Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 382 Editor's Choice: 4
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Media is doing a great hit job on Hillary for Obama
[Read the article: There's no taking sides]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]For the most part, practically entirely, the media has given Obama a free ride and ganged up against Hillary Clinton and her husband, Bill Clinton. It does not take a rocket scientist to figure out the corrosive attacks on the Clintons 24x7 by injecting race which Obama has successfully fanned to his advantage.
When Obama asserts that his supporters will not vote for Hillary in the general elections, that is not even a point of discussion for many of the gas bags on TV or in the press. Obama is using a veiled code to his supporters. He will run as an independent should he lose in the primaries, which he most likely will. So much for his messianic blow on unity and healing. Balderdash. If he cannot unite the Deomcratic party behind him, heck, he will take his ball and go home and take his players with him. Who is divisive here?
I am supporting Edwards and I will vote for whoever the Democratic nominee will be. It pains me to see how divisive Obama is. His inexperience, he wears unabashedly on his sleeve, as he spews visionary platitudes about change. He is enormously thin skinned. He can dish it out, but can't take it. And the media is always too happy to come to his rescue. Not to talk about the likes of John Kerry and Tom Daschle who do not want to see Hillary win.
Also, let us see him take on the white evangelical church on homophobia. I would like to see him berate white christians on issues of Choice and Homophobia as he did in the Black church last weekend, a safe place for his pedagogy. There is a report on Obama on Pat Robertson's 700 Club, but that is only a clip and Obama is not discussing the despicable attitude of the church for gays and lesbians.
It is alright for spouses of Edwards and Obama to campaign, but not Clinton? Why the double standard? Bill has every right to criticize Obama on his record. If Obama is such a strong candidate, surely, he can field the criticism with his own brand of truth. But I am tired of the media taking sides, almost always with Obama.
Edwards is also running, people. Where is the coverage on him? Where is media objectivity?
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LA White Church and Obama?
[Read the article: Will whites vote for Barack Obama? ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I will have to take your word for it, although I have found no such evidence of this in the press or anywhere on Google.
The NYTimes editorial board just endorsed Hillary Clinton.
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Hillary Clinton will be elected
[Read the article: There's no taking sides]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The NYTimes endorsed Hillary Clinton, over Edwards and Obama. Obama may just narrowly win SC but I am convinced that Hillary will now get the Democratic nomination. Watched a republican debate on TV after many many elections and I must say that Hillary will chew up any of these dolts and spit 'em out. The right wing is going to come after Hillary like never before and I just see the role of attack dog Bill Clinton as a warm up to what is going to unfold in the general election.
Together, they will take on the GOP and the media, and folks, I do now see Hillary as more of an agent of change than I ever saw anything in Obama that would warrant his claim to that goal. I think the Clintons this time around will not be as appeasing as the last time, with the GOP on issues of gays in the miltary, and other issues such as civil rights, health care, etc. They may want to set right what they allowed to be broken in their early years. The two-fer-one will come to pass and I believe that this will be the Clintons' best revenge on the nasty GOP impeachment tactics and the right wing conspiracy against them.
Many will grunt and moan about the Lewinsky saga, but people, in the last few years, all these very moral right wingers have been exposed of their hypocrisy and the Clintons are ready for the likes of Gingrich, Limbaugh, et al. I hope that this time around they would have the courage of their convictions and a back bone to stand up to republican filibusters.
I sincerely hope that Obama will rally to unite the Democratic party, because if he plays the spoiled brat, he will slither into complete obscurity after this election cycle.