Letters to the Editor
The Professor
Published Letters: 421 Editor's Choice: 26
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The 'dream ticket'
[Read the article: Obama, Clinton and the black-brown divide]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I can't quite follow the recent 'dream ticket' refrain. According to the Clinton campaign, he's an inexperienced, dishonest, corrupt, naive upstart. What does it say about her that she'd be willing to have such a person on her ticket? It actually smells a bit of desperation, a recognition that it's the only way she can get on the ticket. Right now, they say the dream ticket is Clinton/Obama. In May, they'll be claiming the the dream ticket is Obama/Clinton, in a last-ditch attempt to salvage anything from the year's efforts. If she wants a spot on that ticket (rather than Obama/Dodd, or Obama/Sebelius), she better start running a more positive campaign.
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I've never trusted anything the Times had to say about Clinton
[Read the article: More on Clinton camp infighting]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]ever since they endorsed her for the nomination.
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@DClaw
[Read the article: Who cares if Eliot Spitzer hires prostitutes?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think prostitution is illegal because a woman is making money off of her body. Pornography is OK because it's usually a powerful corporation making money off of her body.
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@Alecsmom
[Read the article: Who cares if Eliot Spitzer hires prostitutes?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But there's still the absurdity: I pay a woman to have sex with me, I've broken the law. But if I pay a woman to have sex with me and videotape it and sell it to people, I've broken no law, nor has the woman. I don't know why all prostitutes and their clients don't carry cameras around with them to pretend that is what they are doing.
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Uncle Fester
[Read the article: Fox News calls Mississippi for Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Don't forget all the black folk in Vermont and Maine that turned out to give Obama his huge wins there.
Responding to someone else's comment that a 50/50 split of Michigan delegates would be good for Obama: I think if they had a caucus it would be a big win for him, so a 50/50 split would be in Clinton's best interests. Perhaps that would be the best compromise: count Florida delegates as is, and do a Michigan caucus. The end result would still push Obama over 2,025.
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We're obsessed with a handful of delegates
[Read the article: Florida's House Dems oppose second primary]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Clinton won 50% of the vote in Florida and 55% of the vote in Michigan. Give her that percentage of the delegates, and Obama the rest. She'll have a net gain of about 10 delegates (while Obama's about 150 delegates ahead). That's giving her CONSIDERABLE benefit of the doubt because Obama wasn't even on the Michigan ballot. Let's move on.
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There could be a great irony
[Read the article: Florida's House Dems oppose second primary]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If, in a couple months, the delegates from FL are seated as-is and are enough to put Obama over the 2,025 line.
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What happens with Florida won't matter much for Clinton
[Read the article: Florida's House Dems oppose second primary]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Neither the current delegate split based on the last primary nor a re-do in Florida will make a big enough difference in Clinton's delegate total to warrant the attention that it is getting. At most, she'll get a couple dozen extra delegates out of it, while Obama will remain much farther ahead than that. I think her only hope, and what this is all about, is Michigan: IF she can get her 55% of the delegates there and Obama gets his 0%. I don't think any honest democrat will accept that as fair, but I think it's her ultimate goal, and the only way she can get close to Obama's delegate total. That's why she's opposed to a re-do in Michigan.
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If everything about Obama remained exactly the same...
[Read the article: Ferraro resigns from Clinton campaign]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]except his name was "John Edwards" and he was white, he'd already have 3,000 delegates.
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Becoming clearer and clearer
[Read the article: Obama can't win general election, Clinton advisor says]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As some other posters have said, Clinton is actively knee-capping Obama so she has a shot in 2012 against McCain. That is to say, she's selling out women's reproductive rights for a generation (cf. coming supreme court changes if McCain is elected) so that she can lose again in 4 years rather than 8 years. What a lovely person.
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Stock market questions
[Read the article: Nightmare on Wall Street]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Here's a pattern I've noticed in the past year and it puzzles me. When some economic crisis hits the US, like the BS-storm, foreign markets take the news much more seriously than we do in the US. The Hang Seng droped over 5% yesterday, and the DAX nearly 4% today. In the US, after a low opening, the DOW has been climbing all morning. Why do foreign markets always react more dramatically than American ones to American economic woes?
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Clinton's worst habit...
[Read the article: Hillary Clinton, sniper fire and Sinbad]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]as a candidate, is to brag about 'strenghts' she has over Obama that will turn around and become great weaknesses in comparison to McCain. She has experience! (McCain has far more) She's older! (McCain is far older) She's done a lot of legislating! (McCain [and Obama, actually] has done more). She's an international expert! (McCain's foreign affairs credentials are far stronger) And now, she has combat zone experience! (McCain... you get the idea)
On the other hand, Obama's strengths against Clinton will stand as strengths against McCain.
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I don't understand the obsession with Florida delegates
[Read the article: No revote in Florida]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Split them 50/50, or 50/35 in Clinton's favor (which is what current polls are saying) - it'll only change the pledged delegate count by a couple dozen while Obama's over 150 ahead. MICHIGAN is the big question. They seem to have their act together for a redo, and Obama is polling well there and a new vote will likely negate whatever happens with Florida. SPLIT THEM AND LET'S MOVE ON. What's now ironic for Clinton is that once the delegates from those two states are seated, even if she comes out with a few dozen more than Obama, it will bring him up close to 2,024.
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I never thought...
[Read the article: Clinton's nondenial on Obama pastor]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'd see the day when anyone on the left would not see the difference between anger/fear over "threats to white people in America" and anger/fear over "threats to black people in America." One of those emotions is the root of KKK ideology, while the other is driven by the history of this country's treatment of African-Americans and fed the successes of the Civil Rights movement. If you can't see the difference between the two (Clinton campaign, I'm talking to you), you have no business calling yourself a democrat, because you have no understanding of oppression/marginalization or the history of race in America.