Letters to the Editor
madamfauntleroy
Published Letters: 654 Editor's Choice: 2
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Obama vs Hillary
[Read the article: Obama's speech on race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What Obama reflects is grace under pressure.
Clinton resorts to attack ads, crying and elevating McCain.
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bmaggie
[Read the article: Obama's speech on race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Are you afraid of what your grand kids will say about you?
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Movement
[Read the article: Obama's speech on race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is a people's movement, not something that Obama started. Barack Obama has found himself at the right place, in the right time. The times we live in, are informing the man that Barack Obama is. He could not have been half as effective if he were running in say 2000 or even 2004. The country had to come to this dismal state of an illegal war, a bad economy and everything else, to stand up and demand change. Obama has taken that opportunity to be an agent for that kind of change. Hillary represents that which is the same old, same old, the politics of status quo, the politics of the few to rule over the many, the politics of lobbyists and special interests that have squeezed this country dry.
Is this a movement? Hell yes. But it is not a movement that Obama generated. He just happens to be caught right in the middle of it. Look what movements generated? The feminist movement got Hillary to where she is, the anti-war movement put an end to the war in Vietnam, the civil rights movement ensured that someone as gifted and talented as Obama could also run for the President of the United States of America. The Reagan and Bush years were all about rolling th clock back and returning the country to an elitist brand of governance.
I am hoping that this movement, whatever we want to call it, will bridge the gaps between rich and power, between women and men, between black and white and brown, between all Americans.
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Now it's about his Grandmother
[Read the article: Obama's speech on race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It is truly astounding how a seminal speech on race by Obama is now being cherry picked by Clinton supporters on the comments he made about his grandmother. Is this all you people have now to ridicule and mock him? Would you have been as angry if his grandmother had been a black woman? Would you have been as vocal about it? This truly boggles my mind. Now you people are making his grandmother an issue now. How different are you than the ridiculous members of the GOP? Just find something to use against him, however smarmy and ridiculous.
His grandmother, being who she is, is definitely NOT humiliated. What an assinine statement to make. You don't think Barack, who is so close to his grandmother, did not discuss this with her before using the analogy in his speech? Are you making him out to be so base and mean just to satisfy your own urge to discredit ANYTHING he says? Are you so insecure about your candidate that you have to destroy any sense of decency? Vote for Clinton. Puhleaze. No one is stopping you. Knock yourselves out. But stop your graceless tact to throwing acid in the face of everything that is great about this speech.
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Obama wrote his own speech
[Read the article: Obama's speech on race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This speech was written from his heart. Can anyone doubt that the man is gifted? Is grandma gate now over and done with? I sincerely hope so. That part of his speech now appears to be the most celebrated in the MSM.
This opens up the debate on race. This speech does not end it. What would be even spectacular is Hillary takes the opportunity and give a seminal speech on inequities of gender. I know she can do it. She must take the high road and quit this bickering. Race does not trump gender and vice versa.
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Hillary and LBJ
[Read the article: Obama's speech on race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hillary does remind me of LBJ, in both good and bad ways.
Hillary took the cue from LBJ's daisy ad and the mushroom cloud. She did her own version of saving the angelic kids from more of an intruder than a 3am phone call. The irony is that one of those cherubs will be voting for Obama.
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What does Obama have to do to impress Joan Walsh?
[Read the article: Was Obama's speech enough?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As usual, Joan Walsh, being a Hillary supporter, cannot get herself to celebrate Barack Obama's seminal speech on race. To Joan's credit, not to appear too "journalistically" biased, she kinda, sorta gives Obama some back handed compliments. But they are back handed and gives away her bias. I don't have a problem with people shilling for Hillary Clinton. But please, do so in the guise of a PR job, instead of in the guise of journalism, especially when you are the editor of a E-Zine.
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NYTimes counter editorial
[Read the article: Was Obama's speech enough?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Mr. Obama’s Profile in Courage
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/19/opinion/19wed1.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
This is the same newspaper that endorsed Hillary.
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manos99
[Read the article: Was Obama's speech enough?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Now you are insulting clowns.
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tbrandel
[Read the article: Was Obama's speech enough?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Now you know why this country elected W twice, elected his father once and gave 2 terms to absent minded Reagan and gave 2 terms to Clinton who won by selling the DNC to corporate greed.
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Hillary voted for the war because she was preparing for a run for the White House
[Read the article: Hillary Clinton's long strange journey on Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]After the Clintons left the White House, it was no national secret that Hillary was next in line to run for President. Voting for the war was her calculated and opportunistic move to cosy up with the Republicans and to the war hawks in Congress. There is no mystery here. She will never own up to making a wrong choice, now that the war is going so badly. She has the Israeli lobby to answer to.
Joan, this is your weak attempt to placate yourself after an incendiary column on Obama's speech yesterday. Truly, I am disappointed in Salon. But you have cast your lot with that side of history that will cast dispersions on a remarkable speech on race. The most I could get out of your column was that you were incensed with Obama for calling out his grandmother's stereotyping of black men. That his grandmother is white, is what really got your goat. How dare a black man talk about his white grandmother in that manner. I don't think you would have given it a second thought if his grandmother happened to be black.