Letters to the Editor
JMTaylor
Published Letters: 52 Editor's Choice: 4
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Step away from the podium... it's time to go home.
[Read the article: What does Hillary want?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sen. Hillary Clinton has thwarted any chance that she can win. She has been playing dirty throughout her campaign and it's been catching up to her. Even is she does "stay in the race" and Obama isn't interested in making any "deals" or compromises (which I don't think he is), her strategy is to further attack him without mercy. This is going to make her look even worse than she already does. It is clear that this woman is delusional and her family knows it. During her Indiana "victory" speech, just looking at Bill's flushed and somber face and Chelsea's, who was visibly crying while looking at her mother tells it all. Hillary's pointless run is an embarrassment to them. Hillary is driven, but she's headed off a cliff.
This will haunt the family for many years to come. For the Senate, her abilities and credibility will come into question. People already have their doubts about her and they are going to keep on growing. This isn't going to end well for her.
And what nerve she has to think that Obama would even consider making her his running mate. After all the shenanigans she's pulled, there in no way that's going to happen. If she shows up at the DNC, it will only get worse for her and her family. She has to stop while she has any hope of maintaining even a shred of dignity, if she has any left.
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Th-th-th-th-th-that's all, folks!
[Read the article: Clinton: "I am in this race"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]While I don't defend the volatile hostility between the two political camps or the venom that the opposing supporters throw at each other, this battle has turned into a cartoon saga. Hillary is playing Elmer Fudd and Obama is the waskilly wabbit, Bugs Bunny. She twies and twise to thwart him by setting a twap to capture him in a hole; he grabs the hole and slides it over to her so she falls in. She keeps setting herself up and Obama's response is to wait until she fails in her plan and makes a bigger idiot out of herself. She, and she alone, is attributed to destroying herself and her reputation, as well as those of her family. Obama cannot get credit for that.
It's as though Hillary's strategy is to make people (including voters, delegates and superdelegates) feel badly for her so she can get sympathy votes. That might have worked in her grassroots appearances, but not in the big leagues. Besides, people cannot respect, nor support, someone who wants to win by manipulation. If she's like this now, as a potential pwesidential nominee (ROTFLMAO), one can imagine what she would be like as pwesident.
She has already shown all of her cards (bombing of Iran, etc.) and now it's time for her to fold while she still has some chips left (especially the one on her shoulder).
(NOTE: To those who are afflicted with speech impediments, I meant to disrespect in using Elmer Fudd as a metaphor and am sorry if I caused any offense.)
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Clinton might win WV... but not enough to make a difference
[Read the article: Can Barack Obama win West Virginia?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think that people are going to find a change in latitude among the voters in the remaining states. Clinton is in very close proximity to Bush in brown nosing the voters and superdelegates to make people believe in what she says. But people aren't buying it anymore, which was made clear by her Indiana "win". Any chance of victory in this contest has dwindled to nothing. She thinks that she has a broad base of support, but I think that she's going to get a dose of reality once this primary is over. She has an advantage in the state, but I think that she's underestimating Obama's charm, sincerity, and mission to improve on the government that has failed us for 8+ years. After the betrayals of the Bush administration, the people are ready for someone who wants to make things better for the government and the people, who is looking out for them. They don't want someone who wants to launch another war, destroy the economy, and create an even more colossal deficit. We need this country to change and the only way that's going to happen is to have new and innovative political system of government and try to solve the problems that the old politics have created. Washington is broken and Obama wants to fix it.
Clinton remaining in this race, as pointless as it is, is only going to discredit her even more than it already has. She's even at risk in the Senate, which will not do well by her. Her whole political career is on the line.
She's going down, but not in a blaze of glory... it's far too late for that.
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Too sensitive on the campaign trail
[Read the article: Quote of the Day: Barack Obama ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is another Rev. Wright episode. The reaction of the reporter is a complete over reaction. "Sweetie" is used as a term of endearment, not as a misogynistic insult, which I'm sure is how Obama intended it. And she doesn't know why he brushed her off. He's a busy man who is running for president and trying to win this nomination.
Clinton is a rash on the democratic voting process who has been playing the race card as well as the gender card, spuriously manipulating the minds of the voters and the press. She's making her female supporters overly sensitive, which defies her "I am woman, hear me roar" thing that she's putting out there. She's giving women a bad name and they are falling for it - this will end up biting them on the ass. She's hinted at controversies where there are none. She has a voracious appetite for pathological lying. She's desperate and will say or do anything to ensure that she's the nominee. That's a ridiculous concept, as there is no viable way that will cause that to be true.
Once people stop paying attention to this attention-seeker, the quicker she will go away.
Hillary who?