Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 479 Editor's Choice: 4
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[Read the article: McAuliffe: "We are in through June 3"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Oh, you mean this is still going on. So what? It's over.
All this means is that she is delaying the day she has to come ask all of us to pay off her bad debt. If she had any pride, she wouldn't, but she doesn't.
She is gonna break her bank account trying to burn your house down and then ask you to rebuild it for her out of our own pockets. Gee, sounds presidential...in a George W Bush kind of way.
Now, back to my nap - see you on June 4 when the regular season begins!
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"I don't think it's being racist necessarily, they just don't like black people that well."
[Read the article: Can Barack Obama win West Virginia?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wow, we need to get rid of miracle drugs. I am just glad that by the time my daughter is 18, most people like this will be 6 feet under. Until then, nothing can get done in America.
As for WV, it is impossible to tell how Obama can do. He could have cut into Clinton's lead by aggressivley camaigning, but the decision was made - rightly - to stop that and start healing the party
Problem is, every Clinton win brings up the lazy 'how much did Rev Wright and Bittergate hurt him here' questions.
None of it mattered, he's black and that is all that mateters to these people. This is a GOP state for forever. And we should consieder selling it of to Canada, Mexico, or Denmark once we get a Pres in office.
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Pouce - that is a GOP attack line going back to the 1950's
[Read the article: Can Barack Obama win West Virginia?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I live in one of the most Afican Ameican cities in America - Philadelphia. Where do you live? And can you cite some examples that will paint us all with so broad a brush?
Closest we had was Mayor Street saying "the bruthas and sisters now run the city". And he was right. But that was a far cry from the undrertones we hear from Clinton supporters.
When you hear phrases like "HARD WORKING whites" that sends a message to working class whites. It means that you work and blacks are on welfare, they get a free ride off of your labor. I know this because this is the message that the GOP has dircted to me and my community for decades. I am a Philly white working class Irish Catholic whose family came here by way of Ireland and the north PA coal towns.
The GOP famously divided these large voting blocks decades ago on the basis of "you work and they don't". This lie persists to this day, and that is why so many of us react so strngly to such BS. Clinton - wittingly or unwittingly - repeated GOP attack lines.
But we came together in Philly. The 'working class whites' of the mid-state...they are now jobless and on public assistance. Odd, huh?
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Vermont
[Read the article: Can Barack Obama win West Virginia?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is a money-maker, my man. That stays.
You should look to get the money-losers out. b Start with the people who hate America, like everyone who flies a Confederate flag. Why we let the 1800's version of Al Qaeda thrive as if they won is beyond me.
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Pammy
[Read the article: Can Barack Obama win West Virginia?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A lot of money has been spent trying to make you either hate black people or think that they hate you. See my earlier post about this tactic that has gone on for decades and beyond. The GOP needs the non-rich to segment themeselves into tribes and be suspicous of one another.
VERY few people claim that Obama supporters hate women, or that Clinton supporters hate blacks. In the main (and especially in the 'real world' outside of this forum, more people just happen to like Obama's message better - their policy is very similar. While Clinton is my #2 choice - and I think her health care policy is better - I find it hard to believe that she can be an agent of change given the oppostiion's hatred of her. Sad, but true. Hillary then trashed her image with me by her campaign style.
IF Hillary pulls off a miracle, I will vote for her against McCain. I hope that you too will reconsider and realize that there is more we have in common beyond the Pepsi v Coke context of the primary. McCain is a real danger, despite his moderate reputation he will likely name a SC justice. He will chase his tail with the ecomomy, and maybe even attack Iran (which would result in $7 gas prices if not more).