Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 556 Editor's Choice: 15
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Clinton's Options
[Read the article: Clinton's nondenial on Obama pastor]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hillary Rodham Clinton has very few options left. She clearly isn't going to outstrip Obama in states, the popular vote or delegates. The only option is to take whatever issue is at her disposal and to run with it in the hopes of driving votes her way and away from Obama. I wonder how effective it will be months down the road, but certainly in the short-run, it's a message with some heft behind it.
For me, I'm torn. As a big Obama supporter, I wish he didn't have this conflict. OTOH- Obama has shown himself to be a more considered and thoughtful politician than I've seen in many decades. His speech on race will outlast this brouhaha and even this presidential election. No matter how his presidential fortunes rise or fall, I will always be very proud of his courage in speaking to such a difficult issue in such an honest way.
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@xanthro
[Read the article: Clinton's nondenial on Obama pastor]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't agree with Wright on a number of issues but I find your interpretation of his statements incredibly simplistic.
Wright's fight is not with white people as a whole, it's to the power structure in this country. That is crystal clear. He's an activist, a black activist and race is the prism through which he, often legitimately, views events. Katrina is a good example. This is very much a reflection of his own experience as an older black man in America. Obama, IMO, spoke to this experience in his recent speech. Perhaps you just didn't understand this portion of his speech or perhaps you need to do a little reading about racial discrimination over the last 70 years. I have a feeling it would surprise you.
For myself, I think the bigger fight TODAY is to provide equal opportunity for the poor, working and middle class. I think economics restricts opportunity far more than race although there is a nexus between the two.
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Why is Obama Responsible...
[Read the article: Clinton camp goes on offense against Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]for FLA and MI delegates not being seated? Didn't their own state Dem parties make that choice last year? Didn't the DNC follow through with their plan to punish these states?
Please answer me: Why is Obama responsible for this debacle?
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Shame Cannot Work Today
[Read the article: Single mothers are ruining society!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The key is found in why so many poorer young women decide to have children when the men are already dtsancing themselves or absent. Partly, it's ignorance and irresponsibility around birth control. But there's another reality that the author misses. For many poor young women, motherhood is a mark of status in a society where there are perceived as having little or none.
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MB Testing In Education
[Read the article: Brigg it on]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have taken a MB assessment strictly for the purpose of understanding my own personality type. This is important in education because you beome more aware of the kinds of perspectives you may bring to a particular situation and the types of activities you may enjoy. The most important aspect though is to understand that others will have very different ways of perceiving and understanding and acting on events and that this is what you experience in classroom practice.
In short, I found the test interesting and helpful.
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Always Suspect
[Read the article: One of Instapundit's favorite blogs speaks on race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That's the reality for blacks, particularly black men, in America today and throughout history. Blacks are always being asked to account for themselves in some way in order to make themselves legit to suspicious, racist whites. They have to speak or dress a certain way. They have to be non-threatening or heaven-forbid "not too black."
The moron blogger with his N-word rant is just another example of a racist white person who DEMANDS that all black people conform to whatever standard he has decided that they must conform. If they don't, then they are the problem, they are the "bad blacks", the ni**ers.
The fact is that this guy is a moron who most likely knows almost no black people at all, and yet feels perfectly fine judging them from a safe and convenient distance. This is not a conversation or a discussion about race. It's an excuse to name-call and throw slurs. I hope the blogger enjoyed his brief time being "allowed" to call blacks what he always has wanted to call them.
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A Protracted Season
[Read the article: The Democrats' anti-momentum]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The real problem with the Democratic primary season is that it has far outlasted the Republican primary. This has allowed (even encouraged) some Republicans to decide to toss their votes into the Democratic quagmire with absolutely no impact whatsoever on their own Republican candidates. And yet no one in the DNC sees this as deeply problematic?
There's clear evidence that Texas and Ohio primaries were influenced by Republicans crossing over when there was virtually no impact on their own candidates. Now we are seeing it again in PA. If MI and FL are allowed to revote, this may occur. It would be fine if both political parties had an equal stake but they don't. The democratic party needs to take steps to ensure that this type of situation never occurs again. Perhaps it will require altering state by state election rules. I don't know what all it will take, but it needs to happen.
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Surprised?
[Read the article: "It is possible ... that she misspoke"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No. Hillary Rodham Clinton does have experience, just not the type to which she would like to lay claim. Frankly, none of the three candidates has anything like the type of executive experience needed to "be ready on day one." Let's face facts here. We have a protracted occupation, a truly lousy economy and serious challenges in the areas of healthcare, immigration and education. I don't think anyone will be able to waltz in and wave a magic wand over the nation and make everything alright.
However, the problem for HRC is that she clearly feels that she needs to make these kinds of false statements just to stay in the game. I don't believe that she does or has ever needed to but she does and so do her advisors. The steady drip-drip-drip of "I misspoke" will not help drive voters to her cause precisely because it reminds them of one of the key problems of the Clinton years: dishonesty.