Letters to the Editor
Citizen_X
Published Letters: 105 Editor's Choice: 10
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Hillary in the bunker
[Read the article: Hillary Clinton's petition ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Release our Florida and Michigan divisions! Tell them to attack at once!"
"Uh, Senator, we don't have any more Florida and Michigan divisions."
This move fairly stinks of desperation, just like Bill screaming at superdelegates in SF about Richardson. Cripes, guys, how about some campaign discipline? This is only going to lose her supporters in the upcoming primaries (the ones that take place in the real world).
All Obama has to do to counter this is hold up that campaign pledge (that Robert Lewis posted, on page 2 of comments), and say, "Senator Clinton signed this agreement last year. I signed it last year. Why won't she stand by her agreement?"
I'm all for a revote. Florida and Michigan won't do it? OK then, them's the breaks.
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What's with the creepy polo-shirt uniform?
[Read the article: The problem with comparing Obama to Tiger Woods]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Seriously, everyone there not wearing a suit is wearing the same pastel-yellow polo shirt.
So we've got a right-wing, pro-war organization of war veterans that shows up at their rallies wearing their own new uniform? Not much of a disturbing parallel for that now, is there?
So, fine. We've got our Tiger Woods. You can have your Stahlheim.
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Obama-bashing? Sure--but some uncomfortable truths in there, too
[Read the article: The rubes and the elites]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No, I, smack-dab in the middle of Lind's demographics for Obama's side, don't want to hear it. But Lind does a good job of explaining some of the political rifts, both in the Democrats, and in the country as a whole. It certainly is better supported than Sirota's "Gap theory."
Fellow Obama supporters--and never mind the haters (yeah, you, lolcait)--if you reject Lind's thesis, please tell me: how do you explain the class and racial divides we've seen in this primary campaign?
Don't do it with more smearing. It ain't helping. I never cottoned to the redneck-bashing, in this or any other campaign. (I'm of Southern background, for one, and I'm happy to live in Texas.)
Ironically, I think Obama's capable of attacking the problem successfully (one that ANY Democratic nominee would face--even Edwards). He's not a triangulator, instead he turns and faces attacks directly, he doesn't talk down to people, and he has a firm grasp of the lunch-bucket issues. But he has to push those issues. Clinton already is, to her credit. The economy's only going to get worse, and a MacCain Presidency will only turn a recession into a depression through cheap-labor Republican policies. And here's the big secret: white working-class economic issues are exactly the same as black or hispanic working-class economic issues. We need somebody who can bridge the gap, and I believe Obama can do it.
And besides: as others have pointed out, he's not exactly a white New England Yankee, anyway.
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@W.E.S: Going after the incumbent Pres from one's own party?
[Read the article: Did the "bitter" flap affect the race?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If Obama wins the general, he's promised a whole lot of hope and change. It doesn't happen and Hillary will come after him as the sitting President in the 2012 primaries.
Jeez, going after your own guy? Didn't Reagan try that, against Ford, and fail? I think any Republican that tried it today would be drawn and quartered by other Republicans (and good for them).
The only time a Dem tried it, to my knowledge, was Ted Kennedy going after Carter in 1980.
So how did that work out?
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Huh, rockstar? "Government incompetence?"
[Read the article: How not to prepare for peak oil]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You write that those inferior nations suffer declining production because
the nationalized oil companies...have not done a good job at maintaining their production capacity.
Then what explains US production, which peaked in 1970? US oil companies developed almost every technological advance in the oil industry (although Brazil's Petrobras and Norway's StatoilHydro have been very good at pushing deepwater drilling along), and our production's still been declining. This is despite huge price spikes in the late 70s-early 80s, and in this decade, that have made marginal fields economic.
We can quibble about how certain fields might have been managed more judiciously to yield more total production, but that's not going to change the fact that every oil-producing nation must eventually see their production decline. And then what?
Oh, and Norway? StatoilHydro--in which the government still holds controlling interest--has had production decline since 2001.
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"I will be Hamas' worst nightmare???"
[Read the article: McCain: "Clear who Hamas wants to be the next president"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Excuse me, but is McCain running for President of the US, or Israel? Are we having our foreign policy run by Israel (actually, the Likud Party)? Does he think we're going to actually militarily defeat Hamas, when Israel--you know, the guys who live next door--can't do it? Isn't he actually increasing Hamas' credibility by making them unbowed enemies of the big bad United States?
This isn't helping anybody. All parties in the region would be better off if we tried to back off the knee-jerk support of Israel, and gain a smidgen of objectivity.
Unfortunately, few among the American elites see it that way anymore, as seen by McCain's, and Clinton's, recent comments. It ain't gonna help our strategic position in the region any. As one poster mentioned above, they're playing chess, we're playing checkers.
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rupert_c's right: this horse was dead weeks ago
[Read the article: The return of the Rev. Wright]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But by all means, rethuglicans--yes, you, chlamydia45--keep on beating it for another six months.
Gosh, it's worked so well already! I mean, before Preachergate, they were saying Obama was down 20 points in PA, and was hoping, not necessarily to win, but to close the gap significantly. And then, once we learned how much he Hates America 'Cause He Didn't Punch His Preacher In the Nose, he...lost (by, well, significantly less than 20 points)!!!! So eat it, non-Haterz!!!
And keep fighting the good fight, Chlamydia45! A bloated, oxycontin-addled Rush thanks you!