Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 382 Editor's Choice: 4
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Media has hijacked the elections again
[Read the article: Update: Michelle Obama disagrees with me]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It is specious to blame the Clintons for injecting race into the campaign. Obama is the one who completely took the MLK / LBJ discourse out of context and spun the distorted version to his advantage. Playing the race card has helped him considerably in SC. So to blame Clinton is kind of laughable as the ever ready Hillary hating media is quick to have you know. Bill Moyers has done a very good analysis on how Obama and the media took a very intelligent and thoughtful discussion and twisted it to their advantage.
To characterize Obama as a victim is outrageous. I was never a Clinton supporter, but seeing and reading all the media has projected and written, I am now more than convinced that MSM has it in for the Clintons and will continue promoting the vacuous and lightweight candidacy of Barack Obama. The same Barack Obama who cries "race" but keeps African American leaders at arms length, so as not to tarnish his color blind candidacy. Obama is more closer to Condoleeza Rice and Colin Powell than to Martin Luther King, who he has exploited to his advantage as the media gave him that opportunity.
I am quite perturbed that the media does not report on the support of Mayor David Dinkins, Charles Rangle, and other Black leaders such as writer and poet Maya Angelou who are all campaigning heavily for Hillary Clinton. Why is that? Could that show that there are divisions in the black community as well over Barack Obama?
If Barack does not get as much of a bounce as he needs in SC which he will win, the reason is that the American people are more onto media dirty tricks and do not view Obama as a viable candidate for the White House.
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Clintons vs the media
[Read the article: My sanest conversation on TV, ever]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama complains that he is fighting 2 people to stay in the race - Hillary and Bill Clinton.
But Hillary Clinton is not only competing against Edwards and Obama, but the entire media that continues to thrust double standards down the throats of America.
In the end, this is a race between the media and the Clintons. The rest, both in the Democratic and republican fields, are only minor players.
We know who propped up the presidency, albeit the coronation on George W. Bush
The challenge for the voters is: will they allow the media to dictate who their next president will be?
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Who is better suited to beat McCain? Judge for yourselves - hot air Obama or Ready Hillary
[Read the article: In victory speech, Obama hits Clintons]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The presidential candidate who sang "Bomb bomb Iran" is already looking towards the war after the war in Iraq.
Sen. John McCain told a crowd of supporters on Sunday, "It's a tough war we're in. It's not going to be over right away. There's going to be other wars." Offering more of his increasingly bleak "straight talk," he repeated the claim: "I'm sorry to tell you, there's going to be other wars. We will never surrender but there will be other wars."
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Toni Morrison endorses Obama
[Read the article: Our first black president?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080128/ap_on_el_pr/obama_morrison;_ylt=An7r42ATaEgUeuBLVt6paWms0NUE
I am beginning to accept that many Americans are drawn to Obama on his rhetoric and vision, and the call for Americans to become part of the solution instead of part of the problem i.e. the stagnated politics as usual partisan gridlock in Washington.
The New Yorker has an excellent article on the differing styles of governance between Clinton and Obama. Worth the read.
Hillary Clinton has been badly damaged, more by the media than Bill Clinton. The media is relentless on the constant dogging of the Clintons. I am amazed at how much the media makes hay over every little thing that comes out of the mouths of the Clintons. John McCain made a remark last Saturday about "there will be more wars," that the media has chosen to not even report. This is the kind of selective reporting that has made MSM so irrelevant to discussions of important issues.
When people talk about Clinton fatigue, should we not blame the media? Even I am sick of it. But why blame the victims of this kind of harassment? Who started the Lewinsky scandal? Who insinuated Whitewater? Vince Foster, etc. If journalism is so objective, why is there not a steady drumbeat of Abu Gharib, about waterboarding, about torture, about WMDs, about 9/11, about Bush's evasion of Vietnam and I can go on and on. Why are the Clintons the only pols who are subjected to this kind of attention?
I am a Democrat and I will vote for whoever is selected as the Democratic candidate for President by the party and not by who the media is promoting.
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Ah YES Joan about Ted destroying the Democratic party for a Reagan win against Carter
[Read the article: Obama and the Kennedy legend]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thank you Joan for reminding us about Ted Kennedy's own infractions on the Jimmy Carter's re-election run to the White House. Carter was so dumbed down by the Iran hostage crisis, that he ran his entire re-election campaign from the Rose Garden. Ted Kennedy saw his opportunity to become President but was ultimately defeated by Carter. That was how Ronald Reagan was elected. A completely fractious Democratic party being routed by a preacher like Ronald Reagan who was manipulated very effectively by the neo-cons.
Let us also not forget that Orin Hatch, one of the most conservative Senators who was central to many anti-choice, anti-gay legisltion, was the best man at Ted Kennedy's second marriage. Now, I do believe that Ted Kennedy is one of our finest Democratic Senator ever, but his personal like was another thing altogether.
Politics makes for strange bed fellows
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Can the Washington outside be an agent for change
[Read the article: Obama and race in California]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This article has given me a lot of pause in regards to Hillary Clinton and her ways in Washington
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/30/6730/
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Good riddance to bad rubbish
[Read the article: "Because I love America ... I have to now stand aside"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The slapstick comedy of how a self proclaimed successful businessman made a very bad, losing investment in himself.
I am sure his sons are crying over their watered down trust fund bowl of soup.