Letters to the Editor
banyantree
Published Letters: 184 Editor's Choice: 3
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Biden...as secretary of state
[Read the article: The Dodd and Biden show]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]About half way into the very first debate of the democratic candidates, I turned to my husband and said "Biden isn't really running for president, he's running for secretary of state under the next democratic president."
I watched Biden the next Sunday on one of the morning political shows, and his perspectives confirmed my earlier thoughts. He surely believes he is running for president, but mostly he is running for secretary of state, and he will make a fine one.
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Shaheen is a professional campaigner.
[Read the article: Shaheen resigns from Clinton campaign]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]1. As others have stated, Shaheen is a professional campaigner. As one who has worked on campaigns of various sorts for many years, I find it impossible to believe that this was not planned. These folks are far, far too studied in their approach to every nuance to make a strategic error of this sort.
Sure, in the heat of a campaign, as election time draws near, lots of folks go a little bonkers - but not to the extent of making such poor judgment calls as this...
The point is - this appears to have a significant element of intentionality (and desperation, and deviousness) about it that make the subsequent apology and resignation appear contrived...
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2. I find it redemptive to have a candidate who actually admits to not being perfect, in a way that many Americans can relate to...
3. It is a bit ironic that this issue plays out on the day that baseball announces its steroid investigation results, a portion of which addresses teenage steroid use, I believe.
It is also quite good to have a Black male, even one who exists on a plane that in many ways transcends race, to discuss his issues without villification...So please do not start now..
4. Another irony, the very recent successful initiatives to lessen federal criminal penalities for certain drug offenses.
5. Finally, as a parent of a young, Black male, it is encouraging for me to hear an honest voice in the form of a person who talks about his life, as ...a young, Black male...
This is what all of America seeks...the role model moment...
Remember, Obama was being honest, and we can all learn from that...he did inhale, and admitted as much....
Probably the only time we'll talk about teenagers during the entire campaign...
America, are you listening?
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Many Black women see through this ...
[Read the article: Obama co-chairman: Clinton didn't cry for Katrina]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I hope.
I am appalled at the racial overtones of the Clinton campaign, in which the expectation is that Black folks owe her and Bill something. For what?
Bad schools?
I went to college and law school with Clinton-esque females who assumed that because I was a black, smart female at good schools they could tell me when and where to enter.
Wrong then. Wrong now.
There has been a lot of ink spilled on this topic, but suffice it to say that Michele and Barack Obama chose NOT to listen to Clinton tell them it wasn't their turn...
I mean, how racist is that?
In a discussion just a few days ago, a white male who knows I am politically active in democratic circles assumed I was voting for Hilary.
I am not alone, there are thousands and thousands of females just like me who are out there working our fingers to the bone, as much for Michele as for Barack. We know them.
That is what Hilary's tears were all about.
She is juvenile, and disconnected and spoiled, and doesn't understand why people don't like her, and feels that this country has given her so much, but that she put up with Bill's shenanigans , nd well...she deserves...more. After all, in her mind, she's earned it.
Bull.
She doesn't know hard work, and she doesn't understand that there is a slew of exquisitely hard working African-Amarican and white females out there, grinding it out on Wall Street, in law firms, in college classrooms, who have had to pay student loans, raise children (their own or a family member's), look good, speak well, cook, clean, and who have never had the luxury of stating they "found their true voice" after suffering a crushing defeat. They are the Ginger Rodgers of the real world, who get crushed by the Hilarys sucking all the air out of the room. For us, this is real. What she does is ....fluff...and we, and Barack, and Michele...we see through the ...fluff...
So, Hilary, I speak for all of my sisters who believe as I do, that you should shut-up, understand that yes, Barack and Michele (and many, many other black folks) are smarter than you, and ...move on.
You ...are no more deserving than anyone else.
That is the lesson of Iowa. New Hampshire was a great comeback, but now you are dependent upon the dependent black folks of South Carolina to get your brass ring.
This smacks of crazy, retrograde racism.
Oh, and back to the tears. Those tears? They were tears of frustration because you couldn't get your way, and you never saw it coming.
So what. Life sucks sometimes, even for you.
And, no, Benazir would not have cried, and you used the oldest trick in the book, which I , and every solid female in industry has seen used by certain women who couldn't get their way.
Sometimes it works. But that doesn't mean they aren't fake.