Letters to the Editor
Green Job
Published Letters: 220 Editor's Choice: 3
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Terrible Ad
[Read the article: Step 2 in defining McCain: He's really rich]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's way too long
The narrator's voice is irritating and distracting. If this were playing onn TV, I would have flipped the channel.
The edits of McCain speaking were so clipped that they came off as being taken out of context.
And so what if he married money? Are people only allowed to marry within their own socio-economic class?
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Not looking good for McCain
[Read the article: Networks say Clinton will win Pennsylvania]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He's essentially running unopposed and I still haven't heard a single network call it for him.
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Concrete examle of negative tactics by Obama
[Read the article: Obama can't close the deal ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Calling someone, in effect, a liar is a negative tactic. And I don't think you can disown it when Obama's top campaign person does it.
On Meet the Press this week, David Axelrod called Clinton a liar when she stated that his healthcare plan would leave 15 million people uninsured.
MR. AXELROD: I think she had—I think she was a—had a very strong performance the other night. I, I’ll give her that. We’ve had 20 some-odd debates and you know, everybody’s had good nights and bad nights, and she, I think, did—I think that she did well. I just want to go back to something Geoff said, though. He said, “Our events were positive; we’re talking about solutions.” Yesterday in Pennsylvania, Senator Clinton said that Senator Obama’s health care plan would leave 15 million Americans in the cold.
MR. GARIN: In response to your negative ad.
MR. AXELROD: Just a second. Just a second. “Just leave them in the cold.” She knows that that’s not true. The Washington Post broke that there—you couldn’t find a person who wouldn’t be able to get health care who wants it under the Obama plan. So she repeated something that she’s been told isn’t true, and she, she did anyway.
See http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24226233/page/3/
Despite what Axelrod said, there is evidence that 15 million people would be uninsured:
Back in the fall, Clinton took to citing a statistic that Obama's plan would leave out 15 million of the uninsured, a number that Obama has questioned. In a Feb. 2 debate on CNN, Obama said: "I dispute that there are 15 million people out there who don't want [insurance]. I believe that there are people who can't afford it, and if we provide them enough subsidies, they will purchase it."
Frankly, we also found the number to be "dubious" last November when Clinton used it in a debate. Her campaign said at the time she based her claim on a column by The New Republic’s Jonathan Cohn.
However, Gruber says the 15 million figure is reasonable and perhaps even too low.
See http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/theyve_got_you_covered.html
Of course, the Obama campaign has a pretty flexible definition of negative campaiging. When Obama criticizes Clinton's policies, that's both fair and necessary so that voters can evaluate the candidates. When Clinton criticizes Obama's policies, that's negative campaigning.
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Infallibility
[Read the article: Is Obama really standing up for gay rights?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's not just for popes anymore.
Didn't you know that Alex?
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Given how many times Obama said he's be willing to bomb Pakistan...
[Read the article: What should Obama do about Rev. Jeremiah Wright?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...maybe Obama should just say he didn't listen to any of it, especially the love thy neighbor bit; unless Obama loves them so much he wants to send them to Jesus.
Wright's right about one thing: Obama is just another politician .
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Obama locks-up key Rip Van Winkle demographic
[Read the article: Obama "outraged" by Wright]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"I am outraged by the comments that were made and saddened by the spectacle that we saw yesterday," Obama told reporters about Rev. Jeremiah Wright. "The person that I saw yesterday was not the person that I had come to know over 20 years."
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Obama, who added that Wright had shown "little regard for me" and seemed more concerned with "taking center stage."
[Read the article: Obama "outraged" by Wright]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That is rich.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/04/29/obama.wright/
By the way, does this mean that Obama has "disowned" Wright? I ask because when Obama gave the greatest speech every given by anyone on anything in Philadelphia a few weeks ago, Obama said, "I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community"
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Obama "outraged" he's been exposed as a typical politician
[Read the article: Obama "outraged" by Wright]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...which is Obama's real problem.
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Re: What's it going to take...
[Read the article: Why Obama denounced Wright]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Isn't that just another example of political expedience?
And here I thought Obama represented a different kind of politics - someone who transcended...well, pretty much every thing: race, partisanship, political expedience etc. A candidate who said he spoke hard truths and who said he would tell people not what they wanted to hear, but what they needed to hear. A candidate whose opinion of someone wouldn't vary as he climbed the polticial ladder.
But is he still the second coming? After all, even Jesus got to denounce the money changers in the temple.
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Imagine a presidential candidate
[Read the article: Why the Jeremiah Wright story deserves more attention]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]who claims he's qualified due to his National Security Experience, yet who doesn't know the difference between Sunni and Shia, and who would defer to Allen Greenspan on all matters economic.
Now imagine a candidate who claims she's qualified, in part, because of the number of years she served in a largely ceremonial, albeit important, role, and who claims she risked life-and-limb to bring peace to Bosnia.
Now imagine a candidate who claims he's qualified because he represents a new kind of politics that enables us to solve our problems by transcending partisanship, and who turns out to be a typical pandering politician.
Of course, when the media point out that McCain or Clinton is full of crap, it's OK to broadcast that 24/7.
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Re - Fundamentally Unfair
[Read the article: Obama: "I am outraged"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It is fundamentally unfair and dishonest to suggets that Obama and his pastor MUST have the same views.
It's fundamentally unfair and dishonest for Obama to expect me to believe that he had no idea about Wright's views given
- Obama knew Wright for 20 years
- Obama belonged to Wright's church for 16 years
- Obama was active in the community during this time
- Obama was baptized and married by Wright
- Obama had his children baptized by Wright
- Obama thought of Wright as family
- Obama titled his second autobiography after one of Wright's sermons
unless Obama is the worst judge of character in the world, easily gulled, or suffering from Early-onset Alzheimer's.