Letters to the Editor
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Obama is a Wimp
I don't want some "hope-monger" telling me that I need to forgive and forget what the rightwing has done to our country. I want a fighter who is going to bring them to justice and bring their crimes to light in a very public reckoning. When I hear Dems talking about "post-partisanship" all I hear is the GOP getting a free pass for their crimes against our democracy.
Fuck that shit. I want to see some good old fashioned justice and punishment. Anything less will be a further betrayl of our democracy.
Obama is a wimp. He's just a younger, smoother talking version of Joe Leiberman. Whatever happened to Dems who fought for our principles and beliefs?
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OBAMA HAS NO MESSAGE; JUST A SLOGAN!!
I absolutely agree with the writer of this article. Obama likes to preach and his "so-called inspiration" that he is the King of the WOrld and that as long as he is president, everybody will be happpy and the world will be a peaceful place!!
He is a FULL OF IT!!!!
Hillary Clinton is the ONLY CANDIDATE WHO IS QUALIFIED, EXPERIENCED, INTELLIGENT AND HAS THE WISDOM AND STRENGTH TO LEAD THIS COUNTRY FORWARD!!!
SENATOR CLINTON IS PREPARED TO BE PRESIDENT ON DAY 1!!!
PRESIDENT HILLARY CLINTON - 2008!!!
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lemecdutex
Another point I forgot to make is that the nineteenth amendment giving women the vote came between the eighteenth and twentieth.
Thus, women did not vote for Prohibition but voted against it.
That makes it even more strange, since you would expect women to be more in favor of banning alcohol than men.
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You're not a wimp if...
You can't survive Christian and Islamic School as and American, mixed racial, child in Indonesia if you are a wimp. You can't survive high school as a non-native child in Hawaii if you are a wimp. You don't become the Harvard Law Review's first black president in its 104-year history if you are a wimp. You don't survive the local politics of the inner city of Chicago if you are a wimp. You don't fight discrimination and voting rights disenfranchise cases if you are a wimp. You don't bounce back from an election loss in 2000 if you are a wimp. You don't stand up and give the key note speech at the 2004 Democratic convention, and then go on to win your Senate seat by 70% of the vote, if you are a wimp. And You don't run on a platform dedicated to restoring hope to America in your presidential run if you are a wimp.
Senator Barack Obama is no wimp!
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Integrity matters.
Obama has integrity. I wish I felt as sure about the integrity of whatever editorial intent underlies this article. It's well written, but the slant does not seem entirely worthy of the perspective or depth that made me a Salon subscriber in the first place. Salon had the vision to create a new media, weaving together great writers and detailed research into a unique focus that would help change for the better the way we view the news and define the issues facing our times. Obama is trying to do the same thing, creating a new vision and leading the way to restoring America's integrity and the principles on which our country was founded. To encourage Salon readers to dig deeper and really read all of the ample information on each candidate's policy positions and records is admirable. Perhaps that is what Salon had in mind, but this article seems to have been crafted more in service to a provocative headline, rather than framing or highlighting important reference info mentioned in the posts.
Obama's track record shows that he isn't afraid to fight and work hard for what he believes in. He gets what America is worried about, and understands the hopes for the future, as well as the way the world works. Obama leads by example and follows through on his convictions, which are quite clear.
Yes, I'm cheering for Obama. I'm also cheering for Salon to not let this kind of vaguely pointed article become the norm in their political coverage. We're all interested in what's going on right now in Iowa and how people are deciding to vote, but please give us more of what this article only touched on - stories in voters' own words - rather than offering more of the usual rhetoric about the rhetoric, which is part of what has made the traditional media less relevant and unnecessarily cynical. Please keep blazing new discussion and journalism trails, Salon, without sacrificing your own status-quo-changing core. Allowing courageous, offering-something-different talent and committment to be so casually cast in a nebulous light, giving sway to a "skeptical feeling ...", does not illuminate or inspire confidence in your trusting readers. America needs you, Salon, and all the bright stars of hope and integrity it can get.
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Still the best potential to be a great and not just a good president
I worry that Clinton's best hope is to be a president as good as her husband. She may never be as popular, but maybe she would be a (slightly) better president than he was. Edwards might be as good as Kennedy? If Kennedy had survived. Maybe at worst like Carter? Which is not a put-down.
But who will Obama be like?
Joe Canston wrote earlier this month a suggestion that Obama hand over his passport to prove that he has traveled abroad in Europe. Is he serious?
Shapiro suggests that Obama doesn't know his audience because he talked about slumming it at Target (who said he was slumming it?).
Kerry was the candidate most popular in Europe. Clinton served on the board of Walmart for years. The soundchamber keeeps echoing.
In simple terms, why I'm voting for Obama:
he is the son of a hippie and an African absentee father who actually stands by his voting record on every issue:
http://www.ontheissues.org/Barack_Obama.htm
For him to be in this race at all is nothing short of historically miraculous--, and yet I also believe that he has the best chance of the top contenders of being a great, not just a good president. I base this on his voting record, his books, his speeches that I have heard, and his willingness (and desire) to speak to people he doesn't agree with here and elsewhere in the world, in order to advance the progressive agenda that he (like the other leading contenders) and the American people deeply need and want. My top three issues: Iraq war (end it!), the environment (save it!) and healthcare (reform it!).
There are worse reasons to support a candidate, right?