Letters to the Editor
heyjude
Published Letters: 397 Editor's Choice: 42
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Is everybody angry?
[Read the article: Who's Hillary Clinton's supersecret special mystery endorser?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is everybody who posts here just angry as hell, or what?
People hate Hillary, people hate Obama, people think each one of them is a dirtier politician than the other, people picking up little snippets of information and blowing them into huge balloons of ire...
Calm down. Hillary is not a racist. No one said she was a racist. The concern was that as a political PLOY (not as a life philosophy), Bill Clinton was talking to the racists out there in America who might have different feelings about a black candidate. It wasn't his REAL stance in life; it was a political thing. I don't think there's anyone in America who thinks the Clintons are racist, even the people who don't like the Clintons. But that doesn't stop them from making comments that have a political purpose.
Obama is not stupid. Read his books. Look at his record. And he is a politician, just like every other candidate is. He's in the race to win, just like the others. Nor is he selfish; every speech I've ever heard him make is all about bringing people together and working together for the common good and being in service to all people.
Those ads of his are national ads. I don't live anywhere near Florida, and I don't live in a Super Tuesday state, and I see them on TV quite a bit. Maxine Waters made an eloquent plea for Hillary. Ted Kennedy SAID he felt it was time for "a new generation" -- he wasn't making any effort to link Obama to the old-style politics, but to renounce the old-style politics and "have the courage" to take a new direction.
Why can't we agree that we are SO lucky this year to have not one, not two, but actually three people in the Democratic pimary race of whom we can be really proud? Any one of them would make a good president? Why are we so eager to tear our own candidates apart? When is the last time ANYONE saw candidates in the running who were the caliber of the whole Democratic pack that started out this year?
In the immortal words of BC: "Give me a break!"
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Let's think strategically
[Read the article: Obama breaks fundraising record]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama could beat any Republican. He has thus far proven that he can bring in uncertain Republicans, independents and new voters -- that's important. All Republicans want to beat Hillary. They will turn out to vote for anyone but Hillary, but I think they'll sit out Obama.
I say, for the good of the future of the country and the party, Hillary should not be our candidate.
But she surely would make one fantastic Supreme Court Justice. She has the intellect, the historical knowledge and understanding, the ability to evaluate information and write clear opinions. I would love to see Obama in the White House and Hillary on the Supreme Court, where she could spend the rest of her life defending freedom and the Constitution in a non-political setting that plays to all her strengths. And where Bill truly would be irrelevant to her and he could go on working with his Foundations and doing what he likes.
Both Clinton's have a lot to offer our country and both could make major contributions to our future -- just not in the White House.
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Move On, Move On
[Read the article: A MoveOn endorsement?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Move on, please, to bringing public attention to the major differences between Democrats and Republicans, to the important policy issues on which Democrats agree, to getting people to be SURE to vote.
If you endorse, nothing else you say will matter to the Dems who did not support the candidate you endorsed. If you don't, you may have a voice in Democratic politics.
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They're all blowing in the wind
[Read the article: John McCain's endless war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]All the Republicans are shape-shifting to try to find a niche with the electorate. McCain, Romney, even Huckabee, just alter their message depending on the audience. Witness Huckabee going on and on about abortion, until he went to NH, where it wasn't so cool to be talking about that.
The Republicans as a group are in search of a message. They don't know what to appear to think.
It was nice of them to coin the term flip-flopping four years ago; now they've perfected the definition of it.
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Blitzer was the big loser
[Read the article: Democratic debate sort-of-live blogging continued]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wolf Blitzer's questioning was the low point of the debate. He did everything he could to create controversy and stir up negativity.
I liked it much better when the debate questions came from real people ...
Get Wolf out of the deal. He should not moderate debates. He's only interested in creating sound bites and gotcha moments. He and Tim Russert ought to ride into the sunset and get out of presidential reporting.
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Proud Liberal
[Read the article: MoveOn endorses Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Whatever happened to our pride in liberal ideas? When I was younger, it was honorable to be a Liberal. It was a way of looking at life, people government that was egalitarian, charitable, focused on peace and on bringing discordant factions together.
I for one think it will be Barack Obama's job to bring that pride back, to wear the designation with dignity, and to restore the term to its rightful place.
Just because Rush Limbaugh and a lot of political operatives have smeared it and derided it, we don't have to buy that line of thinking.
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Scary thought
[Read the article: The cost of defeat]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And this is the man who wants to be perceived as a conservative who knows how to run the economy?
Our problem has been our willingness to spend our own (taxpayers') money without regard to the future "inheritance" of the coming generations. So he's showing us how he will bring us more of the same. He will spend himself into oblivion for his own pride. We've seen where that leads at the presidential level. Let's stop him while he's just spending his OWN fortune, not wasting the treasury of the US.