Letters to the Editor
doloresflower
Published Letters: 1200 Editor's Choice: 10
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[Read the article: Former advisor: Obama's Iraq plan "best-case scenario"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]thank-you for your comments about Senator Wellstone.
For anyone else reading this, I'm posting this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF2CLRZLK2E
that is as inspiring as any Obama has given, and Wellstone did vote against the war. He speaks with moving prescience about the human costs of this war in blood and treasure. His speech has this bottom up politics sensibility of concern over average working people that is missing from too many Democrats these days. Too many Democrats in Congress seem to be afraid of being too liberal or not being "tough" enough. Wellstone didn't seem to let these fears stop him from being himself.
Thank-you for your comments Doc, and you're right he'd probably scold us for losing sight of what matters. I do feel chastened by what I said earlier. It was out of line and off the mark. I won't repeat it. I hope that whichever Democrat that is elected President will make things better for this country and end the war in Iraq. That's what I most wish for at this point.
Uncle Fester your posts are amusing...but don't forget that Texas's delegates haven't fully been given yet. The last I checked at least. Hold on to your hat. We won't see an end to this process (or the result of the caucuses?) until June at the earliest...barring some upset or surprise. Whoever the nominee turns out to be we have to hope that this exhaustive primary season only makes them stronger, and we supporters don't tear out eachothers' throats. If we can only avoid that, then maybe something good can come out of all this.
As those jokers in Vermont, Ben & Jerry, say: yes pecan.
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JulieBird
[Read the article: Former advisor: Obama's Iraq plan "best-case scenario"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]you make a smart point
"But ... it seems to me that many of Obama's supporters seem unwilling to admit he or his campaign have made mistakes, have used "negative" tactics, have made compromises on ideals to clinch the nomination, etc.
Can't Obama be a great candidate and *still* be capable of the above? Can't HRC be capable of the above and *still* be a great candidate? And does that kind of thinking make one intellectually deficient?"
I still don't understand why Obama thought Rockefeller would help him win working class voters in Ohio. And compromises? Yes. Definitely. "Negative campaigning" if I were Senator Clinton I would find it most annoying to be reminded on a nearly daily basis that he is the candidate of "tomorrow" while she is the candidate of "yesterday." There is some below-the-radar lowness in that one, but it also seems to be working. I'm also getting tired of the phrase "I opposed the war from the start." I am glad that he did, but I also would like to hear him mix it up a little more. Talk about the bread and butter stuff a little more.
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thank-you for this article
[Read the article: Obama, Clinton and the black-brown divide]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Joan,
I love your style of reporting and your nuanced, thoughtful way of looking at things. I can see why you would think that obama and clinton supporters are at eachothers' throats because of the posts here. Online we are anonymous even with a screen name, and so it becomes a game. The abstract blogosphere. But in the real world, most of us I would think have family members and close friends who are supporting each of the three candidates still running--yes, I'm including McCain (my dad is definitely voting for him). So it doesn't surprise me that although people are passionate about the election, I hope that we're also passionate about issues like addressing poverty. The article about Joseph Stiglitz made me feel the same way. How can we help solve problems like poverty and health care without ending a costly moral failure of a war that is three trillion dollars and counting? Star power, no matter who is at the top, won't solve grassroots issues.
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manos99
[Read the article: Obama, Clinton and the black-brown divide]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Do you think personal attacks are going to help your candidate to win?
I'm just wondering. I've seen you attack AKA Smith too on personal grounds. If you don't want to be labeled as any of the adjectives you bring up, then try to be more respectful I haven't seen AKA Smith lately. Do you really think that this forum will be more fun without women because we're all turned off by your sexist remarks?
Seriously.