Letters to the Editor
ShawnWM
Published Letters: 1029 Editor's Choice: 4
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@timbunktom - actually not
[Read the article: Clinton wins Ohio]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We need them both in order to beat McCain (P) + Condi (VP).
Not in my opinion. We need HRC and Richardson to win. That brings working class whites, working women, hispanics, and the elderly to our tent. That's all we need.
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@Asher
[Read the article: Clinton wins Ohio]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]she's swept up the states and voters a Dem has to to beat McCain: Catholics, Hispanics, working class voters, the elderly: California, NY, NJ, Mass, Ohio, Penn, Florida.
That Obama has fared so poorly with these crowds AND must-win states for a Dem is very ominious> he would lose in a landslide. That is clear. We can only hope the superdelegates have in fact the good sense to see that, and I THINK they do.
We can't let the Obamateur's pressure them into defeat.
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@AKA SMITH - what you said exactly.
[Read the article: Clinton wins Ohio]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I couldn't say it better or even add onto it. it's obvious she's taken all the states and demographics any Dem needs to win and I can't imagine why anyone would want a Dem candidate that couldn't. As you said they WANT to lose.
Life is good tonight at least I have hope that there are a lot of Democrats with more sense than I thought.
She is saying: "As Ohio goes so goes the nation!"
That's not plagiarized because it is an old and true saying.
Of course, maybe the Democrats prefer to lose. Choose Obama if you like corner-cutters.
She is saying: "We are ready for health care for every American."
She is saying: "We are ready to end the war in Iraq and win the war in Afganistan."
She is saying that when there is a crisis "there is no time for speeches." That you have to be ready to "make a decision."
Of course if you want to elect the guy who was too busy campaigning to tend to the real needs that we have in Afganistan, to accept his NATO responsibilities, vote for Obama.
She is saying: "This nation is coming back and so is this campaign."
If you want to the guy that is willing to say one thing to the voters and another to Canada, vote for Obama.
Personally, I prefer the practical, experienced, honest woman who is ready to answer the phone at 3 am. You can scoff at national security, but I don't.
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@stringer6
[Read the article: Clinton wins Ohio]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't know why, but there seems to be one or more persons singing in and using a lot of offensive bigotry and slurs and seem to want to make it all about race.
Look:
It's not a good enough reason to support a candidate because of his skin pigment. You need to look at what they do for ALL people, particularly the people they have represented. If Obama was going to help blacks any great deal he'd have helped the people in South Chicago instead of himself and his wife.
William Jefferson and Hillary Rodham Clinton have done more to help black people than Obama ever has or will, so get over the race stuff already.
8 years of John McCain will NOT be good for blacks. And that IS what they will get if Obama is the candidate, unfortunately.
Don't be your own worst enemy. Those of us who are supporting Mrs. Clinton are NOT supporting her because she's caucasian.
And that's all I'm going to say about it.
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@Bill Stearns
[Read the article: Clinton wins Ohio]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]First, please tell me you're not comparing Hillary to Bush. Please.
My God but would that it were his 8 years had fared my family as well as the Clinton Administration.
Next, you're making the fatal flaw the left always makes: you assume that YOUR biggest issue is everyones. ie ""
Actually in Texas Iraq was rated BEHIND the economy and healthcare in that order. That shouts that HRC needs to be the nominee, esp as in poll after poll Americans indicate they trust McCain over Obama on foreign policy: by quite a bit.
Really, your hunches aren't realistic here. So do you want a Dem President or a GOPster?
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@LLB
[Read the article: Clinton wins Ohio]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Re: Please give me, a black woman, some examples of the great things that the Clintons have done to help black people that Obama hasn't.
Surely.
First and most importantly, black poverty and unemployment fell: dramatically. Even big gains in the highest unemployed sector in the country: black females.
Second, black first time home buyers went up almost 100%: and this was real progress; not the stuff you saw in the Bush Administration where predatory subprime lenders preyed on poor minorities selling them stuff they couldn't afford.
Third, blacks were appointed for the first time in BIG numbers in the Clinton Administration: Maybe you don't remember Alex Hermann (Secretary of Labor), Vernan Jordan, Jocelyn Elders and Betty Curie: Clinton's own Presidential Secretary, just to name a few. Condoleeza Rice was NOT the first black woman ever on a presidential cabinet, y'know.
Now as for Obama, really? How did he help South Chicago, a predominantly black and very impoverished area one bit? How has Oprah, for another example, helped American blacks? For Godsakes when she had the chance to open a big expensive school to create "black female leaders" she opened it in a foreign country, while insulting American blacks , remember?
Don't get me wrong; Oprah is an admirable woman in many ways. However it's an illustration of how sometimes the people who are going to fight for you the hardest just happen to lie outside your own preoccupation with race.
And that's all.
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I agree with you.
[Read the article: Clinton wins Ohio]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Racial slurs and bigotry are disgusting regardless of who is engaging in them.
One thing I've historically been proud of in the Dems, it was that we have been a multi-colored party : long before it was fashionable.
We should all welcome anyone who wants to vote Dem, and it's been really depressing the past years to watch litmus tests I THOUGHT only existed in the GOP be promoted here.