Letters to the Editor
Hepstyle
Published Letters: 280 Editor's Choice: 3
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I Look Down Upon the Undecided
[Read the article: Dean looking for superdelegates to decide "now"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you don't know who you prefer by now, you're either an indecisive moron or you don't pay close attention to politics. Now I can forgive the average undecided voter, because there's no law that states we must be on top of big political issues, even though I wish people would consider it a personal obligation.
But for people who make politics their life's work, people who are in fact politicians and party leaders, how can you not have decided by now who you will support? Yes, I can see that if you represent a state which has not yet held its primary or caucus, it may be wise to wait and see how your state votes. But at the sasme time, many people are seeking guidance and our party leaders can provide it.
I would like to see MY superdelegates go ahead and declare one way or the other. In part because I expect them to already know how people in our state (NC) feel about the candidates, and in part because at this late point in the game, the possibility for political favors is drying up.
Of course, Watt and Price have already declared for Obama, which is no big surprise because my district is over 40% "buckwheat" as Notorius W.E.S. likes to say.
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Dear Lilybean
[Read the article: Dean looking for superdelegates to decide "now"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Michigan and Florida disenfranchised themselves. Look it up.
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Re: Lilybean
[Read the article: Dean looking for superdelegates to decide "now"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That's simply not accurate. And beyond the point to boot. Had Michigan and Florida not thumbed their noses at the well established rules of the party, their votes would have counted.
If disenfranchising voters still means that their votes were taken away, then any reasonable, well meaning person would have to concede that the votes were taken away by the state parties, and in a most cynical fashion I might add. Trying to get those votes back months after the fact just because, oops, it matters this time was their own problem.
Furthermore, if you have anything to back up your assertion that it was Obama's lawyers who somehow managed to pull unlikely leverage out of their wazoos and halt revote negotiations, please share it with me.
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Oh, and Flappy Ears?
[Read the article: Dean looking for superdelegates to decide "now"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is precisely what I have come to expect from the average Clinton supporter. Buckwheat comments and flappy ears. Kinda demonstrative of her whole campaign.
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Thanks For the Reminder!
[Read the article: Obama, get ready for the "Clinton rules"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sometimes I wonder if people are quite as outraged as they claim to be about this issue. It seems as though people out there are mad at the media because people out there are mad about the media. I believe that people out there kinda like the Reality TV that is the political coverage that our media provides.
As Mr. Conason said, this has been going on for several election cycles now, and you can bet that every election cycle, journalists have been writing about it. There has to be a reason why this hasn't changed. And the reason is that people love drama. Policy Shmolicy. People want conflict. They want shady dealings. They want lies and scandal, and our society doesn't even WANT to keep our fiction and nonfiction separate anymore.
That said, Clinton managed to beat Bush in 1992 amidst a hostile media. I believe that the excitement that still pours from the left despite this draining primary season is evidence enough that there are sufficient numbers of people focused on the important issues to set this country back on the right track.
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Truth
[Read the article: Debating the debate, complaining about complaining]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is a fine opportunity for supporters of each candidate to step back and recognize what a circus this primary has been. In all honesty, there is absolutely nothing left but the voting and the counting. I'm just happy that for the first time, MY state (NC) will have some impact. It's about time!
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People here have no memory whatsoever
[Read the article: Obama, get ready for the "Clinton rules"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I would not be the least bit surprised if the people using terms like "Obamabots" today are the same people who tried to make "Deaniac" derisive last time. Wake up, silly gits. Your time is over. It's our time now. Get used to it.
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Re: ShawnWM
[Read the article: Obama, get ready for the "Clinton rules"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't think that very many Clinton supporters are racist, but you should look closely at the sentiments you are sharing with the world. Kinda scary. Do you really think that the number one issue in the black community, in SC or any other state is the race of the candidate? And your attempt to mimic urban vernacular is silly if not bothersome. You should step back and check yourself a bit.
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You know Obama
[Read the article: Debating the debate, complaining about complaining]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]because you live in the same state? What do you take us for, exactly?
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Wow Shawn
[Read the article: Obama, get ready for the "Clinton rules"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I didn't know that the black community got together and wrote a giant treatise that only you had access to, admitting that they're all a bunch of idiots who don't care about the economy, health care, education, or jobs. You've really opened my eyes.
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YES YES and YES
[Read the article: Pondering whether McCain would be worse than Bush]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]YES, McCain would continue largely on the same tack as Bush. He would continue many of the failed policies of the Bush Administration, but
YES, McCain is better than Bush because he wouldn't continue EVERY failed policy of the Bush Administration, so
YES, Hillary, you twit, it IS both. At least Obama didn't go out and suggest that McCain would be better than YOU, which is exactly what you have done on the campaign trail. Stop farting in the elevator.
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You Can Do No Better
[Read the article: McCain "glad" to have radical preacher's support]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]than a youtube search on this john hagee character. Yowza.
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How great would primaries be
[Read the article: Clinton's surprising appearance on "Countdown"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If there were more people like Olbermann. He can get candidates on his show, ask them tough questions, get decent answers, AND make W.E.S. show his true colors again, all in one fell swoop!
Hey W.E.S. got any thinly veiled racial epithets for us today?