Letters to the Editor
little lord baltimore
Published Letters: 189 Editor's Choice: 9
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Seriously?
[Read the article: Can Clinton heal the racial divide?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You are seriously asking if Hillary can heal the racial divide? Even leaving aside everything that she and her supporters have done and said up until this point, today it was revealed that a pro-Hillary group has been robo-calling black male voters in North Carolina, giving them false information about voter registration dates, raising doubt that these voters are in fact registered, and claiming to represent the election board of North Carolina. This is a group whose stated mission is to register one million unmarried women voters before the general election. So why are they targeting black men a week before the North Carolina primary? And why have they used similar tactics to disenfranchise and confuse black voters in other states?
read more about it here: http://southernstudies.org/facingsouth/2008/04/facing-south-exclusive-dc-nonprofit.asp
Needless to say, just like with Ferraro or Rendell's comments, I don't expect that Koppelman or Walsh in their zeal to be balanced and truthful will think this is relevant. But maybe we'll get another post about whether the Wright issue is really, truly resolved.
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More of the same
[Read the article: George Bush is John McCain's Rev. Wright]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Joan writes "voters have "major concerns" about all three candidates, but John McCain and Hillary Clinton have them a little more concerned than Barack Obama."
But then instead of explaining why it is that the woman who 4 months ago: 1) was the presumptive Democratic nominee, and 2) trusted the voters to give her the nomination, is now losing, she proceeds to mention Wright and bitter three times in the next 2 sentences. She compares McCain's relationship to George Bush, with Obama's relationship to his pastor, completely ignoring that Hillary's positions on the war, on torture, and most recently, on the gas tax, are far closer to McCain's and Bush's than Obama's.
In the next paragraph Joan writes "36 percent have major concerns that Clinton has changed her stance on issues like NAFTA and driver's licenses for illegal immigrants while 34 percent are bothered by Obama's "bitter" comments." As if concerns about Hillary's ability to tell the truth is legitimately comparable to Obama clumsily trying to explain that he understands why some voters will vote against their own best interests.
The kicker is the last two paragraph. Joan uses these to make sure we all know that Obama is losing ground in the polls, to bring up Wright and bitter 3 more times, and to make sure we understand that "the Wright effect could grow over time;" meaning, I guess, that we can only expect more of this same style of underhanded attack on Obama from her. She ends with "let's hope the media starts paying as much attention to McCain's association with questionable political characters as it has to Obama's," conveniently ignoring the central issue which has so many people upset here that Wright is not now and has never been a political character.
What I find so laughable is that within all of this 'fair and balanced' analysis, Joan writes "once the party unites around a candidate, the vast majority of his or her backers will back the nominee." I'm sorry, but I just don't see this happening. The more articles like this I read, the more I hear about how Wright is making people question Obama as a candidate, the more lies that Hillary tells, the more I hear about how closely Hillary and her campaign are connected to an organization that is trying to confuse and disenfranchise black voters in North Carolina, the more hardened I am that I will never, ever vote for her.
Joan, if you genuinely want to be someone who helps to unite the Democrats in June or in August or whenever the nominee is decided, you can't continue to write posts like this one.
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@brewmn
[Read the article: George Bush is John McCain's Rev. Wright]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Cut it out. I don't agree with Joan either and I think she's got a problem with race, but calling her a cunt is a real dick move.
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Still waiting . . .
[Read the article: Gas tax proposals likely DOA]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So after a month straight of Wright, Wright, Bitter, Wright, Bitter, Wright, Hillary won PA and now she's back and madder than ever, Wright, Bitter, Wright, can we expect any mention of the NC robo-call scandal, the Sidney Blumenthal controversy, the "rich people, god bless us" gaffe (and the comic denial by Wolfson), or even McCain removing someone from his finance committee essentially because he's arab?
Bueller? Bueller?