Letters to the Editor
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@doc5467
Sorry I thought you were one of those all the Repugs and Dems are the same. I'm with you.
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The parties are different?
The parties are different? I don't think AIPAC and the CFR got the memo.
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The Author missed the point
What the repubs were saying was simple: "which dem candidate would be the most palatable November 3rd? Talking about crossover voting is nonsense.
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Great comment Colonel Truth!
Colonel Truth wrote: "...a unifying message (whether from Obama, Hillary or Edwards) would be the best counter-weapon to Republican attacks. The premise of the attacks will be the same as they always are - that Dems are unpatriotic, troop-hating, America-hating, politically-correct wussies whose values are out of synch with America. A unifying message negates this attack better than anything - we are offering a vision that can unite all Americans of decency and good will..."
That is wonderful, Colonel Truth!
We need positive, constructive, inclusive policies and leaders.
We need to include all Americans, and ultimately, all people in the world.
The goal is happiness for all!
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Bah
I clearly don't read or think too much, but I am still eerily confident that my likes and dislikes are far narrower between Hillary Clinton and the Republican candidates you mentioned, than they are between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
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Now, if you can only get it through the dense dems heads
I very much agree with your wonderful article.
I am an Obama supporter and on his website there are indies and republicans coming everyday. many write in the community blogs that they changed their registrations to democrat just to vote for Obama.
However, it's Obama;s own party, my party that I have stuck by through far too many stupid choices for nominee, that cannot get it thru their heads that Obama will win the White House. Hillary will not. They don't like her but, back her because they believe her spin that she can beat republicans. right. Against the republican party, the indies and a quarter of her own party so dead set against her she will never get those votes.
Poll and poll after poll. Articles like this and real people saying they want Obama and yet, my party is still being stupid.
I don't know if they don't want to believe it or they just are co dependents for the corrupt Clintons pick up lines.
However, I do have to fault the msm. With all the daily drumbeats of gushing for Hillary and dismissing Obama and making him out to be some stupid rookie, many mainstream voters
don't know any better. They think it is true. And no matter how hard they are pounded by the people that enough with the free pass for Hillary and the trashing of Obama, things will turn out very tragic.
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Obama Vs Clinton
At the risk of sounding disengenuous, this is the primary season, so it's perfectly normal for voters to be sizing up their options - "checking under the hood, kicking the tyres" - as Barack put it on the Daily Show ealier in the week. However, just as disengenuous is a developing trend amongst some caught up in the Obama hype to almost completely paint Hillary as, well, bad. Bad for the party and bad for the country. The logic goes that if Clinton were to win the nomination, she'd drag the party down - not only in the Prez race but also serev as a lightning rod to re-invigorate the GOP in Congresional and Senate races. I think this is a bit of a stretch. Yes, she is a polarizing figure, but then so is Bush. On this issue I think Dems need to take a look in the mirror and ask what stuff they're really made of. 'Cos it certainly wasn't that Conservatives took a look at Bush and said "Okay, liberals are never gonna vote for this guy, so he can't win."
There seems to be a depressing Anyone But Hillary sliver of Dems amonst Barack supporters and all I'll say is keep your eyes on the prize, people. Does anyone on the left REALLY belive that Hillary would be worse for this country and the world than one of those Grey Men on the other side?
A footnote on negatives: All three of our previous Presidents went into the general election capaign with negatives between 44 and 49 percent. Exactly where Hillary is today.
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Mrs. Clinton Is NO Conservative
A previous blogger said that she was more conservative than Edwards or Obama. Hell no. She borders on a socialist. She would bring back the very damaging welfare system that put blacks behind for many many years. She would have shared prosperity which means, look out for your pocket book as she will be pickpocking it. She is for any gov't program that can be dreamed up. Essentially she is a great danger to our system of Gov't. Give me Barak anyday of the year and Al Gore. Deliver us from the Clintons once and for all.
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Luntz???
I don't think I can trust Luntz or his motives for anything thing he says...don't you think he is also plays the Rovian chess game with information and opinions.I love Obama but I fear that the ugly right wing attack machine will figure out a way to make him appear weak and wooley headed.It seems this time around we need someone able to go toe to toe with them like Hillary. After eight years of Hillary running a smart government comprised of able individuals who hopefully can get our adgencies and institutions back in working order, then maybe Obama can lead us out of the left/right...red/blue paradigm.
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"Bringing the country together"
The idea that any candidate can do this is so tragically pathetic. We are divided for the same reasons as the Austro-Hungarian Empire of 1914: we are culturally "diverse"! We have wildly exaggerated the ability of the American culture to assimilate extreme foreigners. Franklin had his doubts about our ability to assimilate even Germans.
We've seen it all before; when the Roman Senate got corrupt and paralyzed, the call went out for a "strong man" to "bring the (state) together", but that is very superficial, and itself inherently divisive.
This is not all negative though, that countries are "divided"; it merely means that we need to work on the next stage: a democratic International Law regime that could actually delliver security and justice in accordance with real laws. No one nation can do that.