Letters to the Editor
wackenheimer
Published Letters: 17 Editor's Choice: 1
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hard to deny
[Read the article: Two bad heartbeats away from the presidency]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]K. A. Paul has the pictures on the Glopal Peace Initiative website already.
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who cares
[Read the article: One more word from Allen, and the Democrats take the Senate]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Allen loses weather or not he utters another word--he doesn't certify the results of the election, so why give him even the appearance of any power over the results.
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who's the frontrunner?
[Read the article: Hillary's money]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sen. Clinton hasn’t spent all that money on campaigning for senate. Odds are that most of that money has gone into elaborate marketing and media strategies to make her the “frontrunner” for 2008. Buzzz buzz buzzzzz. Check the pocket books of the talking heads and pundits who keep prattling on about “Hilary the Democratic frontrunner” and you’ll probably find much of that 30 million.
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When did DC move to Vegas?
[Read the article: The president's oh-so-noble reliance on "executive privilege"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What happens in the Executive Branch stays in Executive Branch!
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Perhaps a sadder truth
[Read the article: Michelle Obama's sacrifice]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Perhaps the truth behind Michele Obama’s resignation is a reflection (a very sad reflection) of the realities of Sen. Obama’s campaign. Remember that Sen. Obama sought and received Secret Service protection earlier this month.
Once Senator Obama invited the Secret Service onboard he and his family became subject to the Service’s rules regarding personal protection. I can only suspect (no proof, just suspicion) that Sen. Obama would not have made that request without the presence of very credible threats to his life or to the lives of his family. Service protection at such an earlier stage of his campaign will limit his intimacy with voters, and I imagine that it also constrains the freedom with which his family can conduct their private affairs.
When he announced his candidacy I remember thinking to myself, God help him. There remains a lot of racial hate in this country.
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not that there's anything wrong with that....
[Read the article: Who needs a Prius anyway?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]some of my best friends are Prius owners.
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what have you done for me lately?
[Read the article: Hillary Clinton's softer side]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]At the end of her Vlog Joan Walsh suggests that if we only knew more about Sen. Clinton's experience-- "...see what she's done and not what she says."(Walsh)--we would appreciate her as the stronger primary candidate.
Since Iowa this has been the drumbeat of Clinton supporters....Obama talks pretty but Clinton has been there and accomplished a lot, EXPERIENCE!!
But no where does anyone spell out her political bona fides--she ain't Joe Biden.
She has been a senator since 2000 (total of eight years). Sen. Obama has been in office for three years plus eight years as a state senator (total of 11 years of political service). I'm not sure that the difference in elected offices merits the huge claims about a misunderstood Clintonian experience.
What abouther life before the senate???
Her official senate page tells us this about her life before the senate:
"Senator Clinton was born in Chicago, Illinois, on October 26, 1947. She is the daughter of Dorothy Rodham and the late Hugh Rodham. Her father was a small businessman and her mother a homemaker. She is a graduate of Wellesley College and Yale Law School. She is married to former President William Jefferson Clinton. They have one daughter, Chelsea.
Senator Clinton is the author of best selling books including her autobiography, Living History; It Takes A Village: and Other Lessons Children Teach Us; Dear Socks, Dear Buddy: Kids’ Letters to the First Pets; and An Invitation to the White House as well as numerous articles."
If I turn to the more aggressively campaign oriented web site [www.hilaryclinton.com] I can learn more about her **35 Years of Experience** The seminal page is http://www.hillaryclinton.com/about/mom/ where I learn that she was an active lawyer dedicated to addressing in-justices on various social issues. All good.
BUT, I don't see where the above warrants a claim of Clinton = Experience unless one believes that age = experience. Sen. Clinton is older than Sen. Obama. Some might think that being the spouse of a president is important experience, I happen to think it irrelevant.
The irony is that the Clintons are the quintessential baby boomers, a generation that spent its formative years decrying the authority of age over the exuberance and vision of youth. No where has this become more sad and apparent than in Sen. Clinton's most recent request that we not be too hopeful about our future. I find it doubly sad that many of Sen/ Clinton's supporters have begun to make fun of the "kids" campaigning for Obama (feel a David Bowie lyric coming on, "and these children that you spit on....").
As for me.... I'm in between--40 years of age.
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transplanted yankee's perspective
[Read the article: Sound and fury on the campaign trail]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I've been living in South Carolina for a little over 10 years now and have only begun to grasp the complexity of racial politics in this state. But even with my limited experience I am impressed that Clyburn has remain on the politco-moral high ground. For either of the Clinton's to dismiss the real sacrifices and **actions** of civil rights activists (funny them being called that) when neither of them (to my knowledge) laid his or her body on the line, was profoundly stupid. Yes, stupid.
As for Clyburn's actions...let's just say he met his wife in prison after being arrested as a protester. The Clintons' remarks must be a personal insult to him.
I know I'll remember them when I go into the ballot box.
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push polling is here
[Read the article: One of these things is not like the other]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Living in SC I can attest to at least one push poll, the one I received on Thursday. Oddly, it was pushing against Huckabee not for him.
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a little research please
[Read the article: My sanest conversation on TV, ever]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Joan, it takes very little effort to figure out the identity of the person comparing Bill Clinton's activities over the past few weeks to those of Lee Atwater. It was Dick Harpootlian, a long-standing Democratic Party standard bearer in South Carolina.
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6 months and counting
[Read the article: The dude vote]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]For all of those without the gold star by your names.... be grateful that your hard-earned money isn't being used to support this type of pseudo-journalistic crap. Six months until my subscription runs out. We'll see if Salon can regain some semblance of its dignity by then.
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new poll?
[Read the article: Americans more ready for a black president than a woman?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]percentage of Salon subscribers ready for a new editor?