Letters to the Editor
Rambling Rose 22
Published Letters: 757 Editor's Choice: 6
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OH YEAH?
[Read the article: Top Dems consider intervening in race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well, they best be careful about what they want. I'm not convinced that Obama can deliver the goods in November especially when he doesn't seem able to deliver the Democrats in the big state Primaries that he will certainly need in November.
Harry, Nancy, and Dean need to take another hard look at the situation. And so should the superdelegates. We need a nominee who is tough, a fighter, has proven skills - political and otherwise - and who can attract the voters we need to win. I don't think Obama's Field of Dreams strategy, "If we win, they will come," makes sense or is pragmatic.
Besides, Obama has spend an extraordinary amount of time and money diluting the votes and voices of the core base of frequently voting, Party regulars during the Primary process. By deliberately drawing in new, mostly younger, voters, especially in the Caucus states, his campaign contrived to circumvent the votes they knew he could not get. His continued contempt toward small town, rural Democrats were not "unfortunate gaffes," or "lost opportunities to close the deal." They revealed exactly where this guy's head is at: up his elitist ass.
And when he made fun of Hillary Clinton talking about her roots in Scranton, learning to shoot guns with her Grandfather, and doing a shot with the locals who asked her to do one, he once again snubbed the core group of Democratic voters we need come November.
There's a reason why a larger percentage of Democratic voters say they will not support Obama then those Obama supporters who say they will not support Clinton. And it has nothing to do with race. These voters don't relate to Obama anymore than he relates to him.
Yes, he's inspiring when he speaks. But why do I think that the majority of Americans would be more inspired by a better standard of living and real economic security than Barack Obama hiring Republicans to work in his White House. Yeah, as a Democrat that gets me pumped up!
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Sweet
[Read the article: Tangled up in Dylan]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]very sweet stuff...thank you.
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IF THESE CHILDREN
[Read the article: The "Hannah Montana" virginity debate]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]and their parents would just say, "no thanks, I don't think I care to parade around and be the stuff of middle-aged men's sex fantasies" then maybe we could get rid of some of the filth that has become America's Funniest Home Jailbait.
And because no one will mention it, what are these mothers thinking buying, literally and figuratively, into all this madness? We wonder why our children are kidnapped, raped, murdered, beaten, and brutalized by men who just love their child sex fantasies, and yet these mothers can't get them dress up like little whores fast enough!
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HEY NOTHING LIKE
[Read the article: Obama launches national registration drive]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]continuing the charade of "smoke and mirrors" that this campaign started with!
The new voter registration drive that Obama used effecively so far, especially in the Caucuses, helped him to dilute and circumvent Democratic Party regulars - you know, the ones whose support he could not get and even ended up blaming them for having a condition called "bitterness" as to why they won't support people unlike themselves, meaning "him.?"
When you got nothing else to say, I guess you organize voter registration drives - which by the way, the state parties and a host of other organizations usually do. And where they end up not being very useful is there is seldom money anyplace on the backend to actually get these new voters, who don't vote, to vote.