Letters to the Editor
joemartin64
Published Letters: 86
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Hillary at the convention
[Read the article: Obama in the Women's Building!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hillary would energize the convention more than Obama in your humble opinion? Honestly? Setting aside who energized the last Dem Convention, under what circumstances would she do so?
How can the convention be energized, if by your own admission, we've given up so many independents by nominating her?
I agree that the Republicans will attack either of them, but she (as and individual, not a female) gives them about 500 times more ammunition than Obama. I promise you they are on their knees right now praying she is nominated instead of Obama.
Let's let the symbolic victories (1st women or african/american president) look after themselves, and win. I haven't heard "win against the Republicans" at all in any of these discussions. No more Democractic Party circular firing squad please.
And still Joan Walsh keeps quiet about the gender/race war within the party over the last ten days. Maybe tomorrow, I hope.
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Joan won't talk
[Read the article: Obama in the Women's Building!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Joan -
I am repeating myself, but you have been silent beyond comprehension on the behavior of HRC, her husband, and her other surrogates and the reactions by Obama (and Edwards) and their surrogates that has created a potentially serious intra-party disagreement that might endure past the next few weeks.
I am an unabashed Obama supporter, and I think you pretty cleary have much stronger feelings for Hillary than him. Please don't not state your thoughts. It's almost cowardly in my mind.
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Morning Joe
[Read the article: Dolores Huerta: "Como se llama" Obama?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Joan -
You have to drop the pretense that you are an objective reporter on this issue. You're only focus on the Nevada union dispute that's been raging for two weeks is this, with no comment on the blatant effort at voter suppression started by the Clinton surrogates. You don't clarify if Bill is full of it on this 5 times the voting power question. Then I see you on MSNBC this morning and you're deliberately obtuse about Obama's point regarding Reagan, and hitting Obama for the radio ad.
You've been silent on the whole Gloria Steinem, MLK/LBJ, Nelson Mandela is no Hillary, Bob Johnson craziness, but if one Culinary Union member says she's been pressured to support Obama - well that's a big story!
Just be honest about where you're coming from as a passionate supporter of HRC. If you can't help it, you can't help it.
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She's not a serious general election candidate
[Read the article: Did Obama win the Nevada delegate count?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Senator Clinton has a former President of the U.S. and a former head of the DNC walking through a Casino strong-arming votes and she still can't convert a slight victory into more delegates - because Barack Obama, of all people, is more appealing in rural Nevada than she is!
Unfortunately, she is toast in a general election. My worst fear is a McCain/Huckabee ticket where both independents and African-Americans do what those people in rural NV did.
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Who said NH women were racist?
[Read the article: Did Obama win the Nevada delegate count?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Rosenkavalier -
HRC has many women supporters who believe electing a woman president is and end in and of itself. Nobody thinks that's racist. If she cannot beat Barack Obama in rural Nevada, how can she win the general election?
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was there a democratic debate tonight?
[Read the article: Dead party walking]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Salon, in the form of Joan Walsh and others, tends to be silent when Hillary Clinton isn't triumphant.
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What's Joan Walsh have going on tonight?
[Read the article: Barack Obama: "Committed Christian -- Called to Bring Change"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Salon's slant toward the Clintons has been driving me crazy since the Gloria Steinem incident. When HRC might lose the Nevada caucus, the Dem primary is of maximum importance; complete with Joan on the ground reporting on the one Culinary Union worker who had a pro-Clinton claim of intimidation.
Obama, with his talk at Ebenezer yesterday and his debate performance tonight, proved himself a more courageous person in 48 hours than Hillary Clinton has over her entire 35 year career.
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I know for certain there was a Democratic debate tonight
[Read the article: Dead party walking]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is the cable out at Salon? Formulating the best, nuanced pro-Hillary account? Look on the internet, you guys can find a transcript and give us your thoughts.
I know there are more pressing issues over the next two weeks during which the fate of the Democratic Party Convention and the general election will be determined. But maybe a little bit of input.
Heads in the sand about internicene warfare and it's results when times are tough doesn't suit you.
Buehler? Buehler?
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My impressions as an Obama supporter
[Read the article: The knives come out in South Carolina]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't understand the reordering of events in the article. Particularly the Wal Mart/Rezco exchange. Obama brought this up in the context of a very effective explanation of the "Reagan had all the good ideas" BS coming from Bill and HRC. Consistent with his position from the start he said he recognized Reagan's ability to assemble a huge majority to get his agenda passed, but drastically disagreed with the results he saw with the closed steel plants on the South Side. Where was Hillary - staunch Democrat and change agent? Serving on Wal Mart's board.
On the defensive she pulls the slum lord crap.
What hasn't been mentioned is the only big audience boo of the evening: Clinton's Rovian my weakness is really my opponent's weakness about I can't tell where you stand on ANY vote. It didn't fly.
Over the last 48 hours Obama's done two things that will be in the history books - the talk at Ebenezer on sunday and "I can't tell who I'm running against."
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Steel Mills
[Read the article: The knives come out in South Carolina]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Cythera45 -
Obama was a community organizer on the South Side where there were STEEL mills closing during the Reagan years while HRC (staunch Democrat and agent for change) sat on Wal Mart's board, not clothing mills. You're right: listening is a skill. A rudimentary understanding of U.S. geography would help too.