Letters to the Editor
dataguyx
Published Letters: 613 Editor's Choice: 10
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Astonishing
[Read the article: Obama and the white working class]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"The professor who taught the course pointed out that the candidate with the most direct speech patterns always wins. I knew then Kerry was doomed."
Over the next 6 months, Obama and Hillary will deliver 100s and 100s of speeches. Probably, by Aug 2008, they will each have delivered 5/day, for a total of 800+. In those 800 speeches, Hillary is going to find thousands and thousands and thousands of ambiguous statements.
It really depends on where you start and where you are going. Hillary's basic approach is to parse Obama's statements like a Republican, and then, using her mentor Karl Rove's patented approach, find a distortion of them to work with. Obama is not doing that. He is working with Hillary's votes.
Hillary distorts, lies and cheats. Obama tells the truth, although sometimes with a subclause.
McBush distorts, lies and cheats. McBush and Hillary are both liars, distorting at the speed of light.
It just depends on what you want. If you want to find a complex statement in one of the thousands and thousands of speeches, you can find that, and you can distort it. Of course, then you would be Hillary.
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The racism side door
[Read the article: Obama and the white working class]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The continuing kerfluffles about Obama's "misstatements" are nothing but sidedoors for racists. You see, you can't oppose Obama for being black, even if you, a simple working-class Catholic, feel strongly that he is uppity, and needs a few lashes to get his black ass back on the plantation. Nope, instead you say that "he's too elitist" or "he's snooty". These allow the racist mentality to dismiss Obama without admitting that they are, in point of fact, racist.
So, look for those little "tells". "He's an elitist" means "I'm a racist."
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The game's the same, but not the players
[Read the article: Obama and the white working class]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]he "Obama is elitist and hates the working class" meme is right on schedule. They did it to Kerry and they did it to Gore. You can write these scripts before they happen.
What's amazing this time is that it's Hillary and her Klintoon KultWack Koolaid Konsumers who are doing it, not the Republicans. I have never seen a Democrat who worked so hard at destroying another Democrat using Republican attack lines. It's no wonder that McCain looks so relaxed, with Clinton doing all of his work for him.
When has another Democrat gone out of her/his way to praise the Republican and attack her/his fellow Democrat? I cannot remember another person in my life (56) who attacked her/his own party member, while extolling the virtues of the Republican. It's nauseating. It's party treason.
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The main problem with abortion
[Read the article: McCain's lack of candor on reproductive rights]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]is that there are not enough of them.
We need to have more abortions. Abortions are good for the planet. God gave us abortion, to help us control our out-of-control fertility. Our fertility is destroying the world. Species are going extinct. Food prices are spiraling out of control.
It is ALL because of over-population.
Thank God that She has given mankind her great gift of abortion. When a woman has an abortion, for whatever reason (it really doesn't matter; all abortions are equally sacred), God smiles.
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I am trying to figure out
[Read the article: Obama and the white working class]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]why a woman like Hillary who, with her husband, made 109 million dollars over 8 years, can get off calling Obama an elitist?
Hillary, who has not talked to a normal person who is not either a senator, another millionaire, or a paid staffer for 8 years.
Hillary, who lives in the corridors of power and wealth, and who has not trouble making the rent from month to month.
Why is this rich lawyer calling Obama an elitist?
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Karl Rove
[Read the article: Obama and the white working class]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Because it's her MO. She's seen how effective the tactics of Rove and Atwater have been and she's just cynical enough to appropriate them herself."
I heard a story that, at the dedication of the Clinton Library, Karl Rove was there (??). Bill apparently went up to him, and complimented him for his political acumen. Bill said, "We need to sit down and compare notes."
What did go on at that little tete-a-tete? Who gave who tips?
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Oh, I agree
[Read the article: Obama and the white working class]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Just because someone has made millions doesn't mean they can't help the working class, though I will agree they have less incentive to do so."
It's just pretty fucking arrogant for a woman who has made 109 million to accuse someone who has made a measely million or so of being arrogant and elitist. In fact, Mr. Obama has had a huge amount more experience that Hillary the Rich has had actually dealing with working people on the ground.
Why is she accusing him of being arrogant and elitist? There's a simple reason: She has learned this little Republican trick. It's not important that she is rich and arrogant, living in her mansion and hobnobbing with other Senators and millionaires. Nope, she pulls out the "elitist" card, straight from the Karl Rove/Lee Atwater playbook.
It's nauseating to see how well she has learned Republican tricks.
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Arrogance and cluelessness
[Read the article: Obama and the white working class]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"You forget that in Obama's original statement, he was not attempting to tell the truth to working class voters -- unless you are contending that there were lots of working class voters present and that they were his intended audience."
Well, in point of fact, you don't have the slightest fucking idea what Obama was trying to do, so your arrogant and clueless little comment is just another dung dropping from the Klintoon KultWack Kouncil.
This is the problem with you Klintoon KultWacks - you have no fucking idea what you are talking about, yet you blather other oblivious of us lower class slobovians laughing our butts off at you.
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Street cred
[Read the article: Obama and the white working class]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama has street cred. Hillary has Senate cred.
Obama has worked with real people. Hillary has run law firms.
Obama wrote his own book. Hillary used a ghost writer, and refused to give credit for the ghosting.
To paraphrase a famous person, 'Hillary, have you no shame? At long last, Ma'am, have you no shame?'
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Joan was fair about Obama in this piece
[Read the article: Obama and the white working class]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"And Joan knows it.
she is a joke."
Actually, you should read the article carefully. Joan was fair, really fair to Barack, and was quite complimentary.
Really, it's true. This is a good piece about Barack.