Letters to the Editor
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Obama-Clinton contest?
As far as I remember John Edwards, Dennis Kucinich and Mike Gravel are still in the race.
I guess Salon likes to choose the "appropriate" candidates for its readers. Thanks, but I like my Salon pre-MSM and less BS.
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Obama not playing any cards
The only candidates playing the race card here are the Clinton duo, directly and indirectly through their anonymous and not-so-anonymous glad-handed cronies. The Clintons and their old style minions like Sharpton and Jackson remain mired in the old politics of Democratic Party race mongering, Obama's flying high above all this crap with his politics of hope mongering even for his would-be political opponents. Obama can build effective coalitions, the Clintons alienate over 50% of the voters right off the bat. Obama could take 20% of the Republican vote. We've all heard about the Reagan Democrats, get ready for the Obama Republicans.
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MLK vs. LBJ
Anyone who thinks that the Civil Rights Act could have been signed without MLK's work beforedhand is simply a complete moron (Hillary included). First comes organizing, marching, agitating, and campaigning, then, comes legislation. Gay rights, women's rights, integration all started with THE PEOPLE, not some glorious president who believes his noblesse oblige accomplished it with a stroke of a pen.
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Camoaign interviewers
Isn't part of the problem with "nastiness" the stupidity of the questions? Is experience more important than change - choose one. Mrs. Clinton, is Obama a good president-to-be, yes or no. An effort must be made to turn a worthless question into a real question, e.g. "who does your hair?"
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Has anyone seen Elvis recently?
"Not waving but drowning" just about sums up what is happening to the Democrats at this early stage of the campaign. MLK, JFK but no sign of Elvis ("The King") leaves me so disappointed. Oh, I must remember to include gender. Marilyn was certainly an icon so why is she being neglected?
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99 Problems But The Bitch Ain't One
Odd title for an Obama campaign party song, don't you think?
Wonder why Mr. Hope & Change hasn't apologized for it.
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The Hillary Clinton Imaginary Slant
Give it a rest, already. Reporters can't stand that Obama is not walking away with the nomination, so they have to make up a perfectly abysmal story of what Sen. Clinton and her husband said. It is disgusting. But if the news media said it on TV, it must be true.
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Obama is walking into a trap
This blunder signals that Obama is listening to his white advisers as opposed to his common sense. This rookie mistake will cost him in the long run.
Well-intentioned white progressives genuinely believe that the country is outraged by charges of racism or race-baiting. As a man-of-color living in the United States, Obama knows this is not the truth from personal experience. The country as a whole would rather avoid discussions of race and thinks that Blacks are overly sensitive to the issue.
The whole country and world have believed for the past 12+ years that the Clintons are loved by African Americans. We all witnessed Bill’s genuine comfort and reliance on his buddy Vernon Jordan and his sermons at Black churches that rivaled the oratory of Jessie Jackson. Hillary cites Marian Wright Edelman as one of her early mentors. Now we are to believe they are anti Martin Luther King? White America will side with the Clintons, as they reflect on how the Clintons once represented the healing between the races.
Obama’s ability to be genuine contender for the presidency is predicated on the belief that he transcends the knee-jerk, hypersensitivity that understandably permeated the politicians who were formed in the civil rights era. Listening to his advisers is going to end him in the same league as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. The best thing that could happen to Hillary’s campaign would be to be to have her labeled as a racist or race baiter and have the blacks turn against her by not voting for her in the South. The whites will turn away from Obama in droves and never look back as Hillary. Obama will go back to being another out-of-touch black politician always looking to play the race card.
Deval Patrick would not have engaged in this discussion or would have exonerated the Clintons. Barack should come out and say, "I know the Clintons are not racist and are friends of the African-American community. Let's move on and talk about the issues". That Barack is NOT doing that speaks volumes.
He'll win the battle, but I fear this may cost him the war.
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Arrogant Obama
The point that I think the founder of BET was trying to make was when the Clintons were working for African American rights, Obama was in highschool smoking pot and drinking. Are African American voters so sensitive that they cannot tolerate honest comments about Obama to the point that nothing can be said about him without the race card being played against the Clintons? I am not fooled by his campaign and let me tell you, I don't think many people miss how the media is misdirecting all of this racial garbage toward the Hillary campaign. I really truly hope Obama loses votes and the American voter sees through his divisive power grab strategy. This is more evidence that Obama is an arrogant lawyer type who thinks he can out fox the voters into believeing that every white democrat is a hidden racist.
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New Acronym - UMV - Useless Manufactured Vitriol
The manufactired vitriol over MLK and Hillary is unexplainable excpet as a symptom of UMV. People who can actually believe that Hillary stated MLK was not the catalyst leading to the Civil Rights act are terminally insane, or just plain dishonest. And do people really think Reagan would have signed the act, or the dunderhead in chief currently in the White house would have?
The Iraq ammendment was a sound ammendment if we had a sound president in the White House instead of a puerile idiot. It gave an enormous amount of leverage to a president to get concessions from Sadam, such as the inspectors on the ground. I fault everyone who signed that ammendement, not for signing a bad ammendment, but for not recognizing the sitting president for what he was - a complete and arrogant fool, bent on war. For me, that Obama does not frame his opinion on the Iraq vote in this light is a demerit for him. That Hillary has not communicated her fault in not properly evaluating Bushes intentions before signing the bill is a demerit for her.
When I read Bills remarks I never in a second thought Bill was referring to black person running for president as being fairy tale. I immediately took it as a description of a politician spinning his record for political advantage. More UMV.
Obama supporters I hope do recognize that Obama is a politicion? Right?