Letters to the Editor
little lord baltimore
Published Letters: 189 Editor's Choice: 9
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@reality counts, kate-tex, and ethics-prof
[Read the article: Hillary at twilight]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I know that this is now an emotional issue and not a rational one, and I don't imagine that there is anything I can say that will change your mind. However, there is just no evidence to support the theory that Obama will lose against McCain. None. Nadda. Zip. In fact most polling indicates that Obama beats McCain and Hillary doesn't. You can see for yourself here:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/us/general_election_mccain_vs_obama-225.html
here:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/02/25/opinion/polls/main3874915.shtml
and here:
http://www.presidentelectionpolls.com/2008/presidential-matchups/barack-obama-vs-john-mccain.html
One exception is Rassmussen which has McCain beating Obama by 3% points and beating Hillary by 4% points:
http://rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/daily_presidential_tracking_poll
It is illogical to suggest that because Obama lost the primaries in CA, NY, NJ and MA that he will not carry those traditionally Democratic states in the general election. Even if every single primary voter who voted for Clinton stays home. Obama won more votes in most of these primaries than McCain, Romney and Huckabee combined. There is no reason and no evidence to suggest that the majority of voters in these traditionally Democratic states will not vote for Obama simply because he is not Hillary. The idea that Democratic voters in these states would rather vote for, pro-war, anti-abortion, anti-health care reform, pro-Hagee, McCain just flies in the face of reason.
If you have some evidence or actual historical references to support this argument, I'd love to hear them. I think there are a lot of reasons to vote for Hillary, so I don't begrudge you your choice. These aren't some of them though.
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@nabalzbbfr
[Read the article: The McCain/Hagee story picks up steam]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I quoted Hagee. I didn't make any statements about the anti-semitic tenants of Catholics, Martin Luther, or Protestants. Again, Hagee did. You questioned Hagee's anti-Catholicism. I provided a quote from his book that seems to prove that at a minimum he believes that the Catholic church is anti-semitic. I'm not sure what this has to do with Obama or how mentioning that Obama attended a madrassa, like almost every other school age child in Indonesia, bolsters your point that Hagee is not anti-Catholic.
You wrote: "Hagee's views on New Orleans are hardly controversial. Pre-Katrina NOLA was widely regarded as a moral cesspool, brimming with all sorts of iniquities: promiscuous/deviant sex of all kinds, gay/straight/bestial, political corruption, violent crime, drug abuse, etc"
Disregarding that laughable idea that New Orleans was "widely regarded as a moral cesspool," or that the "promiscuous/deviant sex" in New Orleans is somehow more offensive than the "deviancy" that happens anywhere else in the world, the controversy over Hagee remarks was not because of the perceived morality of New Orleans, Mississippi, and Louisiana residents; but rather because he preached that the residents of New Orleans were asking for and deserved the devastation of Hurricane Katrina because the Monday after the hurricane there was a gay pride parade scheduled and God wanted to stop it. Hagee said,
"The newspaper carried the story in our local area, that was not carried nationally, that there was to be a homosexual parade there on the Monday that the Katrina came. And the promise of that parade was that it would was going to reach a level of sexuality never demonstrated before in any of the other gay pride parades."
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@katetex
[Read the article: Hillary at twilight]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Have you read about black Ohioans' attempts to intimidate black Clinton supporters into switching their allegiance? I see that deeply shameful behavior as akin to this petition."
I'm not sure how this is different than Clinton supporters calling women who vote for Obama, traitors, slaves, and brainwashed cowards. There has been bad behavior on both sides. The great thing, and it is a great thing, is that we have laws that protect our right to express our political opinions. Whether a minority find these opinions shameful or not.