Letters to the Editor
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Of course not
But the fans of Obama never seem united in anything but hatred of Clinton, and a kind of vague admiration for their guy. Shapiro was urged, by one writer, to forget about those issue thingies and concentrate on the crowds and the charismatic leader. That doesn't give me any confidence at all. Enthusiasm from the devotees means nothing unless you know what the theme is. What is the theme? Will it be an Obama-Bloomberg "let's all feel groovy while repeating right-wing memes" all the time? Why is it that so many tiresome people, from Broder to Bloomberg to, yes, Obama, say "bipartisan" when they mean "center-right"?
Of course, I really loved to provoke the outrage, the "that's beyond the pale" thinking.
Being a Clinton backer, you get used to being called all kinds of names. Apparently Hillary started the Punic Wars, never meant to pass healthcare at all, and any questioning of Obama's policies means she's being unspeakably negative; she's just like Bush, after all, right?
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Before I read this article
I read Greenwalds article on Michael Bloomberg. I'm glad I did, it was eye openning. Excellent research! Bloomberg is a Bush clone. It would be rediculous for him to be an independant just like it's rediculous for Lieberman to be a democrat. I agree with Shapiro about Obama. It's probably a safe campaign strategy to be vague. Come out in any strength about a topic and get burned in effegy. I want to hear more about Edwards. He wants to help the poor and save the middle class. Just where do Republicans think their wealth will come from if the lower classes have no money? And how long do they think they can tell us everything is comming up roses when we in the trenches know better? I'm tired of hearing about Hillary. I've discounted her just like I discounted Bush in 2,000. Please don't propel her into the White House and comfirm my belief that my vote really doesn't count. Her convenient loss of whitewater documents was a precursor to Cheneys in your face refusal to be held accountable for any of his atrocities. Yes Americans want change. More of the same will leave us looking up from the very bottom. We've fallen so far, so very far. Now that so many incumbant republicans know they have no chance of re election and have declined to run, we have a real chance at change. Sure, things are so messed up that we'll inherit all the baggage and then get blamed for it in the end, but if we leave it to the republicans they will give everything to the wealthy and corporate special interrests and we the people will become extinct. Maybe that's the republicans hidden answer to global warming: large scale population reduction.
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I don't want to be "united"
I don't want to be "united" with other Americans! That message of Obama's worries me. Too many other Americans hold opinions and attitudes that I find reprehensible. They want to make our country into a Christian country, not just as one whose majority are Christians, but as one in which non-Christians - indeed, non-believers - are outsiders. Too many Americans are comfortable with our country as an imperial power, projecting its will by military force all over the world. A large number of my fellow citizens hold racist attitudes, not so many as in the 1950s, but a substantial number still do discreetly. Too many when confronted with the serious defects of our poliitcal system, the electoral college for example, will respond that this is not a democracy; this is a republic. Too many are willing to accept a government that is run by politicians corrupted by their need for campaign funds. Too many are willing to be dependent for information on media that are owned by only a handful of conglomerates with interests other than journalism.
I have not been specific about the numbers who hold such to me unacceptable opinions, but I know they are not small and I do want to be divided from them. I don't see how any politician could bring together a country with such incompatible attitudes towards what we ought to be, and I think it is dishonest to present oneself as aspiring to do so.
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SIGH! obama
Yes, If that message of his were ever to get an "actuation" button or even a "consideration" switch from the electorate, sure, good thing it is!
But a first-term US Senator's nomination+election has histora against it- NO US SENATOR (overall) HAS WON SINCE 1960 !
Now, Barak is a wonderful and very sharp fellow- after Kucinich, Dodd and Nobody , he is my choice- no doubt.
But that is based on his ideas for change in D.C. and amoung the voting, buying, pollutin, denying electorate- who have given us so many bad and worse leaves in this billiard game of public life the past dozen or more generations!
They will refuse to nominate any person of color- especially a liberal. Swift boats will race attack and then he will get caught combing his hair or something...stammering on a Russert question or not being sufficiently nasty , most likely... then Bloomberg will spoil for his old pal/antipal, GhoulYanni and we will have 8 years of more rightwinging and coffins coming home, unphotographed to Dover on polished C-47s- from Ira(q)(n); from Pakistan; from Afghanistan; from Venezuela;from Indonesia; from anywhere the 9/11 permawar extends in the electorate's gathering doom.
The only reason Bush Senior (GHWB) didn't get his next 4 years was because of a 3rd party (ex republican) spoil.
This time, the Democratic nominee, trash-for -opponentand all, would lose with the fatal entry of Mayor Bloomberg.
President Huckabee would be equally as disastrous given his near unbelievable ignorance and certitude. But , most likely the Repubs will stick with America's 9/11 Mayor and the Dems will stink up the Hall in Denver with a Clinton nomination and then: 51 to 49, GhouliYanni will advance to the chamber of majesty and then everyone will go back into their WallMart-American Idol sonambulance untill the next Terror attack attempt or capture or typical GhoulYanni escapade, through scandal and misadventure and all those coffins aboard all those transport aircraft.
Welcome, welcome new era of idiotic voters.
That spoiler alert doesn't just apply to a person of color getting the nomination- Clinton would spur a Bloomberg candidacy just as strongly- only with increased polarization and that sickly, regrettable smell of self defeat and regret.