Letters to the Editor
heyjude
Published Letters: 397 Editor's Choice: 42
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All's fair
[Read the article: Newest Clinton ad plays on security fears]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]All's fair in war and politics. The ad asks a legitimate question.
I'd like Barack Obama to be answering the phone -- although I'm sure it's some functionary who answers it first -- because I think he's the more clear-headed, calm, cool, and responsive of the two. He has consistently demonstrated grace under pressure.
I don't think having "met" world leaders at functions is much help when something big happens. It's being able to meet the situation at hand that matters then. Responsiveness. The ability to think clearly and quickly and to take the right action in the moment. He's got it.
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Funny thing
[Read the article: New Clinton spin: March 4 states must-wins for Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Funny thing -- I didn't hear Hillary complaining when the media was in love with the "rock star" Clintons last summer and quickly annointed Hillary the frontrunner and gave her the cloak of inevitability.
The problem is, she just doesn't get it. Everything she puts out is all about her. Obama's messages are all about us -- about the voters, the people, the ways we can work together to bring about change. We like being included. We don't like being patronized or lectured about how it is and how smart she is and how mad she is that we don't appreciate her.
If hope is alive, she will soon be given the cloak of invisibility and she will disappear from the race so we can focus on defeating John Mc Cain and the Republicans.
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Actually
[Read the article: No, really, I'm a conservative]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He WAS a liberal Republican until he decided to run for president, so it's an easy mistake for him to make. For a number of years, he has been one of the few hands-across-the-aisles Republicans who sometimes took liberal positions.
Unfortunately, that won't fly in the primaries so he probably did himself a gross disservice by supplying his conservative enemies with this sound-bite.
Not that I care. I wouldn't vote for him if he were wearing a Democratic donkey suit and braying liberal slogans every day from now to election day.
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Not surprising
[Read the article: A solution to McCain's Panama problem, with Obama's support]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama is, first a foremost, a scholar of the Constitution who has taught Constitutional law and who cares about these issues.
And, second, he's a gracious guy. This would be a stupid, nitpicky issue to have hanging over John McCain, who, regardless of whether you agree with his politics, is what Obama always refers to him as: a true American hero.
So kudos for class, here, and for the right way to handle things.
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Out of control
[Read the article: Clinton campaign: Forget what we said earlier]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is getting out of control. We need Edwards and Richardson and other prominent Democrats to speak up and make an endorsement of Obama and bring an end to this misery.
Can they possibly think that people aren't noticing that the Clinton campaign is spinning out of control while Obama's just hums along, moving forward, making sense?
At some point, we have to realize that the way a person "leads" his/her campaign is a window into the kind of leader they would be in every situation. Hillary is becoming an embarrassment to the idea of "leadership" and if this doesn't stop soon, she will become a parody.
Who needs Saturday Night Live when your own campaign staff is putting out this stuff?
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Easily put to rest
[Read the article: WHNT rejects bias charge in "60 Minutes" blackout]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This would be easily put to rest by having the "technical problem" explained publicly by the technicians who were called in to fix it on an emergency basis.
I'm sure there's some sort of log or something showing that station personnel found themselves unable to broadcast and called in people to get on top of the problem to get them back on air ASAP.
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@filtyharry
[Read the article: Clinton campaign: Forget what we said earlier]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What WAS her core message? I've forgotten. I'm not sure she ever had one clear, core message.
All I can think of is that slogan, Ready on Day One, something like that. Meaningless blather to begin with since she is no more ready than anyone else in the race. None of them has ever led a country before.
Hillary is ready to move on to other pursuits. Someone in her high-paid group of lackeys needs to tell her that.
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Lighten up
[Read the article: "We Are the Ones"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Take it easy, folks. There's nothing on here from Obama saying "I'm Barack Obama and I approved this ad." It is NOT a campaign ad. These people live in the United States of America where they are free to express themselves and make any creative, artistic statements they want to.
The video is clearly addressed to diverse young voters, and will.i.am is a U.S. citizen exercising his right to free speech. Way to go will.i.am! Do your thing. It's refreshing and hopeful and high-spirited, just the way I, who am no longer young, like to think of the coming generation.
This is so much easier on the ears, the eyes, and the spirit than the usual heated, vitriolic campaign rhetoric.
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So much for "not ready"
[Read the article: Obama hits back at Clinton ad]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He appears to be good and ready for whatever comes his (our) way, and he appears to have built a team of people who can come together with him and respond quickly, effectively, and without a lot of hoo-hah.
I don't know very much about Barack's campaign people because they aren't always endlessly self-promoting like Hillary's are, but, whoever they are, I hope they are still working for him in the White House. They're an awesome team.
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To Asher Steinberg
[Read the article: Obama hits back at Clinton ad]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A leader is judged by the team he builds and the effectiveness of his organization. Obama has run a really good campaign and he doesn't brag about it or talk about it; they just go to work and get the job done. I think people like that make good staff in a well-run White House.
That doesn't qualify him to be president -- for that, you have to look at is personal qualities -- but it certainly suggests that he has is smart, effective, efficient and knows how to surround himself with people who know what they're doing and do it well.