Letters to the Editor
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Oh Joan, IT IS A FUN TRIP!!
When the it's this close and the stakes are this high, things are bound to get a little rough. And we the voters are the ones that win. You don't want a coronation, do you? I didn't think so.
My pie-in-the-sky desire? I want nothing less than the defeat that Nixon gave McGovern way back in '72. Darling, do you remember? Let me remind you: only two places carried McGovern, and they were the state of Massachusetts... And yes! The City and County of San Francisco. And that was all!! I want a Democratic version of THAT!
Can I have that. Pleeeeeeease.
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we have to come together!!!
Doleres Flower:: your selective spin -researched carefully I am sure on the internet sites with only the most truthful of information- is not helping the democratic party at all. I am a Clinton supporter because I think she has the most thoughtful and crafted policies that can be implemented in an expedient way. She is a wonk and knows how to dot her i's and cross her t's. I would hire her to run my company and I trust her, but if Obama is the candidate then yes, I will support him, no doubt! I will walk door to door on his behalf, although in San Francisco that would be moot. The point of this and Joan's column is that we need to come together and this divisiveness is not good for our party. GET IT? Enough Clinton hating. It is hurting our party!
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@saintzak
"If Obama is the nominee he will lose a considerable number of white Democratic votes (that's just the ugly truth no one likes to talk about)."
I really take exception to this. I think it's a total crock. It's part of the msm fairy tale anthology on Election '08, where good presidents smell like Aqua Velva, Fred Thompson is the reincarnation of Ronald Reagan, HRC sobbed her guts out, and white folk will tell pollsters Obama is their guy, but in the confines of the voting booth, their little racist hearts won't allow them to go through with it.
Good lord, enough white folk voted for Harold Washington as Chicago's Mayor in 1983 (52% of votes cast, and a heckuva lot of those had to be white), and the body politic was a hell of a lot more ignorant and ugly than it is now (I remember someone calling into a local radio show to ask the then candidate Washington if he planned to install vines in City Hall, to make himself feel more at home, since he was a jungle bunny. Bleagh!)
Obama *may* have a tough time winning over hard-core Republicans. But I doubt a statistically significant number of Democrats, Independents or moderate Republicans will refuse to vote for a black man.
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@berrigrl1
You write, "I would hire her to run my company."
I have no doubt you would. But suppose you work at a Tyson plant in a "right to work" state, where your best hope of having your $11.60 / hour wage keep up with your rising cost of living is getting a union. And suppose you'd like to have two days off in a row every week, which is unheard of in Tyson plants (which have roots in Hope, Arkansas).
I don't recall the Democratic party being the party of entrepeneurs. I wish you well, but I will most certainly be voting *against* you and your kind.
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berrigrl1
Have you ever read Animal Farm by George Orwell? I once taught High School English and the students thought that Orwell must be a conservative. He was actually a socialist--but he critiqued the worst possibilities of socialism in order to embrace it.
Wanting to know the truth about the campaign and how it is being run isn't Clinton-hating. However, bashing all people who criticize Clinton as "Clinton-haters" is sure to make many people who did not hate her before, "hate" her eventually when they don't like something that she has done--and her supporters call them a Clinton-Hater. If hating anything that she has done means hatred of "her" as a person--then you are constantly adding to her enemies and decreasing from her supporters.
I have said many times in previous threads that I voted for Bill twice and that I will vote for Clinton if she is the Democratic nominee, but my question remains: is she above criticism?
Your answer makes me sad. It makes me think there is a fundamental difference between those who support Clinton and those who support Obama, one that won't go away by your calling me names and accusing me of Clinton hatred. Obama supporters want a different kind of politics in Washington, leadership that is not above criticism.
If not one of the items I brought up worries you, then I guess we fundamentally do not agree.
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Good Job Hillary Clinton
Good Job Hillary Clinton. Now onto South Carolina, and after that .... just one state at a time, “fighting” ahead every step of the way.
We need you as our next President, and we really need you now!
The news here on our economy is “very bad”, in fact it is serious.
Our outstanding public debt as of January 20, 2008 was 9.19 Trillion Dollars, and has been increasing at the rate of 1.43 Billion dollars per day since September 29, 2006. Ref: www.brillig.com/debt_clock.
There is a headline from the Associated Press for January 17, 2008 in many newspapers which states: “Inflation Hits 17-year high”.
Job growth is extremely week, in fact it is declining at the same time the population is increasing. In 2007 the average monthly job growth nationwide was 111,000 jobs, compared to 188,600 in 2006, and 211,800 in 2005. Ref: Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2007.
The housing market has taken a serious downturn. Mortgages nationwide in foreclosure action have now reached a record of 1.7 percent of the total. We have just had the sixth monthly increase in a row, and now at 1.7 percent we are at the highest level on record since 1979. Ref: www.AmericanProgress.org, C.E. Weller, January 9, 2008.
From Iraq, we’re not getting the whole story. According to data from Eric Alterman and his research article: “Think Again: No Iraq News Isn’t Good News”, January 3, 2008, www.AmericanProgress.org , he reports that the number of U.S. troops killed this past year (2007) in Iraq was 899, the deadliest year since the invasion. The number of Iraqi civilians killed in 2007 was 16,232, up from the previous year of 12,371. I don’t know about you, but I haven’t heard about this being reported.
Candidate Barack Obama means well, but his communication seems mostly great rhetoric with glowing phrases of inspiration and empowerment more suited to that of a Sunday megachurch.
I invite readers to go to the excellent article in the New York Times on December 17, 2007 by Dr. Paul Krugman, noted Economics Professor at Princeton University with his article titled: “Big Table Fantasies”. Dr. Krugman talks about Mr. Obama in that article, and his approach to governance. In paragraph four, Dr. Krugman says Mr. Obama is “naive”. I agree.
Hillary Rodham Clinton is giving us reality with good hard hitting specifics, excellent action plans, and great feelings of confidence. This is the person I want as my President. I say: “fight on Mrs. Clinton”.... one state at a time. You’re doing fine. Keep at it! Thank you.
Common Sense - Bruce