Letters to the Editor
MCE007
Published Letters: 317 Editor's Choice: 9
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The Lost Sheppard
[Read the article: The swing states of 2008]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama? McCain?
What's wrong with Salon? Why isn't this article about Hillary?
This sexism, no doubt the fault of Howard Dean and the Obamabots just makes me bitter and angry. Where is Joan Walsh? How did she let this piece get published when it doesn't talk about the real chance Hillary still has as a write-in candidate?
-- Morris Sheppard
You seem to have commented on the wrong website...maybe Daily Kos or Arianna's noxious site would appreciate such drollery...
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Same old tricks coming...
[Read the article: The swing states of 2008]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]By the way
What is the definition of a swing state? Because everyone knows that if the election is decided by less than 3% which is damned likely, it's going to wind up in Federal courts across the land, ultimately in the Supreme Court. And Roberts, Scalia, Alito and Thomas just need one 'swing' vote there, to elect McCain. I don't even know why we bother holding elections anymore.
-- Arne is a douchebag
You put your finger right on the problem here. Rove and his fellow crooks aren't going to let this election slip control out of Republican hands so easily...they still have many tried and true tactics that they can trot out to thwart Obama...he would need to win by humungous margins for their sneaky methods not to work their wiles again.
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Thanks, Rebecca
[Read the article: Why Clinton voters say they won't support Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It is pathetic that women are suppose to fall in line behind a MAN, as always, to placate those who take women's votes for granted in the Democratic party. We heard alot about how blacks also resent being used by the Dems, a point that is well taken, and trotted out by many a black Republican. This is a problem for Dems: they must not ever take any voting bloc for granted, and doing so has rightfully made the PUMAs pissed...
...the way in which they were written off, marginalized and resented, their hopes mocked and their history-making ambitions dismissed as retrograde identity politicking -- damned if they're going to be nice girls about it.
Hillary pointing out that many women she met who remembered when women weren't allowed to vote had supported her is an example of women once again being passed by to suit the paternalistic leanings of this country...
Rebecca, you did a slam dunk with this piece...now I watch and wait for you to be "Worst Person In The World" on Olbermann for daring to mention his glaring misogyny...after all, he did work in sports broadcasting, not exactly a bastion of gender sensitivity.
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Calling Mommie Dearest...
[Read the article: Why Clinton voters say they won't support Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...if my 65-year-old mother is representative of these so-called PUMAs. She's a life-long Republican who doesn't think about the issues other than what she reads in People magazine.
Does your Mother have time to write you out of her will, for reasons clearly shown in this bit of TMI about your relationship with her? Glad to see you mock her enthusiasm for women in the political arena...evidently you are clueless about what it was like for women of her generation. Now she may have or may not have been a women who set out for the work place, but for women of her generation and older, to see a woman in the political field WAS a big deal, regardless of one's political persuasion. You have underscored Rebecca's point about what has angered so many women in the dismissive and derisive attitudes displayed by ungrateful, to put it mildly, children like you...where's the wire hangar? Forty deserved whacks for you, to start (LOL!)
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Do over, please...
[Read the article: Why Clinton voters say they won't support Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I can't help but wonder...
...whether Hillary would support the warrantless eavesdropping and telecom amnesty bill the way Obama has. He's not even elected yet, but already he's willing to give up our Consistutional rights under the Fourth Amendment. Anybody want a do-over?
-- mhellman
Obama has decided to do what Reverend Wright aptly said he would do: be another run of the mill politician...clearly he is trying to tack to the right and secure some more conservative voters...it's a lost cause, to put it mildly...I sure hope Hillary would be against this...
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Here, here!
[Read the article: Why Clinton voters say they won't support Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In fact, a party leadership (i.e, the media bigshots who call the horse race for the Dems, so they won't look weak) that could do such a thing is clearly not ready for a woman to be its presidential candidate. But, then, we all just learned that the hard way, didn't we? Right, Olbermann, Matthews, et al.?
And they're supposed to be the so-called liberals or progressives? Give me a break. They're misogynists. Period.
-- Anonymust
Brilliant comment, anonymust...couldn't have said it better...why do have to feel we MUST choose Obama, and like it? Have it rammed down our throats, or be labeled traitorous Dems, or barbarous bigots? It's the Dems who have betrayed the party's values, as well as Obama, on his shameless stance on telecom bill. Remember, boys will be boys...no matter what their political bent.