Letters to the Editor
Mike LeP
Published Letters: 376 Editor's Choice: 6
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@ jebldmm
[Read the article: Barack Obama's epic win]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's going to take a miracle to get my vote, but there are some who will be convinced if he actually makes an effort to reach them. Praising Clinton last night was a good start, but it isn't enough to give token respect to an opponent you have been lying about for months.
The problem Jeb, is that you folks never actually come right out and state what it is Obama needs to do to win you back into the fold. Which signals to me that you're not really interested in a show of respect. What you want is to make Obama and his supporters jump through flaming hoops - no thanks.
The Hillary supporters who are truly drawn to her policies and platform will make a pragmatic decision to support the candidate whose policies are closest to hers. There is no question that's Obama. The Clinton supporters who feel so burned by losing a tough-but-fair campaign that they can't concede defeat and try to blackmail the party are already gone. Attempts to woo them are as pointless as their idle threats.
And I thought Obama supporters were "cultists" ...
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Again, Jeb ...
[Read the article: Barack Obama's epic win]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you honestly believe the Obama campaign played the race card to slander Clinton and her supporters as racists and that Clinton and her surrogates are blameless so far as injecting race / gender divisions ... attempts to win you over are a waste of time.
Let's get real here: You don't want to be "won over." You want Obama and his supporters to soothe your smarting ego by kissing your ass.
I will recognize that Obama is a fair man, or at least a resonable man, when he acknowledges that Clinton got 50% of the vote and deserves a place on the ticket.
Great. So if Obama offers Clinton a place on the ticket, even if she declines this offer, you are going to vote for him. Do I have that right?
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Who cares?
[Read the article: Bush congratulates Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm a staunch supporter of Obama but I could not care less that the President didn't personally call him. The White House issued a perfunctory statement of congratulations and that's enough.
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Obama supporters unhinged?
[Read the article: Obama to Clinton: Want to meet?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's his glint eyed zealots who worry me. They sound frankly, unhinged.
Clinton refuses to concede defeat or congratulate Obama on winning the ticket and her diehard supporters stomp their feet and demand respect, with threats of defecting from the party if it fails to annoint their candidate.
This is "hinged"?
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Indigo
[Read the article: Barack Obama's epic win]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If being black (or at least not entirely white) were such a huge advantage, why is Barrack Obama the first non-white nominated for president?
The notion that he's an "affirmative action" candidate is clearly racist. You are in effect dismissing his talents and accomplishments on the basis of race.
This is even more preposterous coming from supporters of Hillary Clinton, who probably wouldn't have been in a position to run for presidnet at all were it not for her husband.
Only a Republican troll would be sheltered enough to actually claim that Obama's blackness helped him in this primary.
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@ jebldmm
[Read the article: Barack Obama's epic win]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have stated that it is highly unlikely that I will vote for Obama, but I have not been unreasonable in my assessments of what it will take to convince Clinton's voter's that they should vote for him.
I asked you a question:
What would it take for you to vote for Obama?
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Town Halls
[Read the article: McCain wants joint town halls, Obama receptive to idea]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]For purely political reasons, town halls aren't a good idea for Obama. Not because this format favors McCain. Because Obama will be in a position to outspend McCain by a country mile on advertising, and town hall type meetings give McCain free exposure.
On the merits, though, I like the idea of a less formal format and more audience to candidate interaction. So yes, good for democracy and I'm glad the Obama campaign is open to the idea.
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Sexist comments (for bern)
[Read the article: Barack Obama's epic win]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Just playing devil's advocate here, but I have heard the media use gender-coded language to describe the race. For example, a pundit saying that Hillary comes off like someone's nagging ex-wife. Or last night while talking about the possibility she'll be offered a spot on the ticket, Chris Matthews saying the Veep doesn't need to "love and honor, but has to obey the candidate." As if she'd be Obama's subservient wife or something.
Coverage of this race has been sexist as well as racist at times.
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KStone: Clinton can do whatever she wants but ...
[Read the article: Report: Clinton to drop out Friday]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... Obama will still be the party nominee. So yeah, she can willingly subvert his campaign but to what end? It won't just hurt Obama's candidacy, it'll also hurt the Democratic party and her own political career, as well as forever tarnishing her reputation and her husband's. She doesn't necessarily need to be Obama's #1 cheerleader but at this point, I'd settle for her just going away. Obama's been running even or ahead of McCain without even officially winning his party's nomination - I don't for a second believe he needs Hillary, or you.
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Well that's convenient, Karen
[Read the article: Report: Clinton to drop out Friday]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hillary Clinton lost entirely because she's a woman, and the media and general public just wouldn't have that. This is convenient, because it lets Clinton off the hook entirely for all of her missteps throughout the campaign: Running as an incumbent in a year when change trumps experience, totally ceding the black vote by alienating African Americans, failing to plan a post-Super Tuesday strategy, only finding her central populist themes after Obama had built a 100+ delegate lead, etc. Not to mention that frankly, she's not all that charismatic. And she ran in a year when the Democratic party had another historic and highly qualified candidate.
Sexism played a role in this campaign. So did racism. I'm not interested in playing the Oppression Olympics with you because there's just no objective way to separate valid criticism of Clinton or Obama from criticism based on race or gender. So why bother?