Letters to the Editor
madamfauntleroy
Published Letters: 654 Editor's Choice: 2
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From the Washington Post comments
[Read the article: Memo to Clinton and Obama: Stop spinning]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If Hillary Clinton can spin the Texas results into a victory for her anything goes. The newest trick is semantics. The Clinton campaign asked the press not to use the "negative" expression super delegates anymore, she'd prefer automatic delegates, see here:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/183723.php
Well automatic delegates sounds as if Hillary Clinton's strong arming didn't have anything to do with overturning the popular vote. They were allotted automatically, weren't they?
As a whole this campaign is as damaging to the Democratic Party as possible. I wonder when the spitting and scratching will cease and make way for a more sober discussion.
http://tpzoo.wordpress.com/2008/03/16/peak-bile/
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Only in America
[Read the article: Memo to Clinton and Obama: Stop spinning]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]While the squabbles continue on race, wine, Italians and Irish, Dina the sad and sorry face of wives standign behind their outed husbands, has now been exposed as a sporting woman in a McGreevey menage a trois. Who said there is no fun in politics?
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Hillary "writers" are no different than the ones on Salon.com
[Read the article: Daily Kos writers' "strike" gets ugly]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There is not much to differentiate the kind of language and condescension coming from Clinton supporters on Salon to how Hillary is running her campaign. From characterizing Obama supporters as "followers" and ridiculing the candidate as an over-the-top preacher of nothing, Clinton shills have reduced the debate to the kind of nasty campaigning that Hillary herself adheres to. This is a top down approach to belittle Obama on matters of race, experience and electability as opposed to the bottoms up approach that Obama has taken voice the will of the people.
The kind of racist bile that is being spewed in the name of free speech, is indeed indicative of the kind of support that Hillary is garnering. What is more disturbing, is the pattern of completely dismissing the progressive vote, the votes of marginalized left-of-center politics that has been carrying the Obama campaign. That is a thorn in the side of Clinton supporters, right-of-center, who would rather vote for McCain than caste their lot with Obama. The right of center is the vote that got the first Clinton into office, and of course the votes of core Democrats, i.e. African Americans.
It is easy to spot overt and covert racism in the postings of most of these hardcore Clinton supporters. Many of them return under different handles, but are easily recognized by their insistence on the same rather floozy premises they bet their arguments upon.
I can understand the angst that anyone would feel when their candidate is not doing well, considering that Clinton did not really win Texas and has won only on small margins in other big states. But their arguments go against the grain of common sense, reduced to repetitive invective. I have yet to see a level headed discourse coming from a Clinton supporter that does not attack Obama's experience and race in particular.
Of course, sometimes Obama supporters respond with the same kind of disrespect as meted out to them. So where do we go from here? I do not believe for a single moment that this party can now be unified. There is too much hurt, too much insistance on a double standard applied to Obama. And he is still standing.
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odog11 is KateTex in drag
[Read the article: Daily Kos writers' "strike" gets ugly]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Now there I went and called you a beast. Shame on me!!!
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Feminists for Obama
[Read the article: Wait a minute: Iron whose shirt?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama has received endorsements from some of the most influential feminists in the country. Gloria Steinhem is not the only voice of feminism. Here is a long, long list of all Obama endorsers:
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/theodorefetter/gGC7XK
My guilt ridden better half who voted for Obama, also irons my shirts and does the dishes while I make plans for our next vacation. See how far we have come in America?
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Wright vs Falwell, Robertson and the religious right
[Read the article: The crazy uncles in Obama's attic]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frank-schaeffer/obamas-minister-committe_b_91774.html
This is an article worth reading on the mixing of politics and religion.
In the early 80s while in Switzerland, I happened upon L'Abri which was founded and run by Francis Schaeffer, who along with J. Everett Koop wrote the infamous book "How Should We Then Live." This is an article by his son Frank Schaeffer, who, along with his mother Ruth Schaeffer tried to instill hell, fire and brimstone into me for a whole weekend.
Needless to say, I cannot believe that Frank is now a saved man in the true sense of the word, from the acidic grip of christian fundamentalism.
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Chris Sinnard
[Read the article: Obama's speech on race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Like you, I too found the reference to Israel and radical Islam, quite out of synch with the rest of his truly exceptional speech on race, religion and the state of the union.
I hold out the "hope" that at some point in Obama's campaign, or within the first 100 days of his presidency, he will give as powerful a speech on the Middle East, arguably the extended arm of American imperialism, that shamefully watches the slow genocide of the Palestinanian people on live television, as an action film.
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Chris Sinnard
[Read the article: Obama's speech on race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why do you think he is being attacked so viciously as a bigot and the right are "backing Hillary"? That's what happens to those that are perceived as being against the Empire, they are smeared as Bigoted America Haters. They are scared that he might really be serious in the brief glimpses where he seems to really say what he thinks and some of those brief glimpses are perceived as being anti-warmonger and against the complete dominance of all resources on the planet by the military industrial complex. Better to be safe than sorry and go with Warrior Princess Hillary Clinton or Million Years McCain.
Hillary has shamelessly promoted McCain over Obama, a notion so vile, that it has horrified most Democrat faithfuls. Yet, at its root, is the Clinton / McCain relationship with the Israel lobby that seems to have a stranglehold in the US Congress, both the House and the Senate. The demonization of Islam in this country is analogous to the anti-Semitism that was rampant in this country not too many decades ago. And yet, we as Americans, have not raised our voices against this kind oc bigotry.