Letters to the Editor
KateTex
Published Letters: 506 Editor's Choice: 3
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Listen up all you naifs
[Read the article: Is Obama playing the race card?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Having lived in New Orleans for 30 years - and I don't mean the suburbs but right in the thick of things where it could get really nasty, I find the naivete out there in lily white, self congratulating America perfectly laughable. I'm here to tell y'all that in matters political as in all else, blacks are capable of being just as venal as whites. To believe anything else IS racism.
The very public track records of both Bill and Hillary Clinton are indicative of anything but racism, and short of a seismic midlfe conversion, are we to believe they suddenly ran out to the nearest white sale and stocked up on white sheets? Right.
The manner in which they have lately been used by both the MSM and black America - including Wonder Boy Obama - would be shocking if it hadn't been so predictable. So yah, the guy writing in the New Republic knows what he's talking about. It's called reality.
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Wrongo
[Read the article: Is Obama playing the race card?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]<<"It isn’t race references that is causing H. Clintons star to set it was her vote to support the Iraq War."
Bingo>>
And, pray tell, how is Obama's position on the Iraq war superior to Clinton's? It isn't. He's on record - in both the New Yorker and one of his autobiogs, as saying he didn't necessarily think the war was misguided, and as having said he couldn't say how he would've voted on the war had he had access to the same intelligence which members of Congress had. This stuff is available to the least enabled researcher. And yet, Obama has been allowed to beat Clinton to death with her Iraq vote. What's causing Clinton's star to set - if indeed it is setting - is the massively irresponsible bias of the MSM.
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Wilentz has it right
[Read the article: Is Obama playing the race card?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"...Above all, it is a commentary on the cutthroat, fraudulent politics that lie at the foundation of Obama's supposedly uplifting campaign."
"It" referring to the newborn myth of the Clintons' newfound racism. I fail to see what's so outrageous about Wilentz's conclusion here. He's obviously writing out of anger and frustration, but hey, he's speaking for a whole lot of voters who feel they've been all but bound and gagged.
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@apatnola
[Read the article: Is Obama playing the race card?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You said: "Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton make racial statements about Jesse Jackson and LBJ and MLK and Sen Obama is to blame."
Please define a "racial statement". Would this include Hillary Clinton's historically correct observation that it took a president (LBJ) to push through civil rights legislation that an unelected public figure (MLK) could hardly enable, no matter how compelling his case?
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@manos
[Read the article: Is Obama playing the race card?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Would it not have been enough to say the 'whole character assassination squad? Can you understand that you just buttressed your opposition's argument?
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@Dmagnificent
[Read the article: John Lewis endorses Obama ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Like it or not, Obama is moving people. He is connecting with people on a fundamental level. Obama is giving the disenfranchised hope of a brighter future."
Oh, please. A great deal of Obama's support is coming from upper income whites whose self-ascribed liberalism is entirely untested, whereas Clinton has gotten far more votes from those with lower incomes (a class to which Obama supporters tend to refer as 'uneducated').
Re John Lewis's switch under pressure: this is called Politics New Orleans Style. Did real wonders for the city, I tell ya. I watched it fall apart courtesy of bloc voting.
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@cheeta
[Read the article: Is Obama playing the race card?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You say: "She should've let all those ugly episodes be."
What 'ugly episodes' are we talking about here? Please be specific.
Re the Clintons as opportunists: what do you think motivates Obama? Do you see him playing Gandhi in the remake?
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@i'drather not
[Read the article: Is Obama playing the race card?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You say: "If Obama actually benefits from being the black candidate, what is the problem with that?"
You're missing the point here: Obama is benefiting at the expense of the Clintons, and in a highly public, unscrupulous manner. If the price of Obama winning is the trashing of the Clintons's integrity and respective reputations on matters racial, then the price is not only way too high, but ugly in the bargain. So ugly that, Supreme Court and Iraq be damned, I will almost certainly not be able to vote for him if he becomes the Demo candidate. This is as down and dirty a primary as I've ever seen, giving the lie to Obama's very tired theme of hope and change. It's entirely possible that one day, he will be viewed as the Ralph Nader of this election, not the Messiah from the South Side. I'm not only angry about the corner Obama has backed too many of us into, I'm deeply saddened.
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@akira1
[Read the article: Is Obama playing the race card?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You say: "To Katetex: what corner has Obama backed people who do not support him...?"
The corner I'm referring to is this: how can anyone vote for a candidate they've come to view as not only having no more integrity than his opponent (if as much), but who has managed to maneuver that opponent into a place of deep and undeserved scorn? I see Obama as having done precisely that - with full complicity from the MSM, of course. This completely undermines the whole premise and ostensible advantage of Obama's campaign: "I'm the nice guy in the race, the guy who will change everything and bring you all together." In short, I've come to see Obama as a phony. However, neither can I can bring myself to vote for McCain, with whom I'm philosophically at odds on nearly all the big issues.
At any rate, thanks for asking - nice to have a civilized exchange.
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@3reddogs
[Read the article: Clinton, Obama fundraising soars ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You say: "Kinda hard to believe 200,000 Democrats suddenly became inspired to contribute for the first time to the Clinton campaign in February."
Well, I guess if you get angry and concerned enough, like I did, you get out the old credit card and zip a chunk of change through the ether, change you perhaps can ill afford, but which you're willing to part with if only on principle.
So, any more aspersions you'd like to cast? (BTW, I'm an Independent who almost invariably votes Democrat.)