Letters to the Editor
ShawnWM
Published Letters: 1029 Editor's Choice: 4
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@TomPayne
[Read the article: Obama, Clinton and the black-brown divide]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't think you should trust the polls. First, most of them like Gallup are owned by the GOP, and secondly these are the same polls that told us Kerry had the presidency, remember.
The polls that HAVE shown Obama likely to beat McCain were well within the 2% margin of error. Of course the same is true of Mrs. Clinton. John McCain will NOT be easy to beat which is why I implore the Obama crowd to please stop being so reactionary and being so intent on attacking Hillary and instead focus on the electoral math.
I don't, and never have, disputed that Obama is a highly intelligent man. He obviously is so and at a book level may well be smarter than Hillary and McCain combined for all I know. However he's made some serious mistakes in his campaign that stem directly from political naivety (sp?)/lack of experience in fighting the right, something she knows how to do very well. It's also true that the GOP will have heydey with his favorable ratings, arguably already are, while they've done whatever damage they could to hers a long time ago. Third, it's also indisputable that Obama has faired poorly in delegate rich states that any Dem would have to be able to rely on to win against the GOP and among critical demographics ranging from the elderly to hispanics.
There are many reasons to believe he will fare miserably in a general election and at the end of the day all I really give my dime about is the electoral math that will decide who gets in the WH, who sets the federal budget, sets the tax code, appoints the cabinet and the Supreme Court Justices, and if I thought that our best chance was Obama I'd be the first to join in your passion. I just happen not to.
Meanwhile I'm tired of watching the country freefall into a two-tiered subequadorian hellhole where truckdrivers and bookkeepers are paying higher tax rates than the re-established Gilded Class all as they wait for their jobs to be outsourced and elminated and with no social safety net to help them when that happens while yet again the Dems snatch defeat from victory's jaws.
We talked earlier about your former hospital registration and certification experience, so you should know about the bad shape Americans are in these days financially and jobwise and that frankly is the only thing I am particularly impassioned about.
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The Obama Nanny State of Mind
[Read the article: Who would the GOP rather face?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There's a constant drumbeat about why Hillary will lose to John McCain and endless whining about her making Obama vulnerable to Republican attacks. No one really deals upfront with Obama's vulnerabilities nor the damage that Obama and his supporters inflict on Hillary daily that will expose her to Republican attacks. It's like Hillary is the unwanted stepchild of the Democratic Party.
I think it's that exactly. I don't know which is worse, the foul-mouthed Obama supporters insisting that skewed caucuses of latte-liberals who can take a day off to caucus are a "fair and balanced" and want to shove this obviously loser candidate down our throats McGovern style, or those that insist he's entitled to the nomination despite his woeful lack of experience and tender archilles heel, simply because he's half minority. (oh, and that those of us who don't agree he's entitled to it are card-carrying KKK members).
If she gets the nomination the Republican's will exploit that but I guess Hillary is used to fighting her own battles.
And winning at it.
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Pot.Kettle.Black.
[Read the article: Who would the GOP rather face?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yes, because everyone knows that the best thing for the economy is four more years of tax breaks for the rich. And the best thing for our foreign policy is another 100 (or 10,000) years in Iraq. That's why I'll vote for McCain, no matter what. Because another 4 to 8 years of Bush policies is exactly what our country needs right now
Whereas you're so concerned about it that you're going to keep ignoring the electoral math and promoting this fantasy that Barrack Obama is somehow going to suddenly appeal to the elderly, blue collars, hispanics, Asians and Catholics that clearly want no part of him which makes virtually every big electorate state a Dem needs to win besides Illinois, suddenly in play for John McCain.
Plus I'm sure the Republicans will have all sorts of difficulty finding ways to smear a guy who has had two Muslim fathers, connections to indicted slumlords, has no foreign policy experience whatsoever, and has pretty much based his entire campaign on a speech about Iraq when he didn't have to worry about the consequences of it.
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didn't have that even
[Read the article: Obama, Clinton and the black-brown divide]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's the same reason people are angry at Democrats in congress for not ending the war or working other magic, when they have a two vote margin in the Senate, where change goes to die
Actually they didn't have that even most of the time. Remember that Johnson was absent on medical for over a year and that the House Dems had a whopping , what, 17 person majority, with Der Bushster vetoing what little they DID get done.
Nonetheless, stalwart Republican apologists like Glenn Greenwald and Lou Dobbs could be counted upon for a daily dose of brown stuff about what atrocities the Dem majority was committing in not having instantly turned the economy around on a dime, ended Iraq, closed Bush's 400 or 500 billion dollar deficits, and whatever else he could pull out of his..er, hat.
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@ignatius
[Read the article: Obama, Clinton and the black-brown divide]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]thanks. believe it or not most people,I've found, DO come to like me. Back atcha.