Letters to the Editor
madamfauntleroy
Published Letters: 654 Editor's Choice: 2
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Hillary's scorched earth attacks backfired
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]and have burned her chances for anything meaningful within the Democratic Party. Ted Kennedy took the time to nix any pretence of even harboring a notion of Hillary on the ticket. She does not promote the values of Obama's campaign. Even Charlie Rangel who has campaigned long and hard for Hillary, while his wife supports Obama, was taken aback and expressed outrage at Hillary's "hardworking white Americans" attack. Edwards sneakily suggested that he had voted for Obama in the NC primaries. Who does anyone think is Gore going to support? Certainly not Clinton. Besides, Gore's stature has grown in the Dem Party while Clinton's has steadily declined.
Hillary is going to have a hard time going back into the Senate. The Black Caucus has certainly been alienated, notwithstanding that Maxine Waters has been a stauch Hillary supporter. Besides, it would be foolish to make Hillary the Senate Majority leader. There will be many new faces elected on Obama's coattails who will look at Hillary with a jaundiced eye. Barbara Boxer is already tilting toward Obama, many former Clinton supporters and colleagues have moved over or will side with the winner. Her best bet is to run for governor of NY state.
Much is made out of heavy Clinton support from a certain class of white American women. There are so many articles written on and by white feminists for Obama. I don't buy the notion that any white feminist woman who is a Democrat will ever vote for McCain. The true reason, and possibly the only big reason that Clinton has been so successfully routed is because she voted for the war in Iraq. That is what I keep hearing over and over again from women and men from many states. In the end, it is all about the war in Iraq.
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GOP getting crushed in polls, key races
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John McCain is planning to run as a different kind of Republican. But being any kind of Republican seems like some sort of death sentence these days.
In case you’ve been too consumed by the Democratic race to notice, Republicans are getting crushed in historic ways both at the polls and in the polls.
At the polls, it has been a massacre. In recent weeks, Republicans have lost a Louisiana House seat they had held for more than two decades and an Illinois House seat they had held for more than three. Internal polls show that next week they could lose a Mississippi House seat that they have held for 13 years.
So relax everyone. Let Hillary play her drama out. She is not going to affect the outcome of the general elections. Obama will route McCain who is but another Bob Dole.
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Bill Clinton out there ginning up resentments
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So what purpose does it serve for him to barnstorm a state like West Virginia and tell rural voters that Obama and his elitist political/media cabal allies are mocking Appalachia?
The Clintons have reduced shame to an art form.
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-- Karenn22
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hillary will remain in this primary until the very end. Get over it.
I completely agree with you. Hillary will remain in the race way into 2016 and will keep running and running and running.
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yogibarrister
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]she has the poor, ignorant, white trash vote sewn up
No need to insult poor white folk. Poverty in this country is a tragedy and need not be disdained.
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Why Obama Won’t Take Hillary
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Clinton wouldn’t help the ticket.
Her negatives are astronomical, and she’d galvanize the Republican rightwing, which isn’t exactly thrilled with McCain.
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The Hillary Deathwatch Widget
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at 2.1% today
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John Anderson
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama will have a tough time against McCain, but Clinton would be worse.
McCain will be beaten. Don't go by polls. Last year, McCain was toast, this year McCain is the GOP nominee. The GOP is in disarray. Last year Hillary was the presumptive nominee before a single primary with a double digit lead. This year, she is finished. The media and Hillary made much of Wright but the voters proved them wrong. This has been a seminal year in American politics. Voters are no longer listening to the punditocracy much less swayed by GOP style attack ads.
I spent 2 weeks registering voters in Oregon. Over and over again the mantra was the Iraq war and Hillary's vote on it. In other states too, that was the prime reason people are coming out in droves to exercise their franchise. If the war in Iraq is the fulcrum, the GOP does not stand a donkey's chance in hell to win. Two congressional seats have been lost this year alone in GOP strongholds - in Louisianna and Illinois.
But we have to work hard folks to keep Hillary from bringing the party down. As Herbert suggests in the NYTimes piece, "The Clintons have no shame." We must not let them prevail.
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John Anderson
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]But I worry that SWM and PTG, rather than being local abberations, could be the tip of a larger iceberg.
SWP, PTG and KT will always be amongst us. Hate is being neutralized by the electorate at large, this time around. I have met so many people across the States this time, young, old, middleaged, different ethnicities, who are sick of the divide and conquer politics. We will never get rid of the racists, but we can neutralize their influence.
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John Anderson
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I live in Oregon and it does seem to be Obama Country
What a beautiful state Oregon is. We travelled all over and were struck by the kindness of strangers.
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-- John Anderson
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I hope you were able to register a lot of voters.
Yes. We registered thousands. Teams are still in Oregon doing some amazing groundwork for the GE.