Letters to the Editor
juneausmog
Published Letters: 230 Editor's Choice: 10
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Our presumption of "her lying" in the first place has no basis
[Read the article: Examining the reaction to Clinton's hospital story]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Liberals/Dems are totally complicit in parroting this republican talking point. What other lies has she told besides the sniper fire? Even in your video, Alex, you’re hard-pressed to provide any example except that recent one. Yet you still frame your statement as if we have good reason to feel this way. What basis do you have to make that presumption in the first place? Excuse me, but the only good reason I've seen to believe that is because you want to, not because it is factually evident. Or do you think Dick Morris is actually correct?
Shouldn’t that be the issue and a worthy investigative report (along with a comparison to Obama's statements)?
Is this autobiographical slip-up worse than Obama’s revisionist history with Pastor Wright? With Rezko? With who was responsible for his father coming over from Kenya?
Joe Wilson easily explained the sniper fire comments and how it was totally overblown by bloggers and the MSM:
…the Obama campaign pushed a compliant press corps, all too eager to do its bidding rather than maintain its standards of objectivity and skepticism, into hyping a mini-pseudo-scandal: whether Hillary "misspoke" about being under sniper fire when she paid a visit to Tuzla in Bosnia in 1996. In fact, the then-First Lady was told the plane was diving to land to avoid possible sniper fire. Whether there was or not is irrelevant. Anybody who has been involved in these situations, as I have, knows this. The threat was apparently real enough for U.S. military on the ground, the pilot and her security detail to engage in evasive procedures. That should have been the end of the matter. But the cable TV talking heads nattered the Obama campaign talking points endlessly.
I’ve read this broad-sweeping crap over and over from Dems, with nary an example to set us straight. Or are the sins of the husband the sins of the wife?
As for the reaction from Democrats: EVERYBODY is tired of the lies. If others are like me, we like to be RIGHT. While with most people you start with benefit of the doubt, with the Clintons, we get tired of being wrong with that posture. It takes too much energy to think they might be telling the truth. If we assume they're lying, at least we can be right most of the time.
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That's it, I'm cancelling my subscription
[Read the article: No, Hillary Clinton shouldn't be winning]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's obvious Salon is just a pro-Obama hack propoganda machine.
Go Hillary!
Hahahahaha...yeah, that's how I should respond if I wanted to be as immature as a lot of Obama supporters on that Sean Wilentz piece. But Salon.com continues with their even-handedness and equal opportunity.
Good job Salon, I'm glad you provided two cases. Of course, I disagree with it but I'm not going to trash Obama because I disagree with it. On the other hand, many Obama supporters feel free to just shit on Clinton if someone at Salon provides a neutral or positive image of her.
God forbid you let that Sean Wilentz piece go unanswered because donchya know, that puts your entire company squarely in the Clinton camp had you not.
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caucuses are a joke, and not all Obama supporters are starry-eyed kids
[Read the article: No, Hillary Clinton shouldn't be winning]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well come people, do you think the Obama supporters that show up here over and over posting letters are really under 25? I don't think so. So that's not a real point, although he has turned out the youth quite a bit.
However, I do not give Obama as much credit as his supporters and pundits do, because I believe the youth were already galvanized to vote Democrat because of their vulnerability to being drafted, or becoming military "recruits". Did he galvanize more? Perhaps, probably. However, had he not stepped in to the race, I think Hillary and Edwards would have appealed to many youth anyhow. Obama is just cooler.
And while the numbers of the youth are great, I really find that cold comfort considering the youth are the force behind the popular culture that makes me want to vomit everytime I'm at the grocery check-out stand. Britney? Lindsey? Nikki? Paris? OC? Laguna Beach? Text-messaging? Text-messaging while driving? Everyone is special and can be a reality star? Really? You really want them judging who is best to be president? Really?
Every young generation is spoiled and delusional but I think this one is extra-special. Never knowing what its like without computers, or the internet, or a cell phone. Having parents that just hover and encourage and letting them know they're "winners" and "special". Hey, perhaps I'm just a stereotypical, cynical GenXer, but as we have become managers, myself and my friends have noticed these guys cannot admit mistakes and can't take criticism to save their life!
Yet they are driving this Obama train...
And if the youth are the drivers, the people on that train are their parents, or adults projecting the need to "be cool" and "hip". I wasted another 4 hours at my local legislative district caucus (the next level up from the original one, another waste of time) and the Obama supporters were the black, the young and their parents.
I stood in a wrap-around-the-block line for 45 mins in front of a group of Obama supporters going on and on and on about how the experience question didn't matter, and isn't it great how their kids are so into him? And they really value that.
I came away from that going, "did these parents just put their vote and judgement in the hands of their kids?" And the answer is yes, many of them are. Senator Claire McCaskill admitted on Bill Maher's show that her daughter strong-armed her into the endorsement. And this new parenting-style: let kids interrupt, let kids run around and do whatever they want, have whatever they want, has creeped into their political decisions.
Whatever. I'm surrounded by these kind of parents, and the old Victorian adage "children should be seen but not heard" is totally out the window. Now kids run the show.
Move over, adults.