Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 3
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Another Recent Hillary Convert Here
[Read the article: The witch ain't dead, and Chris Matthews is a ding-dong]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have been firmly in the undecided camp, with some interest in Richardson for his experience and Edwards for his anti-corporate rhetoric. Like many other young feminists, I had no intention of voting for Hillary because she is a woman, even as the thinly-veiled, misogynistic circle-jerk became increasingly difficult to tolerate. I was forced to re-evaluate this stance as I witnessed the media reaction to Hillary's show of humanity.
The media response to Hillary's emotion prompted my realization that not only do women continue to face very real barriers, but that I owe Hillary and women like her a debt of gratitude for continuing to break those barriers down. More importantly, the media treatment of Hillary made it extremely evident that she has had to fight twice as hard as the other candidates for her successes, making those successes all the more impressive.
The saying about Ginger Rogers doing everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels, can't help but come to mind, and given the current state of our country, that's the kind of person I want in office the day George Bush leaves.
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Can Maureen Dowd Cry Her Way To A Pulitzer Prize?
[Read the article: The witch ain't dead, and Chris Matthews is a ding-dong]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://jonswift.blogspot.com/2008/01/crying-of-maureen-dowd.html
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All Politicians Are Calculating. Some Just Hide It Well.
[Read the article: The witch ain't dead, and Chris Matthews is a ding-dong]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Calculating
Political
Scripted
This is presidential politics, and as someone who has played this game, I assure you these words describe everyone in this race, though some are better at disguising it than others. Obama knows "hope" is not going to get him to the White House, and he and his advisers do not sit around blowing bubbles, eating cotton candy, and riding pink ponies while in private. They are attempting to calculate strategy and hone the campaign into a well-oiled machine.
The same adolescent, unfounded ad hominem attacks being levied at Hillary were thrown at Al Gore in 2000, often by the same people maligning Hillary today, and look where the prognosticators got us.
I have never met Hillary, but I am most certainly not going to take the highly suspect word of the likes of Matthews, Dowd, Huffington, Carlson, et al. Nor am I going to take the word of any candidate claiming to be some kind of "change" or "unity" candidate without a resume to back it up.
My primary concern is record, resume, experience, and other tangibles. I felt this way in 2000, and had hoped that maybe people had learned their damn lesson being how things developed. Apparently not everyone has.