Letters to the Editor
Rocky57
Published Letters: 220 Editor's Choice: 4
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@Susan McGee
[Read the article: Big weekend news]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"...When Clinton concedes, and Obama is the nominee, the right wing will turn around and use racism and ethnocentrism in every possible way against him. They've already started."
He'll be used to it. Why should the Right Wing be expected to change the tune after Hillary's so definitively written the score.
The vituperation Clinton supporters have steadily built up since New Hampshire and, later, Gerry Ferraro would be surprising to anyone who's kept their head in the sand for roughly half a century but, with something substantial on the line and an "outsider," in every sense of the word, contesting them for it, to an experienced observer of the social scene it's old [and expected] hat.
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New York to Another
[Read the article: Big weekend news]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"...You have not answered my question: Would you accept Barack Obama as a white man if he self-identified as white? The Candidate Formerly Known As Barry was raised in a white household with a grandmother who by his account was suspicious of black people. That does not sound "culturally black" if you ask me. But hey..."
He's got an interesting background, exotic even but that is not his drawing card. The reasons I and, I suspect, other Obama supporters are drawn to him is that he was (1) right about the one issue Clinton, as an alleged Progressive, blew: the vote on Iraq. (2) He Seems to recognise that the old "Storm the Ramparts" and fight to the last dog dies, whatever the cost [to our kids and grandkids] are over. (3) The way he's conducted his campaign both tactically, fiscally and in manner pretty much reinforces the sentiment he evinced and the impression we got when he jumped in the race and lets supporters believe that he'd be far more competent and different than the old-style Clinton.
Clinton's predicament reminds me of the 1992 Olympics where Magic Johnson and Charles Barkley were, somewhat grousily [if there is such a word] standing aside and viewing the foreign media swarm around a then young Michael Jordan. Larry Bird sidles up to the pair and, hearing part of the conversation, gives them a bit of commonsense advice that has since become iconic: it's [Jordan's] time, now; not ours. Just god bless 'em and move on.
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lolcat @ Jamiso
[Read the article: Sitting shiva with Hillary]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"...I opposed the Iraq war but Barack Dukakis would have voted for it if the polls showed it would hurt him not to. Just like Kerry, Edwards and Clinton. If you don't believe that you don't know your messiah.
He would also hesitate to engage in a necessary war if he thought the Move On lefty left would cost him the next election."
Lemme get this straight: Obama wouldn't hesitate to vote for an unnecessary war, if the polls showed not doing so would hurt him; yet, he'd hesitate to promulgate a necessary one if the Move on types would punish him for it?
Yikes...I think "Wellwater's" got it pretty much zeroed in--this particular salonista's probably a GOP troll.
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Parson Jim @ Joan
[Read the article: The other 18 million]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"...Hired a bungling consultant to 'manage her campaign', a consultant whose missteps have been delineated by the press time and again...."
An arrogant bumbling consultant, the type of which is familiar to anyone who heads the advertising dept of any large scale corporation/business; the kind who'll charge you an arm and a leg for their Delphic outpourings and laugh at your stupidity for paying while they're doing it.
Hillary became comfortable with those types because she'd become fat, bloated and arrogant after 16 years at the top of the heap--First Lady and, then, handed Nita Lowry's owed shot at a senate seat because she and Bill Clinton felt it was their virtual right to be positioned for a third Clinton term.
One more thing: does anyone else see this feminist victimisation in contrast to what would have happened had Obama whined race with every debate setback and bit of media snark? Had Obama played the [race] victim when Tim Russert asked him that ridiculous Harry Belafonte question? Or went mewling to his 'peeps,' the way Hilary did with her Wellesley and "Boy's Club" references when she bungled that Spitzer driver's license boondoggle of an idea, at the Philadephia debates?
(I saw Joan on Chris's Hardball, last night, and all I can say is that she's not seeing what the pros, both inside the Party [it takes 23 members of the House and 8 members of the Senate, at the prodding of her own advisors, to make her see what any seasoned politico would recognise was the right thing to do?] and in the media saw clearly: Hilary pissed all over a great moment in American History with a Bush like denial of a reality that had been racing down the track straight at her for the past few months. What she did was an abject lesson in gracelessness and disrespect for an opponent who's shown her too much of the opposite of both)
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Stevieboy
[Read the article: The other 18 million]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"...And, she lost her standing also because she enabled Bush to invade Iraq and never admitted that she'd done so or apologized for it. I'd bet the mortgage that had she opposed the war from the beginning she'd be the nominee today...."
Exactly. This can't be possibly be said too many times.
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MikeLP
[Read the article: The other 18 million]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"I didn't say it was a thundering or dominant victory so you can drop that strawman too, bub. I said the vote was close but there was no doubt as to who won. So far as the stats are concerned, the only one you could possibly contest is the popular vote, and the only way Hillary leads is if you include her 300,000+ votes in Michigan versus zero for Obama. Talk about your "dubious" stats."
Yep. You leave out that stacked deck in Michigan and Obama won the so-called "popular vote" by 15,000 tallies.
Whoops, there goes the one dubious hook Clinton hung her legitimacy to hoosegow Obama on.