Letters to the Editor
Picko
Published Letters: 272 Editor's Choice: 11
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Reality-based Liberal
[Read the article: When did Obama start running for president?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You can save your breath asking the Clinton people to stop belittling Obama supporters as cultists. It's one of their dogmas, and they're sticking to it. Who cares? Let them think what they want to think...
Personally, I've taken to referring to myself ironically as an "Obamabot." I think it takes some of the fun out of it for them if you just embrace the title...
By the way, vis-a-vis your response to my modest proposal - I recognize the dangers that you outline, and I have taken them into account. Obviously I have reservations about the idea of Clinton as president - otherwise I wouldn't be an Obama supporter. But at the end of the day, I think her presidency would not be significantly different from her husband's - which means cautious centrism, triangulation, watered-down Republicanism.* It's just that, from where I'm sitting, a sensible, moderate Republican would be better than McCain - who is no moderate, regardless of his reputation. And, no matter what else you can say against Bill Clinton, he did have a practical streak that helped him on nuts-and-bolts issues like taming the Reagan/Bush deficits. And we can't afford a real Republican because of (a) the Supreme Court, (b) the war, and (c)the ever-escalating deficit.
Of course I think Obama would be a better president to take us in a new direction - which the country sorely needs at this point - and I was making my modest proposal strictly as a "what if" scenario. Even if it were desirable, I don't think it's in the cards. Just a thought batting around my brain...
*(Now the possibility also exists that Obama could bow out and let Clinton pick someone else as vice president. The only problem from his point-of-view is that if she got elected and her presidency was successful, he would have to run against her VP for the nomination.)
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The invisible hand of the marketplace
[Read the article: When did Obama start running for president?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Slider -
Here's something that I've been meaning to say for a long time about another one of Hillary's "Solutions for America" - her health care plan. Now I don't pretend to be an expert about her proposals, but I've often wondered whether one of the inadvertent effects of mandating uninsured Americans to buy health insurance is that companies will gradually offer health insurance to their employees less and less often. Corporations are always looking to externalize costs. If everybody has to get healthcare anyway, wouldn't employers realize that they could get the benefit of having an insured workforce without the cost?
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gabbyone
[Read the article: When did Obama start running for president?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Fortunately, the other candidate - Hillary Clinton - is such a paragon of probity that you have a clear choice this election season - between that lying, conniving Barack Obama on the one hand and honest, tell-it-like-it-is Hillary on the other.
And if the Democrats give the nomination to Obama, then you can take a ride on the Straight Talk Express with John McCain. Wheeeeeeeeeeeee!
(I'm so glad we didn't vote for that liar Gore eight years ago!)
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Rambling Rose 22
[Read the article: When did Obama start running for president?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"They guy is a manipulative liar and you want to keep defending him for it? Hasn't this country had enough liars as President?"
And you're writing this as someone who wants HILLARY CLINTON to be elected?
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juneausmog
[Read the article: "We lost this thing in February"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"uh, no, that's not a correct characterization Alex. Obama was long-favored to win in Indiana; a state that borders his home state. His campaign predicted he would win the state. And he lost it. He also underperformed in NC according to the poll number margins he has long had up until a week or two ago. He won that state because of the large number of African-American voters residing there. And he outspent HRC 2-1 in both states."
Wow. Sounds like Obama had a really bad night last night.
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Cue snide comparisons between Obama and McGovern by embittered Clintonites...
[Read the article: Clinton backer McGovern now wants her to drop out]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Three ... two ... one...
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MICKI
[Read the article: Clinton backer McGovern now wants her to drop out]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm just curious: what do you think is a fair solution for Michigan and Florida?
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AKA Smith
[Read the article: Clinton backer McGovern now wants her to drop out]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"He is treating Hillary Clinton as a "little lady" rather than a candidate for the presidency."
Or maybe he just has a closer relationship with Bill Clinton. Why does everything have to parsed for some hint of sexism? And why does it matter?