Letters to the Editor
Rocky57
Published Letters: 213 Editor's Choice: 4
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Bill Shaheen
[Read the article: Is Obama playing the race card?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"...Shaheen said Obama's candor on the subject would 'open the door' to further questions. 'It'll be, 'When was the last time? Did you ever give drugs to anyone? Did you sell them to anyone?''"
Washington Post, Dec. 12, 2007 http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2007/12/12/post_235.html
No one's saying that Governor Shaheen's husband is racist but by couching the issue of selling drugs as a possible campaign tactic, when Obama had been open about his youthful dalliance with narcotics use, he, along with BET's former head, Bob Johnson, New York's Charley Rangel and other Clinton surrogates opened a window on Clinton campaign anxiety in the face of a growing challenge by a young campaigner to which they'd previously condescended. Panic set in, which would be exacerbated by Hillary Clinton's loss in Iowa, a month later and, despite New Hampshire, led Bill Clinton, starting with S. Carolina, to haul out the vintage '92 campaign tactics he used to reassure White Americans that the Party he represented wasn't the Party of Carter, Mondale and Dukakis.
They were afraid, when faced with the biggest opportunity, in a generation, to grab political control in Washington, that by having an African American candidate heading the ticket they'd blow it. In short, to them, hope was a fairy tale and faith in the American people was a bad bet that would end badly for Democrats. Again, they panicked.
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aka smith
[Read the article: Is Obama playing the race card?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Well I can certainly understand that. Two were losers and one was hardly a great president (although a very nice man), but why would it benefit the Clinton campaign to race bait before the South Carolina primary when they knew full well about the huge black vote there?"
Because, he thought, as he did in '92, that he could sail the message above the heads of an African-American electorate he was confident had no other place to go, while, in this election, accomplishing the same feat in electoral microcosm--getting S.C. whites to go big time for Hillary while not overly hemorrhaging Hillary's black base.
It didn't work...and besides possibly fatally damaging Hillary's Presidential chances he damaged his own legacy in the process.
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aka Smith
[Read the article: Is Obama playing the race card?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"...Often I have had this very uneasy thought about him. Maybe part of him wants his wife to win the election and another part of him does not...."
Tell me about it: I call him the Al Pirro of the Ozarks [here in NYState, Al Pirro is famous for having submarined former Republican Westchester County DA Jeanine Pirro's--an attractive, warm capable woman of immense potential--chances for higher office, numerous times with repeated shenanigans].
As for Bill and Hillary, I wouldn't even begin to fathom the psychodynamics between those two.
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MoeGitz
[Read the article: Obama's got ground game]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"...This thing is like watching The Flintstone's trying race The Jetson's. It does'nt look good for Fred and Wilma :("
Haaw,...that was funny!
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Double Standard?
[Read the article: The McCain/Hagee story picks up steam]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"...This is why I am offended by any suggestion that I tolerate anti-Catholic bigotry -- and resent any attempt to create that impression. I hope that you, and all Catholics, will accept this assurance of my good faith.
Respectfully,
George W. Bush
February 25, 2000"
Worked for Bush; it'll work for McCain. Anyone care to wager whether Obama would have had success with that had he actually gone to a Mosque--much less received an endorsement he never sought--to, for example, extol the self-help message of a Louis Farrakhan?
Someone should put that question to Tim Russert and, then, Hillary Clinton (How long did it take her to finally reject Texas Clinton supporter Adelfa Callejo's remarks? Any calamitous reverberations to date over that delay, as a result?) and all the other pundits and politicians who've said that for Obama not to have all but rent his hairshirt, on air, over Farrakhan's political assessment would have been political self-immolation.
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More Mess
[Read the article: Interview with Bill Donohue: Catholic League denounces McCain]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"...This Helps McCain. Because the Donahue diatribe will just be played as another example of how the ‘extreme right’ of with Donahue is a card carrying member (so’s Hagee) doesn’t like McCain. So this will reinforce the media’s meme that McCain’s a ‘maverick’ and ‘independent’"
Nonsense...McCain thrashed the extreme evangelical right in the years between 2000 and 2006 and then came crawling back to them when he decided he was going to make a run for the gold in 2008. Donahue's more a rabid anti anti-catholic than he is a rabid rightist, in the eyes of a public. If McCain doesn't throw Hagee under the "Straight-Talk Express" and do it soon, the media will, in recognition of its own engrained double standards and resultant shame, start cocking the rifles.
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Agreed
[Read the article: What Howard Kurtz means by "media scrutiny"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"...Burying your head in the sand and pretending they don't exist isn't going to make them go away. And it's necessary to show just how blatant and extreme these 'journalists' are in order to discredit them. Polite euphemisms don't get the job done."
Bingo
I've always wondered at the type of personality that advocates a position and/or evinces a stand against a position--or the group or individual advocating it--it finds to be odious and then is too genteel to behold it, much less confront it. On the internet you can often spot this type readily declaiming against information arguably needed to do either, on the sole basis, seemingly, that it's unpleasant.