Letters to the Editor
Rambling Rose 22
Published Letters: 957 Editor's Choice: 8
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OH, PLEASE, OBAMA!
[Read the article: Obama responds to Wright]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Stop with the self-pity party that you are about the throw for yourself and start fessing up. Jeremiah Wright wouldn't go away like a good, crazy uncle anymore than Hillary Clinton would get out of the race because it suited your game plans.
Obama stated that he couldn't distance himself from Wright, but in fact, he did just that the night before he announced he was running for President. So, clearly, Obama knew that his "church home" "spiritual father" was about to be problematic.
Now we hear black ministers and other talking heads telling us on CNN, MSNBC, FOX, and everywhere else too that somehow we are not understanding something or another about the black church experience. Bullshit! What is it about the word "payback" that you think we don't understand? lol
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IS IT...
[Read the article: What should Obama do about Rev. Jeremiah Wright?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A. A black church experience that we just don't understand because we're all so freakin' stupid?
B. A political problem that just needs a spiffy standard operating response for the next three days?
C. A black dude dissing another black dude and now it's payback time?
I pick C.
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DEAN NEEDS TO STOP
[Read the article: Dean: "We really can't have a divided convention"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]worrying about a divided convention and start worrying that the Democratic Party ends up with the best candidate instead of the one that diluted the Party's frequent and regular voting base with 20 year olds.
It's about time we stop caving in to elitist candidates by February that get good PR bounces out of Iowa, and start letting this nomination thing run it's course. It might go a long way in explaining why we can't seem to win the Big one in November.
What I find interesting is that the very small, narrow group that has propelled Obama to the forefront of his ambitious political career are the very leftist liberals that gave the Party such a bad name that we had to find a new word, "progressive." How soon they forget!
Dean needs to stop pandering to Obama and start thinking about what's best for the Party. And it's not Barack Obama.
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WHAT DOES ANYONE EXPECT?
[Read the article: So how about those Miley Cyrus photos?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sooner or later it would be her turn in the barrel. It's part of the marketing of these little girls. Hell, Brittany Spears made a cottage industry of her virginity while she acted like she couldn't wait to screw her best friend's father.
Why should it be so different for Cyrus? I'm sure if she never sang another bad note in her life she would have enough money to be happy. Just don't ask the rest of us to defend her honor. That was the job of her parents.
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I THOUGHT ROVE WAS DEAD
[Read the article: Karl Rove: Honest political genius]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And now I see he is not dead, but very much alive and coaching Little Leaguer Barack Obama not to cry when he gets hit by the ball.
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YOU JUST KEEP MISSING THE POINT
[Read the article: Breaking the Democratic deadlock]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why are you and the rest of the pundits still asking why Obama cannot carry working-class voter? That question was answered a long time ago. The Obama campaign was never designed to connect with working-class, frequently voting, regular Democrats.
The entire strategy of the Obama campaign was to dilute and overwhelm the vote of that core faction of the Democratic party with new, predominantly young voters, especially in the caucus states, carry the predominantly African-American Southern states, show enough of a math model to declare himself the nominee, and get Clinton out the race before anyone figured out they didn't actually carry the core frequently, voting base of the Party.
Obama's campaign was not designed to go the distance. They knew going in that he would not connect with those voters. Wisconsin was an anomoly. Clinton was not on her game yet and the Obama campaign capitalized on it. And what can you say about a state whose capital city, Madison, has twice elected Socialists as Mayors??
This campaign has not been upfront about much of anything:
1.They dilute the vote of the Party's base, declare themselves the "new face of the Democratic Party" and "we are who we've been waiting for" and seemed not to mind the other 65% of the Party was not included in this exclusive little fraternity.
2.Obama and his campaign was being asked about Jeremiah Wright as far back as the end of last year, maybe earlier. In true Obama fashion, he chose to ignore it. When he gave that flowery speech in Philadelphia and claimed he could no more disavow Wright than he could the black church or his white grandmother, he was lying. He threw Wright under the bus the night before he announced he was running for President. Wright's surfacing is payback - pure and simple.
3. Obama's comments about working-class, small town people to that San Francisco fundraising crowd was probably the most honest thing he's said since he started campaigning. In true elitist form, he still cannot figure out why people were put off by that comment.
4. Obama didn't get his religion at the Jeremiah Church of Wright and Wrong, he got religion at Harvard - and he'll need about another 10 years to get that stick out of his ass. He is no more "like" the majority of Americans, than I am black. Obama suffers from the same condition that made Gore sigh during a debate with Bush, and resulted in Kerry wind surfing.
Obama is toast. He's been found out. And it doesn't matter if he wins Indiana and North Carolina. He will NOT be the nominee. I don't care how many delegates he has the end of June. And Howard Dean needs to stop wringing his hands about ending this, and start figuring out that the best candidate for this Party this year is Hillary Clinton.
They all need to get over themselves.