Letters to the Editor
John Anderson
Published Letters: 511 Editor's Choice: 6
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Superdelegate contributions
[Read the article: Hillary's bridge back to the 20th century]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]These are campaign contributions Obama made to fellow Democrats, in contests against Republicans. Hillary does it too...apparently, not as well.
The Clinton's personal millions were made in a relatively short period of time. I wonder what strings are attached, and what influence they might have on the primary.
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Face the Music
[Read the article: Americans more ready for a black president than a woman?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]They seem to have gone with a kind of 70's nature documentary feel. It's better than the porn music, though.
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pimping the presidency
[Read the article: Why did Clinton wait to release her tax return?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The going rate for a call girl in NYC is around $4,300, apparently. Former President Bill Clinton's speaking fee is much higher.
Although the speech is "worth" more, I would opt for the hooker. But that's just me.
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well...
[Read the article: Why did Clinton wait to release her tax return?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't appreciate the racial sterotyping in your previous post!
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tarpaper shack
[Read the article: Why did Clinton wait to release her tax return?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]cracker imagery, from a cracker
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the Poll
[Read the article: Americans more ready for a black president than a woman?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As several people have already pointed out, the poll did not control for attitudes towards the two candidates. It's not scientific; it's mainly serving here as flame bait.
If Joan Walsh were really committed to raising the level of discussion about sexism, she would find better research to discuss.
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obviously there is gender bias in the US
[Read the article: Americans more ready for a black president than a woman?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The problem is when people say: "you won't vote for Hillary because she's a woman and you're sexist."
In the absence of empirical evidence, that statement itself is sexist.
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race and sex not class
[Read the article: Americans more ready for a black president than a woman?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Class is a touchy subject...why is he worth $50 mil a year, and I'm only worth $40K? So we work out our anger on each other here and elsewhere over the color of our skin and our genital type.
I had a friend from high school who became successful. We don't talk anymore, but at christmas he sends a picture of himself and his beautiful family. The picture looks like it was taken by a professional photographer...it looks like it's from another planet.
Hillary, Edwards, Gore, Bush et al are also on another planet. Obama still has one foot on earth, at least for now.
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one Obama supporter using the "C" word does not constitute a cultural trend
[Read the article: Americans more ready for a black president than a woman?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]One could make the case that Chris Matthews represents broader opinions in some sense...but since I don't watch tv much I wouldn't really know.
Speaking of garbage, why don't you try www.niggerobama.com...gee, no bias there.
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the High Right is hedging its bets
[Read the article: Why did Clinton wait to release her tax return?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]McCain may turn out to be a loser: a shrimp and ex-Navy yahoo who can't get with the Republican voting program 24/7. So they've invested a bit in the Clintons lately.
Expect the debate to shift from "popular vote" to "electability" when it comes time to divy up delegates at the convention
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@aka
[Read the article: Americans more ready for a black president than a woman?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No, it's not a Salon blog...but your original panic-attack post claimed that it was someone who was only USING the Salon logo, ie just another junk web page like the one I cited.
I guess I missed your recatagorization of the discussion to cover only speech issues at Salon...my bad.
As for sexist language...I'm not running for office, and the idea that I would or could "condemn" various types of language is sort of absurd. I don't think I use sexist language...although in the past I have definitly tried to use demeaning language against other posters. This is called "flame bait", as you probably know. I realize that many people do not like this kind of behavior on-line, and I am presently engaged in a self-dialog as to whether or not I will continue in the future. One Tom Payne here is probably enough. Certainly Salon has had no trouble censoring my posts, anyway.
However, there are other people on Salon who use very nice language but insist on posting their diatribes in the thread with the most activity, rather than the one related by topic. Hence the demeaning language, flames etc.
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double standards, hit-and-run, shifting ground rules, holier-than-thou...
[Read the article: Americans more ready for a black president than a woman?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...you're almost as pathological as BrightStar.
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AKAThreadjack
[Read the article: Americans more ready for a black president than a woman?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You are obviously desperately trying to change the subject here. Do you have anything to say about the discussion of sexism?
Your words.
ps you are also a name-dropping character assassin
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it's situation-dependent
[Read the article: Americans more ready for a black president than a woman?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We assume the negative characteristics of whatever political dialectic is operative.
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svutlana
[Read the article: Getting it on for science]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Two of them are amputees.
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"A surprising number of Democrats may stay home."
[Read the article: Americans more ready for a black president than a woman?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A surprising number of Democrats may get a hose, wash off the mud, and do the right thing.
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the food is just an excuse
[Read the article: I Like to Watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's really all about people bopping each other à la the Three Stooges, symbolically or otherwise. And we are happy to watch them do it.
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yes, I just don't get it
[Read the article: Americans more ready for a black president than a woman?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sexism to me is a bad thing, like war or AIDS. But it isn't the all-defining construct that can organize every human experience. So I guess I just don't get it.
At work there is a woman manager (actually there are lots of woman managers there) that I know...she told me that she thinks Hillary is getting very unfair treatment from the press because of her gender. But she's supporting Obama.
This person could not exist in the polarized reality created on these pages by certain people, me included. However, there are probably many others like her.
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morals, differences etc.
[Read the article: Americans more ready for a black president than a woman?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"There is no moral difference between the inhumanity displayed by many Obama “supporters,” orchestrated and condoned by Senator Obama, and the obscenity that was the Christian sacrifices of the Roman era, the witch burnings of the evangelical and Puritan days, and the lynchings of pre and post Civil war days."
This seems like a slight exaggeration.
For example, I don't think that lynched blacks had the opportunity to post counterarguments on the internet.
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@chhabili
[Read the article: Americans more ready for a black president than a woman?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sen. Clinton's statements in Eugene revealed a lot about her...but not in the way that she intended!
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@chhabili
[Read the article: Americans more ready for a black president than a woman?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama is pretty popular here in Oree-gun so it will be interesting to see what happens over the next month...she's trying to boost her cred with the left (Eugene is a small, über-liberal college town) but shooting herself in the foot is not the way to go...
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@chiefpayne
[Read the article: How 1968 changed Hillary]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]They won't see it. They only have eyes for you: sexism and bias that is. The increasing evidence that Hillary might be somewhat less than a candidate for sainthood will be duly ignored.
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gratuitous bashing of beta males
[Read the article: Hillary's slick willies]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hey, we make the world go round. Everybody can't be a diva!
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it the shoe were on the other foot
[Read the article: I'm a med student, but my boyfriend has just a high school education]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]you would probably not be too happy about him trying put the brakes on your ambition. "Education" is a nice code word but really you don't seem to respect his approach to life.