Letters to the Editor
KateTex
Published Letters: 579 Editor's Choice: 4
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@snoman
[Read the article: Obama's got ground game]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]From yesterday's NYTimes:
..."Past a thicket of candidate signs in the parking lot, Constable Ron Hickman, a Republican incumbent running for his third four-year term as a Harris County [Texas] law enforcement official, appealed for votes and, too often, he said ruefully, explained the rules.
“They don’t understand why you can’t vote for someone on one ticket and then one on the other,” Mr. Hickman said.
Two of his supporters, in fact, had come to do just that. Jimmie Williams, 70, a retired oil company worker and an avid Republican, said, “I wanted to vote against Hillary so Obama would win so McCain would go against Obama and have an easier time.”
His buddy, J. B. Cain, 65, a retired computer programmer and also a Republican who said he had never voted early before, came with the same idea, although interjecting, “Lord help us if he couldn’t beat either one.”
Mr. Hickman explained that if they voted in the Democratic primary, they could not also vote for Mr. McCain in the Republican primary because voters are handed either a Republican slate or a Democratic one. Both men then dropped their plan to vote for Mr. Obama.
The high turnout has prompted speculation that other Republicans were also trying to cast a strategic Democratic vote. “We’ve heard those anecdotes,” said Mr. Wilson, the secretary of state, adding, “We wouldn’t know why until later when we can go back into voting histories.”
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@chhabili - again
[Read the article: Hillary at twilight]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Who's in the trunk, you or your evil twin? Look, you've been outed and your credibility pretty much shot. Why not just give it up?
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@Kingbreaker
[Read the article: Hillary at twilight]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is the very first time anyone has tried to answer the questions I posed (I've asked them elsewhere to no avail). Thanks for taking the time to come up with some thoughtful observations/guesses/insights. I believe this campaign would have proved far less rancorous if far more of these exchanges could have taken place. I've found myself in the very odd position of fighting tooth and nail with people whose political philosophy pretty much coincides with mine, and this alienation has proved painful. I've always believed that rational people would save the world. Thank for being rational here.
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@ Ron Smith - a closer walk with Obama
[Read the article: Obama's got ground game]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You describe Obama as "a former president of the Harvard Law Review that chose a Chicago slum over fame and fortune in Washington, D.C."
Um, there is such a thing as a planned life trajectory and one could easily look at Obama's choice of a Chicago slum as a calculated move - what better place for a black American to begin building a power base? One could also look at his autobiographical books, no matter how well they may be written, as two more calculated moves - what better way to establish who you are (or who you want people to think you are) than writing exhaustively about yourself, thereby setting the terms of future debate. Initial paving for the landing strip of fame and fortune? Very possibly, even very likely.
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@ethics-prof
[Read the article: Hillary at twilight]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Come Tuesday I'll be doing my part for Senator Clinton here in Central TX. The Austin paper has been pretty blatantly biased in favor of Obama, but today's letters to the editors section contained a number of messages praising Clinton. Very unexpectedly, the (50,000) UT student paper endorsed Clinton, but of course no mention of this appeared in the Austin paper.
Also, the county I live in, adjacent to Austin's Travis, has raised twice as much money for Clinton as for Obama, even though we're home to a large university which, predictably, is Obama territory. Around neighbors and acquaintances (we're new here), I've learned to keep my mouth shut about my Clinton advocacy; I quickly learned that not favoring Obama was being interpreted as latent racism. The latter is not a good omen.
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@gneubeck
[Read the article: Obama's got ground game]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So very instructive to read your list of 'reasons' for being against Clinton. Makes for a really cogent argument in favor of Obama. Can we assume you'll be pressing the 'no' button when you vote?
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@ petition - this is outrageous
[Read the article: Hillary at twilight]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm sorry, but this petition is an outrageously low tactic, seeing as how there are two MAJOR primary elections next Tuesday, in which Hillary Clinton is still a very viable candidate. It's tactics like this which are increasingly alienating her supporters from Obama. Your arrogance is simply astounding.
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cecilbeanie
[Read the article: Hillary at twilight]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You say: "is it not the very essence of public service that one puts the public good first, ahead of one's personal desires and ambitions?"
Perhaps the essence of public service is giving all factions a fair hearing, sans the tactics of intimidation. That's one definition of the public good. Have you read about black Ohioans' attempts to intimidate black Clinton supporters into switching their allegiance? I see that deeply shameful behavior as akin to this petition.
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@ShawnWM
[Read the article: Obama's got ground game]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I agree with every word of your last couple of posts. The nearly deafening chorus from Obama supporters, made ever louder by the tremendously irresponsible MSM, is obscuring political realities. It's almost as if support for Hillary Clinton has been driven underground by nearly constant badgering, derision, and censure. Thankfully, there is the Internet. Only here do I find assurance that I'm far from alone in my thinking and firm preference for Clinton.
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@ShawnWM addendum
[Read the article: Obama's got ground game]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We are new to Texas, having left New Orleans after Katrina. We don't know our neighbors well enough yet to venture onto political ground, and we are both self-employed. As for our old friends in NOLA, they're almost unanimously for Senator Clinton. Therefore, the comment about the Internet constituting a lifeline.