Letters to the Editor
AlPal
Published Letters: 3
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Wilentz and Practical Logic
[Read the article: Why Hillary Clinton should be winning]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wilentz is entertaining, but he seems to assume that Team Obama, once it starts playing by the rules that will determine who wins the general election, either can't or won't change its strategy. If the Democratic primaries were winner-take-all, he can't fairly assume that Hillary would have won the big states. Clearly, Team Obama studied the rules and worked out a 50-state strategy when they decided to take a shot at the nomination. Team Clinton didn't. If Team Clinton had diverted resources to compete in all 50 states, that would have meant fewer resources in the big primaries, so the results might have been different in those primaries. When Obama takes on McCain, no doubt his crackerjack team will work out a strategy that can win, one that will distinguish between must-win states, can-win states, and would-like-to-win states. I expect he will win all the big primaries in the general election that Clinton won in the nomination contest, especially if he's smart enough to ask Hillary to be his Vice-President in return for a substantive role in certain areas of policy.
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The Limbaugh Factor
[Read the article: Krugman asks "what's gone wrong" with Obama campaign]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In PA, lots of voters who said they voted for Clinton but would vote for McCain in the general election are Limbaugh crossovers who registered Democrat because they wanted to vote for Clinton and prolong her deathbed rants to hurt Obama. As Clyburn points out, Clinton has nothing against this strategy, despite (or because of?) the Hospice caretakers who surround her. This doesn't mean that the Bush/Cheney/McCain/Clinton Axis will win in November. It just means that some people won't quit until they're counted out, and that's fair play. Obama is a smart politician and he will avoid out-wonking Clinton while finding a way to connect with the working-class whites. He came up from nowhere and really does identify with them. When he takes on the Bush/Cheney/McCain Axis in the fall, he'll have to counter the Wright/Weathermen smears by the Axis. How he does that will be the deal-maker. McCain is a snarling smiler these days and his disposition, along with his policies as a member of the Axis, will come back to bite him, assuming his developing dementia doesn't become too obvious before November 4. People won't vote for him tomorrow if he can't remember what he said yesterday. He's already forgotten who he was a few months ago. As for Krugman, he's at least smart enough to see that McCain has no health care plan for others, only the very good one for himself that the United States taxpayers provide him with.
In short, the Bush/Cheney/McCain Axis isn't the invincible Darth Vader operation that some think. Obama is the only candidate left standing who wants to do the greatest good for the greatest number of Americans.
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George Frost is wrong about the gas tax.
[Read the article: Obama is wrong about the gas tax]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama is right. Clnton is pandering. She should drop out. I've supported her until today. Now I don't.