Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 778 Editor's Choice: 21
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Absurd
[Read the article: Give the "drunken pirate" teacher a break!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The school will lose the lawsuit. If this woman was not doing anything illegal or even immoral (drunken pirate?), then they have no cause to deny license. This is a very extreme reaction and it suggests that someone on the faculty must have some deeper problem with this young woman. Obviously, garnering high performance reviews undermines the argument that this young woman was a poor teacher. If by some means this woman was getting excellent evals but her performance was terrible, that suggests a problem at the university more than the student.
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Not Surprised
[Read the article: Deep Democratic dissatisfaction]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have a feeling that there are a hefty dose of Republicans voting for both Hillary and Obama. Of course they will vote for McCain in the fall. the real question is whether they actually intend to vote for a democrat in the fall should the person they voted for now become the nominee.
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The Margin Will Matter
[Read the article: Obama wins in North Carolina]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I personally hope it is in the double digits. That would offset the sting and delegates of losing IN. I am pretty much resigned to the fact that Clinton won IN. Hopefully, the networks will also spend some time dissecting the voters, particularly the Republican turnout in a Democratic primary.
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Republican Role
[Read the article: CBS calls Indiana for Clinton]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I just heard on MSNBC that there were 11% Republicans in the electorate with a larger share casting votes to Clinton than Obama. Interesting to see how this plays out. I personally don't look at people who will NOT vote Democrat in the fall as a sign of legitimacy, towards either candidate.
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A Strong Start
[Read the article: Obama gracious in N.C. victory]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama has now given all Democrats a reason to vote for him. He posited the fight as between the American people and the politics that separates people from opportunity, not Hillary Clinton and himself. I predict an uphill battle for Obama, given the nastiness of the primary season, but Obama made the first gesture towards reconciliation. A good move.
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@Shawn
[Read the article: CBS calls Indiana for Clinton]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Perhaps you are doing the "new math" that Hillary is using to count her delegates. The numbers coming out of both NC and IN prove that Obama is extremely competetive among an array of groups.
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Hillary's Speech
[Read the article: Obama gracious in N.C. victory]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Two things stand out to me: The first is that Hillary hit people up for money at least twice. The second was a plug for that ridiculous gas tax holiday.
The worst part was the beginning where Clinton brayed to the audience that tonight was a victory and "on to the White House!"
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Petty Arguments
[Read the article: The Brazile-Begala smackdown]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I thought both commentators were over the top and seemed easily offended. Jeffrey Toobin OTOH seemed sharp in his criticism of the media that drives the narrative that white, blue-collar voters are critical to a Democratic win.
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Wife Deserves Prison
[Read the article: Did "crying rape" lead to murder?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's very simple. Crying "rape", literally as you are undressed in a stranger's car, is too provocative to go unpunished. The husband reacted poorly but in a way that many would have done. It's unfair to try to rewind the clock and figure out what he thought as opposed to what she actively did. The wife cheated, lied in a vicious way about it, and someone was killed. The husband made a very credible case for defense and prosecutors, justifiably, made the real culprit pay.
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Obama Won the Nomination
[Read the article: "We lost this thing in February"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Perhaps now we can actually have a national discussion about the grave issues our country faces instead of the the bickering about "associations." I hope the MSM can let go of the narrative about Obama=Radical long enough to sift through some of McCain's positions for the public. I think they'd be interested in this allegedly centrist candidate and how very far his views veer from those of average voters.
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When Will it be Enough, Hillary?
[Read the article: Dems hold dueling conference calls]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When you've wrung every lost possible dime from your dwindling list of donors? When you've insulted every demographic of reliably democratic voters who fail to support you?
Unfortunately, I think Hillary won't be happy until she can (attempt to) undermine Obama thoroughly as a candidate. It won't matter that he has already won the nomination, what matters is that he is greatly damaged by the protracted campaign. That way she can revive her campaign in 2012 as savior of the Democratic Party.
If Hillary Clinton was a truly "stand-up" kind of person, she'd bow out. She can't win and the constant altering of reality to suit her needs does not really help her. OTOH, the media has proven remarkably compliant and gullible to these altered states of reality and might be counted on to continue the fiction a little longer. I really hope not.
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@kilroy
[Read the article: "We lost this thing in February"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You wrote:
"Maxed Out
Most Obama voter's have a maxed out credit card a car not paid for and if they have a house they owe more on it than it's worth. Their lives are such a wreck that anyone who says change to them they will blindly follow although the one saying change has no plan to change anything that will help them. This shows bad judgment and bad management which this country will get if Obama wins.I want to throw up just thinking about his racist chip on her shoulder wife being first lady.Now Obamalite's call me names and curse because I told you the truth."
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Don't you know that Hillary is the voice of the down-trodden masses? Obamatrons are the elitists...or didn't you get the memo? Tha's why we don't give a fig for a 20 cents/day gas tax holiday.
Also, I would stay away from accusations of mismanagement if I were you. Hillary Clinton's campaign is $10 million dollars in debt. Obama has a surplus of about $30 million. So, who managed what better? They both have generated more than $150 million dollars in funding, Obama has just spent it far more wisely.