Letters to the Editor
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Maybe you are being a bit hard, Walter.
I don't think anyone can fault a subdued performance on Meet the press this morning. Afterall, that dinner went way too long and with Obama being the last, delivering a fired up speech and probably being up to all hours, I'd think he just did not want to make any big mistakes going up against someone like Russert with very little sleep.
Any other time, I'd say, sure, he could have done better. But, concidering the full day activities and long night, I say, you might be asking a bit much.
Besides, even with alot of sleep, Hillary would not go on the program but, was video cast from her home turf. and she still could not answer any questions openly or fully.
At least Obama was open and honest in his answers and faced the mighty Russert face to face.
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Enough Repeating Right Wing Talk How abou some real reporting
Why does Salon keep on printing Rush L.'s talking points? What the fuck does $400 haircut (which was not $400, but mostly travel expenses) have to do with anything in a Salon report?
Why don't you just come out and say it already: Salon endorses Mrs Clinton and all the reporting is slanted in that direction for the past year and for all future articles?
Not one of the current senators who are running in the primary stopped the nomination of someone who is supporting war crimes to be our attorney general. That should be the topic of discussion.
At least Mr Dodd has vowed to stop the amnesty for telecoms bill. Let's see if its just more than talk.
When Salon prints dribble like this article, why shouldn't the democrats be as bad as the republicans?
I give up. I'm outta here.
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Maybe Obama Really Does Know What He's Doing
...and Shapiro just isn't seeing it. We're so used to watching Democrats, when given the shovel, just kind of lean it up against a tree instead of swinging it full-force. But, in a vein similar to that expressed in the first letter here, it may well be that Obama's approach to a one-on-one on a Sunday morning with Tim Russert (who may not be the most trustworthy interviewer anyway) is very different from the approach he would use when confronting a potentially angry, fed-up crowd of real live people. Russert won't be converted and he doesn't count in that way. He asks questions and he gets answers. But when Obama is addressing a mass of potential supporters and he gets a positive cue from them early on -- or maybe even if he hadn't -- that's a whole 'nother situation. Maybe Obama understands this and maybe he doesn't feel it necessary to play to Russert and the groggy, foggy Sunday morning set the same way he would to an aggrieved and searching crowd of wide-awake humans on a Saturday night.
It was two entirely different worlds. Had he come on full-tilt on Sunday we'd no doubt today be hearing that Obama is neurotic, that he only has one gear, that he doesn't know how or when to rein it in. But that didn't happen, and we already know how vested Salon seems to be in seeing a Clinton in the White House next time around.
I found nothing the least bit off in Obama's Russert exchange. He'd spent the Big Load the night before. He was dealing one-on-one with a guy who can be very unpredictable in his manipulation of candidates. Obama gave him nothing to work with but flat, factual statements. I think it was damned wise of him, just as his swinging the morningstar the night before was beyond wise -- it was inspired.
Why does Obama still resonate better with me than Edwards? I'm not sure. But there's something there that bears close watching, and people are watching it.
Where Hillary is concerned, you're damned if you do, damned if you don't, so you may as well keep 'em guessing. She's off-balance and whoever tips her over, the dust cloud is going to be just as big.
And somebody will. Soon.
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Anyone mentioning the $400 haircut
at this late date should be dismissed, on the grounds of first-degree intellectual laziness.
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Obama and political judgment
After peddling the fake Social Security "crisis" and offering his "solution," in which he calls for the cap to be lifted, ensuring a fundamental blow to SS political viability, all in order to win approval from the Washington crowd and distinguish himself from Clinton--the only leading Democrat to refuse such right-wing nonsense--in order to accuse her of leadership failure, and then support the disastrous 1872 Mining Act to appease the mining industry one has to question, "If Obama is already cowering to the powers that be this early and so blatantly how can one trust him?"
I want to believe in this man, I do, but his political judgment is, at best, foolish and, at worst, crass opportunism.
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You've got to be kidding me!
Perhaps jumping to conclusions on a short night of sleep is what it takes for Walter Shapiro to demonstrate writing that lacks the requisite threshold of thought that reaches the level of well-considered opinion. Has the writer ever done anything that requires the marathon that a modern day Presidential campaign demands? Public speaking requires different skills than an interview. If a candidate is the last speaker at an event, it's their job to bring down the house. Obama did his job. An hour long interview ought to be a forum to introduce a deeper level of thoughtful analysis. Again, Obama did his job.
Has it occurred to Shapiro that a change might actually look and sound different than anything he can reference in his personal experience, no matter how expert he may be politically? Where an infinite number of ways to interpret what one observes exists, why must such political analysis provide so few?
I pay money to read Salon, more than for any of the respected print magazines I receive. I expect better writing and a deeper level of thoughtfulness.
Respectfully,
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Silly people
media make me sick....
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