Letters to the Editor
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Hey A Cheaper Truth...
We'll certainly discover a much costlyier truth when Her Royal Masety Mrs. Madame President Clinton widens a witless and unwinnable Mideast war by commiting our country and its people to a pointless and preposterous war with Iran. There's your "deeper truth," you shallow twit.
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amen
there's not a scrap's worth of difference between bush's and hillary's foreign policy.
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Deeper Truth, you ignorant slut.
Barack wondered if he could "pull it off." Which is a synonym for "win against the odds." Considering that Hillary was the odds-on favorite (but no longer is the favorite, ha ha), this phrase makes perfect sense.
Or are you arguing that "pull it off" is a sexist phrase because Barack has a penis and he was pointing out that Hillary does not have a penis and is therefore incapable of "pulling it off"?
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Deep
Let's see. Obama is five years older than JFK was when he was elected in '60. Lincoln had been a serial loser in elections, dropped out of politics for several years, and was a compromise candidate at the 1860 election. Obama was president of the Harvard Law Review. He hardly quavers at the thought of debating Hillary and her serial spouting of "35 years" and "day one". Yes, she's qualified. So is he. She energizes the cracker/fascist base like no one else. He does not. He draws independents and young voters in droves. She does not. 16 years of her claimed experience was as the wife of an elected official. How sexist is that? Straight up: I will vote for Hillary, and have some residual respect for her despite the campaign Bill and the boys put together for her (which assumed that the nomination was rightfully hers). I'm a Democrat; I deeply mistrust presumption. I was an Edwards man, as I was in '04, but this was the year the media wanted the brother vs the bitch, and they got it (their construct, not mine; I respect the both of them). When Edwards dropped out, I went to the actual trouble of reading a couple books Obama has written (two more than the current incumbent has read, much less written), and I am impressed by him. Enamored? No. He has much to prove. But we need to get the hell out of the middle of the road, stop triangulating ourselves to loss after loss, and be progressives. She is not, not with Wall Mart in her resume and equivocation after equivocation about her Iraq vote. Never an apology. she's never wrong. Just ask her. Or Bill. Or what "is" is. Way too much baggage, way too little imagination. What happened to the America Whitman wrote about (Walt, not Slim)? Someone needs to call us up to our better selves. He comes far closer to meeting that mark than she does. It's not a CEO job. Georgie is an MBA. How'd that work out? love heywood
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The "sexist" charge isn't oversensitive....
...it's just stupid.
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@deepertruth
"The reason why Barack won't debate her is because she is more knowledgeable and it shows in the debates. Most people who aren't biased, or focused on only one issue - agree that she excels in the debates."
I think they both perform well enough in debates, when the questions are solid, not "what do you think of what Hillary said last week" variety designed only for controversy. I'm curious as to how Edwards will endorse, since he's met with them both and has seen them behind the scenes.
It's never in the front runner's benefit to debate more, they have the most to lose if they make a mistake. I guess this means he feels he's in the lead....and so does the Hillary camp.
That being said, I can't say that this election cycle has been short of debates.
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Reflection
Your words are a reflection of yourself.
They show much more about how low and shallow you will go.
I have heard it said that insults are a sign of intellectual impotence, and I do believe there may be some truth to that.
And then there is sticks and stones, etc.
Hillary has no interest in going to war against Iran; she just thought is in our best interest to take a strong position since Amadinejad has threatened Israel's existence.
You are being paranoid and irrational if you think otherwise.
You can make ugly insults all you want - it just makes you look bad.
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To plagiarise is to take and use the thoughts, writings, inventions etc. as one's own.
That's one of the reasons people use inverted commas to signify quotation but this would be difficult in speech although some people use hand-motions to indicate quotation. If Senator Obama as cribed his scintillating words to Deval Patrick, it would be straightforward but there's something slippery about this. Maybe Patrick and Obama regularly make
speeches to each other while more mundane people just chat. Si (accent missing) se puede - yes, it is possible. What about Puck's speech from "A Midsummer Night's Dream"? Wouldn't this sound enchanting in one of the Senator's effusions: "I'll put a girdle round the earth in forty minutes" so that his siren-call could be heard in Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, the Gaza Strip and everywhere else that comes to mind.
This friend of Senator Obama is Governor of Massachusetts, apparently, and is very fond of expensive drapes (full attribution to Wikipedia). Perhaps he's keen on amateur dramatics and that would explain the lavish expenditure on curtain material. Stage curtains are quite voluminous and, if there are many curtain-calls, that could cause a lot of wear and tear on the fabric. Words are important but they're even more important when they're your own. To cull them from others looks shabby, especially when no recognition is given to the original author. Good-night all!
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Dopier Truth,
"Debates ... [are] where you find out what the candidates themselves really have to offer in terms of knowledge, experience, competency in governing."
Bull. Look, I'm an Obama supporter. And you know what? I concede that Hillary comes off better in debates. There, I said it. But honey, if you think that the ability to spew memorized policy positions in 90-second bursts is the MOST important ability that a president could have, then I honestly pity you.
Do you think, for instance, that if Barack meets with the leader of Iran, that the two of them will debate American-Iranian relations using 90-second soundbites? Or do you think they will have a long conversation to build a relationship based on respect and trust and reach out together and find common ground? Guess what, the answer is the latter. And Barack Obama is the candidate better able to do that.