Letters to the Editor
darknesse
Published Letters: 46 Editor's Choice: 1
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@ hlc3333
[Read the article: Why Clinton voters say they won't support Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So what about the hopes and dreams of millions of African Americans who never thought they would see the day when a black person could be elected president? I remember being proud of Whoopi Goldberg, Denzel Washington, and Halle Berry when they won Oscars, figuring that was as good as it gets. But it was not, and now I though maybe, just maybe, this black man could be president. Except that if it did not happen, and if part of that reason was race, I was still a democrat, and still willing to vote for Clinton, even while holding my nose. That is what all blacks are expected to do, is it not?
They don't give a shit. It's only a Historic campaign when the history being made somehow is related to you, if only by sharing some of the same organs, apparently.
I really don't ever remember progressive older white women (as a whole) even one single time being interested in anything other than their own issues, so I remain unsurprised by this.
You are right, the African Americans can be and often are mobilized for any issue in the progressive battle that needs them, like front line infantry.
Yet, the one time when African Americans ask people to return the favor, to back them unquestioningly for once, they are told that their candidate, despite being in elected office far longer than Hillary is somehow unqualified.
They are told that he is "dangerous" and that his followers are "Naive". They are slyly told that his race is an issue and are asked to turn a blind eye to the ramifications of sex, and the dealings of the other candidate's husband.
They are told that his positions, despite being almost in lock step with Hillary's, are inadequate and that they would rather vote for someone who is anathema to everything that Hillary stands for.
They tell you all of this, in HER NAME as if she would approve it. Yet, if the world shook and somehow in Denver Hillary came out the Nominee, these same people would expect African Americans to fall in line, with a minimum of fuss, because after all, they always do..
Yet, when the shoe is in fact on the other foot, the expectations now are suddenly unreasonable?
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Wow.. Time to learn:
[Read the article: Why Clinton voters say they won't support Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A man who states himself that he distanced himself from his white mother and the grandparents who raised him, to create an image he liked better, doesn't have a soul.
You must not be biracial. I can tell you as a biracial person, that it is a decision some of us have to come to in order to come to terms with our own identities. I for one had it easy because my Grandfather disowned my and my mother for the sin of my birth not being of pure white stock.
Sometimes, we HAVE to create an image of ourselves because we don't see ourselves reflected in others in a way we like. It's just how it is.
My intelligence lets me know that those who bring up reproductive rights are blowing smoke because if Roe was going to be overturned, it would have been done already. No matter what John McCain's views, that is not a big scary thing for anyone to worry about.
What? Your intelligence lets you know it would have been done if it could have been? Hey, guess what happens if we get 2 more Justices on the Supreme Court in the Image of Thomas and Alito? What does your Intelligence say happens when you have a supreme court packed with the right wing?
Clinton supporters who vote for John McCain will do so because he has a better background to be President than does Obama.
But Obama has a better background to be President than Hillary does, in that he has better judgment on Iraq, and has been in elected office for longer. What has Hillary DONE to earn your vote besides the accident of her birth and her marrage to Bill?
Nothing. Nothing at all...
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@Voteyourchoice
[Read the article: Why Clinton voters say they won't support Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Remember, the president can nominate but the congress can block it. Given that the congress is dominated by DEMS, it is hard to imagine that they would not block it. If they can’t then they will sink even lower than their current ‘lowest approval rating’.
When has that EVER happened? When have these Dems NOT CAPITULATED to Bush, even though he has the lowest approval ratings in the last century or so?
You are talking about the weakest president EVER pushing the Dems in Congress around and getting everything he wants. Do you think that McCain will somehow have less pull than Bush does now?
Writing you off as a Republican troll now...
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@lovebirds
[Read the article: Why Clinton voters say they won't support Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... they should have thought about what they were doing to this Party months ago. Obama doesn't represent me, and increasingly neither does the Democratic Party.
What did they do to the party precisely besides win?
Seriously, what did Obama do to the party besides win and win under the rules as agreed on?
Hillary is the one responsible for all of this bullshit going on now. If she had been willing to lose fairly and not CHANGE THE RULES (THAT HER PEOPLE SET UP TO SKEW THE SYSTEM ON HER BEHALF) IN THE MIDDLE OF THE GAME, this would have been over months ago, and you would have had your time to get over it.
Now just get over it. Obama is going to win, and there is nothing you can do about it. You may as well get on board and try to help steer the ship in the right direction..