Letters to the Editor
Taliesan
Published Letters: 978 Editor's Choice: 19
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Anon
[Read the article: Obama's surge extends down the Potomac]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]On security: I think Obama is actually the stronger of the two.
One of the early debates Hillary was touted as "Winning" against Obama asked the question of what they would do if the US was attacked again.
Now, Hillary from what I understood of it, and please if I am wrong with one of the Hillary supporters correct me on it, said that America would decisively and swiftly hit back against its enemies.
Obama, in a rambling fashion which didn't inspire the pundits much, said that under him America would find out who those enemies are first.
The former, to me represented the philosophy that landed America in Iraq, the latter, the sort of philosophy that would have prevented America landing up in Iraq.
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Mr ? isn't just Obama
[Read the article: This Modern World]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Just like Ugg isn't just McCain.
Mr ? is an amalgamation of the top candidates - and thus includes shades of Hillary "She is a liberal but supports conservative wars, censorship, and is funded by the biggest corporate lobbies of America" Clinton as well as Obama.
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MCE007
[Read the article: Obama's surge extends down the Potomac]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Has there been a discrepancy between the exit polling and the results in these races, the way there was in NH?
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Mizmoon
[Read the article: Obama's surge extends down the Potomac]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Okay, that does it. Let's talk horse race.
If you think that Hillary Clinton stands a greater chance of winning the general elections there is a word for you, and that word is "Stupid."
Hillary will be campaigning against Obama as the candidate for experience: Well McCain has her there. She will be campaigning as the "Tough" candidate. McCain has her there too.
She will have one month to switch to the candidate of change as opposed to experience and the long road to August is not going to make it easy.
Her gender will be irrelevant. Fifteen years of constant rightwing mudslinging will pay off for McCain and he will crush her like a bug.
Obama? The rightwing will uncover dirt on him but it will have to look for that dirt.
In the smaller states which the Democrats will have to win to take the White House Obama is dominating. Hillary is doing okay in the big states which are probably going to vote Democrat anyway.
You want to start talking horse race, start looking at the high negatives Hillary's got rather than the fairytales about her being a survivor against the rightwing slime machine - She survived in deepest blue New York for crying out loud. It is like a Republican claiming to have survived Democratic attacks in deep red Alaska.
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Anon
[Read the article: Obama's surge extends down the Potomac]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It wasn't the "Nut Left," that landed you with the current deficit, the current debt, the current housing crisis, the current infrastructure crisis, the current healthcare crisis or the current education crisis.
That was all on you stupid neocon bastards who took the Democratic party and for the last 30 years drained it of every bit of vitality, and life it had to the point where being against torture, is considered a far left position as opposed to simply being sane.
You want to see why America is where it is today? It is because you assholes chose Kerry, the least charismatic figure in the Democratic party, over his charismatic alternatives. It is because you wankers, chose to run Gore as a nothing candidate, against GW Bush.
Don't blame the left because you can't run a campaign.
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Oh, and while we are talking about big states
[Read the article: Obama's surge extends down the Potomac]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hillary won the big blue states? So the hell what. So did Gore. So did Kerry for that matter.
Obama is winning in the red states, while Hillary's campaign is trying to sling mud at Obama based on a deal no iffier than the White Water scandal, and with one hell of a lot less success.
There are still people out there that think the Clinton's killed someone, and the last minute pardons by Bill aren't exactly going to play into Hillary's favour on the "Mrs Clean" bill.
You talk about Super Tuesday: Super Tuesday was a draw. Hillary at the start of the season was destined to take the Whitehouse, she got fought to a draw and now you are claiming that is some sort of great big deciding factor.
Now Obama is wiping the floor with Hillary in the smaller states: Those states count. They are important in the general do you want to lose the general elections the same way the Democrats lost the last two general elections?
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05:26 AM Anon
[Read the article: Obama's surge extends down the Potomac]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You are a South African aren't you?
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05:38 AM Anon
[Read the article: Obama's surge extends down the Potomac]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Lets see: Before the blogosphere
The Democrats lost the Congress, the Senate, and then the presidency while it valiantly raced to the centre.
After the blogosphere (Which is made up of, get this, Americans posting their opinions on stuff, which one must admit, if you are Hillary Clinton must be a pretty horrible thought) got liberal, the Democrats won back the Senate and the Congress.
Much to the disgust of the neocons, you know the guys, the guys who proclaim that the left is loony because it believes in stupid things like Habeas Corpus, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and stupid things like actually teaching kids science in science classrooms and not torturing people. Damn those dirty cyber hippies.
Now the rightwing of the Democratic party, which thinks that by slamming intellectual elites and proclaiming that it is the working wing it is somehow different to the Republican party that does exactly the same damn thing in exactly the same damn words, it is going to score points in the run-up to 2008.
Meanwhile those of us in the real world have noticed that without the blogosphere (Also known as the American people with enough go to actually do something about their political alignments) the Democrats are dead in the water.
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ezhik2
[Read the article: Obama's surge extends down the Potomac]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In which case you would vote McCain anyway - because he has more experience than Hillary Clinton.
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You are assuming
[Read the article: What's the Obama campaign's position on superdelegates?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]that going with the electorate's will is going against what is best for the Democratic party.