Letters to the Editor
BryanS
Published Letters: 365 Editor's Choice: 1
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Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill...
[Read the article: Obama takes Wyoming]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I said that "Barack Obama is winning the delegate count and the popular vote, and unless something changes drastically in the dozen or so remaining contests, that's likely to remain true until the last votes are cast."
How can you possibly disagree with that? This is a narrowly framed, factually accurate statement. Counting pledged delegates and superdelegates who have stated a preference, Obama leads Hillary by over 100 delegates, by virtually everyone's count. He's also up by 600,000 in the popular vote without Florida and 300,000 if you break the DNC's own rules and count the Florida votes. The remaining contests are too few and too small to affect these numbers in any significant fashion, in all probability. So, unless something changes drastically, Obama is likely to come out of the last contest with his delegate and popular vote leads intact.
I never said that Obama had this thing locked up, or that it would be impossible for Hillary to wind up the nominee. But I think any reasonable person would have to agree that something would have to change quite drastically between now and the convention for that not to be the case. And by "something drastic," I mean something along the lines of having about 2/3 of the remaining unpledged delegates support Hillary, which would be a dramatic shift from how the superdelegates have been lining up.
You're welcome to make any arguments that you want to make about why you think Hillary should be the nominee, despite Obama's performance in the contests thus far. And yes, you're absolutely right that she could yet become the nominee. But that's irrelevant to my point, which is that Obama is winning and will probably go into the convention with more pledged delegates and popular votes.
Finally, I'm sorry that I incorrectly ascribed your vitriol as being the result of passion for one of the candidates. It's becoming increasingly obvious that you just like to argue with people on the internet. So you have fun with that.
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The racism meme
[Read the article: Obama says Clinton ad "straight out of the Republican playbook"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yes, Obama fans the "Clinton is racist" meme just in time for the Mississippi primary - coincidence?
Seriously! He's even got a member of Hillary's own campaign finance committee making her look like a bigot now! What a sinister manipulator!
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/03/clinton-backer.html
If memory serves, Samantha Power "stepped down" within 24 hours of her "Hillary is a monster" comment breaking in the US media. That gives Gerry Ferry less than 20 hours to declare that she's decided to "spend more time with her family," according to my watch.
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@ Brian Lupiani
[Read the article: Obama says Clinton ad "straight out of the Republican playbook"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If Ferraro wasn't a woman, would Mondale have picked her? She wouldn't be where she is today, either.
Come to think of it, where is she today?
Doing her best to ensure that this country never has a female president, apparently. As if she didn't work hard enough at that 24 years ago.
I have a shiny new penny for any Clinton supporter who tries to claim that Ferraro's remark wasn't racist, and that she was actually saying how great it is that Democrats are rallying around a black candidate. Because you know that's coming.
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@ KateTex
[Read the article: Obama says Clinton ad "straight out of the Republican playbook"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Clinton was ASKED by reporters whether she would entertain the notion of Obama as VP. It's not as if she held a press conference to announce this, something which all too many excited Obama fans are neglecting to take into account.
Yes, the first time she brought up the idea of the two of them running as a ticket, it was because she was asked by a reporter. Of course, when any other candidate is asked that question, they sidestep it by saying that it's premature to even be thinking about it when both candidates are still in the race. You know, sort of like the way Obama did.
Then she and Bill turned it into a talking point in their Mississippi stump speeches and repeated it at least twice more. What's your excuse for that?
And why exactly should we take your "attack timeline" as a legitimate source of objective truth? It's got a frickin' donation link on the main page! How positively shocking that it might portray some of Obama's comments in a negative light...
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@ opus
[Read the article: Obama says Clinton ad "straight out of the Republican playbook"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]as a gay man I'd appreciate you backing off on the slurs, as i think we all know you mean "fairy" or it wouldn't be "funny"
Um, that's a joke, right?
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@ Kate
[Read the article: Obama says Clinton ad "straight out of the Republican playbook"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Perhaps because it's sourced and lists verifiable quotes from a verifiable candidate to verifiable media on verifiable dates over a verifiably long period of time?
Actually, it looks more like biased summaries of cherry-picked quotes assembled by someone who's trying to raise money for a political candidate. I call that propaganda.
What are they teaching in schools these days?
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Opus
[Read the article: Obama says Clinton ad "straight out of the Republican playbook"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Do you seriously think that "ferry" and "kitchen sink" are homophobic and sexist terms, respectively, or are you just trying to point out the absurdity of hypersensitivity?
It's a sad commentary on the state of discourse on this site that I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not.
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@ Opus
[Read the article: Obama says Clinton ad "straight out of the Republican playbook"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Depends upon which half you're talking about. ;)