Letters to the Editor
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Obama has a good foreign policy team
And for your information, not only am I not a leprechaun, I condemn leprechauns, in the strongest possible terms.
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Obama's foreign policy team: Zbigniew Brzezinski and Anthony Lake, former assistant secretary of state Susan Rice, and former navy secretary Richard Danzig. Joseph Cirincione and Lawrence Korb of the Center for American Progress, and former counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke. His team also includes the noted human rights scholar and international law advocate Samantha Power - author of a recent New Yorker article on U.S. manipulation of the UN in post-invasion Iraq - and other liberal academics.
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All of this Chicken Little stuff is really not cutting it. The sky will not fall if Obama is president. To argue that it will just doesn't fly.
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Sexism
Re: "It's a little confusing to see Hillary talk about how tough she is, and then get all flustered at a little zinger from Obama."
Hillary hasn't responded to Obama's sexist put down, much less become "flustered" over it. What you don't seem to understand is that many Americans are tired of the sexist attacks on Hillary and are speaking out.
Sadly, sexist remakrs are acceptable in America, even among the liberals in the Democratic Party.
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When Hillary Attacks
If challenging the extremely intelligent inspiring Obama to debates is attacking him, I hate to see him when the general is between him and a republican. He says he doesn't have time to prepare, does he think that there are more hours in Hillary's day than his, or maybe he doesn't have the stamina that she has. More likely he has no idea what he actually stands for and if he has to debate then people might actually realize it.
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Crying wolf
It seems like a fairly mild zinger. One that Hillary, if she is the skilled politician she claims to be, should be able to deflect, with no problem.
She'll get a lot worse in the fall, but as she's been saying, she can handle it.
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more on Paul Jones
After following that case for years, it became blatantly clear that Paula Jones was actually the harrasser and was supported in her quest to hound Clinton by that very famous "vast, right-wing conspiracy." Paula Jones was motivated by money. A short note by The New York Times, September 2004:
A judge ruled yesterday against Paula Corbin Jones in her breach of contract lawsuit against Abraham Hirschfeld, the unpredictable New York real estate mogul. In a suit filed in August 2001, Ms. Jones claimed that Mr. Hirschfeld still owed her $1 million he promised to give her three years earlier if she would drop her sexual harassment suit against President Clinton. But Judge Peter K. Leisure of Federal District Court in Manhattan cited a letter dated Nov. 13, 1998, from a lawyer for Ms. Jones in which she agreed that 'the money from Mr. Hirschfeld is no longer on the table,' as part of her $850,000 settlement with Mr. Clinton. Judge Leisure threw out Ms. Jones's suit, but Mr. Hirschfeld, 84, did not go unpenalized. He was ordered to pay Ms. Jones's legal fees relating to one of Mr. Hirschfeld's motions that the judge deemed frivolous."
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B06E2DE1130F937A2575AC0A9629C8B63&scp=5&sq=Paula+Jones&st=nyt
Not only that, but people don't appear to remember that Jones's case against Clinton was thrown out as well, a full 6 years before in 1998, and that Judge Susan Webber Wright who threw the case out noted this:
"'There are no genuine issues for trial in this case,' Judge Susan Webber Wright of Federal District Court ruled in flatly rejecting all of Ms. Jones's claims that she suffered sexual harassment and emotional distress in an encounter with Mr. Clinton in 1991, when he was Governor of Arkansas and she was a state employee.... The judge, finding Ms. Jones offered no 'tangible' evidence of damage, dismissed her claim without having to choose between the President's and Ms. Jones's contradictory versions of the incident."
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE7DE173AF931A35757C0A96E958260&scp=14&sq=Paula+Jones&st=nyt
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what?
"I understand that Senator Clinton, periodically when she's feeling down, launches attacks as a way of trying to boost her appeal."
Read it that way - her campaign - not her on her period. Honestly - I feel this is kind of stretch. Actually stupid stretchy. Actually just stupid. And I have cramps. So there.
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You Hillary acolytes
say that it is sexist for Obama to insinuate that Hillary uses attack ads to boost her "mood." Now, I know I'll never be able to convince you that by "down" he meant "down in the polls" (which she IS, in case you hadn't noticed -- so much for inevitability), so let's just assume for the moment that he DID intend to insinuate this.
Guess what? It's true. She DOES launch negative attacks to boost her mood. Here's what she told reporters in Iowa, immediately before launching a series of negative attack ads:
"“But I have been for months on the receiving end of rather consistent attacks – well now the fun part starts,” Mrs. Clinton said, punctuating the word “fun.” “We’re into the last month, and we’re going to start drawing the contrasts, because I want every Iowans to have accurate information when they make their decisions.”
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/an-attack-from-the-candidates-mouth/
Get that? She thinks it's fun to launch negative attacks. You know it's true. I know it's true. We all know it's true. Now, whether you believe that she launched the Wisconsin attack ads in response to attacks on her will depend entirely on your leanings in the race (she started it, but I've come to expect cognitive dissonance from Hillary supporters), and I presume you will rush to the poor little lamb's defense by saying that she had to strike back against the nasty black man, but really, I find it laughable that you find it sexist to call out a woman for being combative when the woman at issue regularly poses for photos wearing boxing gloves and calls herself "tough" and a "fighter." She's no shrinking violet, ladies.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/31/labor.endorsements/index.html
http://www.myfoxcleveland.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=5776979&version=3&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1
Calling a woman an aggressive bitch isn't sexist if she actually IS an aggressive bitch, ladies.