Letters to the Editor
Rocky57
Published Letters: 219 Editor's Choice: 4
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Uberbah
[Read the article: She's in it to spin it]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"...You think Hillary supporters are mad? When Obama hasn't hit her back remotely as hard as she as hit him? How do you think Obama's supporters will feel if the party bosses take the nomination from the clear leader in the race and hand it to the clear runner up? They're going to be just as angry, only this time it will be a rational anger, as opposed to Clintonball. The longer Hillary prolongs this, the more she splits the party, the greater the chances are that McCain will walk away with this to continue Bush's failed policies and appointed justices that will overturn Roe v. Wade.
If Hillary and her supporters end up handing the election to McCain, I hope they start stocking up on wire coat hangers. Yes, that's crude, and yes, I went there. Because it's time that Hillary and her supporters really took a hard look at what they are risking here."
THIS is an excellent post
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Smith vs. Renee
[Read the article: She's in it to spin it]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"...We Clinton supporters should be treated respectfully if Obama wants us on his side. He doesn't have to do this. Over and over, some Obama supporters have acted amazed and outraged that he might have to win over the votes of people who now support Clinton, as if by some automatic process we should just give them to him...."
As a kibitzer to this conversation, I'd have to say that the Obama campaign has generally been respectful to its opponent and her followers. Admittedly, it's easier to do that when (1) your campaign is focused on a ["just words & hope"] positive campaign, to begin with instead of an old, "top down" message effort and, (2) later, you're ahead in the campaign process.
But, again, if Clinton's most disgruntled electorate, european-american women of a certain age demographic or those most likely to have gone through the gender wars of the late sixties, seventies and early eighties, want to get into a game of Texas Hold 'em with Obama's candidacy, in the Fall, over the trifle of who's camp is disrespecting whom's they can go ahead & risk having a McCain presidency. You don't need an Ellen Degeneris moment to reinforce what that will mean once McCain and the GOP have a shot at picking a Supreme Court justice, or two, or three.
I wouldn't exactly want to be holdin' those cards and expectin' that the other guy's gonna fold.
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@ Jebldmm
[Read the article: How much will white racism hurt Obama?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"...It is a fact that Obama has made blatantly racial appeals...."
"Blatently??" Name one.
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...and that should be "blatantly", of course...
[Read the article: How much will white racism hurt Obama?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...but the import of the question remains the same, Jeb
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ShackindaWoods
[Read the article: How much will white racism hurt Obama?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"It should be common knowledge now that the reactionary right is encouraging its minions to infiltrate liberal blogs and plant seeds of racism and hatred...."
Yep, that's fairly obvious. Since, they have nothing to offer their best play is to attempt to sow chaos.
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Uncle Fester
[Read the article: How much will white racism hurt Obama?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"...Lastly, Hillary has a gaffe problem, no more and no less. But we always seem to want to make it either more or less, and we never discuss the gaffe tendency on its own merits."
Look, gaffe prone politicians are lousy politicians. If she meant what she said, about a topic she's gone to the well with in the past, can you rightfully say its a gaffe? And, if it isn't, what is it?
At some point, ya gotta make the call.
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@AKA Smith
[Read the article: How much will white racism hurt Obama?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"...I would rather have a candidate who has problems with gaffes than one who has problems with judgment...."
Having "problems with gaffes" is having "problems with judgement."
And, the biggest "gaffe" of all? Having voted for a war resolution act after not having read the document that [allegedly] formed the basis for it.
That is the reason for her current predicament in a war-weary Democratic Primary. Not a "Magic Negro," not "brain-washed multitudes" nor a "gender-biased press."
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AKA Smith
[Read the article: How much will white racism hurt Obama?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"...Many senators voted for the war along with Hillary. Do you condemn them as well?..."
They've owned up to their mistakes, Smith [there were twenty or so courageous Dem Senators who didn't swallow the Kool-ade, by the way]. And, only one continues to run for president without having apologised for one of the most wrong-headed votes on one of the most important issues facing our Republic in the last half century or so.
Obama's musings after having ascended to the Senate are, unfortunately for Clinton, going to have less resonance than her vote and Obama's public stance against the War when 70 pct of the American public, including those in Illinois, were stupidly gung-ho for a conflict which made no sense.
And, here's one other thing: if Obama had been in the Senate when that vote came to pass, I'm sure he would have been conscientous enough to have at least read the NIE report before he voted.
I keep hearing how Hillary, as a woman, would bring a unique perspective to the Office [as opposed to Obama's not stessing his ethnicity] but all I see with her is more of the same "Big Balls" politics I've seen from a number of less than satisfactory male oval office holders....along with the same stupifying arrogance and equally mind-blowing ineptitude.
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Ed Dantes
[Read the article: How much will white racism hurt Obama?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"...If they could peel away enough White votes from Obama by 'Blackening' him up and making him scary, then you better believe that strategy would work. Why do you think Republican candidates don't even bother courting Blacks in the general election..."
Exactly. That was Penn's and Clinton's strategy but the Obama campaign would have none of it. That's when I realised the Obama people were whip smart enough to survive the usual GOP knife-fight.
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RobbySh
[Read the article: How much will white racism hurt Obama?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"...Blacks feel a deep resentment for Jews that is not unlike the resentment that Polish and Ukrainians felt toward Jews in "the old country.'"
If you've ever read Jan Gross's "Fear" you would not make that statement. The one notable outburst, from blacks in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, magnified by 100 would not equal, say, Jedwabne or Kielce.
You would not have had blacks in Crown Heights joking about burning flesh from a Jewish neighborhood as akin to the smell of Bratwurst.