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Published Letters: 656 Editor's Choice: 11
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no that it matters in the slightest
[Read the article: A McCain-Rice pairing is unlikely]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]but re: Condi's marriage status.
I was under the impression that she is a not-so-much in the closet lesbian. I seem to remember reading (here I believe) that it was common knowledge at Columbia(?), just not really spoken about.
again, not that it matters one lick (but that fact alone would probably scuttle any chance she had at being VP...can you imagine the white evangelical base? "wha? she's colored AND a f*g?! Well fck me...guess I'll vote Buchanan!")
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@jfsee
[Read the article: Why Hillary Clinton should be winning]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]To say that voters in Michigan and Florida, or in states that use caucuses, are being disenfranchised is absurd. Disenfranchisement means not being permitted to vote in an actual election that results in electing an actual candidate to an actual office. I don't know how to say it more clearly than that. If you don't like how your party selects candidates, reform your party or join another one. But don't complain that the selection is process is undemocratic: it has fuck-all to do with democracy.
thank you! this "disenfranchisment" talk been a bug-bear in my side for weeks now. It's a pretty dishonest emotional-charged appeal that just reeks to me...
(btw - I support Obama, and I think there should be a 100% new vote. Nobody left off b/c they voted in the Republican primary, just a total redo. Why? Because I'm pretty sure Obama would win big in Michigan and come damn close in Florida)
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@manyctnj (Warning: Curling Reference!)
[Read the article: Barack Obama in suspended animation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You're right, he's not the winner, but he certainly is winning. Only a fool would say otherwise. He has more delegates, while he cannot reach 2,024 on his own, he's certainly much closer to that number than Clinton. That my friend, is the definition of winning.
Think of it like curling (warning: curling alert): the game quite often does not go to the final end as the losing team will concede that they simply cannot make up the required points to best the winning side. Clinton at this moment is in the ninth end and is too far behind to beat Obama in the tenth. She doesn't have to concede, she can play that tenth end all she wants...but she simply isn't going to overtake Obama and right about now it's just an excercise in futility.
(unless the judges rule that Obama burned some rocks in the earlier ends and he loses points, then she can win...yeah, I know..that was a weak superdelegate metaphor...my bad)
cheers!
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fair enough
[Read the article: Barack Obama in suspended animation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In the grand tradition of Bill Clintonian parsing, instead of "winning" we'll say that Obama is "leading" in all valid metrics.
deal?
;)
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how sad
[Read the article: How 1968 changed Hillary]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It looks like the Hillary Rodham of the 60s and 70s is someone I could firmly believe in. The Clinton of 2008 bears little resemblence to this portrait or a young woman (at least to these eyes)...I guess with age does not always come wisdom.
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oops
[Read the article: How 1968 changed Hillary]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]*"of a young woman
(stupid pre-coffee fingers)
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i'm sorry
[Read the article: How 1968 changed Hillary]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]With all due respect:
Electro Robot...but you cannot say that America has a "Left" with a straight face can you??
My god, none of your major candidates can even get behind single payer health care for pete's sake!
Look, I like Obama, I find Clinton fine in my more generous moments...but I don't for a second think they represent anything like a "Left" (at least internationally speaking...hell Canada's Right Wing government is further Left than the American Democrats - they at least support government run healthcare)
(You can make the argument that within the discrete model of American politics then yes, the Dems represent the Left...but that is solely because somebody has to be on one side of the spectrum...but the American shifting Centre has swung so far to the Right that any comparisons to Emma Goldman is sheer fantasy)
cheers
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ummm...what?
[Read the article: How 1968 changed Hillary]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]show of hands here: how many liberals on this site are anti-communist?
(i'm a social democrat so that rules me out in your equation...)
p.s. http://www.theonion.com/content/node/31365
:)
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thanks timbuktom!
[Read the article: How 1968 changed Hillary]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I thought I was alone in an echo chamber for a moment there..phew!
p.s. just wanted to say I always enjoy your posts, cheers!
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wouldn't it be dandy
[Read the article: McCain maintains menacing money problems]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If the combined $60 million raised last month by the Democratic Candidates could all be used against McCain??
Jus' sayin' is all...
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yeah Christopher1988!
[Read the article: Barack Obama in suspended animation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Didn't you realize that it was Obama that forced Bill to compare his campaign to Jackson's? Or that his healthcare plan (and *nudge*wink* by extension his campaign) was a fairytale?And for Hillary to denigrate the legacy of MLK?
Didn't you know that people don't have an opinion until their favoured candidate tells them what to think? I mean those comments would've existed only in the ether until Barack Hussein Obama told every black american how to feel about them...Shame On You(tm) for thinking that anybody would ever hear those comments from the Clintons (which they were forced to say through the voodoo powers of Barack Hussein Obama remember) and make up their OWN minds as to what the subtext there was!
Stop Drinking the KoolAid!!
(btw - I don't for a second think that either Clinton is a racist...what I do think though is that they've not so subtely tried to play on the electorate's problems with race to further their campaign. There's a difference, but the both give off a mighty stink
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psst Christopher1988
[Read the article: Barack Obama in suspended animation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here](i was being sarcastic ;)
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wow droogoy
[Read the article: Why Hillary Clinton should be winning]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You just compared a presidential candidate, a DEMOCRATIC presidential candidate to a man that was responisble for 913 deaths.
Congratulations, you win the Hyperbole Award of the Year.
jeebus man, take a breath, step back from the brink...and relax.
(actually, seeing as how KateTex compared him to Stalin and rphillips compared him to Lenin and the Bolsheviks, you have some stiff competition. Maybe we can take a vote? Good people of Salon.com! Vote now for the Hyperbolic Statement of the Year Award! Your nominees are the above!)