the Child and Dependent Care credit.
Obama would amend NAFTA.
Obama would address rising health care costs while McCain wouldn't.
Obama would bring troops home from Iraq, ending that financial bleedout.
The list of differences between Obama and McCain are long and unlike most of the differences between Obama and Clinton are genuine.
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For the first time this election season
[Read the article: Obama "outraged" by Wright]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I believe John McCain will be elected President.
Obama may be finally too damaged to defeat the Republican. Guilt by association is the new litmus test for the Presidency; the 6 degrees of radical speech.
I don't believe that Obama will win IN and will get a narrow win in NC. I believe that Hillary will become the nominee, but it may be a pyrric victory for her. The destruction of Obama and her real or imagined part in it will not be forgiven by many African-American voters, independent voters, liberals and youth.
If her intention was to just damage Obama enough to prevent him from winning in Nov but still be the nominee, it may have gone too far.
Democrats have once again been their own worse enemy. Democrats leatned from eight years of Rove a new way of politics; the swift boat attack. We learned it so well, we didn't have to wait until the general election to see it, we used it on ourselves.
Democrats deserve to lose this election. I'm done with it. I'd sooner piss on Hillary Clinton's head than vote for her and in 20 years of voting I've never not voted Democrat in the general elections. For the first time in my life, I'm disgusted with my party.
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Associated Press Fact check on gas tax link from Salon
[Read the article: More fighting over gas tax proposal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://www.salon.com/wires/ap/2008/04/30/D90CDUV02_obama_gas_tax_fact_check/index.html
Bottom line: It drives up demand, which in turn will raise prices (eating up the 18 cent savings) and that's only if the oil companies pass the savings on to the public.
In the meantime, it diverts billions from the highway trust fund.
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New poll:
[Read the article: A new round of superdelegates for Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24390690/
NBC/Wall Street Journal poll finds Bush pulls down McCain much more than Wright affects Obama.
43% are bothered by McCain's closeness to Bush
36% are bothered by Clinton's dishonesty
34% were bothered by Obama's "bitter" remarks.
32% have a problem with Obama's associations and 27% think Bill Clinton will have too much influence if his wife is elected.
I guess a lot of people are just really tired of having a liar in the White House.
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Head to head matchups doesn't mean crap.
[Read the article: A new round of superdelegates for Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Just like the polls that show more of Mrs. Clinton's supporters wouldn't support Senator Obama.
When your candidate is up, you're a lot less pissed off, and more likely to be magnanamous to the other candidate.
When you candidate is down, you're more likely to feel bitter.
If Mrs. Clinton was more likely to get the nomination, more of Mr. Obama's supporters would then say that they wouldn't support her while her supporters, feeling more in a healing mood, would say that they'd vote for him.
The head-to-head match ups would also reflect this bitterness of the Clinton supporters and would skew the results.
Honestly ask yourself, whether you're a Clinton or Obama supporter, what would your answer be to a pollster if they asked if you'd support the other candidate in the general.
Now, would your answer be different if your candidate was up or down?
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Even when Obama was up in head to head matchups
[Read the article: A new round of superdelegates for Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I didn't believe them. Most of that was when Clinton was more likely to be the nominee.
Most pollsters will tell you head to heads don't mean squat until after there is a nominee from each party and there has been some intraparty healing.
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@ Elephantman
[Read the article: Republicans key to Indiana primary?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Really Elephantman?
You're defending Limbaugh by bringing up 25 year old drug abuse?
You do know the Rush Limbaugh is a drug addict, right?
Your hero, Rush Limbaugh, is a drug addict who avoided serving in Vietnam because of anal cysts. That's right, he consistently, and over a prolonged period, failed to wipe his own ass correctly.
This is the great hero of the Republican party? It's no wonder you guys are on the verge of total collapse. The Republican party's only hope is that Democrats self destruct. Though you may believe this is happening with all your defeated little heart, in the end whomever the Democratic nominee is, will knock John McCain's ass squarely into the dirt.