Letters to the Editor
madamfauntleroy
Published Letters: 743 Editor's Choice: 2
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Molly Ivins column on Hillary Clinton before her death
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This was written in January 2006. Has anything changed?
AUSTIN, Texas --- I'd like to make it clear to the people who run the Democratic Party that I will not support Hillary Clinton for president.
Enough. Enough triangulation, calculation and equivocation. Enough clever straddling, enough not offending anyone This is not a Dick Morris election. Sen. Clinton is apparently incapable of taking a clear stand on the war in Iraq, and that alone is enough to disqualify her. Her failure to speak out on Terri Schiavo, not to mention that gross pandering on flag-burning, are just contemptible little dodges.
The recent death of Gene McCarthy reminded me of a lesson I spent a long, long time unlearning, so now I have to re-learn it. It's about political courage and heroes, and when a country is desperate for leadership. There are times when regular politics will not do, and this is one of those times. There are times a country is so tired of bull that only the truth can provide relief.
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For anyone who thinks that Hillary is going to bow out gracefully after June 3
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]fasten your seatbelts. She is going all the way to the convention.
She stated this in FL today. She will go to the convention.
Her legion of supporters, all women, spread throughout the airwaves (including Joan Walsh)levelling charges against Obama for calling her Annie Oakley as proof that he has run a sexist campaign. Never mind that her comments on Obama not electable (read because of race), hardworking white folk, etc.
Obama, if he was a white guy, would not have come this far, are their assertions, which is of course what?
They continued to blame the media for misogyny and railed against their bringing her down. Such is their wrath that they will not vote for Obama. Imagine, a lifelong Dem such as Ferraro enabling a 3rd Bush term.
All bets are off folks. She ain't a graceful loser, just as Joan states that Obama supporters are sore winners. There was a lull there for a while as Hillary tamped down her attacks on Obama, but rancor is on the rise again.
All this obfuscates the fact that Hillary voted for the war, against the ban on cluster bombs, fowarding legislation to ban flag burning, lying about her experience and her FP credentials, and her complete and total dependence on lobbyists, not to mention the windfall profits that the Clintons have made in the last 6 years.
There are far more women who voted for Obama than Hillary. These are a minority women who are hell bent on handing this to McCain so Hillary can run in 2012.
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banyantree
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]You are absolutely right. Caputo and Abram both shut out the black commentator with looks of disdain and derision. It was disgusting.
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banyantree
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Here is Caputo, a white woman, shutting out and speaking over a black woman. This is a double - sexism and racism at play both in the same breath. What would Clinton have to say to that? Abrams is on steroids and cannot hear enough of his own voice.
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Anderson Cooper
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]has had a better dialogue about media misogyny with 2 women who are calling Hillary's bluff and her refusal to blame herself for a badly run campaign and her less than pristine record on the war.
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banyantree
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]The media and Dan Abrams would love for nothing more than Hillary to scorch and burn the Democratic National Convention in Denver. That would be ample air time fillers, the never ending drama of Hillary as victim and victimizer. Imagine the non issues being covered more than the war in Iraq, the economy, healthcare and education.
Frankly, the gutless super delegates really speak volumes about a spineless Democratic Party that needs to be uprooted and reinvented to its original promise.
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Popular Vote Poison -How Hillary's latest math hurts the party.
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://www.newsweek.com/id/138109
Jonathan Alter
But Clinton has continued with one claim that could have a pernicious effect on the Democrats' chances in November. While she knows that the nomination is determined by delegates, Hillary insists on saying at every opportunity that she is winning the popular vote. And she has now taken to touting the new HBO movie "Recount," which chronicles the Florida fiasco of eight years ago. Everyone can agree that the primary calendar needs reform. But popular-vote pandering is poison for Democrats. For a party scarred by the experience of 2000, when Al Gore received 500,000 more popular votes than George W. Bush but lost the presidency, this argument is sure to make it harder to unite and put bitter feelings aside.
Oh, and it's not true.
Read on
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BobBob
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]not a trailer like you
Why insult trailer dwellers by comparing them to KateTex? Also, not all trailer dwellers are bigots. That's a generalization. But yes. KateTex is a certifiable racist and disgusting to boot.
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Eric Berry
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Joan Walsh is not intentionally provocative. That requires a certain amount of integrity and honesty. Joan Walsh is a firm supporter of Hillary Clinton. She should recuse herself from reporting and journalistic aspirations.
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LanierThrill73
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]She isn't going to be president, VP or majority leader, not now, not in 2012, not ever. The only logical explanation left is that she intends to try and hurt Obama thinking she can run again in 2012 against McCain or his VP but I doubt she'd even get the nomination then either.
McCain on the Daily Show vehemently scratched the idea of Hillary on the GOP ticket and mocked the proposition.
Hillary came into the primaries ready to be crowned, but her vote on the war squelched any dream she might have had of succession in the Clinton dynasty. If she were a white male candidate, she would have left the race after Super Tuesday. But the fighter is really a spoiler and will stop at nothing to bring down Obama's candidacy. How dare he interfere in her entitlement to the Presidency.