Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 654 Editor's Choice: 2
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Mon Oncle
[Read the article: Clinton camp goes on offense against Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bill has never forgiven Hillary for not leaving him time and again after his many bimbo eruptions. He always had to come home to mama because for one thing, Bill hated playing solitaire in an empty room.
Psychologists in years to come, if not already, will blame Bill for sabotaging the campaign. It does not take a rocket scientist to figure out that he is more a liability than an asset, and methinks he is deliberately derailing her as far as the AA community is concerned.
As for AKASmith, she did have a meltdown a couple of weeks ago. Hope she is taking her meds. KateTex keeps jumping in and out of Salon under different handles but the same rant. I am hoping they are both young and still have a lot of time ahead of them to understand gender and race and history. Walker however is a lost cause but can be a huge asset in McCain's campaign.
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Mon Oncle
[Read the article: Clinton camp goes on offense against Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I've been so hoodwinked and bamboolzed (heh) it's hard for me to tell who started what and when with respect to the AA community. I do think the LBJ comment was stupid (have opined at length on same).
It was more calculated that stupid, along with all the subsequent put downs of Obama, from Jesse Jackson, to he can be my VP but not my president, McCain is more experienced, and then the silly assed remark today. Bill is self destructing, but carry on Clintons. Every slight only strengthens Obama. His speech on race was an opportunity out of a potential loss and Obama keeps rising and rising and rising.
Keep up the good work Mon Oncle and thanks for the Salon watch.
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katycav aka KateTex
[Read the article: The GOP attack plan for Barack Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]70 year old biddies don't talk like this.
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Obama will lose when
[Read the article: Politico: "Clinton has virtually no chance of winning"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Clinton supporters find a white baby in Obama's closet. Then it's curtain time for Obama, although McCain seems to have gotten away with alleged trysts with lobyyist chick more than half his age.
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Joan Walsh vs Girl In Red Phone Ad Denounces Hillary And Her "Politics Of Fear"
[Read the article: Moving beyond Obama and race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/03/girl_in_hillary_red_phone_ad_d.php
Joan, maybe you can learn something from the mouths of babes.
It is clear that you are in denial about Hillary losing the race.
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Joan Walsh needs to hang up her credentials and go campaign for Hillary
[Read the article: Moving beyond Obama and race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
Joan, you need to get with people, people of any color, and ask them to validate your views on race. Vetting that with yourself, and asking the question of yourself many times, only brings you back to square one, which is your own preconceived notions on race. But discussing race with people who experience racism in everyday life would give you a window into the divide which is America. I am sure you have AA friends who will listen to your point of view, and then give you some feedback.
All your column did was provide more fodder for the latent racism evident in many of your readers who post to your blog.
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manos99
[Read the article: Moving beyond Obama and race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Are you starting to sense a certain why can't we all be 100% the same suburban smirkiness too?
I have not read any of the posts today and most of the time I avoid reading the usual posters who hide behind prickly thin skins to spew some rather racist bile around.
Speaking for me and mine, we would not want to be 100% suburban and into the melting pot of god knows what stew. We all want the same respect despite our color, gender, immigrant status, young, old, short, tall, abled and disabled, and many I missed. We want respect for who we are and not what anyone wants us to become.
There is a certain entitlement that some people feel is their birthright and will fight tooth and nail to keep the status. But here is the deal. Change will happen and if we don't prepare and embrace for change, we will be left behind.
I am still appalled by Bill Clinton's remarks yesterday. I am hurt at the insult, so calculated, so self serving, so rude and so dismissing. This was just not an insult for Obama, but for all of us. I just cannot believe that the Democratic Party is letting this happen. I am sad for all of us.
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Hutman
[Read the article: Moving beyond Obama and race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why is it important for you to have Joan Walsh confirm that she is a Hillary supporter? She is batting for Hillary and that should be pretty obvious to everyone.
The same can be said for Keith Olberman, who while calling Hillary's bluff, is also firmly on the side of Obama.
I think that we are all confusing media as ojective dispensers of news. But we now have pundits and punditocracy has taken over where just reporting the news is now not even an objective. Because you see, the media knows everything and do not treat us as adults. We are not capable of sifting through any reportage and coming up with our own biases.
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-- Majorajam on Joan Walsh
[Read the article: Moving beyond Obama and race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My concern is how well she parrots right wing talking points on this issue, and more generally appears to be willing to peddle any line with no standards as to merit.
Joan has devolved into such minutia that I am hard pressed to even read her hit jobs on Obama as nothing but Hillary propaganda coming right off the daily Penn talking points. Obama makes a historic speech on race relations in the United States and Joan Walsh along with her brothers and sisters on FOX, gets fixated on "typical white person." She says that she did some soul searching. That's like a surgeon operating on herself.
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-- Ron Smith on Joan Walsh
[Read the article: Moving beyond Obama and race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I wonder if thin skinned Joan Walsh would have made such a mountain out of a molehill, if Obama's grandmother had been black and made a similar statement. It would have gone under all of their radar.
Joan Walsh, just as it is hard for anyone to make a dog meow, it would be hard to make a recalcitrant white woman understand bigotry. It is time to confront that in yourself, not by self serving soul searches, but by interrogating your bias with the help of minority folk who will tell you about their daily experiences.