Letters to the Editor
svenson
Published Letters: 24
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Reality check
[Read the article: Appreciating Obama's win in South Carolina]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Nice article .. many complain that you did not rite about the women voters ...
The reality is in SC, 54% of voters were black... and 60% voted for Obama and his white votes dropped 10%.
That statistics say something about race in the election. When 60% of black voted for Obama and 25% of white voted for Obama ... the only reason for the diff is race.
If we lower the black voters in SC to that in other states ... Obama and clinton would be tied.
If we give Obama 100% of all black votes in all the coming states in big super tuesday and 25% of white votes , he would be losing big time.
That is the reality. Like I said before, if we go into a gay bar and ask everyone whether they support gay marriage ... 100% will say yes. So if 80% of black voters voted for Obama ... it means nothing much other than to say that 80% of black voters will vote for Obama.
If we go to Kenya and ask them whom they will vote for between Obama and Clinton, 80% or more will vote for Obama .. what does taht say? A landslide, etc... . The pundits like to say Clton was truely beaten because they have ben waiting for the slightest opportunity to thrah the CLintons .. this give them a chance.... talk to a professional math or statistician and they will tell you the result in SC is just that .. 80% of black voters voted for Obama. 25% of whites voted for CLinton. IF the population has less than 25% black voters, Obama would ahve lost.
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Reality
[Read the article: Obama and the Kennedy legend]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I read Joan Walsh to get my feet back on the ground and be in touch with reality.... After 935+ lies propagated by teh main media free press means soemthing worrying.
By the way no one seem to explain what Obama's change and hope are and what H Clinton's hope and change are. I know what you mean by errie .. when you hear Obama .. it is like hearing a preacher promising you eternal life ..... a religious feeling .. from a preacher reading from an autoQ.
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Funny
[Read the article: Rupert Murdoch's kowtow correspondence]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The press always write about the murdoch kowtow to China, how the press are towing the politicians lines, etc bias.. and so on
You only have to read the US press .. FOX kowtow to... bush, rep,
MSNBC trashing the clintons for no reasons otehr than to help their pet politicians
Huff n Puff sucking up to Obama
ABC trashing clinton with false 'facts'
People turning fairy tale voting record into racist remarks
God the election coverage in the US is just as biased as in pakistan or indonesia
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Obama's race card
[Read the article: Obama and race in California]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It was Obama who choose to use the race card .. to be the victim and tap the sympathy of the black voters.
'Fairy tale' was never about race.
The media, Obama and everyone else call him a future black president ... a total slap in the face to his mother. Obama never corrected people when they call him the black man.. but they scream and whin when Bill Clinton call his voting record a 'fairy tale' and turn that into a racist remark.
Imagine if you are a white mother, you married a black man and have a son who call himself a 'black man' and ignore the origin of your mother ... and then you choose to use her in your advertisment when it will win you votes?
She would turn in her grave.
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Biracial
[Read the article: Multiracial man]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I posted a few days ago on Joan article on this.
Obama choose to call himself a black man because he choose to use the race card to get the black votes and to put all whites in a spot. As a black man, his little achievement will not be scrutinized as much becos the black topic will swamp all else.
He played the race card himself by putting his mother's heritage as junior to his father even though his motehr gave him more time than his father.
My chidlren are mixed and they never call themselves one or another .. they say they are mixed. When someone inquire deeper then they say who their mother and father are.
Furthermore he twisted a simple 'fairy tale' comment on his voting record into a race issue.
He is no mor than any other politicians, he lies aobut clinton's positions, he use nasty leaflets, he use the GOP and drug company picture and recycle it to lie about Clinton'shealth plan again.
He slam the old washington establishement but use Ted more than he use his wife.
When CLinton was baby sitting for a black single mother, at the same age, Obama was smoking somethng which we are not allowed to talk about.
Give me a break. I change my mind and will not vote for a man who wants to be a president but cannot take a samll jibe on teh jaws and instead whine and cry like a baby.
If any black person or minorty persons whine and complain about race and use the race card, he or she will never get anyplace in life.
I need no one to tell me 'yes we/I can'
I knew that all my life.
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American Indian
[Read the article: Multiracial man]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The white men came and took our land an nearly kill all of us off.
The white men brought the slaves to exploit our land.
Nobody feel sorry about us... or about us becoming the first Indian President.
When Obama talks in his campaign speeches.. he talks about the poor, the single mothers, the Latinos, Hispanics, Asians, etc.. all invaders or immigrants.....
Not one mention of American Natives to date.
Get real!