Letters to the Editor
Rocky57
Published Letters: 213 Editor's Choice: 4
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Smurf
[Read the article: Was Hillary channeling George Wallace?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"I know some Latinos consider themselves white, but I don't know how many in Peurto Rico do...."
I can't tell you about Puerto Rico, the island, as a whole. I can tell you about areas of Puerto Rico, like Ponce, where there appears to be a recognition of the island's black influence and less of the preoccupation with colour gradation that has been evidenced in New World hispanic areas like Cuba, Brazil and the Dominican Republic.
In NYC, there has been a compatibility between blacks and Puerto Ricans that's similar to the affinity between Jews and Italians. This, in both cases, has pretty much resulted from both sets of groups sharing neighborhoods of the city as points of entry, in the immigrant experience [if you consider the Great, Northward Migration of black americans as a sort of immigration]. Neither pair of relationships are perfect--and there is, or has been, competition within each one-- but there IS a relationship. You don't see that, say, with NYC Dominicans and African-Americans and that may be the result of the complicated history of the island from whence the former group came and, specifically, what happened there between 1822-1844.
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Bryan S. to Joe Conason
[Read the article: Was Hillary channeling George Wallace?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"...Joe, what did you mean by that last sentence, exactly? Are you implying that the Obama campaign intentionally or inadvertently used sexist language during their campaign against the first legitimate female candidate for president? Or are you saying that the Obama campaign played the race card and unfairly painted the Clintons as bigots? Neither rings true for me, so I'd appreciate some clarification."
Better yet, ask Joe for some specifics.
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Don't be surprised...
[Read the article: Was Hillary channeling George Wallace?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"...As a resident of New York, I was dismayed when Hillary ran for the Senate in 2000, because it was clearly only about her wanting to be president eventually...."
She'll be challenged in the primary by an opportunistic opponent who'll sense that she'll be vulnerable with key demographics, in NYS. Don't be surprised if she's weakened by a surprisingly strong intra-party opposition....and loses in either the primary, or the general election.
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David Sugarman
[Read the article: Was Hillary channeling George Wallace?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"...if there IS harm (McCain becomes president), there WILL BE blame apportioned. and it will fall largely on the Clinton duo..."
This is clearly why it's insane to proceed as they have. They're not getting the nomination and if they think that Obama will be blamed for having lost, in November, they've got to let me have what they've been smoking. Just as Hillary was tone-deaf to what her war resolution vote meant to the anti-war core of her party, her clumsy race-baiting is equally clueless to how it will play with the cadre left and the movers and shakers of the Democratic party. Working class, ethic northern whites haven't been with the Party since Reagan, and their southern counterparts dating from the time Hill's fav, Barry Goldwater, ran in 1964, so it won't be as if they'll be able to rescue her, in 2012, from a backlash against the Clintons should Obama lose in November.
Any attempt to parallel an Obama loss to McGovern's '72 debacle won't work due to the incendiary nature of this campaign. A situation largely due to the Clintons. McGovern faced no such divisive, long-term opponent [the execrable George Wallace doesn't count, as he was gunned down early in that year's campaign].
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Bloomsbury
[Read the article: Was Hillary channeling George Wallace?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"...The Clintons already have their tragic legacy - one of America's best Presidents dragged through the mud by the rabid right and their media proxies....
The tragedy is that the Clintons have given even a sane person pause that there may have been a valid reason for the effort.
"...They threw Monica Lewinski AND the kitchen sink at him and he was still re-elected..."
Nonsense. Lewinski occurred deep in his second term, when an irresponsibly bored President decided to treat the Oval Office as his personal Arkansas playpen....and killed his 2nd-in-command's chance at higher office.
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@Kstone re bloombury
[Read the article: Was Hillary channeling George Wallace?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"...Right out the the rightwingnut and "Dowd" talking point books. The Daily Howler would have a field day with that one."
You deny it?
And, if so, what part? The chronology? Or the interpretation?
If it's the latter, that's fair game; if the former, I'm afraid you'll have to join Bloombury as factually challenged correspondents, as Clinton was indeed caught out well after the 1996 elections over an affair that had continued into his second term.
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kstone
[Read the article: Was Hillary channeling George Wallace?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"...Stop it. As you well know, your interpretation is questionable, at best"
What part of "the latter is fair game" don't you understand?
As for Hillary's future prospects and her reelection in 2006, I'm equally amazed that you've somehow misread, and thus botched, "in 2012."
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Joan...
[Read the article: Can Democrats learn to talk about race?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...it's not about Obama getting "90 pct of the black vote" or Clinton getting "60 pct of the white vote." It's about a candidate who panders utilising the question of race and then using it to justify an almost surely lost cause.
I'd expect that of post-reconstruction, pre-1964 Southern Democrats; not Hillary Clinton.
Obama's "bitter" comments didn't touch the third rail of race; Clinton's did. And he didn't intend it for wide distribution [as Clinton has done with her "hard-working white voter" comments]...and one can also add that to a long list of arguably racial double-speak on the part of her campaign that has undeniably contributed to Clinton's current predicament with black voters.