Letters to the Editor
Mike LeP
Published Letters: 399 Editor's Choice: 6
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@Jim
[Read the article: Clinton writes to Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well, first of all I'm not really a Democrat. I've been registered as an independent my entire adult life until recently, when I registered Dem specifically to vote for Obama in the Pennsylvania primary (nothing malicious about it since I intend to vote for him in the fall). So I'm not particularly wed to the Dem "brand" and if Hillary won the nomination, I very likely would've voted for a third party candidate in November.
Far as needing Hillary Clinton ... why? She's done far more damage than good to the Democratic party during this primary season. The best thing she could do for the Dems at this point is STFU and bow out with class, but her mammoth sense of Clintonian entitlement won't allow that. Good riddance to her and her husband.
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@Brenda
[Read the article: Clinton writes to Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Go vote for John McCain this fall or stay home - see if I care.
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Joe, you're too kind
[Read the article: Was Hillary channeling George Wallace?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't for a second believe that two politicians as experienced and calculating as the Clintons do or say anything by accident. Write one or two of these incidents off as foot-in-mouth syndrome, but over the course of the campaign there's been a repeated pattern by Clinton and her surrogates to suggest that Obama can't win because he's black. And in a year when everything is lined up for the Democrats, it's sad to see a candidate imply that her own party can't be trusted to support its nominee on the basis of race.
I don't think Hillary or her husband are racist. But they've proven themselves willing to exploit racist sentiment for political gain. In a way that's even worse - at least bigots have the courage of their misguided opinions. The Clintons just have a depthless narcissism and no inner guardrails to guide their increasingly desperate behavior. The party and the country will be better off when these two and their hillbilly psychodrama are no longer on the national scene. Good riddance.
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@Rose
[Read the article: Obama basically concedes two upcoming primaries]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]neither candidate will have the magic 2025 to win.
Obama has more than 1,800 delegates already. Assuming he splits the remaining 100 pledged delegates, he'll only need to win another 100 or so from the supers. The superdelegates may let this race drag on through the end of the primaries but they will end the race after 6/3. At that point, Obama will have beated Hillary in Oregon and Montana and it'll be clear she can't overtake him.
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More of the same racial double-standard from the usual suspects
[Read the article: Obama basically concedes two upcoming primaries]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama leads in states, delegates and the popular vote, but the Hillary campaign and the media continually challenge him to prove he can win over "white working class voters," a demographic that hasn't supported any Democrat in forty years. But nobody asks Hillary how she's going to win a general election when she's getting clobbered among African Americans, the party's most consistently reliable voting demographic. More of the same racial double-standard that's come to define coverage of this campaign...
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@ KStone and lolcait
[Read the article: Was Hillary channeling George Wallace?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The race is over and Hillary lost. Time to quit whining about the refs, pull up your big boy pants and deal with it. If you want to vote for McCain in the fall go right ahead. Nobody really cares, so all your threats, crying and feigned outrage is a waste of time.
Good riddance.
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@KStone
[Read the article: Was Hillary channeling George Wallace?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Petulent whining? I'm not the one crying about how Hillary has been unfairly maligned by the rabidly anti-Clinton media and then "threatening" to take my ball and go home, as if anybody really gives an F what a tool like you does with your vote.
Boo hoo. Need a tissue?
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@KStone
[Read the article: Was Hillary channeling George Wallace?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Every day it's the same thing with you:
The Clintons were never "race baiting." The repeated racial tone of their public comments was just a wild string of coincidences, skillfully amplified by the Obama campaign and distributed by the media. And all those black people? Well they're just a bunch of brainless zombies who support Obama solely because of race, and things like the MLK/LBJ comments and Ferraro's spittle-spraying tirade have nothing to do with it. And you support these arguments with nothing but your pigheaded insistence on repeating them ad nauseum.
Really, we get it.
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KStone
[Read the article: Was Hillary channeling George Wallace?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"In fact, I mentioned the Ferraro incident as an example of the Clinton camp giving the Obama camp ammunition."
This says nothing about Ferraro's comments, except that the Obama camp used them as "ammunition." Which of course plays into your belief that Obama is a race-baiter and blacks overwhelming support him only because he's black. Not that you've ever bothered to support these opinions with facts.
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Hillary for VP?
[Read the article: Kennedy dismisses idea of joint ticket]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hillary has no military experience, she lives in the northeast, has the highest negatives of any candidate, doesn't appeal to independents, and she'd rally Republicans to the polls like nobody else. Why would Obama even consider adding her to the ticket? The only people Obama can't carry himself that Hillary would bring to the polls are Republicans.
Terrible idea.
Jim Webb is your ideal VP, a moderate Dem from Virginia who has more and more relevant military experience even than John McCain. He would be terrific.