Letters to the Editor
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Our Prediction for 2008: Salon Shills for Hillary...Again...and Again...and Again...
And there you have it.
Despite her feeble protests to the contrary, it's obvious that Joan desperately wants a job with a Clinton Administration.
Now Shapiro's apparently bucking for his own West Wing job with Mrs. C.
Just watch. They'll be covertly and overtly bashing Obama (as they've been doing so viciously since early on) and Edwards, and doing whatever they can to raise Hillary up.
If you think you're going to get unbiased coverage of the Democratic race at Salon, think again...
Because Salon 2008 is going to be one big sycophantic online job application for Salon staff/Hillary Clinton administration wannabes.
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What a fucking way to start the New Year!
Shapiro, you gushed over Obama when he first appeared on the scene. Check your own reporting, man. Right after his speech at the 04' Convention you all but crowned him king whenever you made mention. Now, 72 fucking hours before caucus, and after who knows how many words of glowing praise, you come to find the man a hollow figment of your childess imagination.
Thanks! You fucking idiot!
Thanks to Salon also. I see that they can't put together enough discipline to work within the limited budgeted that this site is involved with. Instead of assuming their readers are intelligent enough to be patient with less frequent stories that have much greater weight, Salon continously slings this shallow, shrill, buzzword based set of articles and claims just the opposite.
I've taken to reading your political coverage for laughs.
But this takes the cake.
Get a fucking real job, Shapiro.
Grow the fuck up, Salon!!!
GROW THE FUCK UP!!!
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Ask Obama this:
To Obama: Hey Obama YES or NO are you for cash payments for slavery reparations, Huh?
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Well...
The fact is that Obama has had more individual people actually put up their money because they believe in his "message" than any other candidate in history.
I'm from Illinois and have watched Obama since he appeared on the radar. There are a lot of attacks here that either have no basis (ADM tool, etc), and others that are just regurgitations of the Clinton camps' propaganda (voting present).
Clinton *is* a republican. Edwards is another fake Regular Guy.
Your only other real option is a real Republican.
My advice is roll the dice.
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Spent what is
getting to be a very long career studying public address. It is ALL superficial. No specifics. Praise the audience. Threat and reassurance. Possibly inspiring if done well and you are in the mood to hear it. Borderline mental illness when you are not. So, what is this article except one more Salon attack on Obama? Because I guarantee you you can write the same g-ddamn thing about Edwards, Clinton, and you can do it gloriously about these hideous Republicans. You people are absolutely out of your minds to be going after Obama. Very bad for your credibility. Possibly detrimental to the eventual nominee. And not the least bit helpful to voters in making useful discriminations. Joan, Walter, Joe-- you really need to get your shit together and fast on your primary coverage. It is dreadful.
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It Is All About Integrity
Obama has it all over Clinton, The Dragon Lady, when it comes to integrity and the ability to bring the country together. She is polarizing, vitriolic, mean spirited and only interested in herself and doing in her enemies list........
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He's like a mannequin in a department store window
Looks good, right? He's just a marketing technique with legs, a groomed, manufactured candidate. A first-term Senator who figured he'd run for President? Aw heck, why not? He's just plain folks, right? Kind of like Gary Hart without the dalliances? But with the coke in his past? NO SUBSTANCE, nothing different. Just another weasel in a suit looking to cash in and hold the reins of power for a while. What won't you believe?
You know what the difference would be between a third Bush43 term and an Osama/Obama term? Not a damn thing.
Just because there are six or eight of fifty War Party candidates doesn't mean they're different from one another. It's that "Freedom of Choice" Coke-or-Pepsi decision that Americans like to delude themselves into believing that there is "freedom" in this country. Would you like this War Party candidate? Or would you prefer this War Party candidate? Both are endorsed by AIPAC and will change nothing of substance.
What won't you believe? Wake UP.
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Shilling for Yesterday
I suppose to have this kind of ardor for a woman at his age should bring some admiration to Shapiro. But to be so consistently shilling for the consistently middle of the road deja vu candidate who will convene study groups for everything but nail polish selection and can not give answers now because it would tip off the enemy, is embarrassing.
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Nix Bipartisanship !
I don't want bipartisan. I don't want to send a (metaphorical) child to fight a monster. The Republican Party has systematically destroyed our nation. Bush's base is just as he told it, "the haves and the have mores." The Republican Party has been infected since Nixon. Now it is a full-fledged zombie/vampire/ghoul. We need someone who can kill it, to drive a stake through its black, black heart because there is no way to bring it back from the horror of the undead. How can one make compromise with utter evil?
I ask you, what is the acceptable compromise?
My heart belongs to Edwards because he actually does understand the difference between Wal-Mart and Target and that, however disgusting Wal-Mart is, that it is where the poor both work and shop. My heart belongs to Edwards not because he understands hope but because he understands the debilitating horror of hopelessness, which is what people waaaay below the exualted middle class have to deal with. People die, die from from lack of health insurance. Not all the bodies destroyed by the Bush Administration come from Iraq. Compassionate conservatism anyone? Not all the starving are in Darfur. Some of them are right here in your neighborhoods. They are the people you won't make eye contact with, who you can tell yourself are just too drunken, lazy, insane (or veterans!) to be productive. Not all the children in need are elsewhere. We have children in need here.
The infection that has eaten the Republican soul is lack of empathy. It has made us insanely callous to others. That is why we can wage a war in which far more Iraqi children have lost their lives than we have lost servicemen and women and we can still focus on ending the war because it has worn us out rather than having ended it long ago because it is destructive to the world and to the Iraqi people in particular. We should have ended it because it is immoral. Those are not just other people dying over there. Those are fellow human beings.
I will give Obama one credit. He opposed the war from the beginning, but so did I. That doesn't qualify me to be president. Nor does it qualify him. Nothing I have seen of him allows me to detect the steel and fire that can forge a weapon to destroy the Constitution-destroying, human rights-destroying, compassion-destroying monster that the Republican party has become.
I will certainly support him if he wins, but I have finally made up my mind. I support John Edwards for President of the United States of America to come. If he fails, then I support Hillary Clinton as the devil tough enough to fight the devil I hate.
A curse on bipartisanship. It will get us more of the same.
I am not just an antiwar liberal. I am not just a summertime liberal. I am a liberal's liberal. If I can't have someone like Kucinich, I at least want someone who can fight monsters.