Letters to the Editor
Hhatchet
Published Letters: 240
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Shapiro's Bias
[Read the article: Hillary Clinton's Texas-size moment ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Anyone wathching the debate saw two people who mostly agreed on all the subjects. Yet you could see that Hillary was trying her best to score points while Obama was left trying to prove he is more then fluff.
What I don't understand is what the Hillary supporters are trying to accomplish with the name calling. I guess being negative is the best way they know how to presuade others to voter for their candidate.
What is your slogan? "Solutions without Hope work." "Your a fool to belive in HOPE." "Beliving in Hope is a fairy-tale." They sound like the Morgan Freeman's charecter in the Shawshank Redemption who said (parapharse) "Hope is dangerous." Hillary is the Morgan Freeman of American Politics. "Don't get your HOPES UP to High. That pessimism and negativity is what hurt her in the 90's. We all know how the GOP hated her but she could not even presuade many of her own fellow Democrats.
In 1994 her husband was the President, the Democrats had the majority in the house and senate and yet with all her so-called experience and the force of the government behind her, 12 years later we are still talking about universal health care. The division while she her husband we in office was so bad that not even enough Democrats would vote with you.
Sen. Obama no doubt is going to make some mistatkes but I unlike Clinton I think he will learn from them and do better. All you Clinton supporters know that if she had acknowledge that her vote in Iraq was wrong many months ago those that are against the war would be with her. It would be a whole different race. She blew it! Her experience tells her you can't acknowledge mistakes and look strong. She is acting just like Bush who never admits to a mistake. Thus she like him has weaken our army, economy and stature around the world.
Time for a change.
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Anon proves point
[Read the article: Hillary Clinton's Texas-size moment ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You proved my point. Hillary had the mechanism for change in 1994 and still could not get it done. Her husband was prez,we held house and senate and she FAILED badly.
Many of those same people in the GOP are still there and are ready to fight. If she gets in office will be fighting the Clinton Wars of the 90's. Time for change we can beleive in.
Oh,it is so cowardice to call names on a post but I guess what can be expected of such negative people. "People with Solutions Don't Need Hope." Maybe you Clintons people can try this one. "Up with dope down with hope." "Keep Hate Alive."
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A New Day
[Read the article: Some hateful, radical ministers -- white evangelicals -- are acceptable]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wow! I never thought I would see the day when (I assume) white Salon readers would defend Farrahkhan. Many in the black community did veiw Farrahkhan as a good man not because he hated whites or Jews but because his organization was the most effective at helping black man in the prison system and on drugs become productive citizens.
Farrahkhan was truly a black conservative which many blacks are. He wanted government out of our business, black men to go to school,stop begging for hand outs, clean up their neighborhoods,respect their women,take care of families, stop using abortions as a contraceptives, stop using and selling drugs, stop killing, invest in business, own property and vote.
These are the things which Pastor Wright honored him for. Remember these are two man who came of age in the 50's and 60's. They are old enough to remember CONTELPRO, lynchings, and other abuses by racist whites. They were also products of a time when blacks had to rely on each other to make it. They understood how the government sanctioned racism so they developed a deep distrust of whites in power. Racism for them was not saying bad things about people it was bombing of churches,lynching,stopping access to schools,incarcerating innocent people,not hiring and firing because of race,not providing loans and health care based on race.
Blacks laugh when whites say Farrahkhan has so much influence. The only influence he and Pastor Wright had was to voice their opinion on the state of black men. Hagee,Robison and Farwell on the other hand had acces to Presidents. Wright and Farrahkhan had no ability to really change anything but blacks admire them for not being afraid to share their opinions of the hopes for black people.
They hoped and fought for a better day. Obama is the product of the hopes of these these people but he also is a product of whites that loved and supported his climb to success.
His campaign brings those two perspectives together to offer a new vision. A new way of thinking and working for the American Dream. By the letters I am reading on Salon it is catching on. People don't want the anger,the hate,the bigotry or the "politics of personal destruction" anymore.
What Hillary does not understand is hope goes a long way to bringing about change. I am glad to read it here.