Letters to the Editor
Rambling Rose 22
Published Letters: 757 Editor's Choice: 6
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HYOCRITICAL OBAMA SUPPORTERS
[Read the article: Memo to Clinton and Obama: Stop spinning]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I see from many of the letters on this article that people are still either outraged or in defiance about Obama's Pastor's remarks.
I am really fed up with what I perceive as hypocritical behavior continuing to come from the Obama camp and his supporters. Obama doesn't want to talk about race in America. He wants to gloss over it, using code language to dance around it, and speak to it when it suits HIM, but not directly confront what he purports to be able to "cure" or "unite" or "overcome" and a host of other platitudes that the guy has dished out left and right since he got into this campaign.
Sorry, but you cannot have it both ways. John McCain has a big lump on the side of his face that reminds us he had cancer. He addresses it by talking about his health, opening up his health records, etc. I'm sure some voters wonder about whether he is up to the job physically. That's not considered being bigoted. That's considered "understandable."
We have micro-examined Hillary Clinton as a female to determine if as a female she "has what it takes" to be President, being a female and all.
So, why should we not speak of Obama's racial composition, the perspective that it has brought to this campaign this year, and the effects of the racial differences on the outcome of the campaign this year?
Yes, Obama's Pastor is fair game. And why do we get the feeling that trashing a white Hillary Clinton is probably not the first time this guy has trashed white people to make a point to his black audience?
Matters not how many minutes of talking he did for thirty years before this comment. He made the comment recently to stir up racial biases and point out racial differences between the two candidates. Only a few Americans would be shocked to learn that sometimes blacks speak badly of whites in this country too! Was he really saying that Obama could better identify with blacks than Hillary Clinton? Okay. That's hardly earth-shattering. That he had to trash Hillary Clinton to make the point for Obama is where this went wrong for the both of them.
Geraldine Ferrero was accurate when she said that if Obama had been a white male or a female, with his short resume, he never would've gotten as far as he had - and she is right! But the pundits and outragers conveniently left off the "...and female..." part.
Ever since South Carolina the Obama campaign has demanded a double standard: one for them and one for Hillary Clinton. They wear race on their sleeves as martrys but do not acknowledge the votes they get from predominantly black Democratic Mississippi is because he's a black guy! That is the hypocrisy of Obama, his wife, his supporters, and the white liberal wine rack elitists who have funded him.
Pastor Wright might be right: Hillary Clinton probably has never been called a n*****. We really cannot know that about Obama because he has not said so, has he? So are we to assume that he has been called that name? And was it another black person who called him that? Or a white person? Maybe we should ask him. But my guess is he will not want to talk about it.
No, Obama cannot talk about being black or race in America because the moment he does, he loses. He knows it. His strategists know it. And they are trying their best to run out the clock, hoping the rest of us won't notice either.
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HRC "GETS IT!"
[Read the article: The crash in Republican economics ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I suppose it takes about 25 years for many of you to get the picture: That supply-side is all about "My Side," and trickle down doesn't even trickle...down. It didn't then, and it hasn't since. Like the 80's built on cheap and easy credit,mergers and acquisitions and economic cannabalism, the last 8 years have been smoke and mirrors hiding greed. "Again?," you ask.
From Obama: "...restore the public's confidence in the market and help the millions of Americans who are worried about their jobs..."
And this statement is exactly WHY Obama does not have the depth this country needs right now as a President. Many have been saying, and few listening, the last few months, that our country has serious problems, complex problems.
It looks like Obama just simply thinks we need "confidence" again in the same freakin institutions that have brought down the house around us! WHAT IS THIS GUY DRINKING? He acts like it's our fault because we just don't "believe" hard enough. If we could, just golly gee whiz, just "believe," then it will all be okay. Well, YOU "believe," Bucko. I want solid ideas and solutions.
McCain is even worse as a next President. So hell bent on justifying a George W. Bush presidency and extending his legacy as a failure, McCain won't be any help either. He's doing to rely upon a bunch of lying, conniving Wall Street types to keep him informed as the country crashes and burns!
Hillary Clinton understands what government can do and be counted upon to use government in a way that makes since for both the little guy and the Wall Street institutions. She best understands how the New Deal educated an entire generation of Americans, built a strong America that was the envy of the world, and united a collective will to push the country into the new century.