Letters to the Editor
Rocky57
Published Letters: 213 Editor's Choice: 4
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Kcm to Shawn
[Read the article: Who would the GOP rather face?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]kcm: "I was referring to white people, actually. Ivy Leaguers, in fact. So it'd be more akin to the Brooks Brothers Riot than Watts. But, easy for you to make that mistake -- you're one of the worst race-baiters around here. (And didn't you say you were taking a break? Please do.)..."
I noticed that, too...it's amazing-once you think we've gotten beyond the race thing, a poster'll remind us that a multi-racial man raised by his white mother and grandparents will still be considered black and, thus, fair game for the type of race-baiting that should have keeled over in the 70's. And, that everything associated with him fits into one particular stereotypical mold, as well [his core must be African-american!].
The Clintons aren't like that but they are offended at the prospect of a third Bush term being raised because they have no faith that their fellow Americans can vote for a multi-racial man with discernible black roots. That is behind Bill's "fairy tale" comments in S.C. and that is chiefly why older black politicians like Charley Rangel have aligned themselves with their old comrades-in-arms to such a degree that they've helped with going after obama with the kitchen sink. They, too, don't believe.
I believe Hillary looked at Obama, initially, as a charming, articulate oddity...the way some well-meaning liberals look at youthful black men who've somehow managed to flourish in unexpected places. And, she never took him seriously, perhaps thinking that he'd gerrymandered some catch-as-catch-can campaign jalopy of the type that Jesse Jackson had to make do with in '84 and '88 in order to promote a "symbolic" candidacy [Jackson was much more than that, by the way, and had, by the time of the latter campaign, accomplished more in the realm of foreign affairs than the Presidential novice, Bill Clinton, had just prior to his inaugural run]. By the time Hillary's campaign realised he was no joke, Obama had smoked her in Iowa. She panicked and the Clinton campaign began its condescending, panicked-fueled belittlement of Obama....which exacerbated their problems with the primary campaign and which, with a few revivals along the way--the latest being Ohio, continue to this day.
She still doesn't respect him as she should, as evidenced by her tripartite comparisons of the remaining candidates [And don't forget that red-phone ad, with its ostensible aim at highlighting Obama's alledged lack of experience, also works as a subtext directed at older, lower income whites' presumably less-than-salutatory reaction to the idea of a man of colour with his finger near the red button], and that will probably steel Obama to refuse a VP spot on the ticket should he relinquish his lead in the pop vote and delegate count. That, along with an expected vigourously resuscitated GOP, would seriously cripple Hillary's efforts in November.
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Kate Tex
[Read the article: Who would the GOP rather face?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"...Obama's stance(s) on the war seem patently political, calculated moves intended to advance his career with regard for ethics and lives lost coming in a poor second. He's gotten a lot of mileage from the Iraq business, but only because he's chosen to beat Hillary Clinton to death with it, with complicity on the part of the media, and the willingness of his supporters to do a certain amount of squinting."
Oh, so, in the middle of a patriotic fervor so great that Bush had a 90 pct approval rating and while we were fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan with the full backing of a nation, Barack Obama made a career move by opposing the administration backed proposal to invade Iraq--and ticking off the reasons for his stance?
Great googamooga...what'd he have? A crystal ball?
And Hillary? Signing off on a war that she was against before she was for it [in essence, her rationale for signing up on Bush's War Resolution] along with 76 other senators and a majority of Congressman?
Oh, yeah...that was a profile in courage.