Letters to the Editor
Flatblonde
Published Letters: 159 Editor's Choice: 8
-
Mike Huckabee's take....
[Read the article: Barack Obama delivers make-or-break speech on race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTFLOu8fjxU
An interesting and I think ultimately fair take from a Conservative Republican and Minister...
"[Y]ou can't hold the candidate responsible for everything that people around him may say or do. It's interesting to me that there are some people on the left who are having to be very uncomfortable with what ... Wright said, when they all were all over a Jerry Falwell, or anyone on the right who said things that they found very awkward and uncomfortable, years ago. Many times those were statements lifted out of the context of a larger sermon. Sermons, after all, are rarely written word for word by pastors like Rev. Wright, who are delivering them extemporaneously, and caught up in the emotion of the moment. There are things that sometimes get said, that if you put them on paper and looked at them in print, you'd say 'Well, I didn't mean to say it quite like that...
As easy as it is for those of us who are white to look back and say 'That's a terrible statement!' ... I grew up in a very segregated South. And I think that you have to cut some slack — and I'm gonna be probably the only conservative in America who's gonna say something like this, but I'm just tellin' you — we've gotta cut some slack to people who grew up being called names..." - Mike Huckabee.
-
Dear -- mizbinkley
[Read the article: A closer look at Clinton's Bosnia schedule]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I congratulate her for going. I question her judgement in taking along her teenage daughter if there was the slightest chance that there were snipers anywhere near the scene. It is impressive that she went, but if it was dangerous than she was foolish to let her daughter go, and if it wasn't dangerous, why make the danger up? Wasn't it impressive enough on its own merits? Either way, imo, it suggests something of Hillary's or her campaign's trouble with the truth. However, Chelsey being along on the trip, would suggest that Mrs. Clinton's memory is a lot more interesting than the actual landing in Bosnia.
-
In the Penn mode...
[Read the article: Clinton camp goes on offense against Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I note this from the Penn memo:
"He calls for high minded debates while practicing lowdown politics. "
Yet, that has always been one of the Clinton's key rationales for why she'd be the better candidate. She's been there, been attacked, knows how to fight back.." In short, a fearless practitioner of what can only be described as "low-down" politics.
Clearly, it is more of the Penn/Clinton positively Rovian double standard...we do it well, they do it, it is wrong but we will do it better.
Strange times.
-
Dear sonofloud:
[Read the article: Clinton camp goes on offense against Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Two can play that game:
Ask Launi Guinere about trust. Ask Marc Rich and ex-Wife. Ask Web Hubble. Ask the people fired from the Travel Office. Ask....T
his is a game that gets us nowhere...and one Hillary can't win...nor can the Democrats.
The only one who wins that game is McCain and people like Karl Rove who are thinking up new and wonderful approaches to attacking either Hillary or Obama regardless of the outcome of the Dem. fight.
-
Practical solution called for...
[Read the article: Michigan primary law ruled unconstitutional]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I am an Obama supporter...so here's my practical solution.
Let the vote in Florida count, assign delegates accordingly.
Split the Michigan delegates 51% Clinton 49% for Obama, in recognition of Clinton's tainted victory.
Strip the Superdelegates from both states of their votes, as they didn't control their party machinery and scheduled the vote on contravention of the party rules. In short, make the people who caused the f-up pay the price.
-
OBama's sins...
[Read the article: Hillary's team crosses the line]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Audacity to challenge the notion that Hillary was inevitable.
Audacity to put together a bettter campaign team than the Clinton team.
Audacity to challenge the comfortable, money/lobbiest directed leadership of the Democratic party.
Audacity to be black.
Audacity to be younger than Clinton but to have at least as much ambition.
Audacity to be a better speaker than Clinton.
Audacity to be a clearer speaker than Clinton.
Audacity to have far fewer scandals in his past.
Audacity to have those scandals mean so little -- actually, he can thank Bill and Hillary for this, as the Clinton follies over the last 15 years have made it possible for every politication, practically, to survive a scandal such as knowing a crooked developer (for the Clintonphiles, out there, is Obama's developer as dumb-shit dirty and scummy as, say, McDougal?).
Audacity to think that the future of the country might be broader than switching the White House from clinton to bush to clinton.
Yes, Obama and his people have decended into campaign garbage...though the Clinton's calling them on it is, well, the Kettle calling the pot black 9sorry about that). But, no matter how you cut it, Hillary has run a terrible, terrible campaign. She's been caught off-gaurd repeatedly. She has shown an incredibly tin ear to the times. She has shown little sense for the moment. Her campaign began as a truimph of inevitablism and now has decended into a stratagy of pleading that she's a victem or pounding on her chest self-rightously.
She could still pull it out...and I will vote for her over McCain...but it has been a sad, humiliating effort and one that she persues inspite of the odds. while some may think that noble...the kamakazi piolts still ended up dead in a lost cause.
-
the 60 Minutes interview...
[Read the article: Hillary's team crosses the line]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The problem isn't that anyone would seriously think she thought he was a Muslim. It is that she was incapable of giving a straight answer..."no, of course not...." Instead, in the best weasilly way, suggesting ever trying to find the angle, she filled it in with too many words and too many qualifiers. It was a lawyers answer...a lawyer who is always worried about being held accountable, rather than a seeker or promoter of truth. This is, of course, a problem that all politicans have, including Obama, it is just that Hillary suffers from a nearly terminal case.