Letters to the Editor
MCE007
Published Letters: 266 Editor's Choice: 8
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Facts
[Read the article: The Brazile-Begala smackdown]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Was this posted to bury the column about Obama's win?
This is just a transcript of a pretty typical cable-news dustup. Not much revealed here. Move along.
-- Xrandadu Hutman
Obama's win in NC...expected...no surprise...
Obama losing in IN...NOT expected...he was up by 8 just 10 days before...
West Virginia and Kentucky set to hand him true smackdowns...
WVA: Losing by 20...Kentucky: Losing by 15...
So no one cares that he won ONE state for the first time in 3 months...whoooooooooooopedeedoo...
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Nothing phantom about it
[Read the article: Night lands Clinton closer to oblivion]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Both Florida and Michigan have come up with viable plans that make it less likely for Obama to claim the nomination, while many Hillary supporters are flat out saying: not a penny to any superdelegate, Senator or congressperson who has endorsed Obama when they run again, not a finger to be lifted to help in Obama's election, and a mass defection away from voting Dem in the fall...whether some stay home, vote McCain, Nader or even for other candidates, that is what will be...we hear the nonsense about how Obama supporters would stay away if Hillary was nominee...well, know this...if just 20% of Hillary's people don't vote for him, Obama has no mathematical chance of winning, without having to register millions of people in time, and the closures for getting people registered and to the polls is rapidly upon us...just impossible for him.
The obnoxiousness of his supporters has turned so many Clinton people off that they see no need to unite behind him. Why should they? What possible benefit would there be now? Calls for the party to come together have come and gone...the behavior of Obama and his backers has made this now an effort for his supporters alone to shoulder...none of us are planning to give him an ounce of help. He and Obamabots have only themselves to blame.
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Starved for cash
[Read the article: Brain scam]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Are PBS stations, in an effort to defray costs they can't meet from listeners, resorting to this sort of programming to cover expenses? Seems like it, and it's a scandal...PBS made its reputation on educational programming, but this is not by any means educational: merely mutual exploitation by crooks like Amen and cash starved affiliates...if I was chair of PBS, I would end this garbage, and renew the PBS brand name with what it does best: superior science, nature and documentary programming, not to mention first rate dramas from BBC...
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You have joined the chorus
[Read the article: What should Hillary Clinton do now?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It seems all the media types are joining the bandwagon, prescribing for Hillary what she needs to do...I don't know which is more infuriating: seeing Chris Matthews or Keith Olbermann writing her epitaph, or you, Joan.
Hillary must do what is right for the party, for sure, but there is absolutely no reason for the rest of the states who have primaries to not have their say in this election. The rush to crown Obama is sheer gamesmanship by his campaign and the shills who are pushing superdelegates for him (who haven't been coaxed with a little cash, like Claire McCaskill was, to the tune of 10K). I have become very disillusioned with the party I have voted with for 32 years. It seems the party has been hijacked by people who feel it is their way or the highway, that Obama is the only candidate, don't dare criticize him, for if you do, you are a racist. This tactic of his vocal, vehement, and at times, outlandishly strident backers is tiresome to many of us, and has turned us completely off to him...I don't like McCain too much either, so I think I will be voting third party this fall...I do not buy into the notion that the party needs to unite: now that the people who claimed their candidate is a uniter have bashed, attacked and slandered his opponent, and have employed ageism, the race card, and sexism to bulldoze their candidate into the nomination, I have no wish or desire to campaign or support that candidate...I figure anyone who can pretend to be for unity and yet allows his followers and campaign to indulge in the very same tactics they claim the Clintons engaged in means he will not, in any way, shape, or form, get my vote or help in the fall campaign...I have worked for many candidates over the years, regardless of their race, gender of ethnicity, but I have never seen the level of negativity as I have seen this year. Count me out, I have had it.
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HUH?
[Read the article: Why Ronald Reagan didn't completely suck]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Anyone claiming to be a liberal historian needs to hang up their credibility if they think Reagan did anything but suck...I remember eight years of living hell under this man. It was RAY GUN who thought up the assinine Star Wars idea, who had idiots working for him galore (sound familiar?), who created mass genocide in several Central American countries (Iran Contra, anyone?), who did NOTHING to stop the spread of AIDS, who built an economy of McJobs and a growth in bloated military spending and the blighting of minorities in cities succumbing to crack...no, the delusional notion that Reagan was this sunny figure as painted by nuts like Peggy Noonan means Reagan does suck, always has and always will.