Letters to the Editor
Rambling Rose 22
Published Letters: 698 Editor's Choice: 6
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THAT'S RIGHT!
[Read the article: Quarter of Clinton supporters would vote McCain over Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Some of us have found the entire Obama-Rama Carnival Show to be just too smug, arrogant, and their supporters nasty little creeps who started trashing HRC long before she started trashing him back! He's been all about "turning pages," "clean breaks," and other self-serving terms that don't bring people together, but actually break the party into two pieces: His piece and the rest of us who disagree with him. Damn! Sounds like a Republican to me!
I find the entire Obama-Rama Carnival Show, with its 5-legged calf freakiness, and disrespect for the "battles of the 60's" to be intellectually dishonest, hollow, and naive. Guess many of those battles, like affirmative action, choice, equal pay for equal work, the protection of our Constitutional Rights, etc. just don't count with this crowd. They are obviously too ignorant to know we've been fighting battles as the Party of progressive concepts forever - and will have to keep fighting these battles.
Sorry, but I'm not turning the country over to the warped judgment of a bunch of 20-somethings who are just now figuring out they can't keep charging $8.00 cups of Starbucks coffee and bagels on their VISAs for the rest of their lives - and a few meddling interlopers called independent voters.
Here's a battle you haven't yet fought, but are fighting now: Youth never was a class. Get over your navel-gazing nasty selves. As a Democrat, while I may not vote for McCain, I will not vote for Obama either.
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UP YOURS
[Read the article: Quote of the day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]'nuff said. It's our party and we'll carp if we want to. Butt out.
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CAUCUSES INSIGNIFICANT
[Read the article: Networks call Texas primary for Clinton]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Everyone knows that Caucuses are not necessarily reflective of the preference of the electorate - and the Texas 2-Step just proved it. HRC wins the popular vote and BO wins the Caucus. With a primary vote, people have up to 30 days to cast their ballot, and all day on Election Day. With a Caucus, it's one day, at one time and anyone who cannot make it, like shift workers, single moms, others with responsibilities elsewhere, are simply left out and not counted.
Obama can crow all wants to about winning caucuses. They mean little.
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WELL WHEN YOU GONNA START, HYPOCRITE?
[Read the article: Obama insists losses change nothing]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Near the end, Obama made a plea for a more high-minded, less negative campaign. "The world is paying attention to how we conduct ourselves," he said,...
Obama is the one who has been running a negative campaign from get-go - disrespecting the history of our Party and many of those who have been our leaders - with all his talk about "clean breaks, turning pages, breaking with the past, our time is now" and the rest of the code words for "hey, are we sick of these Clintons, or what?" His and his followers, mostly snot-nosed 20-somethings who can't wait to be in charge of something but don't want to do a damn thing to prepare themselves to be in charge of something! - have shown nothing but scorn and contemp for our Party.
BO supporters trash HRC on their blogs; and continually bring up the past for a bunch who are supposedly all about the future. And I haven't heard an original word out of Obama's mouth since he started his campaign. Even his book, The Audacity of Hope is a title he said he got from a church program!
The Obama-Rama Carnival Show is hypocritical. He can dish it out - BUT HE CANNOT TAKE IT. Moody, chip-on-the-shoulder Obama who likes to listen to himself huff and puff.
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MEMO TO DEAN
[Read the article: Dean says he's concerned about a prolonged race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]TO: Howard Dean
FROM: The Democratic Party Across America
RE: Prolonged Battle
1. You set up the "campaign in all 50 states" strategy, so the candidates are actually campaigning in many of them.
2. Roughtly 66% of Democrats want the Primary battle to continue. That means they don't want Obama who is actually a hundred or so delegates ahead, doesn't it?
3. Obama said that his campaign wasn't just about being the nominee, but his being the new head of the Party and that we were going to break with the old, turn the page, and a bunch of other crap lines to insinuate that he was going to create a new Democratic party and the rest of us could get lost.
4. 25% of HRC supporters will not support Obama in November. That's a problem for you - and him.
5. Obama likes to tout how he's bringing new, never-before-voted young people into the Party, and independent voters too. Well, bullcrap! Who wants to turn the country over to the judgment of a bunch of 20 year olds - and meddling interlopers? I don't. How irresponsible is THAT? Besides, isn't new voter registration a project of a non-profit organization?
So, if there's a candidate who is destroying the existing party in order to make himself a new one, I say, "No, you freakin' CAN'T!"
Get out of the way, Dean. If this is a battle for the heart and soul of the Party, then let us battle it out. No upstart, resume-lite, arrogant guy is going to dictate the terms of my Party to ME!
And the last time I checked, the choice of yet two more men this November is hardly earth-shattering - I don't care what color they are!
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CLINTON IS BEST LEADER
[Read the article: It's 3 a.m. Who do you want answering the phone?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]First: "If controversial within the Democratic Party for potentially arming McCain against Obama in a general election,..."
SAY WHAT? Why is it that everything she does to him is "potentially" damaging, but nohting he does to her is detrimental to HER general election?
Oh, like nobody on the Republican side can see that Obama is resume-lite on just about EVERY FREAKIN' THING?
Second: I trust Clinton's judgment to Obama's and McCain's. Why? I think the woman will look at every angle and consider all options and choose the most appropriate one. McCain just wants to fight somebody. And Obama will want to keep campaigning and preach them to death!
The choice of yet two more males sitting there this November trying to out-testosterone each other makes me want to puke!