Letters to the Editor
ann0nymous
Published Letters: 20
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Electability
[Read the article: Who is the most "electable" Democrat?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Who knows really? Obama has not faced any national election before. Edwards, the last time around was a lightweight-did not bring any single extra vote and was outperformed by Cheney in the VP debate, and Hillary has high negatives.I think Democrats should look at what candidate we want rather than who can win. Last time around Kerry looked electable at this time of the year but could not close the deal an year later.
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Senator Edwards go home and take care of your wife
[Read the article: Edwards on Clinton: Not tough enough?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Frankly, it might have been a strategy on Saturday to side with Obama, but I think this episode shows that you are basically a male chauvinist pig. Both Clintons campaigned for you when you were running for the Senator position and then for the vice-presidentship- where has this pettiness come from?
You profess to be a crusader of the disadvantaged, but your true colors are showing. The only one you want to serve is your over-sized ego. We do not want you as our candidate, please go back. Between Obama, Clinton and Richardson we have able men and women to lead our
party and nation.
You should give up this disgraceful campaign and go back to take care of your wife. Let us see if you can take care of even one person other than your over-sized ego.
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Obama gets a -10 % bump
[Read the article: Kerry to endorse Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Kerry is not very popular with Democrats especially in the South. What is Obama thinking?
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How about foreign policy, Mr Kerry?
[Read the article: Edwards on Kerry: Don't stop thinking about tomorrow]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If I remember correctly, Kerry had criticized Edwards in 2004 saying that Edwards has no foreign policy experience because of limited time in Senate. I wonder what does he have to say about Obama now.
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Tonight, Romney will find his voice
[Read the article: If 80 percent of success is just showing up . . . ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think that will fit in perfectly with his copycat strategy
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Yupp that's testy
[Read the article: Is Obama getting "testy"?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And he has every right to be.
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Best of Luck!
[Read the article: A farewell note]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Tim, Best of luck. Your posts have in general been great (with the exception of the Democratic Presidential campaign where
in my opinion you crossed the fairness line).
Hopefully you will bring the same sharpness to Politico that you bought to the War Room?
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I think FL victory matters
[Read the article: Did Hillary Clinton really win in Florida?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]if not because of delegates, Hillary did get some 850,000 votes and Barack 570,000 votes. That in my opinion cannot be ignored. Too many votes to be ignored away by calling it
``beauty contest''.
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Vote for Hillary now and Obama in GE
[Read the article: Undecided '08: Should I vote for Clinton or Obama?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No, really. For all the curses that are thrown at her; she remains in my opinion one of the smartest, courageous and dare I say visionary women politicians that we are likely to see in a long time. People nowadays laugh at the failure of her healthcare proposal; but I really doubt if we would have been discussing this nowadays were it not for that courageous attempt in 1990's. Yes, people think that she did not make the right plan, but I think Republicans would have shot down any plan-it is afterall one of those things that will make Democrats the majority party for a long time. For that reason, I think we will also not get any universal healthcare plan.
Senator Obama is definitely promising, but frankly I have not seen enough to judge whether he has a real vision in his guts.
I do not agree that ``change'' is a vision-who has not craved for change several times. But the fact remains that change was the battle cry behind Reagan, Clinton and Bush 43 election campaigns. Unfortunately, Senator Obama's change comes with even less intellectual meet (as far as I could discern) than any of those campaigns. Considering that one of this was Bush 43, that is quite an achievement.
There is another reason why, in your predicament, you should vote for Hillary. I am sure that even if Senator Obama does not become President Obama; a few years down the line he will be back- a bit more defined, a bit more ready and a bit more seasoned. I do not see any woman becoming a candidate anytime soon; especially after seeing the blatant sexism on television/media going virtually unchallenged. At least if you vote for Hillary now and Barack in General Election, you could tell your (future) daughter that you did pull lever but that there was just not enough oil to take the candidate beyond the goal post. At least this will give her ``hope.''
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False story
[Read the article: Clinton "cries" again]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Look at it yourself
http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/02/clinton_crys_in_connecticut.html
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Actually Obama's ``present'' votes tell a deeper story
[Read the article: "Present" tension ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And that is his unwillingness to take a stand on thorny issues. Be it the Iran vote, or taking a picture with G. Newsom; he comes out to be a senator whose heart may be in the right (as his words) but clearly his actions are contrary to his beliefs.
In other words, his actions do not justify the liberal ``swooning'' that is going on around him. And I really count myself as liberal.
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Best quote of the day
[Read the article: Quote of the day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]``Mainstream feminists''.
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The problem was not the content but the podium
[Read the article: Rev. Jeremiah Wright isn't the problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Although you do point out correctly that some of his comments had some roots in reality and continuing racial divide, I just cannot shake off that he was using a religious podium to deliver that sermon. That medium carries a ``sanction from God'' and just as we liberals/progressives do not like Church leaders telling people to vote for Republicans, we should in honesty also detest any such ramblings from a liberal pastor. And there is also the fact that he was clearly campaigning against Sen. Clinton in one of those sermons and I am sorry, but I dont want my tax dollars to go to people with explicit
political goals.
I can go on, but any discussion of whether Wright said the right words or not has to be judged through the lens of whether he said it at the right place or not. In my opinion, his choice of venue makes his message plain wrong no matter what his choice of words are.