Letters to the Editor
Taliesan
Published Letters: 942 Editor's Choice: 19
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TrueBlue
[Read the article: Clinton: "I am in this race"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The process of having primaries throughout a long period is actually the problem here - it excludes the later states and doesn't allow the earlier states to see the full race.
What should be done is a single date across the board for all of the primaries, however this is unlikely to happen any time soon because it robs the media of their chance to extrapolate the results from one state into being indicative of the feelings of the entire USA.
As to Florida and Michigan - it was agreed that those votes wouldn't count long before they voted for Hillary. Hillary agreed that they wouldn't count - it is why she didn't take too much flak for not taking her name off of the Michigan ballot.
That Hillary is challenging the decision is mainly due to her being the winner in those states, and one of those states didn't even feature Barrack's name on the ballot. It is not Democratic will, it is an attempt to change the rules of the game now that she is losing.
While it was an unfair ruling, and while it was one that deserved challenging, it deserved challenging back when the decision was made, not now that the primaries are almost done. That the challenge is being made now that Hillary thinks she needs the votes speaks volumes for the craven manner in which she will run the country.
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This is going to be a total and complete...
[Read the article: Walk in a brothel, walk out a rapist?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]failure.
Why? It is because the people running the add have learned absolutely nothing from the drug war, which in itself is because they are stupid.
With the drug war what happened was the idea was sold that if you take drugs you will turn into some sort of mad psychopath with a penchant for killing people.
What happened was kids tried dope, found it made them sort of sleepy, and thus turned the soft drugs into gateway drugs.
What is going to happen here is pretty much the same thing: People are going to try a "decent" brothel, find it to be largely, well, not as bad as advertised and it is going to prove to be a "gateway drug" which will help the business of the more unscrupulous ones.
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About the only way Clinton can win
[Read the article: Clinton Veepstakes]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]now that she has deliberately pissed off her educated and African American bases, is if she goes with... not running in the general.
She needs to mend a lot of bridges before she can even begin to run properly in the general and she frankly, doesn't have enough time.
Post the general the reputational effect of her words during this election will keep her out in 2012.
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farnsworth
[Read the article: Clinton: "I am in this race"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Actually we will blame the people who base their decision on who has the most polite internet trolls - stupid people.
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skylark
[Read the article: Clinton: "I am in this race"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]They were protesting the hawkish line being peddled by Hillary on Iran - a hawkish line which echoes that of Bush, is the root of a lot of the shit America is in, and probably hasn't done the oil price any good.
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ShawnWM
[Read the article: Clinton: "I am in this race"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You mean Hillary Clinton, who came into this race with the highest negatives of any candidate at that stage, ever? Whose main hope for winning it is keeping the states Gore won in 2000 and maybe squeaking by in one he lost?
The one who has lost the most states and who is noted for being the conservative's version of the anti-Christ? Whose chief argument going for her is that the other candidate is a better speaker with less baggage?
Who has major problems convincing the youth vote that she isn't nuts given her stance on censorship and gaming? That has lost the black vote via borderline comments made by her campaign, and who can't reliably hold on to the blue collar white male vote? The one who has trouble rememebering the rules that were announced when this race began?
The one who dismissed all of the small states as "Not counting" and then tried to paint her opponent as an elitist?
The one who endorsed McCain? Twice?
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red_gti2000
[Read the article: Clinton: "I am in this race"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have read your argument before
The basic gist of it is, by my reading, that you like McCain because he is going to lower your taxes.
The trouble is, he is going to lower your taxes in a time when America is in massive debt, its markets are, to be frank, screwed and it is hated across the Muslim world, which is its main source of oil.
Lets not forget the crumbling infrastructure, a massive demand for public healthcare and two or three (If McCain decides he is serious about Iran) wars.
So while walter_map might not be a genius, I will take his judgement long before yours.
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red_gti2000
[Read the article: Clinton: "I am in this race"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It is a free country, and you don't owe your vote to anybody (Contrary to what a lot of Hillary supporters seem to think with their talk of voting for Obama as being some sort of treachery) but that a tax cut can lead to one voting against that freedom.
The Republicans have seriously undermined many of the freedoms that just twenty years ago were taken for granted - privacy for example is no longer guaranteed, the president is largely above the law, and even habeus corpus, a right that goes back to before America was independent, is threatened.
The press has been largely muzzled by a looming corporate oligarchy, where advertising dollars have undermined its ability to honestly report and not just on politics, but also on issues such as product safety.
Even freedom of speech is being curtailed, in popular entertainment such as computer games, and in "Free speech zones."
Freedom of religion, is almost a forgotten right with religious movements trying to force their religious views into your schools, and your court rooms. America is already biased against atheists running for office.
How long will one really be able to say "It is a free country" in America?