Letters to the Editor
doloresflower
Published Letters: 1200 Editor's Choice: 10
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doc5467, doc5467....
[Read the article: Hillary at twilight]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I can't believe you just outed someone's age like that. That is one reason that it was nice to have an anonymous button on salon, so no one could comb back through one's letters and make judgements based on any personal information that one decided to reveal. And calling someone "dear" too. I'm afraid for a Hillary supporter, you're due for some reading from the old the anti-sexism manual. And no, I didn't read all of your old letters to know that you support Hillary. I just remembered. Although if you are still supporting her despite conventional wisdom that she can't win more delegates than Barack, you are a more loyal soldier than many.
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...doc5467
[Read the article: Hillary at twilight]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]sometimes light teasing on the internet comes across as heavy as boots. I know from your letters that you are generally thoughtful and fair, and I was just prodding you. Thank-you for saying something nice to me a while back. I appreciate it.
But as a thoughtful person--and I don't disparage your support of Clinton nor your reasons for supporting her: what do you think will happen after Tuesday. If there is essentially a tie--with maybe a couple of more delegates won by her side in Ohio and Rhode Island, but not in Texas...as polls at this moment project: what will happen? I don't have a definite opinion on this, so I'm not looking for a standard issue answer...but this draw....will it be good for the party to not be able to make up our collective minds?
I've also watched carefully, and the non-endorsements of Bill Richardson and John Edwards are telling. Whoever thought that we would be in a dilemma like this in such an important election year? And if the only thing that will put one candidate every so slightly forward in the race is more stringent negative campaigning...where will we be in November? We seem to be becoming the three-legged runner in a two-legged race. Maybe McCain has his hobbling issues too....still...
Just wondering what you think.
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doc5467
[Read the article: Hillary at twilight]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I envy you your ancient cat. I'm not allowed to own a cat where I live so I suffer from terrible cat envy. (although not catbox envy).
Thank-you for your comments. As for manos99 and his comment...
I find it contemptible but I'm not sure how to respond. What would reach manos99?
Joan Walsh is threatening to install reader response stars, so we could press zero stars over posts like that. But ignoring them also is a way of responding.
I hope you're wrong about Obama's supporters on the whole. I hope that this "movement" for "change" represents something deeper than what you suspect.
I also hope that the lesson people take away--should Obama win--is not that the woman never wins. Both of them have won extraordinary support. And whatever happens, it will be close. If there could be two winners, this would be the year. Neither of them wants to be VP though. So that wouldn't be the solution.
Hmmm. Well, I suppose I should go and do productive things with my day instead of worrying. I never thought that Obama would get this far. But I have to admit that I think (although I'm not without doubts) that it will be a good thing if he wins the nomination. And I think that, policy-wise, Obama would not govern so differently than the way Bill and Hillary did.
peace.
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KateTex
[Read the article: Hillary at twilight]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It doesn't qualify as flat out lying because according to his firm's legal records, that's the extent of work he did for Rezko. If you have evidence that he did more, please tell us.
Also the Clintons--why have they not released their taxes? I know that they have been busy on the campaign trail...but if there is nothing to speculate about, they have tossed a bone to their detractors. If Bill has been making financial deals with overseas people, who have made huge financial contributions to his library, while his wife is about to become president, this also seems "bone-headed."
Apparently there are no saints in politics. Which is too bad for all of us.
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liberty, equality, fraternity
[Read the article: Women and Clinton: Damned if they vote, damned if they don't?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I wish we had a word that stood for the female equivalent of fraternity. Sorority doesn't even come close. It is part of that problem of mankind being universal while womankind is perceived as fragmented, partial, not complete.
I agree with what you're getting at. A few months ago when Rush Limbaugh asked whether America was ready to watch a woman age, I called one of my friends and said the statement without giving its source and she laughed and laughed. She had no idea that anyone, even Limbaugh, would ask such a dumb question. We both stopped laughing after we acknowledged how sexist our society has become that this kind of thing is even moderately taken seriously in the news cycle.
It's difficult because we have frankly two personality cults in this election....both Obama and Clinton have people who strongly identify with them and appreciate them on a personal level that goes far beyond ordinary political allegience. I'm not immuned to the charms of either cult. Both have strong appeal. But I suspect that, after this election is behind us--the candidates who come next will be less weighted by these historical destiny like firsts...If they will be able to seen more clearly for their merits and mistakes apart from people's projections on them.
I wish that Salon would feature a woman of color talking about this election and her perceptions about these issues....sexism and racism. "Feminism" is too easily reduced to shorthand for white womens' issues. The woman on these posts who argued against the pundits' breakdown of the South Carolina vote by not referencing women of color as "women" had an interesting point.
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FilthyHarry
[Read the article: 50 superdelegates ready to endorse Obama?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My motto is: If you vote, you can't complain.
-- FilthyHarry
That's the precise opposite of my motto which is: if you don't vote you can't complain.