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Ricardo Malocchio

Published Letters: 151     Editor's Choice: 2

  • She won't quit until she's burned every bridge, thrown everyone under the bus, scorched every last bit of earth...

    [Read the article: "Clinton will not be able to win the nomination"]
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    Sorry, congressional majority. Sorry, Lani Guiner. Sorry, cabinet members and others made to lie on his behalf. And hers. Sorry, Ricky Rector. Sorry, Al Gore. Sorry, Democratic Party. Sorry, American nation. None of you matter when it comes right down to it. Challenge their entitlement and reap their scorn, they'll turn on you in a heartbeat like bratty arrogant vindictive children.

    And when that sick little cajun twit opens his twisted craw to spit "Judas!" at Gov. Richardson, one thinks back to when half of the co-presidency slithered out to New Mexico to tempt his former energy secretary. But now one no longer has to imagine his response:

    "Get thee behind me, Clinton".

    Just as so many others who've known them so well already have. As hopefully the rest of us soon will.

  • Keep speaking up for Hillary, lolcait!

    [Read the article: "It is possible ... that she misspoke"]
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    You're GOPish blather will surely drive voters to Obama. And don't forget to point out he's black. And liberal. And scary to wetnap whitys such as yourself. This stuff is gold, lolcait, gold!

    Anyway, I think we can all agree that HRC's experience takes her across the commander-in-chief threshhold. Along with Chelsea. And Sinbad. And Sheryl Crowe. Mighty, mighty impressive stuff.

  • Sue, you may be correct about many in the black ministry... but Wright is not among the homophobes.

    [Read the article: Rev. Jeremiah Wright isn't the problem]
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    http://www.washblade.com/thelatest/thelatest.cfm?blog_id=17266

    "With Obama competing with rival presidential contender Hillary Clinton for gay votes in the upcoming Pennsylvania primary, revelations of Wright’s controversial sermons have raised questions among some activists about whether Obama’s longtime pastor was among the preachers who delivered fire-and-brimstone sermons attacking homosexuality.

    “Absolutely not,” said Rick Garcia, political director of Equality Illinois, the Chicago-based state gay rights group.

    “Trinity has been among the strongest supporters of LGBT rights,” Garcia said. “I have the highest regard and admiration for Rev. Wright.”

    Gay Chicago resident Ronald Wadley, a member of Trinity United Church of Christ, said Wright enthusiastically backed suggestions by gay church members to create a gay and lesbian singles ministry as part of the church’s existing ministry to heterosexual singles.

    “We call it the same-gender loving family ministry,” Wadley said. “It’s a ministry that was formed to allow people to have an outlet to reconcile their sexuality with their spirituality,” he said.

    “He has always been supportive on gay issues,” Wadley said of Wright. “He has a stance that we all go by, under the credence of John: 16 — that we are all created by God.”