Letters to the Editor
MCE007
Published Letters: 269 Editor's Choice: 8
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Dignity?
[Read the article: What does Hillary want?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Let her finish herself off, she's been doing a terrific job at it, then let her take responsibility. Let her, and her acolytes, show us what level of dignity they can muster.
-- Riversofexile
How very odd for anyone among the Obamabots to lecture about mustering dignity...with name calling being a de rigeur exercise by your lot, not to mention slanderous sexism and disinformation campaigns that would put the old KGB to shame, it is an exercise in hypocrisy to claim anyone else needs to show dignity...
Obama has some very strange bedfellows...crazy ex-pastors, homophobic ex-gay gospel singers, corrupt Chicago politicos, and his wild-eyed supporters, who, put together, are certain doom for his candidacy in November.
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Yapping
[Read the article: What does Hillary want?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama has fulfilled every qualification to be the nominee and you can keep yapping about bs...but believe it or not there have to be some rules. You might want to catch the Daily Show bit about Hilary claiming that the super delegates are the to be taken most seriously-but then that was when she was in a different situation.
-- sigmund5
One should be VERRRY careful about accusing anyone of yapping when you are doing precisely that...
Just how has he fulfilled qualifications of being nominee? Of which states has he been the winners of? Are they ones which count at all??? So far, only two of the states he has won have any semblance of weight in the general: North Carolina and Illinois...the rest he won in, as I heard someone so plainly put it on TV the other day, don't matter. Hillary won EVERY STATE THAT WILL MATTER in November...
I would say if persuading superdelegates with cash favors (Claire Haskill got a 10K bribe) is how he is qualified, well then you have a strange set of standards...
Obama has managed to try to keep Michigan and Florida out of the equation, knowing full well he did everything possible to sabotage their inclusion in Hillary's totals...just exactly how this makes him qualified for the nomination, I have no clue.
I wouldn't rely on Jon Stewart for any serious arguments about political discussions...the superdelegates were designed precisely to prevent potential candidates who could be ticking time bombs, like Obama is, since the Rezco trial will most assuredly be a game ending drama for him, as seems to be the case from daily testimony reported by Chicago papers that the rest of the media and his shills refuse to acknowledge. Hillary couldn't have been smarter than to bring up the slum lord charge against him, for that one will be part and parcel of the much larger issue of corruption which will unravel his amateur campaign before long.
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Misanalysis
[Read the article: What does Hillary want?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You're making the invalid assumption - or shall we say presumption - that Obama has zero support except from liberals, the young, and blacks. Other demographic groups may prefer Hillary to Obama to some degree, but this in no way precludes the very real possibility that they would support Obama over McCain in November.
I smell a Republican rat.
-- walter_map
Obama has some support among that group, but consistent exit polls show it is by no means enough to secure a win in November, since many have no intention of voting for Obama. America is in a serious economic crisis, and by no means ready to try on vague ideas of "change" and "hope" when they need relief from their problems, not some lectures.
Obama's biggest obstacle is he will be portrayed as a liberal in classic fashion by Repubs, and this is always a winning formula...why? Because this country hasn't ever elected a President as liberal as Obama, who resembles Dukakis or McGovern in his political persuasion. I said it before and say it again, I challenge any Obamabot to show me one true liberal President in the last 80 years...JFK? No. LBJ? No... Clinton? No. Truman or FDR? No. There is just no precedent for his brand of liberalism and it isn't going to change because of him. To assume it would is supreme arrogance.
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Credible?
[Read the article: What does Hillary want?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Several credible analysts have shown that Hillary's chances of winning the nomination at this point are small and are very likely to decrease. Her continued pursuit of the nomination increasingly confirms her willingness to damage the party for her own aggrandizement.
Unless you're a Republican, that's bad. Are you?
-- walter_map
Not an analysis, but an Obama camp talking point...worthless...
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LOL
[Read the article: What does Hillary want?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]-- Stentor
I love your slam of walter_map...like any good Obamabot, he follows the master, and feels he has to lecture his subjects...well, most of us aren't listening or caring what he or Obama says...
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Not learning from the past
[Read the article: Killing by the numbers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]With young soldiers clueless about the past, and older commanders trying to relive in their minds the era of Vietnam that ripped the nation apart, this is a shocking example again of how the Bush people refused to prepare anyone for what was to come in Iraq.
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Begala has it right
[Read the article: The Brazile-Begala smackdown]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Unfortunately, Donna is wrong here...Castellanos is right when he says that Obama DID have a broad spectrum of voters in the small states he won, ones which had infinitesimal Dem organizations, and it was easy for him to build a coalition. This was not so in the bigger states where the party is more active, and where his message of "hope" and "change" comes across as nebulous and too indefinite for people who care about the here and now. Hillary has and still is very specific on the stump, while Obama is still doing his lecture circuit, which, to blue collar voters, is a big turn off.
Obama is attracting eggheads and African Americans, and that coalition is what costs every Dem to lose...think Michael Dukakis...