Letters to the Editor
BryanS
Published Letters: 365 Editor's Choice: 1
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@ Wink
[Read the article: "We lost this thing in February"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why was Lanny Davis all over CNN trying to spin this as a victory for Clinton?
This is just a guess on my part, but it's probably because he's a paid liar.
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@ KStone
[Read the article: Clinton backer McGovern now wants her to drop out]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So just mentioning his middle name name is obsessing over it, huh? Funny...
Well, how many other candidates have been referred to with all three names? I don't think I read too many stories about John Sidney McCain III, or Johnny Reid Edwards, or Michael Dale Huckabee. Hell, even Hillary Rodham Clinton put a lid on the use of her middle name when she realized that making that symbolic gesture of independent womanhood didn't play so well in the heartland.
So, yeah, I think that compulsively mentioning one candidate's middle name and not the others' is a little weird. Even obsessive, one might say.
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Quote of the day
[Read the article: Clinton: "I am in this race"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Lieberman couldn't say exactly what process would let Clinton emerge with the nomination, but she was certain her logic was compelling, and that was the bottom line. "If people stop and think a minute, then she has an excellent chance."
This perfectly sums up the caricature of the diehard Hillary supporter: someone so out of touch with the state of the campaign that they still think that she still has any chance whatsoever of winning the nomination.
Team Clinton has derided Obama supporters from the get-go as a bunch of delusional idealists completely divorced from reality. And yet, it's Hillary's most rabid supporters who ignore her pledged delegate deficit, her shrinking superdelegate lead (which will be gone by this time next week), her popular vote deficit (even counting Florida), her bankrupt campaign, and the fact that she's only won half as many contests as Obama. And then they have the nerve to say things like, "if people stop and think a minute, then she has an excellent chance."
The only way you could continue to hold out hope for Hillary is if you're doing the exact opposite. The last thing Hillary needs is for her supporters to stop and think a minute. It would be the final nail in her campaign's coffin.
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I think this is great!
[Read the article: "There's a pattern emerging here"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The longer that Hillary stays in this race despite having no chance of winning it, and the more she shoots her fool mouth off by vomiting up tone-deaf, offensive, and flat-out ludicrous statements like this, the less we need to worry about her rearing her head again in 2012. It's a good thing that her gas tax gimmick has no chance of success, because she's going to need some serious highway funds to repair the hundreds of bridges she's burned to the ground during this campaign.
Of course, in 2012, she'll probably still be paying off her campaign debt from 2008, which is apparently closer to $20 or $25 million than the $10 million figure that's been reported:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/08/stephanopoulos-clinton-de_n_100790.html
Bill better get to speechifyin'!