Letters to the Editor
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The purists didn't win. Those candidates dropped out. Time to think about a General Election win.
For anybody who has already voted, this stage is over. Our job now is to think about the principles we want in the WH. Electing a Democrat, either Democrat, is the most important thing.
When there are Supreme Court nominations to be made, we need a Democratic president making those nominations. All of the rest of this squabbling is of no consequence compared to keeping those decisions out of McCain's hands.
That's just the beginning of the decisions that need to be kept away from McCain. Attorney General, Secretary of Defense, Sec. of State, Homeland Security, CIA Director, for pete's sake people, focus on what's important, not on whether your best friend wins most popular in the yearbook. This is life and death, not some silly campaign that is "my candidate is not nominated so I'm not going to vote or I'm going to vote for the death candidate to show those people they should have nominated who I wanted." Your very Constitution is in jeopardy from these Republicans, and we need to focus.
GIs need a president that will save them with dignity from going back and back and back to the death trap. They don't feel they can look weak, so someone else will have to help them out. That person is not John "100-more-years" McCain.
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Magic Ponies?
Senator Clinton has access to Magic Ponies? And she's wasting them on Super Delegates (distinguishable from regular delegates by their heat vision I suppose).
Doesn't she know that Magic Ponies are the only way in which to achieve victory in Iraq?
For shame on Senator Clinton...using this precious super natural resource for her own personal gain.
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"Another liberal dumps on Hillary"?
...Or perhaps Hillary's chickens have come home to roost.
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Hillary's 3 Deadly Sins
1) Iraq War vote
2) Patriot Act vote
3) this -> http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/07/opinion/07wed2.html
You can toss in her transparent pro-corporatism and general shamelessness as well. America has had enough of right-wing leaders.
P.S. - Salon, why do you not allow links in your comments?
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Salon's Coverage of Obama and Hillary is so laughable...
it makes sense the only place you can read any Hillary criticism is in the comics.
(I posted this earlier, but it has disappeared. I wonder if I forgot to hit "Publish my letter.")
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Well below the artist's usual standards
Look, people, this is not complicated. You haven't beaten Hillary, and until she gets beat, she won't get out.
Plus, just generally speaking, I'd rather be on the side of the fighter than the side of someone trying to "back in".
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And more...
xxysyndrome, you left out two more votes:
Her vote for the bankruptcy bill, which was surely one of the most devastatingly anti-working-class bills that the credit card industry ever wrote for itself. I wonder how much the credit card industry has contributed to Senator Clinton's campaigns?
And then there's her vote for the Iran "terrorist" bill. Which proved definitively that Hillary either didn't learn from her Iraq authorization vote "mistake", or else that she just feels she has to vote for any bill that might provide Bush/Cheney with a rationale for war.
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@southamptoner
This is how democracy works.
Uh, only if you're on drugs or living in Bizarro World.
Our electoral system, particularly the presidential process, and especially the primary/caucus component of that process, is the very antithesis of a sound democratic system. It's a corrupted, stage-managed mess that is composed of a labyrinth of rules--many of them silly and some quite frankly undemocratic (the existence of superdelegates is for one reason only--to overrule the will of the voters in primaries if the party "elite" decides the voters have gotten it wrong--there's no way the party can defend that on democratic principles.)
No, this year's Democratic primary process has finally ripped the last mask off our electoral process to reveal what a sham and a fraud it really is, and it ain't a pretty picture. The world is laughing at us more and more with each passing week, and wait to see what the reaction will be to a process that drags on to the convention and ends with a Clinton "win" thanks to the superdelegates reversing the primary/caucus results! After 2000 and 2004, the world already decided that American "democracy" was of the banana republic variety, and this race is merely reinforcing that pathetic conclusion.
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Tom T. this toon is incredibly funny
And the political satire?
Right on the money
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@Taliesan
Hillary's supporters are basically everything they accuse Obama supporters of being.
The are immature, petulant little crybaby cultists who alternate between accusing the other side of not being tough enough, and then whining about how the other side is too tough on their candidate.
You've nailed it. When I read your post Richard Hofstadter came to mind. In "The Paranoid Style In American Politics," written in 1964 but still as relevant as ever; not only does is irrationally percieved threat (ie. Obama) incarnate the worst fear of how the enemy is thought to act:
The paranoid’s interpretation of history is distinctly personal: decisive events are not taken as part of the stream of history, but as the consequences of someone’s will. Very often the enemy is held to possess some especially effective source of power: he controls the press; he has unlimited funds; he has a new secret for influencing the mind (brainwashing); he has a special technique for seduction.
...in addition, this is what leaps out at me from the batshit-hysterical Obama-bloodlusters, is this projection which you alluded to, the emulation of the percieved enemy. From the essay:
It is hard to resist the conclusion that this enemy is on many counts the projection of the self; both the ideal and the unacceptable aspects of the self are attributed to him. The enemy may be the cosmopolitan intellectual, but the paranoid will outdo him in the apparatus of scholarship, even of pedantry. Secret organizations set up to combat secret organizations give the same flattery. The Ku Klux Klan imitated Catholicism to the point of donning priestly vestments, developing an elaborate ritual and an equally elaborate hierarchy. The John Birch Society emulates Communist cells and quasi-secret operation through "front" groups, and preaches a ruthless prosecution of the ideological war along lines very similar to those it finds in the Communist enemy. Spokesmen of the various fundamentalist anti-Communist "crusades" openly express their admiration for the dedication and discipline the Communist cause calls forth.
I haven't seen this level of projection since the period right after 911 through the invasion of Iraq, ie. Republicans asking Democrats why they hate America so much, etc.
Also Hofstadter's Pulitzer Prizewinning 1963 book "Anti-Intellectualism In American Life" applies as well. You should check it out while in your limosine sipping your latte :-)