Letters to the Editor
MaddieP
Published Letters: 708 Editor's Choice: 9
-
GEB....One Final Time...from Florida
[Read the article: Politico: "Clinton has virtually no chance of winning"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Geezuscryst! Are you stupid?! I will say this again. Please put on your thinking cap.
I am from Florida. Our republican house and senate and governor decided to move up the primary. DNC stripped away the delegates and NOT to count votes here.
Obama is NOT opposed to a re-vote. He is (rightly) opposed to the votes being counted AS IS when it was AGREED BY EVERYONE that the votes wouldn't count.
Obviously a count AS IS favors Clinton significantly. A re-vote involving a campaign in the state has the potential to be harmful to her (at worst) and inconsequential to her (at best).
Let's get real. Be honest.
I would love to have a re-vote here. Ideally there would be a campaign as there was in ALL THE OTHER STATES where we Floridians can come out and listen and participate in the process.
Let's be honest: Clinton doesn't want a CAMPAIGN here. She wants to only count the votes already cast in the non-election. We understand why: if Obama campaigns here with his amazing ground strategy, the margins might not en dup being as advantageous to her as they are right now. She can't afford to take that chance.
And to be fair, Obama resists a primary in Michigan and favors a caucus because he's done well in caucuses and (again) why risk it? Why take the chance. (he's done well in primaries too).
They are both looking oyr for their own best interests. SO what? But to ignorantly say regurgitate some CRAP about 55-33 is disingenuous and just plain stupid.
The only way to do any re-vote fairly would be to allow campaigning and primaries in both states and let the chips fall where the might. I'd be open to that.
But that ain't gonna happen.
Here's food for thought: You want to talk about disenfranchisement? I'm an independent who would have gladly switched registrations to vote democratic this season IF I thought my vote would count. Counting the SO CALLED Florida primary results AS IS would NOT be an accurate reflection of the "will of the voters" in this state.
Cut it out already!
-
damnthatxandau
[Read the article: Politico: "Clinton has virtually no chance of winning"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]what is LOSE?
neither Clinton nor Obama have really LOST anywhere. With a few exceptions they've split delegates almost 50/50 in every state. He's not afraid he'd lose. I am not saying he would have gained more delegates than Clinton here but i can surely say it probably would have gone about the same as all the others - a pretty even split with neither one having a huge NET GAIN.
I'm from Florida. I would have appreciated the chance to switch parties and vote. My voice wasn't heard. I didn't switch because i didnt think it was going to count anyway. And my county id 20% independent. Not to mention the hundred of thousands of new democrats who would have registered IF Obama had campaigned here. And those already registerd who would have chosen him.
Yes it would have been closer than the 55-33 non-election results and Hillary knows it.
-
Hillary won't stop....
[Read the article: Clinton camp goes on offense against Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And maybe she shouldn't. MAYBE she's doing teh party a favor by toughening up old unvetted Barak...yeah...that's the ticket.
I say let her go on as long as she'd like. I'm sort of embarrassed for her- I would have expected more from a woman of her age and position.
At least it gives Obama and his team time to work up their defense arsenal against McCain - since basically that have to use it against whatever crap can be dug up about Obama anyway.
The other advantage is that if the Clinton campaign doesn't expose and exploit every possible weakness Obama has by the convention, pretty much...there ain't nothing else to 'uncover'.
Obama's baptism by fire hasn't killed him...its making him stronger. Wright will be an issue in the general but we've got what?....five months to prepare the counter-attack plan before the general starts.
We have the Clinton campaign to thank for the opportunity to prepare so well.
-
Thanks Ethics
[Read the article: Politico: "Clinton has virtually no chance of winning"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have written to the DNC more than a few times since this whole re-vote quandary came up. And have encouraged others to do so as well.
This won;t even happen again. I'm positive of it.
-
I was referring to the DNC thing...
[Read the article: Politico: "Clinton has virtually no chance of winning"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...and i am fairly confident that it won't.
Bryan,
I agree...thanks for putting it so eloquently. Only one thing tho: I recall democrats NOT wanting the primary moved up. It was like we were steamrolled when the legislature passed the bill allowing it.
Crist didn't care and neither did the legislature.
-
AND
[Read the article: Politico: "Clinton has virtually no chance of winning"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]so when it passed and the no-delegates thing was in effect, the DNC figured it wasn't THAT big deal because Hillary was teh nominee anyway.
This whole thing is a result of a confluence of very intriguing factors. Florida's governor and legislature is partly to blame, DNC is partly to blame and...well NONE of this would be an issue if Hillary had been coronated as everyone has expected.
-
NO such thing as a NATIONAL conversation about race...
[Read the article: Moving beyond Obama and race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I agree with and support Obama. But i also believe there really is no such thing as a national conversation about race.
There is no collective conversation.
I think Barak would agree with me atht the only way to effect change is piece by piece, ome to one, little by little.
So what do we do? How do we begin to move past this?
It starts with people talking to people. AND more importantly LISTENING to each other. In our small groups, in our everyday interactions, we have to approach carefully but we must agree to listen and share.
That means a moratorium on the overused words RACISM, SEXISM, et al... it means TRYING to understand another person's perspective and being strong enough to be wrong or to learn something (this goes for everyone not whites or blacks only).
It has to start there. Then understanding develops and we can, one-by-one- start to heal because we understand each other better.