Letters to the Editor
sonofloud
Published Letters: 137
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he can't close the deal because the real democrats don't want him
[Read the article: Obama can't close the deal ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama does well with young people (notoriously unreliable voters) and the upper income level (republicans who cross over to sabotage the democratic primary).
True democrats (blue collar, elderly, and the middle/lower income voters) want Hillary.
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obama's achilles heel
[Read the article: What Pennsylvania tells us]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So 90% of african american voters choose Obama.
If 90% of white voters picked Hillary this primary would have been over long ago.
In the democratic primary african american voters make up 20.1% of all voters but in the presidential election they will make up less than half of that.
Obama's race card will fail in November.
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Will the Democrats survive Obama's ego?
[Read the article: Whose fault is the Clinton-Obama stalemate?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We all remember how the media destroyed Howard Dean's chances for the presidency by airing his motivational scream a few years back. It was truly misrepresented and repeated every few minutes until the damage was done. Dean thought enough of the party however to withdraw his nomination because he knew right or wrong it reflected badly on the party.
Obama on the other hand has no such qualms. He has managed to reinforce every negative stereotype of the Democrats (the anti americanism of rev. "god damn america" wright, his elitist comment about bitter gun toting rural people, the revolutionary activity of the weather underground, etc.).
We need a true uniter and that is Hillary. She has proven time and again she can work with Republicans at any level. Even her greatest critics have admitted that.
We have seen the damage George Bush's ego has created over the last 8 years with his go it alone attitude. The last thing we need is more of that.
If Obama cared at all about the Democratic party he would take the VP position, which is more than any freshman senator with no experience deserves.
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what's wrong is that obama is all style over substance
[Read the article: Krugman asks "what's gone wrong" with Obama campaign]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]some of us have been arguing this from the beginning.
sure obama looks and sounds good but we need a president who can fix problems. not just give us pretty words that make us feel all warm and fuzzy.
i'll say it again....obama would make a much better vice president then he would a president.
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wright and obama.......one in the same
[Read the article: Why Jeremiah Wright is so wrong]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I can't help but notice a striking similarity between Obama and Rev. "god damn america" Wright.....neither takes responsibility for their own words.
They are always "misunderstood" or the victims of racism or a biased media, etc. It's never the fact that alot of people don't agree with them.
For all of her faults, Hillary owns up to her words and deeds.
Obama and his good friend Rev. Wright blame anyone and anything else.
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AP Poll: Clinton leads McCain by 9 points
[Read the article: What should Obama do about Rev. Jeremiah Wright?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080428/ap_on_el_pr/presidential_race_ap_poll
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if obama had said this weeks ago
[Read the article: Obama "outraged" by Wright]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]when the whole rev. "god damn america" wright scandal began he might have stood a chance.
as it stands now it's a case of too little, too late.
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don't you mean obama's wright problem?
[Read the article: The Democrats' God problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We now know from Obama's answer at the last debate that he had seen Rev. Wright's remarks in Rolling Stone in Feburary of 2007 and deemed them to be enough of a problem to deep six the Reverend from speaking at his announcement. At the same time, Obama is now characterizing those remarks as "not of the sort that we saw that offended so many Americans." Go read the quote from the Rolling Stone article again. I doubt most Americans would agree, which only lends itself to the notion that Obama hasn't been fully forthcoming about what he knew about his pastor's incendiary language and when he knew it.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/realclearpolitics/the_anatomy_of_wrights_disinvi;_ylt=Al.N5uSVOPWzP38y90BOlIgDW7oF
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speaking as a gay man from rochester, michigan......
[Read the article: Does Madonna still matter?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]....madonna will ALWAYS matter.
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the age of obama/wright
[Read the article: Brian Williams' "response" to the military analyst story]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is the age of Obama/Wright.
No body ever does anything wrong. They are just misunderstood or victims of racism or a biased media.
Could you imagine if they actually took responsibility for what they say and do?
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the hypocracy of religion
[Read the article: The Democrats' God problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In Virginia, meanwhile, Baptist minister James Bevel, one of the leading pastors in the civil rights movement, was convicted of sexually molesting his own daughter over many years. The Rev. Bevel admitted to being a sex addict and to fathering 16 children by several women. According to the testimony at his trial, he justified having sexual relations with many women in the name of teaching them the "science of marriage."
And in Brooklyn, N.Y., Rabbi Yehuda Kolko, a Yeshiva teacher who was charged with sexually molesting young students and an adult former student, was allowed to plead guilty to the charge of child endangerment.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/abuseoffaith;_ylt=AvbEpC3L8knA7Z9oFRr6IBgDW7oF
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Obama's betrayal
[Read the article: Breaking the Democratic deadlock]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Reverend "god damn america" Wright made his usual creative and somewhat bizarre remarks on Monday which Obama finally denounced.
What puzzles me however is that they are the same remarks he has been making for the last 20 years. Obama has not had a problem with them in the last two decades why does he have a problem with them now?
The irony of course is the media promoting the idea that the reverend somehow betrayed Obama when the truth of the matter is that Obama is the one who betrayed the good reverend by trying to ignore the last 20 years.
Just like he's trying to ignore the voters of Michigan and Florida.
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SHOW ME THE MONEY
[Read the article: Former DNC head switches allegiance]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's simple, Obama has much more money and can afford to pay these people.
WASHINGTON — When Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill endorsed Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, she said she'd found a candidate who "gives us a reason to believe again."
Obama believed in her, too, donating $10,000 from his political action committee to McCaskill's 2006 campaign. She received nothing from the PAC of New York Sen. Hillary Clinton.
It's good news for Obama. Since 2005, his PAC has donated $710,900 to superdelegates, more than three times as much as Clinton's PAC has. Her PAC distributed $236,100 to superdelegates during the three-year period.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/244/story/31905.html