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Published Letters: 76
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nepats
[Read the article: Thank you, Rush Limbaugh!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why are black women overwhelmingly supporting Obama?
-- nepats
Isn't it the oddest thing to be lectured ad nauseam by Joan (!) on the laughable notion that sexism is what ails her candidate's campaign, while she ignores systematically that big nugget right there? As a poster on Jack & Jill Politics said a while back, maybe Black women are quite tired of being a "charity project of the Democratic Party"?
Well, if Black women, Blacks in general, are no longer content to be a "charity project of the Democratic Party"; if Black folks feel they can do a better job managing the country than some of their predecessors - well that's more competition for a great many levers of powers, sure, but also everywhere else, including the media.
Has anyone noticed the increasing presence of very capable Black male and female pundits on Cable news lately? And the rise of Black blogs, socio-political books by Blacks, and Black radio this season??? Phew, it's like opening the window and letting some fresh air in, finally. Serious, engaged, passionate, rational discourse - keeping it real.
That's Joan's competition right there, pushing forth along with Barack's against Clinton. Lots of parallels in the resulting psychology (pathology?) displayed by the Clinton campaign, and for our entertainment, right here on Salon's pages.
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You're in no position
[Read the article: Obama and the white working class]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]to lecture Barack - or anyone else - on how to "deal with the [white or otherwise] working class", Joan. As a diary on DKos has it right now: Stick your elitism where the sun doesn't shine. Go check it out, you might learn something.
Barack did quite the smackdown on this one, he is not taking your kind of crap, he is saying the truth - what are YOU saying, besides trying your damnest to damage a fine Democratic candidate for President?
So far in this campaign, Salon readers have patiently attempted to school you, just like Barack has La Clinton. And just like her, you are proving unable to expand your mindset, or even engage in a tiny bit of self-examination. What does all this say about your professional skills and ethics? Have you got any? Does Salon anymore????
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What's actually apparent
[Read the article: Don't blame San Francisco for Obama's "Bittergate"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]is that the opinion of the punditry, including your incoherent "analysis" or whatever you call this latest serving of yours, matters less and less in the grand scheme of things.
Funny you don't cite the pack of polls that have just come out showing voters not being moved - at all - by this nonsense of a "story". Barack gets the credit for that, in my view. He knows how to fight hard, fast and smart. Your candidate keeps losing the battles she picks, or haven't you noticed? And don't you worry about Barack's base, we're not going anywhere.
The punditry, yourself included, needs to find another way to make a living. This particular "professional" path is fast losing credence and relevance.
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Tired old games, with useless rules
[Read the article: Obama, get ready for the "Clinton rules"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Conason, Walsh, and the rest of you all: Change your own way of doing business, or get out of the way.
We ain't playing those old games - not.this.time.
Get ready for the "Obama way". You know it's happening.
Don't be scared, Barack will make minced meat out of McCain, just like he reduced your once-inevitable candidate to the current display of acute and ugly desperation.
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long overtaken by events, Joan
[Read the article: Will Obama's debate stumble hurt him?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Do keep up, please. This is stale.
First off, you only wish Barack had stumbled. He didn't, dear, he held his own pretty damn good. A lesser person would have been goaded into reacting irrationally to the knife twists from "the press" and his supposed fellow Democrat, he didn't.
Barack remained classy, dignified and smart, as he was interrogated by lousy "journalists" trying mightily, along with your candidate, to attack his character by association. Filth upon filth made not a dent, zero.
He came out of that trap holding his head high, and went on to hammer his message home, after brushing the filth off of him. Americans are rallying around him (Philly last night?), recoiling at his opponent and the media.
No Joan, no stumble. Watch and learn. Barack emerged from that disgusting show of media corruption with his dignity intact, and - based on polls, Joan - even MORE respect from the American people. His candidacy is stronger for it.
Worry about how that sorry display of a debate, and the rest of her pathetic machinations affect how voters perceive YOUR candidate, Joan.
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It's fine
[Read the article: Attention, pundits. It ain't over]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It was exciting when the campaign came to Maryland, so I know how Pennsylvanians feel. It's great to see folks all over the country fired up, and yes, ready to go.
I'm not a party person, but if I were a Democrat, I'd be feeling good about the party building going on, at least on the Obama side. That's an investment in the future, should Obama win.
It's good for Barack, and his credibility with the public at large, to fight hard for this nomination, to demonstrate his skills, and frankly to be inoculated somewhat from some of the stuff that will come his way in the general.
There is fatigue among some of us for with the tedious gamesmanship around the primary, but it will have been worthwhile in the end. The Clintons are no small adversaries, so defeating them was never going to be a piece of cake, right?
Go Pennsylvania!