Letters to the Editor
BryanS
Published Letters: 365 Editor's Choice: 1
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@ lolcait
[Read the article: What did Mickey Kantor really say?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Find me an Obamabot that doesn't pretend he only wants to exclude millions of voters because of "DNC rules" who isn't either braindead (doesn't believe his messiah could do such a thing) or a liar (scum who knows Obama is doing it and likes it), and I'll retract my comment.
Otherwise it remains an empirical observation, not an attack.
Allow me to answer your challenge with a challenge of my own:
Show me evidence that the Clinton campaign made it a priority to resolve the dispute between Florida/Michigan and the DNC at any point prior to those primaries. If you do, I'll retract every claim I've ever made that Hillary is cynically manipulating the concept of "disenfranchising" voters solely because her slim hopes of having anything approaching a chance at getting the nomination depend entirely on those results being counted as-is.
Otherwise, it remains an empirical observation that can and should be used to attack her character.
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Dammit, Joe
[Read the article: Did Sidney Blumenthal cross the line?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Way to ruin half of my best Hillary conspiracy rants for the week. I so, so wanted to believe this, and I did for at least a couple of days. Them was some good days.
Ah well. At least I've still got Women's Voices Women Vote to get all frothy-mouthed about.
Thanks for the clarification. Jerk.
:)
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@ damnthatxanadu
[Read the article: Obama ad hits Clinton on gas tax again]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My impressive command of profanity aside (ooh, one word!), you obviously don't want Obama or his supporters, including you, to have to play by the same rules you insist that Clinton supporters must.
Profanity used in your previous comment:
"Bitch" (x1)
"Fucking" (x2)
"Shit" (x1)
So you can't count, either.
I don't care what "rules" Clinton supporters play by, or Obama supporters for that matter. Bickering on a website is like farting in a windstorm. It stinks briefly and is ultimately meaningless. I'd like to think that, as much as I dislike her as a candidate, Hillary wouldn't stand by some of the more outrageous things said on her behalf by her supporters on this website. The same goes for Obama.
But I do disagree with Hillary's tactics in this campaign, and I'm offended and disgusted by some of the things said and done on her behalf by people who are officially connected to the campaign. Before this primary, I never understood why people disliked the Clintons so passionately. I now realize that the reason I felt that way was because I'd never been on the other side of a campaign from one of them. They're really nasty people.
My personal opinion is that Obama's campaign hasn't stooped to the levels that Hillary's has. But that's just my opinion, and you really don't need to tell me that you disagree with it. But go ahead and do it anyway, and please delight us all with some zingers about how us Obamabots are cynical, hypocritical, dewey-eyed dopes.
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@ ethics_professor
[Read the article: What did Mickey Kantor really say?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That being said, I worry that the majority of posters on these threads are revealing their true sentiments (ugly as they may be) in an effort to promote one Democrat over the other. Given that, how will we put the vitriol behind us and put a Democrat in the White House?
Professor, I understand your concerns, but really, I wouldn't worry too much about it. This primary will probably be over in about five weeks, if not before. That gives us five months before the November elections.
I'm as die-hard a troll as anyone on here, but when I shut down my computer for the day (or actually, god forbid, do some work), I don't carry hurt feelings from flame wars with me for the rest of the day. Likewise, to use your road rage metaphor, when someone cuts me off in traffic, I honk and shout. But two minutes later, my heart rate is back to normal, and I'm going about my day.
I know that there will probably be a few folks who cling to their bitterness (see what I did there?) after the nomination is decided, but most of us will do what we do every election and go out to vote for the candidate who promises to stand up for the things that we believe in, however imperfect a candidate we might find them. And when the choice is between Obama/Hillary or John McCain, I don't think that's a tough choice for most of us to make.