Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 58 Editor's Choice: 11
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Opportunity Knocking
[Read the article: Michelle Obama gets real]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The more I read about the Obama's and what they stand for, the more I feel that the Clinton's are not the right choice for the Democrats and America.
I have many reasons to pick Obama over Clinton. But for me, the most important issue is unity. I believe that Obama can unify this country and win a massive mandate from which to govern and reshape the political agenda for decades. On the other hand, I believe that Hillary Clinton, though capable of winning, will enable the red state/blue state madness that has poisoned this country to continue for four or eight more years.
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Payback sucks
[Read the article: Clinton on the attack]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That's right Senator Clinton:
You voted for the war and ever time you attack your opponent he's just going to be thrown back in your face.
I have no doubt that it will haunt you to the end of your days knowing that if you had just done the right thing, the American thing, and voted against invading and occupying another country your ascention to the White House would have been guaranteed.
So please, don't get your feathers ruffled because Democrats are leaning towards the man who had the guts to oppose Bush's Iraq fantasy from the start.
Experience, after all, is nothing without good judgement.
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Meltdown
[Read the article: Did the Clinton campaign light up Obama drug-use story?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wow, it's like seeing the Howard Dean scream played out bit by bit over time.
I am waiting, patiently, for Senator Clinton to resume her positive campaigns, to begin convincing Americans of her strengths rather than pointing at the flaws of her opponents.
What Clinton fails to grasp is that Democrats, Independents, and many Republicans --Americans-- are desperate for new politics. We yearn for a president with the moral authority given by a clear mandate from the people to put an end to the divisive and bitter political scene that is slowly by surely corroding this great nation. Obama is increasingly looking like the candidate who can step up to our lofty demands.
Let the Republicans attack him! Let them attack him for being honest and for learning from his mistakes. It is any Presidential candidate's wildest dream to have the most pointed criticism directed at his foolish behavior as a 16 year old boy.
Senator Clinton needs to stop this. She's not just jeopardizing her chances at the nomination, she's now risking her legacy as a formidable politician.
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Seinfeldian
[Read the article: Obama to Clinton: You'll be working for me]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Seriously, Hillary looked a little like George Costanza there. Oh yeah, well the jerk store called. They're running outta you!
Still, at least both Clinton and Obama tried to be a little humerous. Please, I don't want to hear Dodd tell any more jokes!!! Yeeesh
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Meet the new boss..
[Read the article: Clinton strategist: Sorry about -- cough, cocaine! -- that Obama drug story]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Penn? This is the man the Clinton camp wants to represent them to America?
Such smugness, such arrogance, and such nastiness!
I can't believe it, it's making me sick. I just saw him pull EXACTLY the same stupid shit Bush and his people have been pulling for years!
Oh, I see, Obama's COCAINE use is off the table is it? We won't dare talk about this COCAINE addiction anymore.
I'm sick, truly, as I write this, I'm sick. I've been waiting so long to see an end to the Bush sleaze, to being lied to my face daily by the people who have temporary rule of this nation. Aren't we're all so tired of the life and death decisions of our nation being treated like a game?
And yet, there's a very good chance that this coming election we are going have a choice between either 9/11 Gulliani, Double Guantanamo Romney, Jesus's best friend Huck, and Hillary Clinton.
I don't care who wins the nomination. Obama, Edwards, Biden, Richardson. Just please, please not a democratic version of George Bush!
Sigh, I'm going to go start drinking. Yeah yeah, I know what time it is.
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Let's call it a wash.
[Read the article: The Bhutto test]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is Obama wrong? Again and again Senator Clinton can highlight her years of experience and all the tea and cookies she's shared with various world leaders. But all that wonderful experience and perspective didn't stop her from supporting one of the biggest foreign policy blunders in American history!
And anyone who thinks that the current rise in terror in Pakistan is not partly related to the destabilization of Iraq is deluded!
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If Obama's lame...
[Read the article: Obama's European problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]where does that leave Senator's Clinton and Edwards who voted to authorize the war in Iraq: probably the biggest foreign policy disaster in our nations history!
incompetent?
cynical?
cowardly?
Obama has the potential to fundamentally change the nature of the game. And it appears as if partisan dinosaurs like Joe Conason are getting increasingly worried about their place in it.
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Clinton's motives are always in doubt.
[Read the article: No makeover for Hillary -- yet]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Was Clinton's wavering voice and teary eyes a genuine display of frustration or a cynical act to reveal a softer, vulnerable, and consequently a more likeable side to the former First Lady. I have no way of knowing. But I do think it speaks volumes of the way people view the Clinton political machine that the first thing that came into my mind and my wife's mind was that she was faking. Hillary Clinton can never escape Hillary Clinton.
I predict Obama will get 40% or more of the NH vote. I think there's a genuine chance he'll approach 50%. If that happens Clinton will be all but finished.
There's nothing vague about that!
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Props to Clinton
[Read the article: Obama pulls closer]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I give her terrific props to saving herself in NH. Even if Obama pulls out a win of a couple of percentages, Clinton still wins just by defeating expectations.
If she pulls off the democratic nomination, I guarantee that emotional moment will be seen as the moment that saved her candidacy.
That being said, I still want Obama to win.