Letters to the Editor
sajwan
Published Letters: 487 Editor's Choice: 13
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Goose and gander
[Read the article: Would Americans elect a woman president?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I am only saying that overt sexism is tolerated and that overt racism is not. -- AKA Smith
As a professional pollster, I'm not surprised by the results - people know they can't admit to racism, but they think sexism is more socially acceptable. -- cpaige
Socially acceptable or tolerated sexism helps Obama in the primaries. However if Obama makes it to the general election, racism gets to fully bloom. In the end, what's not good for the goose ends up being not good for the gander either.
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GOP knows how to play the game - they invented it
[Read the article: The GOP attack plan for Barack Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The GOP starts the general election at an advantage, America has never had anything other than a white man as a president. Never. I hold no fanasy as to how ready America is ready for a black man or a woman, based on current obvious racial and gender tensions within our society. For either Obama or Clinton, they are starting on an unlevel playing field.
Some of the punk posturing that the general election is a walk-over for Obama is ridiculous. The GOP wins presidential elections, thats what they do. Look at their record in recent presidential elections since Reagan. Look at the latest RCP national polls that now show McCain beating either Hillary or Obama.
But if according to the bravado, the GOP is really in a hopeless position, explain how a man, who was a mediocre governor, a failure in all of his business transactions (even with the advantage of his fathers powerful network), a drug addled alcoholic, a POW, and an intellectual fly-weight was elected not once but twice by a GOP machine, that could do things like negate the great economic prospertity of the Democratic Clinton administration and turn a decorated war hero into a coward.
If any candidate underestimates the GOP, they might as well put a shotgun in their mouth and pull the trigger. It's over.
Actually would not be suprised if Hitler came back from the grave, the GOP machine could probably get him elected.
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That's the things about Polls and Numbers...
[Read the article: Penn memo claims "shift to Hillary"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... the only ones that are valid are the ones that support your position or candidate.
One of the comments mentioned Obama talking about his grandmother. I don't know why. When Obama talks about his grandmother, he just digs a deeper hole for himself. If someone relates what he said about the grandmother incident in his speech to what he wrote in his book, it raises more questions about his judgment and character.
According to his speech, Obamas grandmother "once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street." According to his book, she expressed fear about waiting at a bus stop when confronted by an aggressive street person who demanded money. It was his grandpa that interpreted her fear being due to the man being black. A more reasonable interpretation is that any woman alone, challenged by a male street person for money, might be fearful. The point Obama was making is valid, some white people do fear black men just because they are black. How he ended up using grandma to prove that point is dispicable.
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Anyone notice Obama acknowledged Wright is a political liability?
[Read the article: Clinton's nondenial on Obama pastor]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Mrs. Clinton’s advisers said they had spent recent days making the case to wavering superdelegates that Mr. Obama’s association with Mr. Wright would doom their party in the general election."--NYT article
Since electability is one of the things super delegates weigh in their decision making, why wouldn't they make the case that Obamas association with Wright is a liability in the general election?
To me the issue is if Obamas past campaign practices "rise" to the "post-racial" occassion, Obama will vomit up the race card and twist this into Clinton making Obamas race, not Wrights political liability, an issue with super-delegates.
Truth has an increasing meagerness of friends.
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Scroll Filter
[Read the article: Clinton camp goes on offense against Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How soon are we going to be able block individual posters? I'd really like to be able to filter out the partisan cheerleaders who keep using the Letters area as a forum to snipe at each other.-- Yet another David
It seems to me an article about partisan sniping would by default fire up partisan sniping in the letters section. Furthermore any discussion of the presidential campaign by nature is partisan - people pick sides, then fight to the death defending their side. Not a very intelligent way to pick the best candidate for a job, but thats where we are - maybe 1 or 2 steps past how baboons pick their leaders.
An alternative way to filter out posters is to glance at the posters name and scroll past their posts.
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Enemy, Shmenemy
[Read the article: Journalists, McCain and the false Iran/al-Qaida link]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The reason this "mistake" is acceptable is that it supports McCains main message; he is the protector of the United States.
If the enemy is Al-Queda, Syria, Iran, Hamas, insurgents, foreign fighters, Shiite, Sunni, Saddhams ghost, or whatever, in the world McCain has created with the media, no one cares who the enemy is.
There is an enemy and McCain is fighting them. Case closed. Write it up.
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Was that nomination or abomination?
[Read the article: "Clinton will not be able to win the nomination"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This whole democratic primary has been suspect, starting with disenfranchising two entire states, ending with spreading the whole damn thing out so it goes on forever ad-nauseum, and in the middle having states tying to out-bizarro each other with hack election procedures.
You know there maybe a reason why we don't have the general election take 8 months and exclude two of the most important states by having a random national drawing.
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Couldn't think of a better Prize?
[Read the article: I've got a golden (Obama) ticket]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Now if the "prize" was dinner with Sean Penn, then it would be something.
Obama himself - not so much.
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Everybody knows...
[Read the article: Quote of the day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...in Dick Cheneys mind he thinks that without Dick Cheney we'd all be dead.
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-- saintzak paraphrased
[Read the article: Matthews rails against "Clinton-centric world" ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Whatever it is, it is the Clintons fault.
Funny. That also paraphrases the GOP for the last 15 years.