Letters to the Editor
AncientAssyrian
Published Letters: 697 Editor's Choice: 53
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Hillary is Divisive, News at 11!
[Read the article: How bashing Hillary backfired]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Unfair as the media treatment has been, it's no newsflash, folks.
Hillary has always been a lightning rod.
But has it occurred to anyone that someone who generates this much antipathy and hostility from the media, from her opponents, and even from people in her own party, simply is NOT able to serve as an effective leader?
Whether or not it's fair, it's REALITY.
THIS is in part what Obama is saying.
She is of the past.
Immutable fact: She has baggage she can NOT get rid of. She is, by virtue of who she is and who she is married to, polarizing. and divisive.
No matter how many tears she sheds or people she empathizes with, there is a solid contingent of people who will never be won over, and it's ingrained for years. They are NOT going to be won over.
Which is why Obama is in the end a far better choice for America.
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Pigs are Flying, and Hell is Freezing Over
[Read the article: Hillary without tears]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I actually agree with Camille Paglia's take on Hillary Clinton, and her thoughts about the pros of an Obama presidency.
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BRILLIANT!!
[Read the article: Why I'm still not for Hillary Clinton]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You have captured exactly how I feel about Hillary Clinton.
If Hillary is the nominee, I will vote for her, but she is by far my least favorite choice.
The argument that feminism means that a woman is empowered to do anything she wants is all well and good, but I want the first woman president to be a woman who has her own record of accomplishments.
Hillary was a lawyer, a wife, mother, and a senator.
She was NOT president, and she was NOT governor, and the whole Clinton two-for-one theory STILL isn't working now, years after they first started campaigning for his presidency.
As a Senator, she made some very calculated, and very wrong decisions for political reasons, decisions that are indefensible from a moral, ethical or humanitarian standpoint.
Obama has more experience as an elected official, his political career is not as the spouse of a candidate, it's his own.
Obama is, in my opinion, a far better choice for America.
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Yup, Hillary Has Found Her Voice -- And It's Filled With Veiled Accusations and Innuendo
[Read the article: Stop him if you've heard this one before]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Just watching Hillary and Bill turn on the smear efforts, try to rewrite history about her craven war votes, follow the Karl Rove Playbook, and follow the Politics as Usual script makes it CLEAR that Obama is far better suited -- ethically, morally, and politically -- to leading the country into the future.
Hillary is proving herself to be just another scuzzy politician
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Snobby 20-somethings!
[Read the article: Goldilocks and the three mothers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I just read that article in the Post...
...it can be hard to connect with other soccer dads. "One of them was wearing, like, a Rolling Stones type of sweat shirt. I like the Rolling Stones, but I didn't grow up with them. I can't say, 'Hey, let's go grab a cup of coffee'
I had my fist child at 36, my 2nd at 43. ASK me to have cup of coffee!! I don't care if you're 26, or don't know who the Rolling Stones are.
What's the matter with these whiny people...you connect with other parents, you have a coffee while your kids eat cheerios and juice boxes, or over a play date, and you GET OVER YOURSELVES!
What are they waiting for, engraved invitations?
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What Are the Odds That Bush Ends Up on an Oil Company Board of Directors?
[Read the article: Clinton calls Bush's oil efforts "pathetic"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]George Bush's future plans:
- Multi-million dollar compensation package to serve as member of board of directors for multiple oil companies
- Multi-million dollar compensation package to serve as member of board of directors for Haliburton
- Multi-million dollar compensation package to serve as member of board of directors for Blackwater
- Multi-million dollar compensation package to serve as member of board of directors for various Saudi and UAE owned corporations
George, Dick, and the rest of the motley crew of thieves will further enrich themselves, their children, and grandchildren of future generations on the compensation packages they will get after Bush steps down.*
* IF he steps down, and he doesn't end up staging a coup d'etat and forming a junta government like the Banana Republican that he is...
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Depends on What "Out of Bounds" Means, and Hillary's Double Talk
[Read the article: Having it both ways]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thank you Tim. Because the issue is NOT over. Not if Hillary Clinton thinks she's going to get elected by people with half a brain.
Hillary Clinton wants to be president. And we are coming off of 8 years of a president who says/knows one thing, and then does another thing entirely. Seems Hillary has learned a thing or few from Dubya, AND hubby.
Let's face it.
There was NOTHING ambiguous about Johnson's comments. He was attacking Barack Obama, quite obviously, and his comments were snarky innuendo.
Hillary knows it.
The "thinking" public knows it.
Just like there was NOTHING ambiguous about the fact that there weren't any WMDs in Iraq, and any ethical, decent or moral Democrat should have voted against the war.
Hillary knows it.
The "thinking" public knows it.
But now we have Hillary, playing around with what "out of bounds" really means -- gee, where did she learn THAT semantic trick -- and what she really "knew".
She may want to rewrite history on a daily basis, but sorry...there are some of us who aren't partisan morons.
Hillary is, as some would say, peeing on our legs and telling us it's raining.
I am frankly sick to death of her underhanded, dirty politics, the game-playing, the rewriting and reinterpreting of everything so that things come out the way she wants them to -- after the fact.
Hillary Clinton is a Rovian, Lee Atwater-esque politician, and no amount of boo-hooing, "HEY LOOKIE HERE, see my soft side!" and "I'm for the little guy" crap will convince me otherwise.
Until recently, I was of the mind that I would vote for ANY Democrat nominated, even though I prefer Obama or Edwards.
I'm now at the point where I wonder if I can suppress my disgust enough to vote for her at all if, God forbid, she is the nominee, or if she is, if I would have to refrain from voting at all, an idea that horrifies me after the past 8 years...