Letters to the Editor
trjones1
Published Letters: 23 Editor's Choice: 1
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@FredBizzle
[Read the article: Hillary Clinton throws economists off the bus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Fred, you just torpedoed your whole argument with these words:
"here in Chicago"
You admitted you live in a city. You must be some elite, and of course don't matter.
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@Dukerone
[Read the article: Deep Democratic dissatisfaction]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Amen.
And as for claims of racism and sexism, there is undoubtedly racism and sexism being exhibited by some supporters of each of the Democratic candidates. Pointing this out isn't impugning the character of all of that candidates supporters. When some bonehead is obviously playing on racist or sexist tropes this should be pointed out and held up for the disapproval of all. That kind of stuff shouldn't be acceptable, especially among a bunch of Democrats. But that doesn't mean that the ignorance of individuals should be used to attack the candidates themselves or of the candidates legitimate supporters.
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Well, there goes my fantasy
[Read the article: Obama gracious in N.C. victory]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]For a minute I was hoping that Clinton would take this opportunity to gracefully bow out of the race that she now has literally no legitimate shot at winning. Instead we get "I won Indiana, that means that I should be president!" I guess this just continues her campaign's recent move towards utter illogic - her last refuge.
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Clinton's Qualifications
[Read the article: What does Hillary want?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I asked this question a couple of times over at the boards at Slate today. No one tried to answer, so maybe someone here will take a crack at it: What is Clinton's experience? We seem to hear about it all the time, but what is it?
As far as I see it, there are several red flags when you look at Clinton's public life.
1. Health Care reform in '93. This is self-explanatory. She set back this cause by close to 2 decades because of her my-way-or-the-highway style. Has she changed since then? Doesn't seem that way judging by the way her campaign behaves.
2. Her Iraq vote. Sorry, but it was a terrible idea then and it was obvious. Almost half the Democratic senators voted against it. Why didn't she? That's pretty poor judgment in my book. Her recent needless saber rattling towards Iran suggests she hasn't learned a darn thing.
3. From 2001-2006 she was one of the preeminent faces of the Democratic party. Why did we never hear her forcefully standing up to GWB and the Republicans? This country was in dire need of fierce opposition to the ruling party. She was MIA. She only started to raise any opposition to GWB after the '06 elections when it became politically safe and convenient to do so. This doesn't seem like good leadership to me.
Can someone please give me some reason why I should ignore these 3 facts and support Clinton over Obama? If all you have is the "experience" argument, then tell me what experience she has that would recommend her?
Please, if someone tells me I swear I'll stop asking this question, but until I hear an answer that doesn't include "She's Bill Clinton's wife" I'm not buying it.
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@Tree Hugger
[Read the article: What does Hillary want?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]See my post one page back. I've posted many times today trying to get a Clinton supporter to explain exactly what her experience or qualifications are and to respond to the 3 most disturbing parts of her cv that I discussed in my post. So far there have been no takers. I'm starting to think that her supporters know that she has nothing to offer, but just can't come to publicly admit it. It's starting to look to me like all those accusations that Obama is just an "empty suit" is really just projection on the part of Clinton fans. If you can make an argument why this is not the case I'd really be interested in hearing it.
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@AncientAssyrian
[Read the article: What did Clinton do wrong?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Amen 100%
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I fail to see how this comment isn't straight up racist
[Read the article: "There's a pattern emerging here"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you base your decision on the racism of others, you are being racist yourself. If Clinton argues that people should vote for her because there are some racist whites who wouldn't vote for Obama then all she's doing is effectuating that racism and magnifying it. I don't really care if your mind is pure as the driven snow, if you buy into this logic you are practicing de facto racism and it's pretty sickening to see it coming from a "Democratic" candidate.
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What a great juxta position
[Read the article: Was Hillary channeling George Wallace?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]between weeping for brunhilde's helpful and thoughtful post and electro robot's stupid sarcasm.
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It's actually a little refreshing
[Read the article: RNC debuts attack against Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A lot of the questions are actually substantive and thoughtful. Not easy for Obama to answer, but at lest the very premise of a lot the questions aren't completely dishonest.
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It would be great if Clinton campaigned on her strengths
[Read the article: What should Hillary Clinton do now?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But is there any indication that this is going to happen? Maybe if everyone just tricked her into thinking that she was the Democratic nominee, she could focus her lowdown, dirty tactics on McCain. Then at the convention she'd get a big surprise, but at that point there'd be nothing she could do about it. Sure, this plan sounds farfetched, but its just about as likely as any way she could legitimately win the nomination at this point.
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Need links here
[Read the article: What should Hillary Clinton do now?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]his own notes he'd predicted to take the state by 15 points.
Link please? Otherwise it just looks like you're blatantly lying. Obama's campaign has been run very well. It's unlikely that they would miscalculate so badly.
every black rushing out to vote for him (in Lake county probably 3 or 4 times too as usual)
Link? Otherwise this is sour grapes. Of course, why am I even asking? You obviously have no basis for this statement.
rabid blacks
What? Rabid like dogs? Or are you just saying black votes don't count? Or the votes of the loony left? Funny, that's exactly the vote that the republicans always tell me are somehow deficient.
I think I've finally figured this out. Shawn is Hillary Clinton. This whole time i thought she was just channeling Clinton's ever changing and ever more desperate arguments. This makes much more sense.
If you're not Hillary, then i sincerely hope you're just a republican troll, because otherwise I don't see how a supposed democrat could look her race baiting and demeaning self in the mirror after the bullshit that you spew on here regularly.