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cythera45
[Read the article: Networks say Clinton will win Pennsylvania]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well, you and I share one thing: sick of the Dems putting up loser after loser. Although I am FAR to the left of most Dems, as I was a member of the Democratic Socialists of America in college. You are 6 years my senior.
I come from Indiana farmland territory. My parents never went to college. Cause mama worked her ass off I got to go to private school after she divorced papa and moved to the big city (there's only one in Indiana). Went to college then grad school. I wouldn't say I'm rich, but make more than enough to live comfortably.
Clinton, if she wins, should stop the petty bullshit in the campaign because it's both mindless and boring, and very caustic for the Dems. For me, it's really about her abysmal record (and yes, she IS claiming she was co-president so it's far to judge her on HIS record too): botching healthcare in 1993-4 as we really needed healthcare; ending welfare as "we know it"; Lani Guinier; Joycelyn Elders; gays in the military (remember that ONE?); NAFTA, and of course, the endless caving and sucking ass of the Republicans. Come on, the Clintons LOST both houses of Congress and therefore couldn't get shit done for working people.
When Obama talks about how much it has sucked for working people (like my dad and mom) during the last 20 years, it is absolutely true. Wages have only gone up AT MOST 1 % since that time. Working people look back at the '90s and think "My god, I was getting the shit kicked out of me only once a month" compared to every day now. It's like Malcolm X said "The only way they can get you to vote for a fox is to show you a wolf."
So, I'm really sick of Madame Republican Light. I haven't TOTALLY made up my mind to vote for her if she wins the nomination (which she most likely won't).
It could be that Obama turns into a total corporate whore, and his latest tactics in Pennsylvania don't encourage me. However, I'm willing to give him a chance now.
So I guess we were both disgusted, but went different directions.
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What exactly is a "Troll"?
[Read the article: Networks say Clinton will win Pennsylvania]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Uh, in the gay subculture it has a very distinct meaning but I never figured out what it is on a message board.
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Melthough
[Read the article: Networks say Clinton will win Pennsylvania]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A "troll" in the gay subculture (of which I am a member) is an old man who cruises bars or sex clubs or the street looking for younger men/boys. He solicits sex even after having been rejected, and won't take "no" for an answer. Sometimes he'll even stalk the younger men.
So, I kind of see a parallel here?
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Here is What Happened in Ohio
[Read the article: Networks say Clinton will win Pennsylvania]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Here in Ohio, most insiders of the Democratic Party don't believe that Hillary won here among Democrats. The primary was open; all you had to do was show up and sign a form, then vote. Every right wing nutjob in the rural counties was having some fun by fucking up the primary. They want a good fight among the Dems because the Republicans already had chosen theirs. The Republicans don't want to go up against Obama, he's too foreign. I think they would prefer Hillary, she's more familiar.
Same thing in Pennsylvania in the rural counties. Hillary wins by huge margins. Folks, these old slob goobers in the hill country are not voting Democratic come November. No friggin' way!
Obama is up by 10 points or more nationally among Democrats. Yes, there may be slightly more Hillary supporters in rural counties but not by 25-30 points. Most of these people are going to go with their really old favorites: Repubs. These people are extremely easily manipulated with commercials with Fascist overtones.
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Republicans are Voting for Clinton, Folks
[Read the article: Clinton: "The tide is turning"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Some of these Hill jacks in Pennsylvania and in Ohio, and in Texas are Republicans voting in the primary. They aren't voting Democratic come November.
For Democrats, Obama is preferred.
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Joan, you spend too much time with TV pundits
[Read the article: What Pennsylvania tells us]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama and his supporters are not elitist. The elites are in the Republican Party. Elitist is as elitist does: exclusionary politics so only the rich get any benefits. Tax cuts to the rich, health care only for the rich, college education only for the rich, everything for the rich. The rest are fucked.
The Clintons hardly did any thing to stop this acceleration of America becoming a right-wing Fascist shit-hole where the working class lose wages, jobs, health care. Now, the basics are even slipping away: mortgages, fuel, food costs are going up, every thing.
Elitist is: you can't have what I have, so screw you. Talking in honest terms about how people have been manipulated and how psychologically they can cling to what is dear to them blind them to the economic realities of life is not elitist.
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@Melthough
[Read the article: Burden on superdelegates gets even heavier]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You are absolutely right about Clinton. She is, well, lying when she claims that the voters must be heard (MI and FL) and then turns around and tells some pundit in an interview that PLEDGED delegates can vote "their consciences" presumably voting for her instead of Obama.
I mean, this is illogical and contradictory. It's as if she's a dumb-ass and has no basic reasoning skills, which is not the case. She's lying and manipulative when she says these things, and she has said it more than once, so this isn't a case of her "mis-speaking". It doesn't make me want to vote for her. My god, this should be huge for voters, but for some reason, it's not.
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@Maddie
[Read the article: Burden on superdelegates gets even heavier]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I've posted twice last night that many, many people voting in the primaries in Ohio and PA are NOT voting for the Dems in November. I think that many people, especially in rural areas, are newbies and voted for Hillary because they love to watch a good fight among the Dems and weaken them for the November election. I mean, every right-wing nut job on the radio was imploring listeners to vote in Ohio's primary, which Clinton one. Same thing happened in PA. These people are not core Democrats let alone progressives. No way.
You're right!