Letters to the Editor
Baloo.
Published Letters: 223 Editor's Choice: 8
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A white Barack Obama is like a horse with a single horn on its head!
[Read the article: Geraldine Ferraro still needs to apologize]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Besides the fact that there are millions of African American men and very, very few of them are anywhere near where Barack Obama is, Ferraro's argument that he is where he is today because he is black is fallacious in a still more essential way.
If Barack Obama were white he would not be Barack Obama at all, he would be someone entirely different. You cannot subtract one thing from a person, especially something as important as his/her race, and expect that everything else would stay in place.
A Barack Obama who is not African-American is a fiction like a horse with a single horn on its head. You are thinking far too simplistically if you believe that you could wipe away his race and still retain something of the man who stands before us today.
So, yes. Barack Obama would not be where he is today if he were white because if he were white he would not be Barack Obama at all. Just as John McCain would not be where he is if he where black.
If John McCain were black he would not be John McCain at all.
Ferraro's comments are not just politically incorrect. They are inane, insipid and insidious.
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Could a white guy with such thin credentials have made it as far as Obama?
[Read the article: Geraldine Ferraro still needs to apologize]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Some of the least experienced presidents in our history:
James Madison
Abraham Lincoln
Woodrow Wilson
John F. Kennedy
All them were white and made it to the White House despite their "thin" credentials.
Two of the most experienced Presidents in our history:
Calvin Coolidge
Richard Nixon
Also white!
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Obama's first State of the Union speech!
[Read the article: Obama's speech on race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]An amazing and moving speech that touched on all the issues and addressed all Americans together, as a union! I've said it before and I'll say it again: This man was born to be president of these Unites States of America.
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Edwards' supporters!
[Read the article: Obama's speech on race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Write a letter to former senator Edwards here:
http://www.johnedwards.com/about/contact/form/
Tell him it's time we ended this frivolous race for the Democratic nominee! Let's put an end to this.
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Joan, Joan, Joanie!
[Read the article: Was Obama's speech enough?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You feel for the grandmother, who Obama says was a bit of a bigot, but you have no sympathy for the pastor, who was on the receiving end of that racism for all of his tender, formative years in the 1940s and 50s and probably on into most of his adult life.
The man said some wild things no doubt but they are words spoken in anger. Anyone can see that! But, he has been a model citizen in every other way, serving in the Marines and pulling himself up by his bootstraps. He has also committed his life to serving the black community. Are we, and Obama, supposed to throw him under the bus because of some heated comments? Give me a break.
I think George Bush, our president, has done far worse things than Jeremiah Wright and look how forgiving we are towards him. Why not cut the guy some slack. He didn't ask to be on a national stage and pasting together a handful of snippets from a 20 years career of preaching is hardly damning evidence.
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Note to Democratic surrogates: Hit them back with everything you got, over and over again!
[Read the article: The GOP attack plan for Barack Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]McCain is OLD, can't remember things, makes fumbling mistakes, play the video clips over and over and over.
The Republicans are racists! Their racism has inflamed half the world in a war against East vs. West. Their racism manifests itself here by boycotting the NAACP debates. Find graphic, obscene clips of Republicans and their surrogates saying hateful things (Falwell and the life), run them together and show them over and over again.
First they tried to scare you with Osama Bin Laden (one of his videos will pop up just a week before the general election). Now they want to scare you with Jeremiah Wright, the bin Laden of America. Show clips of Europeans, Africans, Asians, people all over the world protesting US aggression, Republican aggression. Tear the mask off their bravado and swagger and show them for the insecure pussies they are!
'They put one of you in the hospital, you send one of them to the morgue!'
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Hillary is a monster!
[Read the article: The Democrats' anti-momentum]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There are so many things wrong with this article, I don't know where to begin.
First of all, aren't you the guy who wrote a piece for Salon after the Texas and Ohio primaries saying that a protracted battle was good for the Democratic party, that it would get them publicity and get McCain ignored therefore making them that much stronger? You were wrong then and you're still wrong.
Bill Richardson's endorsement was overdue and welcome. The real self-interested parties in this race are the superdelegates who have not made a committment yet. They are patiently waiting on the sidelines, hedging their bets, and hoping to play a juicy role as deal brokers at the 11th hour. What they don't realize is that in the meantime Hillary Clinton is going to piss away their chances of taking back the White House. She and her husband have all but endorsed McCain for president. Hillary's new motto is "If not me then McCain." Witness her husband's attempt to cast dispersions on Obama's "patriotism" this past weekend. Straight out of the Republican play book.
We all know Clinton has no way of pulling this off except the shady way and the fact that she's sticking with it in hopes that the American people simply won't mind or that we'll look the other way when that ugly moment comes--she's got another thing coming to her.
Why don't more superdelegates grow some balls and make a decision. The Democratic nominating system is screwed up but the party elders can use their influence and their votes to fix it if only they weren't such a bunch of panzies.
Let's put an end to this thing!