Letters to the Editor
BryanS
Published Letters: 365 Editor's Choice: 1
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@ AKA Smith
[Read the article: What does Hillary want?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]To tell you the truth, I lived in poverty much of life. I was once homeless and once lived on $500 a month --yes in the 21st century, so I, like many people who have been truly poor have a bit of trouble feeling privileged.
If this is true, and you were living on $500 a month in the 21st century, then that means that within the last eight years, you've improved your situation to the point where you now teach students somewhere (kind of a frightening thought), presumably now have a roof over your head, and can apparently afford to spend all day arguing on the internet, instead of panhandling for dinner.
How many homeless people earning six grand a year can say this, do you think? And how is that not reflective of some sort of privilege on your part, even if it's just the privilege of having been born in a country where such things are possible?
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@ KateTex
[Read the article: What does Hillary want?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So who said I was voting for McCain? You know something I don't know?
"Toby, the sheer tonnage of what I know that you don't would be enough to stun a brace of oxen."
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@ KateTex II
[Read the article: What does Hillary want?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have been up for two days -- flew to Washington so I could speak to my so-called elected representatives first hand.
Yeah, how's that going for you?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/09/clinton-supporters-send-l_n_100979.html
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Little known fact
[Read the article: RNC debuts attack against Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The internet was actually the McCain's second choice of venue for this ad. Originally, he wanted it inserted between the newsreels and Buck Rogers serials at cinemas across all 48 states.
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Holla atcha boy
[Read the article: What does Hillary want?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]AKA Smith said:
I do apologize to you for the t-shirt crack (but you need to take a closer look at the posts of BryanS).
Seriously. That dude is hilariously awesome.
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Is it just me...
[Read the article: Whither John Edwards?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... or is the War Room starting to turn into the place where Salon reposts other sites' articles a few hours after they've gone up elsewhere? We're not baby birds. We really don't need to have our food chewed for us.
And if you're just going to surf the web all day and report on what everyone else is reporting, could you at least rename this thing "Blog Report" and give us Steve Benen back?
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@ Brian - Seattle
[Read the article: Double, double toil and trouble in Berkeley]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Code Pink annoys everyone else.
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Understatement of the year
[Read the article: What should Hillary Clinton do now?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Clinton has every right to continue, of course. But she has to realize the results in Indiana and North Carolina significantly dimmed her hopes for the nomination."
Yes, and Hurricane Katrina was "quite a rainstorm."
Every day that Hillary stays in this race with no hope of winning it, she just makes herself look like an even bigger jackass. And every time she makes a tin-eared statement (equating "white" with "hard-working," for example), that brings us that much closer to ensuring that she'll never have a chance at running in 2012. And that suits me just fine.
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Hillary doesn't have the option of dropping out
[Read the article: Obama takes superdelegate lead?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]From what's being reported, Hillary is currently in debt to the tune of $25 million, about half of which is from personal loans she and Bill extended to her campaign (much of the other half is owed to super-consultant Penn the Hutt). If she wants to see that money back, she needs to raise it between now and the Democratic convention in August. After the contest is over, she can only repay herself $250,000, according to federal election law.
http://www.slate.com/id/2190880/
So I don't think that this is a matter of Hillary not realizing that it's over. I think it has more to do with the fact that she can't publicly admit that without seriously compromising her already anemic fundraising and flushing millions of her own dollars down the toilet.
That means that the few contributing supporters she has left are not improving her odds of victory one bit. They're sending Mark Penn an eight-figure thank-you note for the "heckuva job" he did in helping to snatch Hillary's defeat from the jaws of victory, and they're subsidizing the unwise investments Hillary made in her own lost cause.
That also means that Hillary is having to force herself to go through the motions of campaigning, even though she must know that she's finished. She can't go negative against Obama without risking massive superdelegate retaliation in the name of party unity (not to mention her family's political legacy), and in the dire state she's in, she's certainly not going to out-hope Obama.
How awful it must be to have to put yourself through the grueling paces of a presidential primary that has already gone on longer than any in history, knowing full well that you have absolutely no chance of victory. If she hadn't spent the last two months running a brutally negative campaign against the most inspiring candidate I've seen in my lifetime, I'd almost have to feel sorry for her.