Letters to the Editor
Mickey Kovars
Published Letters: 99 Editor's Choice: 3
-
NY Post Just Wants Obama to Run Against!
[Read the article: New York Post endorses Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Let's face it: Obama's national security credentials are pretty slim, and his economic and health care proposals are similarly unimpressive. The right wingers just think they can tear Obama apart on national security, plus no doubt they will add a covert racial campaign. Of course the'd rather run against him than Hillary. They think he'd be easier to beat.
-
McCain Will Change His War Tune.
[Read the article: John McCain's endless war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The straight talker, who never talks straight, will amend his war talk when the need arrives, presumably after he has the nomination locked up. The real problem with McCain is that he's so inconsistent a flip flopper that it's impossible to know what he really thinks about anything. Conservatives' dismay is understandable. Everyone else should be dismayed as well.
-
Hillary Can Survive the Republican Attack Machine -- Maybe -- Obama Can't.
[Read the article: The GOP attack plan for Hillary Clinton]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There's a sentiment abroad that Obama has earned this nomination somehow and Hillary should withdraw out of party loyalty or some such. Obama has not won the nomination, nor should he. If the Dems want any chance to win in November, they have to nominate Hillary.
As for Republican attacks, they will be vicious as usual against either Hillary or Obama. The difference is the relative vulnerability to the attacks. There are many things that can be used agaist either one, and some of them may stick. But Obama's record with Pastor Wright exposes him to a devastating nuclear blow from the Republicans. It will defeat him in a general election contest. Hillary has baggage, for sure, but nothing even close to the Wright problem. She has a chance against McCain; he doesn't. If Obama supporters would wipe the stars from their eyes and recognize this, we'd all be better off.
-
Knee-Jerk Patriotism Is a Problem; Obama's Relationship With Pastor Wright Is a Real Problem
[Read the article: Rev. Jeremiah Wright isn't the problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Lots of people in our country are much too narrow-minded on issues of patriotism -- that's a given. I like to think I'm not one of those, but the Pastor Wright issue raises questions nevertheless -- questions that will be on the radar or under it for as long as Obama's candidacy lasts. A few examples:
1. What else is out there waiting for us? I find it hard to believe that over 20 years' affiliation with Wright and this church, there aren't other damaging disclosures coming; e.g., Obama was proven to be present at a "bad" sermon; proof that church activists were spreading the pastor's message (so to speak) in previous Obama campaigns; proof of financial funny business in those campaigns with the church's fingerprints; associations with other radicals either through the church or otherwise -- the list goes on.
2. If Obama becomes president, what will be the role of Wright (or Wright-thinking surrogates) in the White House? Chaplain to the president? Spiritual advisor to the president (following the example of some previous presidents)? Nothing at all? We don't know.
3. Most important, what does Obama himself really think? His speech artfully rejected the pastor's worst outbursts, but he he has stuck by the pastor as a man and also his congregation. Will a President Obama be giving us a diet of liberation theology, reparations, and the like? How much is he in tune with Wright's overall philosophy?
The problem for me is that the more I think about this, the more questions it raises. Some of them are really troubling. I honestly don't know what I'd be getting with an Obama presidency. And you can be sure that his enemies, who are legion (and resourceful) will be looking for dirt and asking these same questions and many more. I think it will be more than enough to defeat him in the general election. Democrats who don't see this are deluding themselves.
-
Michelle's Comments Are Part of the Problem and Won't Go Away
[Read the article: Michelle Obama on "ignorant" America]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obamiacs are fond of saying that their candidate has "weathered" the Pastor Wright - Michelle issues. I don't believe it, at least over the long term if Obama is nominated. Americans don't want to keep being reminded of our "diversity" and our differences, as if we were all on some college campus. It's a bunch of left-wing newspeak, and it has no place in our national discourse on race, economics, or anything else -- particularly coming from the associates of a candidate who is talking about our common problems and goals out of the other side of his mouth.
-
Obama Crossed the Line When He Decided to Run
[Read the article: Hillary's team crosses the line]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]With the baggage that Obama is carrying he never should have run in the first place. Pastorgate and Michellegate will pursue him to the end of his candidacy, whenever that is. He cannot have it both ways -- soaring, "unifying" rhetoric on the one hand, and angry and racially separatist associates on the other hand. The upshot is that we have no idea what he really thinks. He also showed an appalling lack of judgement if he thought the current flaps could be overcome once disclosed. Not much chance of that.
Obama may well get nominated, with the help of Dems like Kennedy, Kerry, Leahy, Dean, Pelosi, and the like, who represent the most liberal wing of the Dem party and who have never supported a successful candidate in the general election. With the assistance of useful idiots like Richardson, who just want us all to get along, the lefties will support anyone who can help them get rid of the Clintons once and for all. Party over country -- trash the candidate who can win -- Hillary -- so they can keep control of a useless rump of a Dem party. Not pretty, and we grunts will pay the price with 4 more years of Republicans in the White House.