Letters to the Editor
thezzyzx
Published Letters: 22 Editor's Choice: 2
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You conflated two Yankees rookies
[Read the article: Who jinxed Gavin Floyd?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Phillip Hughes is on the DL, the near no hitter was pitched by Ian Kennedy.
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I think people oversell the effect of email rumors
[Read the article: What's wrong with Obama's FightTheSmears.com]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sure, some people will be effected by hearing the rumors, but they were already the low information anti-Obama voters. Rumors only affect races around the edges; they're the sort of thing that could flip something like Florida in 2000, but not a more normal race.
My feeling about things like the Muslim rumor and even the Swiftboat ads is that they give pundits something to talk about to fill air time. You can't say, "I have no idea why this election went the way it did," so you find something shiny and assume that was to blame.
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But that's my point
[Read the article: What's wrong with Obama's FightTheSmears.com]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I could carry peer-reviewed journal articles with extensive research on Obama's past, reels of every piece of footage ever taken of Michelle Obama (indicating that she never gave a racist speech), and Obama's actual original birth certificate and it would never be enough for these people who are only looking for excuses that don't sound racist in order to give reasons why they will never, ever vote for a Black man. Ever!
The rumors are a smokescreen. Refute them. Don't refute them. It doesn't matter that much. The anti-Obama people weren't going to vote for him even without the rumor but the stuff they spread is all weak enough that it's not going to convince many people who weren't already in that camp.
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Re Marcparis
[Read the article: No October surprise by Rev. Wright]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I thought the same thing and got scared again. Wow, horrible post.
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Yeah because...
[Read the article: Obama bares teeth in Orlando]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...changing the nominee at the convention (especially when Obama is leading in the polls) is a great way to to lead the party to victory.
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They don't have to eliminate any SD's
[Read the article: Sayonara, superdelegates]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The problem is that the number of superdelegates is out of control. Even if someone has a 60/40 delegate lead, the superdelegates could still flip the election. There are two ways of fixing this. One is to get rid of some superdelegates but the other is to just increase the weight of regular delegates. Make their vote count as twice that of a superdelegate and the problem largely goes away.
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Great speech but she was still upstaged.
[Read the article: What'd you think of Michelle Obama's speech?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What people are going to remember about tonight was a young kid excited to see her father on a video screen. It was spontaneous and cute and went a long way towards destroying the only narrative that the Republicans had, that the Obamas were a scary, evil family out to destroy America. The middle 10% votes on likability. Well that was an incredibly likable moment for the Obamas and it's such great video that's it's liable to be shown over and over again.
I wasn't sure if there would be any sort of convention bounce for the Democrats this year but if this night is indeed the warmup, it might not only exist, but it could be huge.
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Is this a real ad?
[Read the article: New McCain ad: "Hillary's right"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Or is this another video press release that will only be seen because the media runs stories on his new ad? Make them buy the airtime first please.
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Well just as long as we're focusing on the important issues here
[Read the article: Greek columns? Really?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why bother discussing the differences between the parties or their plans for the future when we can worry about this?
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It's the Lincoln Memorial!
[Read the article: Greek columns? Really?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]People on Daily Kos figured it out. The "I Have a Dream" speech was delivered there 45 years ago tomorrow. Odds are that the acceptance speech is going to reference that.
Can we stop panicking now?