Letters to the Editor
Picko
Published Letters: 265 Editor's Choice: 11
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ShawnWM
[Read the article: A boom in Democratic registrations]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Yes, surely not. But reasoned people would consider the electoral map and the states won and lost by Gore through Kerry rather than hanging on a wind and a prayer against all science."
The states that were won by Kerry and Gore are, by and large, states that Democrats have been winning in every presidential election since 1992.
All a candidate has to do to become president is get five more electoral votes than Al Gore did. Al Gore could have won if he had carried West Virginia!
Fun Trivia fact: Gore won all of the primary and caucus states that Clinton has (by much larger margins) and still lost the electoral college. Kerry won all of the primary and caucus states that Clinton has except Oklahoma (by much larger margins) and still lost the electoral college. In both cases, Gore and Kerry swept through all the primaries, winning far more states by bigger margins than Clinton did and neither became president.
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ShawnWM
[Read the article: A boom in Democratic registrations]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"You have a white person that has a long history and commitments to policies which benefit the poor -which like it or not affects a disproportionate number of blacks."
Welfare reform?
Bankruptcy reform?
NAFTA?
The Iraq War?
Yes, Bill and Hillary Clinton - friends of the working class.
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Stupidest idea ... ever?
[Read the article: Time columnist: Gore-Obama in '08?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well, if you WANT to confirm some Democratic voters' suspicions that the system is rigged for white males, I can't think of a better way to do it than take the nomination away from a woman and a black man who fought like hell for it and give it to a white guy who did absolutely nothing to win it.
Because I can tell you one thing: as far as Hillary may be behind Obama in pledged delegates and the popular vote, Al Gore is way, way, way behind either candidate in those measures. Hell, he hasn't even won a single big state!
Al Gore would have been a great candidate if he gotten into the race when the getting was good, but to put him at the top of the ticket now would be a utter mockery of the democratic process.
I think this article shows how phenomenally out-of-touch people like Joe Klein are.
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@ sonofdumb
[Read the article: Time columnist: Gore-Obama in '08?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"I don't see an article on indicted Governor Anibal Acevedo Vila of Puerto Rico, one of Obama's superdelegates."
Or we could talk about how disgraced governor Eliot Spitzer was a superdelegate for Hillary Clinton. And what the hell would that prove? Are you suggesting that the fact he was an Obama superdelegate has any connection between the fact that he was indicted? Or are you just leaping at any chance to smear with guilt by association? I imagine his status as an Obama superdelegate has as much to do with the indictment as Hillary has to do with Spitzer's predilection for hookers.
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The Notorious W.E.S. is not exactly Nostradamus
[Read the article: Time columnist: Gore-Obama in '08?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I recall him pronouncing that Hillary had cinched the nomination after taking California on Super Tuesday. I'm pretty sure that prediction was a fact too, at the time.
BTW, I have a question I've been meaning to ask you, W.E.S.:
At the office, do you make people call you "Mr. Penn" or do you let them address you just as "Mark?"
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"Pattern."
[Read the article: Time columnist: Gore-Obama in '08?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yes, you're really proving your case, sonofloud.
All you have to do is say "pattern" and list the name of three corrupt figures who know Obama.
Ok, let's try that game for Hillary:
"Pattern:
Norman Hsu
Jim McDougal
Marc Rich"
I'm sure the list could go on and on but those were first three corrupt people attached to Hillary I could think of.
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I would ignore moon6pence.
[Read the article: Time columnist: Gore-Obama in '08?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obviously a troll. That was his first letter.
Not an auspicious start.
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Correction, Electro Robot
[Read the article: Quote of the day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Obama's got that fake G multimillionaire crack dealer vote boxed up."
If you had read the posting in full, you would see that Fiddy is still on the fence. He hasn't quite given up on Hillary.
So the fake G multimillionaire crack dealer vote is still in play!
I'm waiting for a memo to circulate from Mark Penn explaining that Obama is unelectable because his support from the fake G multimillionaire crack dealer vote is soft.
And Nicolemc99 is right - DMX's reaction is much funnier. Priceless!
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Fiddy on W
[Read the article: Quote of the day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"50 thinks the president is "incredible ... a gangsta." "I wanna meet George Bush, just shake his hand and tell him how much of me I see in him," 50 told GQ. If the rapper's felony conviction didn't prevent him from voting, 50 said he would have voted for Bush."
Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1514482/20051123/50_cent.jhtml?headlines=true
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Sung to the tune of "Eleanor Rigby"
[Read the article: Quote of the day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Hillary Clinton, stays in the race when she knows that she simply can’t win
Lives in a dream
Waits for convention, puts all her hopes on a fight to take place on the floor.
What it is for?
"All the dopey people
Where do they all come from?
All the dopey people
Where do they all belong?
Ah, look at all the dopey people…"
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Change that
[Read the article: Quote of the day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Actually I like "all the stupid people" better. You lose the rhyme with "lonely" but "stupid" is less contrived.
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Ok, now I have a second verse
[Read the article: Quote of the day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hillary Clinton, stays in the race when she knows that she simply can’t win
Lives in a dream
Waits for convention, puts all her hopes on a fight to take place on the floor
What it is for?
All the stupid people
Where do they all come from?
All the stupid people
Where do they all belong?
Ah, look at all the stupid people...
Barack Obama, harks to the words of some sermons that no one should hear
For twenty years
“Goddamn America!” his minister shouts in a rant which some voters might fear
Hope they don’t care
All the stupid people
Where do they all come from?
All the stupid people
Where do they all belong?
Ah, look at all the stupid people...