Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 191 Editor's Choice: 9
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He's doing a little more than just offering advice . . .
[Read the article: The more things change ...]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Remember when Rove/ Bush planted the story that McCain's adopted daughter was really McCain's "illegitimate black child"? Well, apparently, Rove's got a new understanding of the situation.
According to Rove last week:
"I think most of your viewers be shocked to hear the story about Cindy McCain in Bangladesh, visiting an orphanage, and she has a small dying child thrust into her hands and the orphanage…the people in the orphanage say we can’t, we can’t care for her, she’s dying, we don’t know what to do. And Cindy McCain’s impulse was to hold that…hug that child to her chest, get on an airplane and bring her home. When she got off the plane, there was John McCain, and he said, “What do you got?” and she said “I’ve got a child who’s dying, we need to get her help…we need to get her care.” And John said, “Well, who is she going to be staying with?” and Cindy McCain said, “I was hoping that she could stay with us.” And today, that young child–who was near death–is their teenage daughter. I don’t think most people understand the compassion and love that would come from a moment like that. There’s a lot more of John McCain’s story that he needs to tell."
What's that smell? Ah yes, Republican spin.
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Experience?
[Read the article: More on Clinton camp infighting]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Again and again, the senator was portrayed as a manager who valued loyalty and familiarity over experience and expertise."
Haven't we already had 8 years of nepotism and blind loyalty to friends and supporters with disastrous results? And if loyalty is in fact more important than experience, then isn't it ironic that Hillary is making it the central issue in her campaign.
And speaking of experience, Alex, could you please (pretty please!) post something about how publications have come out and said that Hillary's perhaps 'mis-spoke' regarding her foreign service "experience," specifically her role in "bringing peace to Northern Ireland." Why hasn't this become a bigger issue in the mainstream media?
1)http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2008/03/hillarys_foreignpolicy_experie.cfm
2)http://www.mercurynews.com/nationworld/ci_8511359
3)http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/08/wuspols108.xml
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A three hour tour . . . (a three hour tour)
[Read the article: Obama camp targets Clinton experience claims]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"The THREE HOUR TOUR of the frontlines of the international peacekeeping mission were filled with the gritty reality of a military operation, a far cry from traditional first lady photo opportunities, and Mrs. Clinton seemed more than comfortable with that.[caps mine]"
1. So is Hillary really claiming that a three hour tour counts as foreign policy experience in Kosovo?
2. And is it smart in a memo about foreign policy experience to have such a strong pop culture link to Gilligan's Island?
(Apologies if this has been posted before, I just don't have the patience to read through 210 letters.)
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@Xrandadu Hutman
[Read the article: Fox News calls Mississippi for Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As always, I agree most of your points.
I also wonder if the Spitzer scandal had any impact. The speculation is that Spitzer's terse mea culpa last night was a painful reminder of Clinton's "I did not have sexual relations with that woman" press conference in '98. I wonder if it made people remember some of the more painful moments of the Clinton presidency and convinced them to give Obama another look.
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More from Geraldine
[Read the article: Fox News calls Mississippi for Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]According to the DailyKos, Ms. Ferraro has been ranting about Obama's unfair advantage as a black man since late February.
Maybe Hillary's camp didn't notice it before today?
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/3/11/204337/675/349/474608
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@Xrandadu
[Read the article: Fox News calls Mississippi for Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]David Patterson, the Lt. Governor of NY, has already made statements saying that his super-delegate vote will go to Hillary. Of course, as we all know, he can change his mind. I read a little bit about him this evening and he sounds pretty impressive, his support of Hillary not withstanding.
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/p/david_a_paterson/index.html?inline=nyt-per
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Even MORE from Geraldine
[Read the article: Fox News calls Mississippi for Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So in back in 1988, Geraldine said: "if Jesse Jackson were not black, he wouldn't be in the race."
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/3/11/21956/1233/291/474642
We're going to get a post about this tomorrow, right Alex?
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@KateTex
[Read the article: Fox News calls Mississippi for Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"It was Obama and Obama alone who made this race about race"
Please explain. I thought it was Bill who compared Obama's SC victory to Jesse Jackson's win.
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@KateTex
[Read the article: A look at exit polls from the Mississippi Democratic primary]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"You just don't get it, do you? She didn't. He did. Sorry, but that's what the history books are going to say. Guarantee it."
Okay. Help us get it. Please explain how Obama is solely responsible for bringing race into this election.
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@KateTex
[Read the article: Fox News calls Mississippi for Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yes, I am an Obama supporter and yes, I am genuinely trying to understand your point.
But you seem to be suggesting that because Jesse Jackson didn't want to admit that Bill's comment could be interpreted as condescending to Obama, that it wasn't. And that therefore it's all Obama's fault.
1) Jesse himself had some pretty unpleasant racially charged things to say about Obama last year, saying that Obama was "acting like he was white."
-- http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,297332,00.html
2) Bill wasn't the only one in Hillary's campaign who compared Obama to Jesse Jackson. A full month after the SC primary, Harold Ickes, one of Hillary's top aide's said:
“We have two really strong and very good candidates. This party has been blessed … to have a woman who, I think will be the next president of the United States [and] to have a powerful spokesman in the form of Sen. Obama and he is, that’s one of the reasons I supported Jesse Jackson in 19894 and 1988, I thought we needed a strong, powerful candidate, a black candidate, running for president,”
-- http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/02/25/clinton-aide-compares-obama-to-jesse-jackson/
3) Isn't this like bringing out a woman to dispute the claim that the press is sexist and then saying, see I've got a woman who agrees with me so it's all in Hillary's head?