Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 198 Editor's Choice: 2
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Identity politics has gone WAY too far
[Read the article: Clinton supporters push back against NARAL endorsement]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Get over it, ladies, and move on to the general. I mean, my God, only idiots and Joan Walsh think that Hillary has even the slightest chance. If Hillary got the nomination at this point, or after, it would destroy the Democratic Party for decades.
I'm so sick of the post-menopausal crowd getting up in arms over alleged, perceived slights toward Clinton. She has ovaries!! Wow, let's vote for her. Look at the candidates' records and then make a decision. The rest of this is just crap.
I heard this creepy piece on All Things Considered last evening about why a particular writer loves Clinton. She's a tenacious loser! And so am I!! She has ovaries, and so do I!! She grew up, went to college, and held a job during a blatant sexist era! And so did I!! Blah, blah, blah. This commentator only said a few things about Clinton's record in passing. It was pure crap, wrapped in identity politics. Let's vote for Hillary because she's female. How mindless, stupid, and irresponsible.
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More Clinton sleaze
[Read the article: Wolfson calls planned Obama declaration a "slap in the face"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hillary thought that she would have the whole thing wrapped up by Feb. 5, according to her campaign documents. "Slap in the face"? Come on, does anyone believe this crap besides Joan Walsh?
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More Clinton Tricks and Sleaze
[Read the article: Clinton camp splitting over continued campaign]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The "Five Things" is reporting that Hillary is blaming the media for sexist treatment. She has certainly manufactured much of it, grandstanding, and planting that idiot at a campaign rally to shout "Iron My Shirt". I mean, these are stunts, folks, manufactured to manipulate sympathy for her.
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@ KStone
[Read the article: Clinton camp splitting over continued campaign]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If the Democrats crown Hillary the nominee, despite having fewer popular votes and pledged delegates, you can kiss the Dem Party good-bye for perhaps decades.
There is no way in Hell that many in the Party would put up with the superdelegates choosing Hillary. That, for sure, would destroy the Party for good, and no way in Hell would Hillary win the general against McCain, NOT because she wouldn't be a better president than he (she definitely would)or because she would be an inferior candidate, but simply because the damage to the party would be irreversible. This is an important point to keep in mind. The Supers know this, and they'll go for Obama.
I don't mind Hillary staying in. I just want her to stop whining, stop lying about the MI and FL delegates (the evidence is clear she didn't give a rat's ass about the voters there until she fell behind), stop race-baiting, stop penis-baiting, and set her targets on McCain.
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Ah, the post-menopausal San Francisco female vote (probably a Joan Walsh front)
[Read the article: Clinton camp splitting over continued campaign]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yeah, sexism, that's to blame!!! And these people, including Ms. Walsh, never discuss Hillary's truth problem. Never.
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@ KStone
[Read the article: Clinton camp splitting over continued campaign]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks for your reply.
No, I'm not an avid Obama supporter. I can barely stomach, sometimes, how timid Obama is. I do admire Clinton for her tenacity and fire, but it's wholly misplaced on her part. Clinton's negatives ARE significant, and there is absolutely no doubt that if she's gets the nod, you CAN kiss the Dem's collective ass goodbye. That's just a simple fact.
The Dems are notorious for losing, notorious. What should have been a slam-dunk against a moron in 2000 and 2004 ended up as losses.
The problem with the Dems is that they are NOT LEFT wing enough, not populist enough. Clinton is more reactionary and centrist than Obama, and Obama himself, I fear, can be reigned in by the corporate lobbyists. Just look at health care. Neither one is proposing the only sane solution: a single-payer system. The pharmaceutical companies and the insurance companies made sure of that. Clinton was purchased in the '90s after her failure (and she was right back then about health care, I give her a ton of credit) but she unfortunately didn't evolve her thoughts into a single-payer system. Obama has completely caved in to the issue and the ruling class made sure HE wasn't going to propose anything too radical.
The other thing that bothers me about Obama is that he's kissing the ass of the Zionist vote in this country. Clinton's been doing that for a long while. What can you say about a party that tolerates the likes of Lieberman?
Both Obama and Clinton need to join forces and tell the American people how it is: You've been screwed by the two corporatist parties for over 40 years now, and we represent something new: single-payer healthcare, new trade deals that favor workers, a Manhattan project for our energy needs to wean us off oil, strengthening worker protections to unionize, investing in infrastructure, slashing the military budget by 66%, giving up foreign bases in far-away lands, etc. But, no, it won't happen.
So, in short, I'm giving the Dems one last chance in '08. After this campaign season, however, I'm not too hopeful. If Obama does win, I give him only a 20% chance to make any changes, because the lobbyists will tear him down and buy back Congress.
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Hillary is delusional
[Read the article: Obama claims majority of pledged delegates]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So much so that she'll take this ALL the way to the convention. History won't be so kind to her or her career.