Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 151 Editor's Choice: 4
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Bravo to Elizabeth Edwards
[Read the article: Elizabeth Edwards: "Obama was charming"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]For setting the record straight on this canard that got such undeserved coverage in Joan's column. It is clear that for a variety of reasons the Edwards intend to refrain from endorsing anyone until the convention. Their neutrality is fine and should rigorously maintained.
Now if we could only get the Clintons to agree to stop the sniping and rumor-mongering, and general kitchen sink heaving, we could get about the crucial business of electing a Democrat president of the United States.
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Why would Edwards want to be veep
[Read the article: Edwards says he won't run for veep]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When he could be Attorney General in President Obama's cabinet?
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Petition to nowhere
[Read the article: Hillary Clinton's petition ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The more relevant number that we ought to be analyzing today is the $40+ million dollars raised in March by the Obama campaign. Over 1.3 million donors have contributed to that drive representing the determination of a genuine grassroots movement.
This is a tide that cannot be turned back, not even by a desperate last-ditch effort like this lame petition.
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Victimization never wins
[Read the article: Americans more ready for a black president than a woman?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The extremely limited insight this poll provides proves only that Sen. Obama has made more positive inroads than Sen. Clinton. Over the course of this campaign, Sen. Clinton has lost stature as her monumental financial mismanagement, staff fiascos, failure to compete for caucuses, negative attacks against Obama, 109 million dollar income, and above all her "misstatements" about sniper fire and the death of the Ohio mother have contributed to an impression of incompetance and dishonesty. She has frittered away the tremendous good will and positive image she had before the race began. In contrast, Sen. Obama has gained immensely in stature due to the strength, calm, decisiveness, and mature leadership he has demonstrated under pressure. In other words, where he seems presidential, she does not.
The preferences exhibited in this poll have nothing to do with general attitudes toward blacks and women. They have everything to do with specific attitudes toward Sen. Clinton and Sen. Obama.
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Animated Campaign
[Read the article: Barack Obama in suspended animation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Let's see, just this weekend we learned the following:
-- The Clintons' income over the past seven years topped 109 million dollars. While they apparently gave 10 million to charity, only two million was actually disbursed, the rest stayed safely in the Clinton Foundation, away from the tax collectors. Working every day for the working class? Not!
-- Sen. Clinton's oft-repeated campaign trail story about the tragic death of a young Ohio mother was firmly rebuked by the hospital involved in the case. Yet another example of Clintonian exaggeration to support a campaign claim.
-- The Clintons' trusted strategist, Mark Penn was caught lobbying for the Colombian Free Trade Agreement, which Sen. Clinton supposedly opposes. The Clintons get "furious" and sideline Penn, but retain him as a pollster. Where is the firmly worded repudiation of Penn's conflicted position? Where is the outrage from the so-called champion of blue collar workers?
-- Another super delegate (Campbell of Montana) comes out in support of Sen. Obama, making the current total 69 supers for Obama since Feb. 4 as against only nine for Sen. Clinton.
The trend is steady, uni-directional, and inexorable. This is not a campaign in suspended animation, but rather a Clinton campaign in clear free fall. No need for her to call off the campaign; at this rate, it will reach the vanishing point in less than two months.
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Hypocrisy Unbound
[Read the article: Reports of Penn's ouster may be greatly exaggerated]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The disdain for the truth evidenced by Sen. Clinton and her campaign associates boggles the mind. In this most recent and egregious example, she retained the multi-million dollar services of Mark Penn after giving the public the impression that she was removing him from her campaign.
This is not the behavior or a champion of the working people of America. Sen. Clinton, with her 109 million dollar haul over the past seven years, is no more qualified to represent the interests of blue-collar citizens than was Marie Antoinette. All her tears and emotional declarations notwithstanding, Sen. Clinton champions the interests of Wall Street rather than Main Street.
Labor union members, blue collar workers, average citizens, arise and reject this hypocrite who belittles your intelligence while asking you to repeatedly overlook her lies.
Aux urnes, mes citoyens!
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We need to support our troops
[Read the article: Some in the military like pro-withdrawal candidates]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... and take to heart their message. They want to come home. They realize they are fighting in a civil war at least one century old. They sense that the Iraqi government is a terribly long way from being able to stand on its own. They know that they have not been provided with adequate arms and supplies to fight this war. They fear that they will not be given enough medical and financial support when they return home from their tours to attend to their physical and emotional traumas. They are haunted by the threat of being sent back to Iraq as part of the "stop-loss" program. They have witnessed the damage their long service is doing to their families and communities at home.
They wish to come home. And they are looking to us to deliver them a president who can make this wish come true.