Letters to the Editor
ljwalker53
Published Letters: 559 Editor's Choice: 9
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"Unusual Republican Support For Hillary Clinton"?
[Read the article: A look at exit polls from the Mississippi Democratic primary]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What is so unusual about this? I don't think it's any more unusual than, say, Obama getting Republican support in other caucuses/primaries. And, frankly, I wouldn't put my eggs in that basket in the GE, whoever the nominee.
Clinton is getting support, by and large, from core-Democratic constituencies ("lunch pail Democrats", older, less than college educated, middle class). These voters are rightly concerned about the economy/job security, health care, the housing crisis, Social Security, retirement security.
Regarding the racially polarized vote in Mississippi, I read today (maybe it was here on Salon) that it raises some troubling questions for Obama's campaign as he moves forward. If I can find the article I'll come back and provide the link.
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@ Paul Daniel Ash: Really! I Didn't Know That...
[Read the article: Targeting bad Democrats]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hey, "sparky" -- I DO know that Rockefeller is in the SENATE. My point here is: Rockefeller has been one of the strongest proponents of Bush tactics in the SENATE and has led the charge on telecom immunity there. The people on the "petition" are lightweights, by comparison. He is also an OBAMA endorser. Thus, the question at the end of my post. Get it?
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Oops!
[Read the article: Targeting bad Democrats]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I won't participate in this poll, primarily because I don't know the representatives being targeted, or their overall records, and I don't think "hit-and-run" polls are particularly effective in the long-run, unless they're a simple matter of revenge.
What I meant to say was:
"...especially if..."
Time to get a new keyboard... ;]
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@ studio2054b: A Little Threatened, No?
[Read the article: Hillary's race against time]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We know that old women are Clinton’s demographic.
Too bad Obama and his followers can't seem to figure out why!
it’s not so much racism and as competing identity politics: victim-status-envy. Old women who are so close to vindication they can taste it, flush with scorned entitlement as they feel their chances slipping away.
Sounds precisely like Barack Obama. And given his "demographic," I'd say it's this "entitlement" attitude that will sink him with pragmatic voters -- not the intellectuals, the liberal elite, or the white-collar tech geeks.
It’s no accident that Clinton’s campaign has also exploited tensions between blacks and Latinos.
Actually, Barack Obama's campaign started using "racial" politics way back in January. How quickly the ADHD generation forgets -- but that's what Obama counts on.
The significance of age here is their direct acquaintance with the past and the compromised place of both women and blacks, the coming of age in a period of transition for both groups.
This is precisely why Barack Obama will never connect with core Democratic voters (or core Republican voters, for that matter). In an insistence on playing above or beyond the playing field, as this language suggests, the attitude continues to show absolute hysterical fear over the world as it is in the here and now and an inability to deal with it on its own terms.
Obama is where he is because he’s tapping into a desire for decency.
Fluff is actually a more accurate and honest description.
Clinton is where she is because in the entitlement of her and her followers, they are simply unaware of their own haggery: fair is foul, and foul is fair.
Thanks for reminding us once again in embarrassing rejoinders why intelligent women don't trust you. In keeping with your intellectual entitlement and airy ideals of perfection, personified in Barack Obama, I'm sure you'll be quite happy in Elysium after November.
What I’m really trying to say is that Geraldine Ferraro would not be in the trouble she’s in if she weren’t an old woman.
Thanks for your ever-so-enlightened views on age. Fortunately, Geraldine Ferraro (none of us "old" women, really) care! We have done it all, heard it all, been through it all. In the great scheme of life and this political season, your views represent nothing more than that most romantic: pusillanimous pismire.
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@ lapsang souchong: Regarding Rosemary Kennedy
[Read the article: More "common ground" on abortion? ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thank you for clearing this up. It always dismays me when I see the patently wrong story about her "congenital disability."
Her "congenital disability" was, in fact, that she was born with a brain, thought for herself went against the Kennedy (male) Clan, creating an embarrassment for "Fitz" and the boys.
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@ JoeCitizen: Me, Too...
[Read the article: Ferraro resigns from Clinton campaign]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I am so depressed tonight that I really don't know what to do. The hatred and diatribes coming from both campaigns and their supporters/followers -- sexism, racism, ageism, and all the other "isms" -- really makes for a bleak outlook in August and November.
My pro-Obama friends are now telling me they will NEVER vote for Hillary Clinton, under any circumstances. And my pro-Clinton friends are saying they will NEVER vote for Barack Obama, under any circumstances.
I'm a Clinton supporter and I have had the worst day of my life today. I have a Clinton bumper sticker on my car and when I started to get in it tonight after going to the store, a young woman approached me and asked how I could support "such a racist monster." I have NEVER had that happen in any presidential campaign. I was absolutely speechless and deeply hurt. The power of words...
For the first time in my voting life I am seriously considering sitting this one out come November. I can't believe I'm saying this, but this wound will only continue to fester, precisely because we can no longer carry on a reasonable debate/discussion about any of the issues, it seems, without it degenerating into name-calling and absolute hatred of "the other."
Anyway, just venting my own frustrations and sorrow here. I'm sorry I don't have an answer. Maybe tomorrow, or the next day, or the day after that...