Letters to the Editor
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United "as never before"?
Seems to me as if the Dems are united the way they've always been.
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Uh, well, yea
I mean if you want to be correct and all that.
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to the death!
and why not. everybody loves a bloody mess.
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Extra cynicism
Yes, the cat and dogfighting is on.
But once we have a nominee we will, as we did in 2004 with Kerry, get behind the candidate and support them with everything we've got. I and all my friends worked for MoveOn and the Kerry campaign and while no of us liked him much, we almost got him elected.
Tom's extra cynicism is unecessary and thus, this cartoon is unhelpful and off the mark. But keep at it.
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Just once before i die...
...I'd like there to be a presidential candidate who I could feel good about voting for and could do so without holding my nose.
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Kerry
and all my friends worked for MoveOn and the Kerry campaign and while no of us liked him much, we almost got him elected.
actually you had the opposite effect by all scientific evidence, but that's something I'm sure no amount of data will persuade you of.
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More votes than the #2 and #3 candidate combined?
I'm not a plant by Edwards/Obama but seriously folks, I wonder how anyone rational can't see that having Hillary as the Dem candidate would get out the GOP vote more effectively than handing out 100s at the polls. Not to mention that even if she wins there will be zero honeymoon period, the GOP will obstruct ANYTHING she tried to accomplish. Not saying it's rational but they hate the Clintons worse than the devil.
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If you think our side is bad...
look over the fence at the republicans, at least their not having any more luck then we are. Let's all be thankful for that!
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Even as far back...
Even as far back as the First Workingman's International factions couldn't get along. And the left has almost always been like that, for the fundamental reason why conservatives never have to do much to whip people in line; when you're trying to change something, how you want to change becomes a sticking issue in everyones craw. When you're simply out to bamboozle, steal, and pilfer, well, everyone can get behind that.
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And There It Is
"could do so without holding my nose."
This is the perennial thinking disorder that affects Democrats and Democratic supporters. In order to keep their superior mores in tact, they must make statements like this. Republican voters, while they feel the same way about a candidate they don't like, usually keep this sentiment to themselves because they're voting for what they consider to be larger issues (God, Jesus, fetuses, Our Way of Life): call this the will to power.
Leftists, however, can't resist pouting and making demonstrative statements like "holding my nose" to vote for Candidate X. Not a very effective way at wanting to put a Democrat in the White House. This makes the cartoon even that much more poignant.
The bib-dribbling is truly unsightly.
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Good Job, Tom
You've manage to capture every Salon Letters Board since the primaries began. Who says the talent doesn't read the fan mail?
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I agree completely with LanierThrill73
Absolutely, it cannot be repeated enough; Hilary Clinton is the one force in the universe that can unite the Republicans, not only before the elections, but after. Mike Gerson, Bush's former speechwriter, wrote an excellent op-ed piece in Friday's Washington Post that spelled this out perfectly. "An Obama-McCain race," he wrote, "would be good for America. A Clinton-McCain race would be good for the Republicans."
Wake up, fellow Democrats! Don't be idiots and snatch defeat from the jaws of victory once again. Face the fact that Hilary Clinton would be death to all of your hopes, even if she managed to get elected. (Imagine 2008-2010 as a repeat of 1992-94. And cry.) If you don't see this, you really, really, really, really need to have your head examined. Your brain has gone AWOL.
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the right hates Hillary but they've been after her for years so it won't get any worse and the evidence suggests she might win
Obama hasn't been gone after yet so we have no reason to rule out the possibility that the GOP machines can totally demolish him.
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Oboy
Eric Alterman is going going to be pissed at you.
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@ Elian Gonzales
Don't assume I'm a Democrat. Don't assume I'm a Republican, either. I have no party affiliation and have never had one in the 35 years I've been eligible to vote. Get some facts before you make value judgements about me, or Democrats, or human beings in general.
Sigh. Just another wanker hoping to be Bill O'Reilly when he/she grows up.
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Where is Tideswimmer?
Borrow Tideswimers's nose plugs? While entering the voters booth, read 'Dr. Strangelove'...in Hebrew or Greek? Pig Latin? Maybe Dadaism. Taoism. Confucius. The nation does need help. State of the Union? Buffoonish.
The Salon comics are almost similar,
to reading those old Torah scrolls?
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@ Anonymous
Anonymous writes:
"the right hates Hillary but they've been after her for years so it won't get any worse and the evidence suggests she might win"
Apparently, anonymous, you are both a coward (for writing as anonymous) AND a fool. The Right has been after her for years, yes, but this was as a first lady and a Senator from left leaning New York State. In both cases, those are pretty insulated offices. In fact, first lady isn't even a proper office, but a simple matter of marital happenstance. And STILL they have been slavering for her blood. The Right haven't been able to tear her down because they haven't had anywhere to drag her down to. They couldn't impeach her as a first lady (though they made a good try with the husband) and New York State is a pretty safe space for Dems. Wait until, God forbid, she gets nominated and then you will see just what they are capable of and how much worse it can get. Wisdom suggests that she cannot win.
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@ mhellman
" Get some facts before you make value judgements about me, or Democrats, or human beings in general.
Sigh. Just another wanker hoping to be Bill O'Reilly when he/she grows up."
You were saying about value judgements?
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Since no has said this yet I will
I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.
Will Rogers
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it seems foolish to me to suggest that Hillary has been insulated from the right wing smear machines, whatever her position has been
in fact it's more than foolish it's downright bizarre. She and her husband have been target number one of the right wing smear machine/MSM (to the extent that they are distinguishable) for almost 20 years. The completely irrational and disproportionate negative reaction to her sins, compared to the reaction to those of others both politically similar and very dissimilar to her shows that it has worked. I agree that her candidacy will inspire right wing turnout, that's why I was/am backing Edwards but the right wing machine is doing everything in their power to help Obama: he is the candidate they REALLY want to run against.