Letters to the Editor
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Cutting one's nose to spite one's face
This is an interesting commentary.
The media coverage of the election has been terrible and uneven. It wasn't all that long ago that we were being told of the inevitability of Hillary Clinton's nomination and there was disproportionate coverage of her campaign and little coverage of others'. (Contrary to what husband Bill would say, I would suggest that the prior coverage was in that manner unfairly favorable to her and unfair to others.) After the Iowa caucus, the tide turn, but apparently some in the media, in particular Chris Matthews, seemed a bit gleeful about Clinton's apparent demise. Should that be a reason to vote for Clinton -- to smack down the media? If one was supporting another candidate, seems like that would cutting one's nose to spite one's face.
There are actually plenty of reasons to dislike Clinton, and to dislike her does not mean that one is misogynist or can't accept a strong woman as a president. Some have quipped of Bill Clinton that he couldn't walk across a room without first taking a poll, and Hillary Clinton comes across as similarly cautious and calculating. I am also pretty weary of the whole Clinton as victim routine. As a life long Democrat I expect I will vote for her if she gets the nomination, but for now I like the fact that we have choices as to who the nominee will be, and personally believe there are two better choices out there than Clinton. Hopefully in upcoming primaries, people will vote for whom they actually believe will be the best candidate and not vote to send messages to the media.
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Happy Friend and Mickey - Amen to that
I couldn't have said it better. I read an article sometime last year in THE NEW REPUBLIC titled HILLARYLAND that explained in great detail how her organization was built in the same model as the Rove-Bush machine predicting this was the type of thing we would see and they were absolutely right. You would think after witnessing the potential crippling damage done to the country due in large part by cynical Republicans' stoking the fire of identity politics largely by the use of exploiting emotional weakness, maybe enough people would put the sake of the country first instead of selling themselves for such a cheap price for some symbolic "victory".
Imagine how quickly the feeling of "victory" would wear off if by trading in thier objective rationality for some perverted "payback", the result of the unintended consequences leads to a Republican President appointing one or even two pro-life judges to the Roberts Supreme Court and they wave goodbye to Roe vs. Wade. Some "victory" to feminism that would be. Will all those here endorsing such a stunt motivated for some symbolic payback take responsibility for thier actions or will a jackass like Matthews serve as the scapegoat?
Traister, in a country where many grounded, objective, and clear minded people have literally suffered and then some for more than a generation due to the constant exploitation of superficial, divisive wedge issues creating ever more sects of one-issue voters that have caused unspeakable damage, why would you in any way want to encourage the practice? With the Bush administration's quest to steal your civil rights still in full-throttle, why would you ever want to celebrate an act that would in any way have a chance of just giving them away? Frankly, with what's at stake for the future, I can't believe it's worth the potential risk.
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People accuse Hillary of things all politicians do...
The post below, I believe, mentions that Hillary is cautious and calculating.
Excuse me, but is that a bad thing? In comparison, shouldn't we be more worried that Obama and Edwards aren't as cautious and calculating (although I'm sure they are).
It's that lack of caution and calculation that has us at war and with this current misbegotten administration.
The fact that we can see Hillary thinking and strategizing is personally a welcome sight. The great thing about her is that you can see the mechanisms behind the curtain.
Although I'm sure many of you prefer to prance on down the yellow brick road seduced by Obama's preacher-like cadence and blinded by Edward's Colgate smile.
Isn't the seduction what got us in this trouble with Bush in the first place?
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All Politicians Are Calculating. Some Just Hide It Well.
Calculating
Political
Scripted
This is presidential politics, and as someone who has played this game, I assure you these words describe everyone in this race, though some are better at disguising it than others. Obama knows "hope" is not going to get him to the White House, and he and his advisers do not sit around blowing bubbles, eating cotton candy, and riding pink ponies while in private. They are attempting to calculate strategy and hone the campaign into a well-oiled machine.
The same adolescent, unfounded ad hominem attacks being levied at Hillary were thrown at Al Gore in 2000, often by the same people maligning Hillary today, and look where the prognosticators got us.
I have never met Hillary, but I am most certainly not going to take the highly suspect word of the likes of Matthews, Dowd, Huffington, Carlson, et al. Nor am I going to take the word of any candidate claiming to be some kind of "change" or "unity" candidate without a resume to back it up.
My primary concern is record, resume, experience, and other tangibles. I felt this way in 2000, and had hoped that maybe people had learned their damn lesson being how things developed. Apparently not everyone has.
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@afro goddess
right on. hope you do not mind that i forwarded your post (w/linkto this page) in order to impress upon a few of my friends, how i cannot have said it better. fight to their flight. surely we must take this argument into consideration; in deference to 'our' overall goal.
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I almost didn't post until...
I was about to post a letter but decided I had nothing important to say. Then while reading an email that contained the words "Hillary Clinton", I noticed one of the sponsored links down the side was an ad for a "Hillary Clinton Nutcracker". You put the nuts between her stainless steel thighs and squeeze.
I'm 26 years old. That means I've heard Hillary jokes since I was 11. I remember when a sixth grade classmate of mine in 1992 wore a t-shirt with Bill and Hillary on the front, and then the back was Hillary reaching into Bill's robotic back and essentially working all of the controls. I knew why that wasn't funny then. And I know why it's not funny now. I doubt Obama Nutcrackers are being sold with balls of steel.
I am not going to be voting for Hillary Clinton because I'm a woman. I think the media has found this shocking. I also don't find it shocking that in 2007 we have a viable female presidential candidate. What shocks me, is how she has been treated.