Letters to the Editor
joemartin64
Published Letters: 86
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Blaming Obama for Wright
[Read the article: Why Jeremiah Wright is so wrong]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]is like blaming John Kerry for Cardinal Law. Nobody made that connection then, but Joan Walsh would ignore that speech Obama made in Philadelphia as if it never occurred. She'll ruin Obama if that's what supporting a woman candidate over all other considerations dictate. I think Joan's behavior is now undeniably underhanded and despicable. What a phony, and what a blind unwitting stooge enabling the Republicans in the general election. Get over it Joan, he is the nominee.
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Joan watched and re-watched the interview with Wright
[Read the article: Why Jeremiah Wright is so wrong]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]so as to be fully prepared to comment on it. I take this to mean that it took her all weekend to refine her hit piece to cover her back with lines like "In the end, I think the reasons Wright hurts Obama are less about race than about radicalism."
Um, no. It's race before radicalism, no doubt about it - it has scary black people written all over it. Good for him that Obama has never sought to cloak his bad outcomes by playing the victim card, as Hillary Clinton and her supporters have.
If radicalism is more hurtful in this campaign than race, then Hillary Clinton is about to take another bad trip straight down because of her much more direct connections to radical 60's underground figures (through her internship at a Northern California law firm founded by communists as detailed by Tom Hayden in The Nation, as well as her potentially bogus claim that she didn't know what her husband was doing pardoning the two Weather Underground members who actually killed the two coppers in NY) will surely torpedo any slim remaining hope she has of even making up the remaining distance between her and Obama.
I'm sure Joan will express her concern about Hillary's unelectability regarding such an issue as fully as she has nobly, earnestly, honestly done so with her forthright analysis of Obama's campaign difficulties.
By the way, I thought Obama did very well on Fox today.
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Wasn't this on Salon a few days ago?
[Read the article: Flagging America's racial divide]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I apologize for my near term memory loss, but was this re-posted just now or not?
I've been tied up by Joan Walsh's navel gazing regarding her two overriding issues: 1) Can Hillary ever overcome the insurmountable sexism she faces, and 2) Will Rev. Wright and Obama's skills at bowling ever overcome Hillary Clinton's common touch - her uncanny ability to connect with every white voter by taking, gingerly, in multiple steps, a shot of Crown Royal right in front of a camera.
Either way, this photo must ultimately make it somehow impossible for Obama to win in the general election, so Hillary should win the superdelegates.
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Joe can't believe you are doing this.
[Read the article: Did Sidney Blumenthal cross the line?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You just wrote that your honest belief is that Sidney's e-mails to you of negative pieces re Obama from National Review/WeeklyStandard was nothing more than keeping in touch. You and Gene Lyons were my heroes during the Clinton impeachment, and now you pull this. My first knee jerk reaction is you have gone over to the dark side like Joan Walsh. Prove me wrong.
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Magnequench Joe
[Read the article: Did Sidney Blumenthal cross the line?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I honestly cannot believe you're actually engaging in spin to this degree. I really can't. Magnequench Joe. Get back to reporting the truth about politicians who are full of it.
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Magnequench
[Read the article: Hillary Clinton's big, brass ... fortitude]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Evan Bahy apparently has blamed the Clinton Administration for allowing the highly sensitive defense sector jobs at the firm in Valporaiso IN. This is the same firm that Hillary has repeatedly singled out to criticize the behavior of the Bush Administration. If George Stephanoupolis does not ask her about this tomorrow, I will never wear a flag lapel pin again.
P.S. I love salonparody.blogspot.com
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Salon - Fair and Balanced like Fox
[Read the article: A pivotal day for the Democrats?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You guys are ridiculous on the order of Fox News. I just read all the way through to the end of this crap, and finally found the footnote that qualifies everything that comes before - she's toast, and Obama will win the nomination.
None of this kitchen sink has diminished Obama to a greater degree than Clinton. She has earned (fully, in my opinion) an un-alterable reputation as a bullshit artist of the first order.
Higher negatives - Clinton.
Tiresome self-defeating political tactics- Clinton
Fewer down ticket prospects - Clinton
Sign me up, she must be better than Obama, even if he wins more delegates, primaries, and we don't count caucuses, but do count Michigan (which Clinton said doesn't count) and FL, and he doesn't have the same negatives heading into the general that she has.
Nominate her at all costs?
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Tomorrow is a pivotal day
[Read the article: A pivotal day for the Democrats?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]for either Salon.com or Salonparody.com
I know which one I'm rooting for.
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And so the Joan Walsh thread debates end
[Read the article: Obama gracious in N.C. victory]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama is going to be the Dem Nominee, and all the crazy vituperation on the responses to Joan's posts over the last several months reach a conclusion. Obama cannot win the general election (just as HRC could not have won the general election) without a consolidation between both camps.
I hope that will work itself out: in fact I think it will absent some Ralph Nader-type nihilistic movement.
Either way it would have broken historic barriers, a woman or black guy.
I think the more honest, decent of the two candidates won, and that is a great boon for the Democratic cause.
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Begala ticked off Donna
[Read the article: The Brazile-Begala smackdown]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Not the other way around.
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Joan -
[Read the article: How much will white racism hurt Obama?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks for your timely informed opinion on Hillary Clinton's current primary strategy - maybe the young energetic hope of the democratic party in times of trouble will be assasinated.
All I can say about it is that Hillary finally crossed a line for which even she knew required an immediate apology. Thoughts Joan? or do we have to wait until next friday evening for you to post again on something Obama has done that concerns you in the interim?
P.S. Obama leads McCain substantially in the latest Ohio poll.