Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 362 Editor's Choice: 7
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@ AKA
[Read the article: What does Hillary want?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'll bet that if I were to walk into an all black church to worship, I would be made to feel unwelcome. Many white churches would make blacks also feel unwelcome.
And you'd lose. I go to a church that is about 90% black. They came to my house one saturday morning about 12 years ago and invited me and I've never left. Like wise, I think you sell people short to say the reason church is segregated is because of racism. It's more cultural than anything, and I'd bet 99% of the white churches in America would be more than happy to have black members. Your view of America is depressing and not based in the reality of 2008.
I'm an old guy and remember way back. The young people I talk to today (and by young I mean under 50) simply don't see race the same way folks did even 20 years ago. I simply don't believe white Democrats voted against Obama because he's black. I think most of the base of the party, (except black Democrats) voted for Hillary out of loyalty. Once black voters saw that Obama was viable, they voted out of pride, but not out of hate for Hillary. Blacks voted for the same reason older women supported Hillary by overwhelming numbers. A sense that history could be made. People some times vote identity. But there's a big difference in voting FOR and identity (black for Obama, older women for Hillary) and making a broad speculation that whites will vote against Obama because he's black. There's simply no evidence that that is the case.
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Obama confident about winning Clinton voters
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24524627/
In the interview with Brian Williams Obama also did not reject the notion of Clinton serving on the ticket as his vice presidential running mate.
Obama said his campaign would embrace all voters, including those backing the former first lady.
“That doesn’t mean though that I don’t have lot of work to do if I end up being the nominee," he said, adding, "It's important for us to systematically reach out and describe for people — with as much specificity as possible — what, exactly an Obama presidency would mean."
“If I can say to people, 'Look, I might not have been your first choice, but here's how I'm going to allow you to send your kids to college, here's how I'm going to protect your pension, here's how I'm going to expand healthcare so you don't have to lose sleep at night trying to figure out whether or not you can afford to get sick,' then I think people will respond."
Obama's confidence about potentially winning over Clinton voters referred to opinion polling done in 2000 when Republicans John McCain and George Bush fought a fierce battle for their party’s nomination.
McCain supporters, disappointed after he lost the nomination, vowed they wouldn’t vote for Bush — but ultimately they did.
As for the idea of Clinton being his vice president, Obama said, “There's no doubt that she is qualified to be vice president. There's no doubt that she's qualified to be president….I think anybody who has been in a political contest with her can tell you that she's no pushover."
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@ AKA
[Read the article: What does Hillary want?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama might have also had more of a chance of getting my vote if so many of his supporters had not engaged in to much sexism towards Hillary.
I am also offended by Obama supporters who want to paint me as a racist for supporting Clinton.
Sorry, I simply don't understand how any thoughtful person rejects a candidate based on the words of anonymous letter writers. I've been told by 20 year friends that I'm sexist for not voting for Hillary. Didn't phase me a bit, because I know I'm not sexist. And I'd still vote for Clinton were she the nominee.
I don't see the Clintons a racist. I think it is a bogus charge. However, I think it is one that the Clintons are pretty angry about and I suspect it has a great deal to do with the hardening towards the other candidate on both sides.
The Clintons aren't racist. The only evidence that people are voting because of race are blacks for Obama; and again that is more voting out of pride and FOR something than voting against Hillary because she is white. Hell, they voted for her husband and he's as white as they come.
If the Clintons WERE making an appeal to race, they did a piss poor job because it didn't work.
So how do you explain all the hatred of Hillary at TPM, at Politico, and here?
What the hell does that have to do with race? You think blacks hate Hillary because she is a woman and all the letter writers on these sites are black? And again, I'm not going to judge the candidate by some idiot with a keyboard and opinion has to say.
Well, in Texas, even many Democrats are racist.
And all over the country, some people are sexist and won't elect a woman. Yet even though there are racists and sexists in this country, the Democratic party STILL bravely put forward a platform condemning racism and sexism and passes laws to protect minorities and women. Should the party abandon these principles simply because there are racists and sexists in this country who will vote against us?
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@ AKA Smith
[Read the article: What does Hillary want?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sorry but if your born white in America, where most folks garbage disposals eat better than half the world, your BORN to priviledge. Everybody hits a rough patch in this life and some never recover. But to be born in this country white is to have a leg up from the get go.
However, I respect how hard you've had it and it shows true character to get up off the ground and soldier on.