Letters to the Editor
Rambling Rose 22
Published Letters: 757 Editor's Choice: 6
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YOU ALMOST GOT IT RIGHT...
[Read the article: Krugman asks "what's gone wrong" with Obama campaign]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Obama campaign strategy from the get-go was what I call a "Field of Dreams" strategy: "If he wins it, they will come." Well, guess what? They didn't come in Ohio, Texas, Massachusetts, to name a few, and now Pennsylvania.
Krugman is absolutely correct: Obama's campaign has never been about wooing over white, working-class Democrats whether they live in small towns or urbans ring cities. He was most effective in the Caucus states for one clear reason: They had a ground game to register and bring new voters and activists into the process to dilute and overwhelm those frequent-going, regular Democratic caucus participants, many of whom were those white, working-class men and middle-age women that their polling told them would not support Obama.
They can say they lost the big states because they were "running a 50 state" campaign, but the reality is, with the often 30 day voter registration deadlines many states have, they couldn't register enough new voters to offset the party regulars and independent voters who wanted to have a say this time.
The strategy was simple: Hit the small, smaller caucus states with new voters, stay close in the large states (who else was on the battot after February?), and take the Southern states with their predominantly African-American Democratic populations, show enough of a math model to declar victory, and start declaring the race over before anyone figures out you don't have the support of the core Democratic constituents needed to win in November. Obama's campaign was not manufactured for a long battle. "Smoke and mirrors" is a more apt description than Bill Clinton's choice of words, fantasy.
Unfortunately for Obama, the wheels have started coming off the Magical Mystery Tour and it's beginning to looking more like the grey-haired consultants behind the curtain in Oz holding a calulator in one hand, a sign with the word "hope" in the other. We "hope" no one figures this out!
Clinton stumbled when her campaign forgot they first had to run a Primary campaign and had general election on the brain. Then the Obama campaign shocked them back on their heels with their contrived charges of racism as Obama slipped into his Martyr Coat, complete with Chips-on-the-Shoulder inserts.
Early on, Obama declared war on "something or someone" with their us vs. them mentality. Here we thought he was running against Republicans, and instead it turns out he declared war on his own Party!
Clinton needs to be the nominee. For all his inspirational messaging, delivery, and beautiful platitudes, we think Americans will be more inspired by a better standard of living than watching Obama's silly symbolic gesture of hiring Republicans to work in his White House.
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Oh Yeah...
[Read the article: McCain: "Clear who Hamas wants to be the next president"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I can see why Hamas likes Obama - what's not to like about a guy with a preacher like Wright, a wife who's embarrassed by her country, will sit down with any international ruthless rogue,and who got his "religion" at Harvard and is still walking around with a stick up his ass?
As for Bush,Rice, et all plotting to overthrow elections and create civil war...what the hell is new about that?
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AND THE GUY IS IN LOVE WITH...
[Read the article: Obama, Clinton spar over energy policy, industry donations]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]the nuclear power industry too! Obama wants to start building more nuclear power plants! Nevermind about the billions in cost overruns always associated with the construction, the fact we have no place to put the by product waste, and that it simply takes too much damn water for one plant. Hey, he's got people and he and his people say "screw the environment and the taxpayers, I got mine...you get yours."
We need to construct a giant pair of tweezers to send to Mr. Obama so he can remove that stick up his ass.
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STRAIGHT TALK?
[Read the article: On taxes, Straight Talk Express off the rails]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That is soooo funny. McCain cannot talk straight. After all, he's a Republican. They simply handed him the "Manual For Republican Presidents."
Chapter 1: Continue a War, Or Find A New One.
Chapter 2: How To Out CIA Agents and Leave No Fingerprints.
Chapter 3: What Torture? We Took Him Swimming That's All.
Chapter 4: Stealing Florida - The Oranges Are Ripe!
Chapter 5: It's Your Money: That Familiar Refrain.
Chapter 6: Budget, Budget, Who's Got The Budget?
Chapter 7: Lie, Deny, and The Elbow Lean On The Podium.
Chapter 8: What? Me Worry?
Chapter 9: No Heart For Impeachment, So Go Ahead!
Chapter 10: Relax! The Constitution is Gone, Baby.
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Southern Grits
[Read the article: Clyburn hits Clintons on tactics]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And that coming from a guy who can't even deliver his own freakin' state for the Party? Neutral, my fat Aunt Harriet!
So, blacks "bellied up" for Bill Clinton? Well, obviously about 65% of the rest of the country did to when they made it clear they didn't think he should be impeached. So, his arugment is that now it's time for a black Obama to reap his rewards on behalf of black folks everywhere? Oh give me a break! Poor, poor Obama. He's misunderstood, especially with that made-to-order Martyr Coat with the built-in Chips-on-the-Shoulder that slipped into in South Carolina!
The man needs to go back and check the facts and see how many times Obama's people have trashed Hillary Clinton's character and not her policies. That's the pot calling the kettle black! Oh my, am I a racist because I said that?
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SOMEBODY WANT TO...
[Read the article: Clyburn hits Clintons on tactics]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]pull that giant stick out of Obama's ass?
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YES, THAT'S RIGHT
[Read the article: Curse of the female cosmonauts]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]and they sure as hell did not want to come home to THAT!
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CLUELESS AS USUAL
[Read the article: Lust in translation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"how are men supposed to do this? how are men supposed to do that?" Gee, poor things. So, feeble and all.
As someone who is very direct when I speak, and could seldom be misunderstood, I have found that men only hear what they want to hear, as well as ignore that which gets in the way their "comfort zones." If you don't want to have sex, and say so, they think you mean for them to try a new arousal technique and that'll do the trick! Fact it, some men don't want to take "no" for an answer. Then what?
Given they only half-listen anyway, what are women supposed to do? The old thing, "men don't listen," is not accurate. Men don't hear.