Letters to the Editor
ljwalker53
Published Letters: 559 Editor's Choice: 9
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@ One guy: Distinctions
[Read the article: Obama wins Vermont]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You know, I'm really sorry that you see Clinton's campaign the way you do. But I can't change the way you feel.
We haven't had such a rousing and informative primary season for about as long as I can remember -- and I've been active for a long time.
In contrast to your views, I believe that it is quite healthy to air differences and to show distinctions between candidates on experience, judgment, readiness, the issues, etc. And in fact, both candidates are doing this. You and others decry Clinton's tactics as "dirty tricks," but simply don't or won't accept that this is a political campaign in which both candidates are engaged in back and forth and what you might call "dirty tricks."
Let the process continue. It is good for democracy and it is good for voters.
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@ tom payne: And Others Who Missed the Memo...
[Read the article: Quarter of Clinton supporters would vote McCain over Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It would be really great if "some" Salon posters -- like the one above -- might actually rise to the occasion of respect for others who post on Salon and elsewhere and take into consideration that calling a candidate "Billary" or some other derogatory moniker does not make them look intelligent or thoughtful or well-informed or astute.
In fact, such labels appear defensive and hostile and do absolutely nothing to enlighten, inform, or educate. They certainly do not move the debate and discussion forward. And they do no absolutely no favor to Sen. Obama and his vision of "hope" and "unity".
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@ MaddieP: Thanks and Back At 'Ya!
[Read the article: The numbers crunch Hillary in Texas]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I really enjoy a spirited and intelligent discussion about the candidates and about this campaign. Although I support Hillary Clinton, I have great respect for Sen. Obama and his candidacy and have noted elsewhere on Salon about his accomplishments.
Thank you for your sane and moderate words. I, too, work on retaining my sanity and balance here on Salon. I am hoping that once we have a nominee some (or all?) of the vitriol and animosity will come to an end.
Keep posting!
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@ 6Stringer: If You Are An Obama Follower...
[Read the article: Clinton wins Ohio]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I feel sorry for those Obama folks who at least have some commonsense and smarts about racial slurs.
"Spics"?
Where in the world are the rest of Obama followers on this racial slur?
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@ 6Stringer: Why Do You Hate Hillary Clinton?
[Read the article: Clinton wins Ohio]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I spent about 20 years in Washington, D.C., eight of them when Bill Clinton was president and Hillary was working on health care, women's issues, children's health and welfare concerns, and on economic/employment issues of conern to Blacks and Latinos.
The things that you posted about Hillary Clinton are simply not true. They are misleading, at best, and complete distortions of her record, at worst.
In D.C., as an example, when she was First Lady, she was approached by a national organization that provided training opportunities for low income women with children who never had a real opportunity for a "real" job that paid well and provided decent benefits.
Hillary Clinton took this huge problem -- especially among Black and Latina women in the D.C. area -- and developed a solution that many of us marveled at: she worked with the groups and individuals who had a stake in this problem and helped the organiztion develop an extraordinary training program that placed these women into PAID apprenticeships and PAID skilled jobs; worked with private companies, foundations and the government to find money for them to get health care, to find a way to provide the support systems: child care, additional money to help them pay for utilities and groceries until they completed their apprenticeships and were paid at full scale.
This is just one of many things that Hillary Clinton has done for the most oppressed in our society.
You mention the Iraq War vote. I wish you would read the resolution and read her comments on the U.S. Senate floor when that measure was being debated. The accusation that she voted to go to war is simply wrong, by any measure of the resolution, her floor statement, or the intent of that resolution.
The media has done a remarkable job of portraying Hillary Clinton as some sort of reincarnated evil who eats children and who "uses" and/or abuses voters, then throws them away like Dixie Cups. Yet, her constituents in New York have marveled at the things she has done on their behalf, every time they have had a problem to solve. She had to win over upstate New Yorkers -- many, many of whom are conservative Republicans. She not only did this, she actually has earned their respect, admiration and they genuinely like her -- as does anybody who knows her, who knows her accomplishments and her lifelong dedication to the very issues we as Democrats care about.
I truly wish you would spend time and examine her record -- and it is a lengthy one with numerous accomplishments on issues ranging from health care (SCHIP, health care for military families, funding for soldiers returning with TBI and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, and other disabilities); education (in Arkansas, as First Lady, and in the U.S. Senate: increased funding for Pell Grants, additional grants for low-income college students who are also eligible for PELL); on aid for first responders in NYC after 911; and funds to increase inspections of containers at ports around the USA, for example.
It is just extremely unfortunate that she has been portrayed the way she has been and that there is so much misinformation about her, about her record, and about her candidacy.