Letters to the Editor
debaser
Published Letters: 656 Editor's Choice: 11
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@-- Robert Franklin
[Read the article: Ralph Nader's running mate is ...]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Man, I loved your last post here. Just loved it! I really wish the Democratic Party would take Nader more seriously. Or rather, they should take his supporters more seriously...those are people who would vote Democrat if you gave them a reason to!
Third Parties are vital to democracy. Look at the countries with relevant third (and fourth and fifth) parties? You see a much broader range of policy, you see parties responding to the desires of the electorate...you don't even need to win to have influence as a third party, just get popular enough that the Major Party steals your platform! (How do you think Canada got Universal Healthcare?)
Up with Third Party Politics!
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yep
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is not so much Curt Flood but closer to Latrell "I have a family to feed" Sprewell.
C'mon man...show a little class there big guy, I understand that this all part of the subtle dance of contract negotiation, but man, it sure comes off as callow and snotty.
sheesh, the nerve of some people eh? ;)
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@saintzak
[Read the article: Clinton, Obama debut new ads]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]wow,
I wish I would've saved an IM conversation I was having with a friend earlier today, because I said pretty much the exact same thing!
Hillary is going to win tomorrow, and then it's anybody's game. And this primary season is gonna get loooong and nassssty.
if Obama can win Texas and the two New England states, I think the pressure for her to drop out will get very loud...but if he only wins 2 or 1, then we're essentially back at square one.
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"the most awkward, unpleasant 30 seconds of a news broadcast in recent memory"?
[Read the article: "See, here at Fox we like to be feminine"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]While this is certainly in the top 5, nuthin' beats that time Glenn Beck asked that woman if he could take naked pictures of her.
yech.
*shudder*
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p.s.
[Read the article: "See, here at Fox we like to be feminine"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]here's the clip in all its skin-crawling glory!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxq40OB0mkw
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the problem
[Read the article: Dean says he's concerned about a prolonged race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The problem seems to be that Pennsylvania is what, seven weeks away?
Man, that's an ETERNITY, and based on the tone of the last two weeks, it will be one hellish eternity. I'm not saying Clinton should drop out even if she loses both big states tonight (that's just insane...the democratic party is still democratic in theory right?)...but it certainly hurts the Dems chances in November. Actually, it only hurts our chances if it maintains the nasty tone of the last two weeks. Although I suspect that if Hillary comes out big tonight, then her tone will change overnight and she'll be the Inevitable Candidate we had up until Iowa.
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@jebldmm
[Read the article: The numbers crunch Hillary in Texas]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]re your "rockstar" analysis...I don't think it's way off, but i think it's still off. Pardon the length but I just wanted to share with everyone a passage from the latest issue of Policy Options (a very well respected Canadian Political Journal - the leader of the oppostion Stephane Dion, is a regular contributer). The piece was written by a Liberal Party campaign manager:
"The desire for change is one of the most potent forces in politics. With very few exceptions, an extended stay in power for one party will generate a desire for political change. The demand can be for different policies, different style or
even just different people. However, the mood in the United States is particularly receptive to a message of change because of the massive dissatisfaction with both the Bush administration and the direction of the country. Only one in four Americans thinks the country is headed in the right direction. For context, around 60 percent of Canadians think
our country is going in the right direction. While virtually every candidate for both parties’ nominations paid at least
lip service to representing change, Obama has become the clear standardbearer for change in the Democratic race and in the country overall. And when the mood for change in the country is that strong, and you represent change, and you are running for the nomination of the opposition party — well, your positioning is pretty good.
In part this is due to a strategic miscalculation on the part of the Clinton campaign. Clinton’s calculation at the outset of this process (more than a year ago) was clearly that being a woman was enough change, maybe even too much change, for a lot of voters. She deliberately underplayed perhaps the biggest change card available — the fact that she would be the first female president of the United States of America. Therefore, instead of emphasizing the change that she embodied and that her policies reflect, she emphasized the safeness of her candidacy. She could be the commander-in-chief. She could win a general election. She had been there, done that. That strategy created the vacuum into which walked Barack Obama. But he did more than just walk into it, he exploded into it. He turned his campaign into a movement. He has made people feel empowered and part of the “change” he promises. He has made people feel that big things are possible. And he has made people believe that he represents a new way of doing politics, not just different policies. In so doing, he has unlocked the key to likely victory in the Democratic primary, and possibly to the presidency. He is attracting people to the political process who have previously not bothered to participate because they did not think it mattered to them who the president was."
- David Herle
you can find the whole article here: http://www.irpp.org/po/index.htm
(it's a really balanced analysis of the race up until this point - he concurs that there's a media bias against Hillary, but doesn't immediately assume "sexism")
cheers!