Letters to the Editor
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@aka
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yes, he called a reporter "sweetie," not "sugar tits" or "bimbo."
And if it were a man, he would have called him "buddy."
I think you are missing the mark on that one. Really?
Sweetie/buddy.. if you think that is sexists then I suggest staying out of the South, or the typical all night diner for that matter. Now, I understand that the term can be heard as either endearing or condescending. Context matters.
What you or I or anyone else don't have is the real context. To you it sounds dismissive. Perhaps it was poorly chosen. The point is that Senator Obama immediately acknowledged that it may have been inappropriate, apologized and made up for it by granting the reporter an interview.
That's classy, and that's being an adult. Two things Hillary Clinton has struggled with during this campaign, in my estimation.
I'm still waiting for Terry McAuliffe to apologize for calling me a latte sipping liberal. I'm sure Hillary Clinton's never set foot in a Starbucks, never had some espresso concoction with some kind of foam, am I right?
Using "sweetie" against Obama is off the table, unless you are just playing to take hostages at this point. It's settled, stop extoring the man for something he has more than made up for.
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@Ravanne
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]You are not a traitor to the Democratic party, unless you plan on voting for McCain or Nader, or worse, staying home come November.
If you plan on voting for the Democratic nominee in November then welcome, and thank you.
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This mornings concern troll!
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]GM1000! Congratulations:
Sexist Democrats
Joan Walsh is too nice. The only way women can protest the overt and gleeful sexism of Obama's team and the male dominated media is to NOT vote at all or vote for McCain.
Surely women not blacks are the most important constitutency in the democratic party. Why aren't they treated that way?
A statement so stupid that only a Republican concern troll could have said it.
Also, seamus65, dial it down, please. Who do you think you are, david sugarman? No reasonable person wishes harm to come to Clinton, her supporters or Joan, and I'm sure you can agree once you calm down.
I do not wish for Joan Walsh to be forced into resigning. I don't want her to resign. But I do want her to realize that her concern trolling op-eds are damaging, condescending, dishonest and unnecessary. Please, stop. Take a vacation. Clear your head. Stop campaigning for Clinton, its over.
I am sure that Obama will figure out a way to capture some of the 1 or 2 million Clinton supporters who are still whipped into a frenzy over the middle-aged suburban great white woman hope not getting crowned in this popularity contest/reality TV show gone wrong we call an electoral process. Sorry. Get over it.
I am sure Obama will figure out a way to reach out to the 10 or so Clinton supporters who "just won't vote for a nigger." Maybe hit them over the head with a frying pan until the mist of 3 generations of divisive Republican race-baiting politics clears and they realize that they, themselves, are the white niggers of America, kept down by a corporatist, anti-labor, anti-worker, anti-farm American political zeitgeist which has excluded them for as long as I have been alive.
Some Clinton supporters will never come around. These people do not share my ideals, nor do I think they ever shared Clinton's. And if they want to install an ancient white man to continue to run the empire yet whilst Rome burns then they are Democrats in Name Only anyway.
If Hillary Clinton had won the nomination, as much as I disagree with some of her more controversial Senate votes, as much as I have found her campaign to be distasteful, she is still not as bad as John McCain. I would have voted for her come November (unless she picked up Joe Liebermann on the ticket, then I would have moved to Canada).
A Democrat cannot lose in November. A Democrat must not lose.
Come to your senses, everyone. It is literally a matter of life or death. Say it with me: life or death. Life or death. Life or death.
I choose life.
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@kstone
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]The problem I have with this article is that Joan is holding Clinton supporters, symbolically, hostage.
If you don't want to vote for Obama, fine. You're not a Democrat. He's the nominee. If you want to see John McCain in the White House, then don't vote for Obama. It's as simple as that.
Stop punishing Obama for things that Chris Matthews or Reverend Write or Rezcko said or did. Or for me calling Clinton a giant jerk (she has yet to prove me wrong) or for someone else criticizing how Mark Penn or Terry McAulliffe have run the campaign. Or for calling out Carville for criticizing Richardson's endorsement of Obama. And on and on and on.
Obama is the nominee. Vote for him or fuck you. That's as fine of a point as I care to put on it. If you don't vote for the Democratic nominee in November, go fuck yourself.