Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 125 Editor's Choice: 6
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Maybe she should cry, too
[Read the article: The Shuster fallout]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hillary's "outrage" comes across as about as genuine as her day-before-New Hampshire/day-before Super Tuesday tears.
Shuster chose his words poorly to be sure, but in typical Rove/Bush form, Hillary is making a lot of noise about the minutiae in an attempt to distract from the real issue that was raised with the poorly chosen words.
Setting aside the moral/ethical implications (Clinton die-hards may need to look those words up) of a sitting Senator pressuring a company to fire an employee, there is a serious problem with this situation. Consider the rebuff of the apology attempt. That shows that Hillary wants to keep this, not her floundering campaign or the fact that she is counting on her hubby's buddies to pull the election out for her in the news. It was almost four years ago that a similar faux outrage cost Dan Rather his job and the fundamental truth of his story was pushed from the headlines.
Notice the big headline on Salon about Hillary's remarks today that the weekend vote didn't matter because it was just caucuses (caucuses aren't real votes unlike the superdelegates that she so vigorously defends) and black people? Neither did I. She is running a blatantly racist campaign and today basically said that the black vote doesn't really count and, once again, Walsh and Co. completely ignore it.
Appalling.
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He did not call Chelsea anything!
[Read the article: The Shuster fallout]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]From www.m-w.com (Merriam-Webster Online).
pimp (verb)
"transitive verb
: to make use of often dishonorably for one's own gain or benefit"
So he didn't call her a whore or anything remotely like that. He said that Hillary was dishonorably using Chelsea for her own personal gain. Of course, we all knew that already. So does Hillary.
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This is it?
[Read the article: McCain targets Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think it says eveything that needs to be said about the vote tonight and its significance ( Hillary can no longer claim to have the lead in ANYTHING except superdelegates) that this is the closest that Salon was able to come to spinning the night Hillary's way.
She wasn't just beaten. She was beaten across the board. She can't dismiss tonight as "activists" in caucuses or "proud" blacks incapable of voting based on anything other than race. Obama won almost every demographic handily and was competitive in the very few that Hillary won.
Meanwhile, Rudy (I mean Hillary) is counting on a strong showing in Florida (I mean Texas). Her campaign is in total disarray right now and there isn't much time to turn it around.
McCain knows that. He is attacking Obama now in hopes that he can sway those who have yet to vote to swing towards Hillary, the candidate that he knows he can beat.
As expected, the right-wing nutjobs are starting to fall in line behind McCain now, hoping to get Republicans to support Hillary in open primary states. The best example was Rush, who today implied that liberals hate him so much, that by attacking McCain, he was helping McCain. Were he to help McCain, liberals would, obviously, ignore the tight Democratic race and focus on bringing McCain down.
Not exactly how I expected him to spin it, but exactly what I expected to happen. I wonder how Anne Coulter will spin her turn to supporting McCain?
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The Hillary-as-electable myth
[Read the article: McCain targets Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hasn't this effectively been laid to rest. There were no WMDs in Iraq, The US gov didn't blow up the WTC and Hillary was NEVER more electable than any of the viable candidates. Her "unfavorables" are just too high.
As for the democrats consistently putting up their weakest candidate, Al Gore was probably the most qualified candidate either candidate has put up since FDR. And he won. Kerry wasn't quick enough in his response to the Swift Boat liars. He let the story dominate too many news cycles expecting the media to point out that all the evidence pointed to the fact that they were making it all up. It will be a LONG time before ANY Democrat makes that mistake again.
If Obama can handle the Clinton sludge machine, he can handle anything McCain can throw at him. McCain can't risk running a campaign as racist as the one Hillary has run.
My favorite argument from Hillary supporters is that she can win better than Obama because she can carry the states that Kerry won. Yeah, we all saw well that "carry only the deep blue states" plan worked. Kerry actually had experience, as opposed to counting his spouse's experience as his own, and the "blue states" couldn't give him a win over the man who completely ignored the terrorist threat, allowing 9/11 to happen, the man who was told "America is under attack" and didn't get up, the man who was inaugurated in 2005 with record low approval ratings for an inauguree.
Hillary was never the most electable. Calling any black person who supports Obama racist is a desperate attempt to belittle Obama and his supporters. Are Hispanics for Hillary racist? Old white women too racist to support a black man?
There was an interesting fact buried in the LA exit polls. Most voters said that race was NOT a factor. Of those polled who said race was a factor, only half of them backed Obama. Yes, half of those who admittedly decided based on race voted for the white girl. Now, who is the racist?
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No shock here
[Read the article: Clinton uses McCain advisor's words for attack on Obama ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We all know that McCain desperately wants Clinton to win, knowing how easily he would beat her in November. Even giving her just enough of a boost to lead to a brokered convention would be good news for McCain.
The only scenario that is really bad for McCain is for Obama to continue to do as well as he has Super Tuesday, essentially locking up the nomination on 3/4.