Letters to the Editor
BadgerBlue
Published Letters: 193 Editor's Choice: 7
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Bionic? Moronic would be more fitting description of Clinton's quest
[Read the article: Hillary Clinton's bionic quest continues]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Unless upon reading the word, one conjures up images from the old '70's TV shows with Lee Majors and Lindsay Wagner. As I recall, to actually sit and watch either of those old programs would require that one would have to suspend his or her belief in reality. So there could be a correlation there with so many of these Hillary cheerleaders that keep coming back for the kool-aid that Traister has shown again and again she is more than willing to provide. Yeah, it never seems to enter any of Salon's political commentary that Clinton's campaign distorted Obama's record on abortion to such a despicable level that NARAL and Planned Parenthood had to come out publicly and point out the fabrication, or that Clinton declared that McCain was more fit to be President than Obama, or that Clinton repeatedly went back on her word in regards to respecting the DNC ruling on the invalid results of the MI and FL primaries, or the pathetic lies about being under sniper fire in Bosnia or brokering peace in Ireland.
Clinton and her campaign are "bionic" much like those old programs from 30+years ago. She certainly appears to be less and less of a human being and much more of a programmed fake as time goes by, much like the characters of Steve Austin and Jamie Sommers did. Her campaign talking points, much like the some of the vintage "bionic" TV episodes, rely exclusively on a complete suspension of actual reality as shown by her latest insult to the facts where by eliminating 4 caucus states counting for Obama, adding the invalid FL and MI votes for her while subtracting the "uncommited" votes, she shamefully parades the nonsense out as "proof" that she has surpassed Obama's popular vote total. A bionic quest? Much like the networks finally did far to late all those years ago, Democrats need to cancell this latest "bionic" fantasy series seeing how Clinton has even lower approval ratings than either of the old shows ever did. I'm sure FOX would be glad to play the "Sniper Fire" and "Lobbyists Are People Too" episodes day and night for viewers in syndication.
Does anybody at Salon ever read stories from anywhere else out there in the real world where there's actually critical reporting done on the almost daily documented blunders made by Clinton and her pathetic excuse for a campaign? I'm starting to believe that Clinton could launch an ad accusing Obama of being the sniper that was firing at her in Bosnia or that he was the 20th hijacker from the 9/11 attacks and Salon would refuse to even acknowledge it. Why doesn't Salon just save some money and just post a link to the Clinton Talking Points Memo instead of paying writers to write the same thing?
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Can't wait for tommorrow's headline from the Clinton Talking Points Memo
[Read the article: Obama wins in North Carolina]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm sure it will state something along the lines of how North Carolina is "irrelevant" and full of "elitists".
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What Clinton should do now...
[Read the article: What should Hillary Clinton do now?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...is the same thing she should have done months ago;change her tune for heaven's sake or leave gracefully and back up all the tough talk with some action in the Senate. One of Clinton's better moments in '08 was during the second Nevada debate where given the opportunity to ask Obama a question, she asked if he would go along with an attempt on offering legislation to actually PUT LIMITS ON GEORGE BUSH'S AUTHORITY! That proposal by itself from Clinton wasn't going to earn her my vote by the time the primary here in Wisconsin arrived, but had she stuck to that theme instead of resorting to constant negativity and pandering, I and many others probably would not have such little regard for her or her candidacy.
Had she not risked splitting the party for the sake of sheer personal ambitions and gone back to the Senate and put her money(or debt, as it seems to be as of late) where her mouth was and actually demonstrated that kind of leadership she talked about on that Nevada stage, she might have actually had something of a chance in 2012 in the case that Obama couldn't make it past McCain in November. Not anymore. By taking the destructive path she took while never having any plausible endgame, Clinton has risked opening up Pandora's box and losing the lid in the process. It's bad enough that she couldn't possibly believe in the twisted and fabricated logic behind her campaign's talking points and smears, but what's worse, and some of her supporters' letters here are clear proof of it, is that plenty of her supporters DO IN FACT BELIEVE the lies she's offered to be absolute truth. While that may not be enough to bring Obama down in the general, it's still a pretty rotten deal for a candidate that's been more than patient and respectful to a candidate that often refused to show him the same respect and courtesy.
Whatever happens from here on out, I hope Obama doesn't change his approach. He hasn't and shouldn't demand she get out, yet I definitely don't think he should agree to pay off all the debt her campaign has racked up while trying to bring him down. He'd really risk looking weak if he gave in to what would amount to blackmail in exchange for her making some deal. She doesn't deserve any deal now. Let her pay her own freakin debt and maybe someday she'll be sorry for rubber-stamping that bankruptcy bill givaway that's broken the backs of so many of the downtrodden she claims her candidacy somehow speaks for.