Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 124 Editor's Choice: 6
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Typical, two-faced Hillary Clinton
[Read the article: Clinton's primary night gambit]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hillary Clinton's entire campaign, at least since Obama emerged as a viable candidate, has been an embarassment.
Lies.
Racism.
Schizophrenic Sexism (I am the most experienced because my husband was President/I am a strong independent woman).
She reminds me more of George W than of William J. The way she has used Bill's standing in the black community to get away with racist tactics that any other candidate would be run out of the Democratic party for is nothing short of an outrage.
If her sleaze manages to get her the nomination, it will be bad news for America and bad news for Democrats. I can't picture myself (an ardent Bill Clinton supporter and Bush-despiser) going out to vote if Hillary is the nominee. I can picture my insanely anti-Clinton neighbors being energized to vote against her.
The Hillary campaign is running in full-blown Atwater-Rove mode against another Democrat. Anyone would be a step up from bush, but, outside of Huckabee and Rudy, Hillary is the smallest step up still in the race.
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[Read the article: A farewell note]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Congratulations on the new job.
You will be missed here, as War Room has become one the few places on Salon that still resemble the old Salon, instead of feeling like a Clinton campaign site.
Hopefully, your successor (as evidence suggests) will continue to make the War Room one of the best sources of political news available.
As the site has become increasingly a pro-Hillary version of FOX"news" (curtailed slightly in light of the backlash), the number of high profile defections has grown. Sadly, the shake-up that needs to occur is much higher up the chain.
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More of the Same
[Read the article: Did Hillary Clinton really win in Florida?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hillary's Florida-related actions after her trouncing on Saturday are yet another example of why she is unfit to be president. We have lived through 16 years of sleaze, 8 years of Republican sleaze trying to undermine and embarass Bill Clinton and 8 years of Bush sleaze (see entire presidency, no examples needed).
Hillary is showing every indication that she wants to keep Washington awash in sludge. She is every bit as deceptive and calculating as the people pulling Bush's strings. I always admired the Clintons for playing hardball to fight the Republican sleaze machine, AKA the vast right wing conspiracy, AKA the Arkansas Project. However, it is beginning to appear that they just like fighting dirty.
If Hillary is the nominee and anyone other than Huckabee is the Republican nominee, I will be staying home. I just can't in good conscience vote to put America through another 4 years of Rove politics, even if it is a Democrat foing the deceiving.
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Old Guys
[Read the article: Does the sex of your doctor matter?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This article seems to be jumping to unnecessary conclusions. The number of female doctors has grown a lot in recent years. The rural doctor who was there when your grandma was born is probably male. Doctors who are not educated in the US are more likely to get the inner city gigs, not the prestige jobs. It seems likely that given the locations where radiation was done, that factors other than gender are at play. Doctors in the areas cited as problematic are less likely to be up to date than doctors in competitive markets.
It just seems to me that gender is unlikely to be a real factor, based on the evidence presented here.
That said, I prefer a female doctor myself, simply because a prostate exam is bad enough without a giant man-finger.
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Hillary W. Clinton
[Read the article: Clinton "cries" again]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There is someone prominent besides Bill Clinton's wife who can produce tears when it is politically expedient. Who might that be?
In SO many ways, Hillary Clinton is SO much like King George that it is scary. How is this woman still in the race? Have Democrats just given up on their values?
And, women, Hillary riding her hubby's name into the Oval Office (would she see the spectre of Lewinsky's face peering up every time she sat at that desk?) would do NOTHING to break the gender barrier. It would be an aberation attributed to her husband's popularity, not a real breakthrough. An Obama victory, however, would SHATTER the glass ceiling for all minorities and for WOMEN. Don't believe for a second that a Clinton win would be a step forward for women. It would be a step forward for her and her alone and a major step sideways for America.
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Huge night for Obama, another bad one for Salon
[Read the article: Clinton wins California, Arizona]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Once again, the Clinton campaign doesn't have to worry about spinning the results because Salon is more than happy to do it for them. Hillary Clinton is the "establishment" nominee. She has been ahead in the polls for months. She SHOULD have won handily.
Obama has managed to come from outside and from behind to win more Super Tuesday states than Hillary whose home state AND the state she was first lady of AND the state in which she is Senator voted. Obama had larger victory margins in the places where he won. Clinton's wins were almost all in states that are going to be "blue" in November, no matter who wins. Obama was competitive in most of those states and won a few and, more importantly, won in states where McCain will obliterate Clinton.
But Hillary did manage to win Tennessee, the state that gave the world the KKK. Gee, I wonder why Obama didn't win here?
Obama was the night's big winner by any reasonable estimation, yet the media can't shut up about Hillary winning the state that was star-struck enough to elect Arnold governor- twice.