Letters to the Editor
AnaHadWolves
Published Letters: 477 Editor's Choice: 26
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Response(s)
[Read the article: How will it all end?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Viz-a-viz Obama vs Clinton:
It isn't about "hope", it isn't about "change" and it isn't about "fuzzy bunnies and cute puppies." It IS about who will best wrest this country from the train-wreck that is the Bush-bastardocracy and put us back on-track. ANY Democrat will be better than Bush and his ilk.
However, "better" isn't what we need; we need the "best." With her life-experience, accomplishments, gravitas and, yes, maturity, Hillary Clinton IS that person. Barack Obama, for all his talk about "change", "hope" and "fuzzy bunnies", is woefully naive to believe that he has the overall experience or gravitas...or maturity...to jump in and take charge from Day One. I have much more faith that Senator Clinton HAS.
Hillary would make the best President now with Barack Obama as the VP. Then, in 2016, I'd be pleased to support ardently Vice-President Obama for President; by then, he would have the experience, gravitas...and maturity...for the job.
But, not this year...not this year.
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@ Slackie
[Read the article: How will it all end?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I see your point(s) but don't concede them; I simply disagree with your conclusion(s).
At 60, Hillary has 14 years more of actual life-experience than Barack. That's 14 years of making the hard decisions, having to consider the consequences of one's actions, being able to read people better (Putin, Kim and the Chinese leadership come immediately to mind) as well as the concept of perspective based on simply having lived 14 years longer.
Hillary's career is replete with accomplishments: Children's Defense Fund, Watergate hearings, meeting with foreign leaders as First Lady, a US Senator in her second term...having been re-elected by a huge margin and the list goes on. I also like her positions on the issues such as Iraq, health insurance and global warming.
When I compared Senator Clinton with Senator Obama, I reached the conclusion that she is far better-prepared, far better-equipped and far more ready to be the next President than he.
You must admit that she has more quality life-experience than he; that total package is why I support her for President.
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The Bottom Line
[Read the article: How will it all end?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Reading all the letters above, I see a lot of passion for both candidates. I also see a lot of venom directed more at Hillary than Barack. Just an observation, but, Obama supporters might want to be a little less strident with their vicious vituperation of Hillary.
Should Barack manage to become the Democratic candidate, he will face not only the Republicans in the fall, he will be facing those Democratic voters who supported Hillary...a number that is about 50% as of now.
With that overt nastiness in mind, the way I feel right now, I won't vote for the Republican candidate, but, I'm not likely to vote for Obama either.
Bottom line: I, and many others, may just sit this one out; let's see Obama win withOUT the enthusiastic support of the Hillary voters.
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"He Who Ignores The Past...'
[Read the article: McCain apes Bush on Iraq, as Dems stand passively by]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ignoring the Rovian tactics that anyone who disagrees with Bush/The Republicans "hates America and is an enemy of true Americans" is rife with peril. John Kerry learned a cruel lesson about how "SwiftBoating" someone can win an election.
The majority of Americans...according to most polls...want us out of Iraq, think that war was a mistake in the first place and now place Bush at below 30% positive. That doesn't mean, however, that the full-force Republican slime machine won't be cranking this fall or will roll over.
From the Haliburtons, the Boeings, the Blackwaters and all the defense contractors to war-provisioners, those with a huge financial stake in the Iraq war will fight tooth and nail for that continuing gravy-train of funding. Be prepared for that.
A majority of Americans may be opposed to the Bush policy in Iraq, but, remember that the Republicans are well-funded by those listed above. "Putting the war back on top of the national agenda" may make us all feel righteous, but, when Mccain and the Right start waving those American flags and spouting jingoistic polemics, watch their drooling sycophants start the anti-American attacks against the Dems.
Worked for them in 2000 and 2004, didn't it?
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He Knew The Rules When He Announced
[Read the article: What's the Obama campaign's position on superdelegates?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Twenty year Democrat weighing in here:
For Barack Obama and his minions to weep, wail and gnash their collective molars about superdelegates is pathetic. They knew the rules going in. Matter of fact, those superdelegate rules have been part and parcel of the Democratic process since Barack was 12...which was last year, right?
Seriously: stop bitching, Barack; superdelegates can/will/should vote as they see fit. If you don't like the rules, change them at the next DNC conference. Just don't start whining about the process NOW...after you've been in it for awhile. After all...how many years have you been a Democrat? How many years have you known about superdelegates?
Of course, you can always make this a racial thing; that's worked well for you up to this point when you (a) don't get your way, (b) have to defend your record from scrutiny by Bill Clinton or, (c) see superdelegates not breaking your way.
I'm contemplating putting a sticker on my car, given to me by a friend, if you don't stop whining! It says: "Nobama. Noway".
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No Mystery Here
[Read the article: What the Huck?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Huckabee is the yin to McCain's yan; he completes the Republican Right's search for justification. Huckabee is the Right's "raison 'd'etre", as it were.
Huckabee may be many things; an idiot he isn't. He is a cool, calculating pol who knows that, just by hanging tough, he will be the Veep for McCain. McCain being somewhere near Methuselah in age, I'd bet he wouldn't attain a second term...should he be elected to a first one.
Huckabee is one of those politicians you can look straight in the eye. Let me rephrase: you can look him straight in the eye...you just don't know which eye or in what direction each eye is looking.