Letters to the Editor
dog-walker
Published Letters: 81
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Now I understand the complaints, Joan.
[Read the article: Hillary Clinton's big, brass ... fortitude]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I had thought the Obama supporters who'd been giving you such a hard time for your Clinton slant were off-base. But after your series of worrying posts re Rev. Wright, to turn to this?
Hillary Clinton is a woman of considerable accomplishment, and she's demonstrating true grit in her relentless (and at this point Quixotic) pursuit of the nomination. As I've written before here, at the beginning of this process, when her candidacy was an exploratory committee, I looked forward to voting (and cheering) for her. I didn't pay a lot of attention to the early part of the primaries, but planned to vote for her, And then one night on the radio, I heard Wolfeson (sp.?) on the radio, crossly arguing that the votes in Florida and Michigan should be counted. I felt a physical revulsion and great disappointment because in his attitude and "truthiness" I heard that same angry sense of wronged entitlement I've learned to loathe in the Rove era. From that moment, I began to pay closer attention. Finally, I gave up my excitement about a Clinton renaissance and came -- disappointment after disappointment in one campaign choice after another -- to fear that a Clinton presidency would perpetuate the anguish of Orwellean cognitive dissonance that has been the hallmark of the Bush era. I just can't stand it any more.
Now, HRC supporters will argue that it's Obama that's the big phony. Okay, if that's the way you really see it, then we just disagree. I can't imagine how you could identify in Obama or his campaign anything like the deliberate and often ugly truth twisting that has come out of Clinton's operation anymore -- honestly -- than I could understand how anyone could believe the Bush administration's argument for the war in Iraq. But, hey, maybe I'm wrong. If he does get the nomination, we'll certainly have plenty of chances to find out.
So, okay, Joan. To tweak the wacko Obama supporter's who've been flaming you post after post, maybe this post was a fun idea.
My complaint is that it's uninteresting. Once an editorialist becomes too predictable, once they become too nakedly partisan (without discernible EVIDENCE or REASON), they just get boring. What's interesting is an editorial slant informed by inquisitive, risible, intelligent exploration.
You could make an argument for splitting hairs on the Obama/Wright thing as a form of exhaustive examination.
But this?
I love your voluble commentors (on all sides)!
But I'm afraid you're losing me.
I'd love to see some convincing arguments to keep me paying attention. And I'll be following the thread with interest. But absent something convincing, I don't think it's likely I'll be returning to this discussion with much curiosity.
I'll be looking for all you crazies elsewhere.
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@KateTex
[Read the article: Hillary Clinton's big, brass ... fortitude]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Look. I know you love to burn up the Obamiacs, but this is unconvincing. How does saying that a woman has "big brass balls" make seem more human? And fortitude is not necessarily a virtue. Bush has plenty of it, right? Isn't it considered to be one of his defining characteristics? And hasn't that in particular been perhaps the one flaw that could be assigned the most agency in producing the tragedy of our current foreign policy?
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@lateagain
[Read the article: Hillary Clinton's big, brass ... fortitude]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Interesting argument. I see what you mean. But the problem I see is that her campaign's behavior has alienated the left. It's one thing to meet with your enemy. It's another to abandon your friend.
Plus, Obama was excellent in the Chris Wallace interview. (Clinton supporters, you have to admit that he does have a real knack for those sit down interviews. Without ascribing to him some satanic dissemblance, what's not to like?)
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Though, to be fair,
[Read the article: Hillary Clinton's big, brass ... fortitude]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]and honest (if not balanced -- I'll never claim balance), I do remember reading with a glad heart about how SENATOR Clinton had surprised everyone by getting along so well with the Republican colleagues who expected to hate her. She does seem to have the genuine ability to sit down and impress her opposition (so they report of their one on one meetings) with her knowledge and personality.
But... and this is such a big but that I really don't see how you get past it... what about that Iraq vote, the Iran vote and the credit card bankruptcy vote? (BTW: I don't know how Obama voted on the last.)
As I said, it's one thing to sit down with your enemy, but it's another to abandon your friend (and hard hit working class struggling to get by and thrown into crisis by an uncovered illness who had to over use their credit cards in order to survive and now have a MUCH harder row to hoe, thanks to -- isn't she SUCH a farmer? -- Hillary.) Okay, sarcasm is ugly. (Carol, you're excepted. And I apologize for that last bit. But the bankruptcy thing makes me really angry.) And it's ANOTHER THING ALTOGETHER to wake up with fleas because you've lain down with dogs.
Wait... that last swipe just broke my heart. Honestly, if fleas were the price I had to pay...
NO, THAT'S NOT SOMETHING KINKY!!! (KateTex, I can hear you revving up.)