Letters to the Editor
Timelagged
Published Letters: 244 Editor's Choice: 12
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@Clockwork Smurf: Still spinning even now
[Read the article: "We lost this thing in February"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]After Pennsylvania when the Obama charm failed to pull off another come from behind victory, there was cause for the superdelegates to consider Senator Clinton's arguments.
Obama "failed to pull off another come-from behind victory" is the most appallingly trasnparent Clinton spin. It was then and it is still.
Obama gained 12 percentage points leading up to the PA election. Clinton lost 12. The idea that this is all negated because he didn't rise 9 MORE points is the most absurd kind of arbitrary nonsense, which of course is exactly what the Clinton camp was pumping out and you echo here.
Those not buying Clinton spin knew that PA represented nothing positive for Clinton, no surprise, it changed nothing about her downward momentum and Obama's rise.
This is proven to have been true now.
The news media bought it hook line and sinker, because it sounded good and it fed their greed for a continued horse race. They're a shameless joke.
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Decoded
[Read the article: Can Democrats learn to talk about race?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Find something that someone else said so Hillary's appalling comment will just seem like part of a widespread trend.
I've used the word disingenous so many times to describe Salon that I think my keyboard is running out of those letters.
Well, at least the editor is not defending Clinton's comments outright. This, I think, is progress.
Racist/non-racist is a useless debate right now regarding Hillary Clinton. At this level of opportunism and ethical bankruptcy, there's no one core at all, she'll be either one if it might get her a vote.
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Un gar et une fille
[Read the article: If Austin Powers were French -- and funny]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"A guy and a girl", was one of my guilty pleasures on French TV about 8 years ago, this dumb little ten minute nightly sitcom that somehow grew on me, and this actor got his start there. I haven't seen this movie yet but I'm happy to hear such a good review, he was excellent in the TV thing along with his partner who was hilarious.
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Fair and balanced
[Read the article: McCain campaign baits Obama on Clinton slurs]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Right. Clinton needs to tone down her divisive, racially offensive, opportunistic attacks. And Barack Obama is just as much to blame! Not because he's made any such attacks at all, he hasn't, but there are people who actually support him who have! So she needs to improve her tone, but he needs to improve the tone of all those other people, many of whom he probably doesn't even know.
Let's make sure we find an absolute equivilance at every turn, to make Hillary Clinton's appalling rhetoric --which she spews even now, with not even the excuse that it will help her win, since she obviously won't-- let's make this seem excusable with a false equivilance as always.
Once again Obama is held to a completely different standard: Clinton is responsible for moderating her own words, whereas Obama is responsible for moderating the words of his preacher, his acquantiances, every supporter he has or ever had, and anyone who says they might vote for him.
It's only fair!
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Sont des mots qui ne vont pas très bien ensemble
[Read the article: Hillary enters death-with-dignity phase]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hillary Clinton entered this "death with dignity" phase, the one in which it's clear that she can't win, it's clear to her, it's even clear to Tim Russert for Pete's sake, saying that "hard-working Americans, white people" won't vote for Obama, just before a primary in a state where interviews show that lots of people still think he's a Muslim and hates America.
In the case of Hilllary Clinton, dignity is a train that left long ago.
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Good to see that Salon is still at it
[Read the article: Why don't those hillbillies like Obama?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Rest of the world: Who will be Obama's running mate?
Salon.com: Why is Obama not as good a choice as Hillary Clinton?
The weird Hillary worship has put Salon into a netherworld of bizarre articles redefining "missing the point" over and over.
As someone above wrote, maybe the problem is how the US deals with the fact that some sections of the populace vote for war-mongering neocons even against their own self-interests in virtually every other area, i.e. the ones that actually matter.
The good part is that Obama doesn't have to win every vote, just the ones not insane enough to vote for John McCain. The ones who are that insane deserve everything they get. I mean that's really the point, isn't it? Who else will you vote for if not Obama, now? It's like Salon is caught in some Hillary-centric time warp, asking questions that mean pretty much nothing now. We could have told you they meant nothing months ago also. Oh wait, we did.
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Excellent article
[Read the article: The Politico's John Harris admits now what he denied last year]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]the only point I would add is that Salon.com is one of the most representative of this kind of thing, which becomes clear every time I wade through it on my way to reading Glenn Greenwald and Tom Tomorrow every week.
The "all Jerimiah Wright, all the time" period was one of the most appalling, but certainly not the only one.
Anyway great take as usual, but I'd look a little closer to home. If sensationlism is the coin of realm, which it certainly is, Salon.com is one of the big spenders.