Letters to the Editor
ShawnWM
Published Letters: 1029 Editor's Choice: 4
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super dels and the hypocrisy of the Freddie Krueger Barramites
[Read the article: Geraldine Ferraro still needs to apologize]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well the bottom line is that the superdels have a job to do exactly as you said. Be the grownups and put up the person the pluraity wants that has the best chance to win.
I mean winning IS our objective , right? I'm past wondering if it's that of the Obamateur's though.
I don't want to hear the knee-jerks spout one more time that the superdels are "undemocratic" but somehow delegates assigned by skewed leftie caucuses comprising less than 10% of the primary vote in red states that don't have a prayer of being won should some how democratically decide who our candidate is.
it IS time to grow up folks. Past time. Grow up in a hurry or deal with 8 years of John McCain.
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Nonsense
[Read the article: Geraldine Ferraro still needs to apologize]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Shooter, most of the public has already spoken
Caucuses skewed with a a handful of lefties in states like Idaho and Vermont is NOT the public.
If you haven't learned that by now over the past 30 years I don't know what to tell you.
and that's assuming there's no "buyer remorse" with folks who have already voted early which I believe there is by all late polls.
Polls more than a week or so old are meaningless .
Learn from history.
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@KCM and the popular vote
[Read the article: Geraldine Ferraro still needs to apologize]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You are really being dishonest. Obama is only ahead in the popular vote if you exclude Florida nd Michigan and even then it's a razor thin margin of less than 250,000 votes of which the majority is from once again, hard red states that no Dem is going to take in November. IE, irrelevant.
Whereas Florida and Mich will make a BIG diff in November. (also it's worth noting it was a Republican legislature in Florida that willfully "changed the rules so their votes wouldn't count" ,not the Democrats in Florida).
As for the superdels, it is there JOB to intervene in no-win sitatuations like this and turn them into win situations.
It seems like the entire left and radical black community can't deal with that, and we hear ever more ridulous suggestions to ensure Obama gets nominated such as "splitting 50/50" to ignorning altogether.
I am not interested in appeasing what should be obvious to anyone now is a prospectively the biggest losing ticket since Dukakis, and nobody else should be either.
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Oh, grow up already.
[Read the article: Geraldine Ferraro still needs to apologize]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sorry, but if you think politics as practiced in the Clinton era is the be-all, end-all of statesmanship, you have a very narrow conception of the game. Of course partisanship has always existed, and always will. That doesn't mean it hadn't grown virulent in the 90's, mainly because of the GOP, yes, but also because of the way the Clintons played the game -- i.e. treating everyone who didn't agree with them 100%, including fellow Dems, as sworn enemies. We can do better, and we have, throughout our history. Even during Watergate, it wasn't as bad as it is now.
Grow up. The only sin the Clinton's were guilty of was defeating a Republican twice.
Rather than "create enemies", they endured what amounted to relentless attacks, charlatan investigations and kangaroo court impeachments - of the sort that ANY Dem who defeats them will endure. (if the late Spitzer thing doesn't prove it I don't know WHAT does).
The fact that Mrs. Clinton has survived it all and come out stronger for it is a good thing, not a bad thing. Karl Rove knew he couldn't hurt her favorability ratings any more. Definitely beats an untested candidate that so far can only yell racism and/or amnesia at any peeling under the sappy, empty-blanket of Hope videols.
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Why would that be?
[Read the article: Geraldine Ferraro still needs to apologize]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Just as many Obama supporters think Hillary is devisive. So to blame one side is probably futile. No consensus on the facts and how they matter is likely to emerge anytime soon.
Actually Mrs. Clinton has solidly won over red areas of NY and is faring very well in Reagan Democrat country and among long-lost blue collar workers and the elderly.
The only ones who don't seem to like her (outside of the far right) is the super-leftie types from Vermont and of course blacks intent on nominating da man, even if it means losing the Presidency AND Congress.
As for the personal nature of the messages Obama defenders, I agree, it's been the biggest carnival I've ever witnessed online since the Free Republic, and even then, not by much at all.