Letters to the Editor
chhabili
Published Letters: 382 Editor's Choice: 4
-
@KateTex
[Read the article: Hillary at twilight]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You opine "Do you really think you'll get to heaven on the strength of "I voted for Obama in '08'? Best of luck with that."
KateTex, I really don't believe in heaven or hell. I am a confirmed, card carrying atheist and do not believe in any supernatural powers, whether earthly or other worldly, to "save" me as you are so driven to portray all Obama supporters, a convenient mantra of people under the spell of Hillary, spouting her favorite mantra
You characterize Obama as a product of nefarious Chicago underworld politics, unsubstantiated and uncorroborated, and yet you insist that Hillary is everything an a bag of chips in the face of her failures that she now characterizes as her dubious "experience." What happened to her universal healthcare? How far will her second attempt go, you think?
Even Marian Edelman who Hillary calls her friend, left the Clinton administration after criticizing their policy on children and welfare. Don't trust me. Just Google and find out for yourself. Why do you think that a huge number of former Clinton operatives are now working in the Obama campaign? They all cite their disillusionment with the Clintons when they woke up to their lack of integrity in their lust for power.
Fine that you are a Clinton voter. But do try and not damn Obama supporters as cult followers who will drink kool aid to go to heaven. Save me this line which trust me, you are parroting from a Clinton talking point.
-
@KateTex
[Read the article: Hillary at twilight]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]--One of my major problems with Obama's supporters is their near total refusal to take a closer, more objective look at him. If you still like the guy warts and all, fine, I have no problem with that. But conspiring to create a god where none exists is not fine; I have no desire to be at the mercy of someone else's myth.--
I assure you that I have vetted both Hillary and Barack. I doubt that anyone is conspiring to create a god. This is pure Clinton hyperbole and her supporters are as delusional as Clinton accuses Obama's supporters to be. In my over 40 years of voting I have never seen such a juggernaut of voter turnout that I have seen in this election cycle. Never have there been such early endorsements of a candidate from intellectuals, influentials, artists, writers, authorities in education, health and social services and the list goes on and on. Obama has gotten early endorsements from people like Toni Morrison, the Nobel winner in Literature, Alice Walker, Lani Guineer, Garrisson Keillor of Lake Woebegone, Robert Reich-the labor secretary in the Clinton administration, Ted Kennedy-the truest liberal Senator, even Ike Eisenhowers grand daughter who is a registered Republican, almost all of Hollywood, feminists such as Kate Michelman of NARAL, and so many many more, I am astounded.
Do you honestly believe that all of them have elevated Obama to an ephemeral god status? That is as specious as the claim that Hillary has any integrity. Her record and her shenanigans are all in the public domain. We accept Obama, warts and all. He is as human as the rest of us. But he does have the ability to bring out the vote and will defeat McCain in the general elections. Hillary does not have a donkey's chance in hell to confront McCain even as she is now against the war in Iraq that she voted for and make it happen.
You have created a myth around Hillary and while I do believe that the media has been tougher on her than on Obama and McCain, most Democrats are turned off by Clinton fatigue. People are tired of the Clintons working their dysfunctions out in the public arena.
You don't need to mock and ridicule Obama supporters like your candidate routinely does. We have not constructed a myth around Obama - that's the myth that Hillary hopes will win her Ohio and Texas.