Letters to the Editor
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Meet the Press
Hillary's performance on Meet the Press was absolutely pathetic and imperial. In her world, no one said a thing about Iraq in 2003 that contradicted her worldview and for proof, she offers that Obama removed a speech from his website in 2005.
No, not reaching there at all.
I think it was on Sunday that I realized what is wrong with Clinton as a candidate: you have to take responsibility for your authorization vote beyond saying 'I take responsibility for it'. You have to admit to an error in judgement. You have to say that Democracies shouldn't give one person the authorization to go to war unless you have no other choice. You have to say 'if that makes us bad at bossing around tyrants because we have to work out these things in public instead of in private, so be it'.
But Hillary doesn't believe those things, and I don't want to vote for someone like that.
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There probably won't be any more Obamas in the future, by the way
Obama is probably the last of his kind -- a black man who was able to use marijuana without ending up with a criminal record.
Since the national marijuana panic of the nineties, the police have gotten much more efficient at giving criminal records to black marijuana users.
So there probably won't ever be another Obama we can vote for.
Maybe that's another reason to vote for him now.
This could be our last chance to have a black president, ever.
The only chance we have in the future is if some black kid manages to survive adolescence without being criminalized.
But the national marijuana arrest rate has gone nowhere but UP since 1992.
So I'm not very optimistic that another Obama is going to escape the system and make it into national politics.
America seems willing to vote for someone who used pot and didn't get caught.
But I don't think it's realistic to believe that someone who used pot and did get caught is ever going to climb as far as Obama has been able to climb.
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Obama and pot
Maybe he can say he didn't inhale. Let's use that as a test case.
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Maybe I will vote for Obama
It's not our last chance to have a white female president but I think it is our last chance to have a black male president, just from looking at how extremely efficient this country has become in the last 15 years at giving black youth criminal records.
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Good point, Silenced
I can think of at least 5 prominent women today that are better suited for the presidency (and more likely to get my vote) than HRC. Who knows? After Hillary is beaten by McCain in the general election, maybe people will wake up and realize that I am not voting for a gender or a race, but the person that is running (I can't say the same for many of the women I know).
I can't, however, think of a black candidate more viable than Obama right now. His supposed "lack of experience" is seen as an asset to me. It would be nice to have a idealist whose spirit hasn't been completely crushed by Washington in there. Think of the spirit Hillary had before the RNC turned her into the soulless robot she is today.
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Useless distraction
While we argue over who said what and who is the perceived racist (oh please!), your water, air and soil are all being contaminated more every day and what are you doing about it? While you are slamming people you don't know, you throw your plastic in your garbage that goes to overflowing and toxic landfills, you waste gas and energy, and YOU had better wake up. In less than a few generations, we're in some serious and irreversible trouble.
Take some responsibility, every day for your own actions. You have the power to make small changes but you squander it with name calling and insults that fall on deaf ears.
Pretty soon it won't be men vs. women and black vs. white. The idiots claiming people are racists will be more worried about breathing and finding a clean source of water because all this time was wasted. The Earth is going to spit us off it's surface while we're all sufficiently distracted with beating each other up.
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Is this how she wants to win?
This issue is the most painful yet. The so called Clinton surrogates are not only hurting Barack Obama, but every black person young or old in the nation. I have followed this pattern since November where at a campaign office in my town people were already talking of the "muslim" e-mail campaign. I was shocked at that and I had no idea that things would get this bad. The idea that the "first black president and his wife" could allow this is a joke. But I am reminded that they did cast themselves as the Sopranos. The wife who enjoys the spoils of the life and her husband threatens to beat people up when poor neglected wife can't get what she wants.
Well I have decided that I will opt out of politics if she gets the nomination based on her Rove style campaign. It's not democratic, not uplifting and purely unethical. I'm done with this. Obama offers something very different and clean. How ironic that he's being attacked for having worked through very hard times and succeeded!!!! i will continue to HOPE.
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Hate to say it
but I did just have this brain fart.
Hillary, to win, needs to offer something demonstrably BETTER (as accepted by the plurality of voters) than any of the other contenders.
I do not see the 'better', probably why I unconsciously dismiss her.
As for the race becoming a forum for race and gender, welcome to losing 2008 if that becomes the situation.
Most people are well past dismissing people based on race or gender. But what do these people bring to the table? Obama, at least brings a gift for oratory and inspiration. But, as a former Baptist minister, so does Huckabee.
For me, Ron Paul is the only one I can trust, (the others are all bought and paid for already by corporate interests) so all this discussion is moot anyway.