Letters to the Editor
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HRC on CSPAN Post SC
Has anyone actually watched HRC's post-SC event on C-SPAN? She goes on for over an hour. It is torture. It is pathetic and sad. And the audience is falling asleep. Just listen to her riff on her marriage to Bill and all that she achieved after she married him. It is a stunning implosion. And I guess Bill went on for 75 minutes wherever he was tonight.
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Yep, Better Crow While You Can
Because this isn't even close to done yet.
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What a breath of fresh air
Obama said it -- this is a decision between the past and the future. I choose the future. And sooner rather than later, please.
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55% of the vote
Obama's margin of victory is astounding. He got over twice the number of votes as Clinton and three times the number of Edwards votes.
But what is most impressive, I think, is the fact that Obama received more votes than McCain and Huckabee combined!
I hope he keeps this momentum up and I hope he takes the prize. Obama is bringing thousands and thousands of new voters into the Democratic party. He inspires young voters. He makes independents lean left. And he even makes some Republicans lean independent.
Many Democrats are gleeful at the thought of the punishment Hillary and Bill can deliver to the Republicans if elected. True, the Clinton's are masters at playing the game. But the need to play the game is diminished if your political opponents hemmorage massive amounts of voter support.
Let's put Obama up as our nominee. Let's let his optimistic populism spread throughout the purple states and influence other congressional races in November. Why are we taking chances of prolonging current the 50-50 split of power when we have the opportunity to sweep the whole thing staring us in the face?
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And I guess Bill went on for 75 minutes wherever he was tonight
and apparently talked about himself the whole while.
Its true, this isn't over by a long shot, but the Clinton's have pretty much sealed their fate as far as the general election goes. If she gets the nomination it will be a disaster for the Democratic party. My guess is that we will see more and more major figures in the party abandon them. Of course that won't stop the Clintons.
If she doesn't get the nomination I wouldn't be shocked if she ran as an independent.
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"Ooh, he's so....so groooovey!"
"the transformational politics of the 21st century were flashed on the electoral tote board as Obama -- the apostle of change -- defeated the back-to-the-1990s Clinton machine."
Good Lord, Walter, do you always write in purple ink? It's fine to be happy your guy won a contest, but don't drool on your keyboard, man. And you don't really need to show us all your comtempt for two great Americans named Clinton--we get that from reading your disdain and distortions every day.
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Carried to victory by a Clinton despising media.
Obama didn't win a stunning victory he was carried over the finish line by a Clinton detesting media that would turn on him the day after he won the nomination.
Democrats better "hope" this doesn't "change" the expected outcome after Super Tuesday (Clinton victory) or they'll be stuck with the worst candidate since Dukakis.
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Obama is "The apostle of change"? Bro... That's gross.
I feel like I just read some freak porn.
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"Two great Americans named Clinton"
I know about George Clinton.
Who's the other one?
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HRC on CSPAN
"Has anyone actually watched HRC's post-SC event on C-SPAN?" Me too. I watched that just to see how long she would run on. I agree with the previous letter writer. Those people behind her looked BORED.
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Obama I love You Fr. Walter
"There is a danger in drawing epic conclusions from the voting decisions of the more than 500,000 South Carolina Democrats who flocked to the polls Saturday"
Gee, you think? Thanks for telling me this halfway into an article where you have, umm, drawn some pretty big conclusions.
And really? "Apostle of Change"? "Magnolia scented sweep"? Then there are the more subtle (though it's hard to be less subtle) examples of the incredible slant. Obama "gently mocks" but Bill Clinton "belittles". There is an Obama "campaign" but a Clinton "machine", though they both do the exact same things. Clinton, who has currently won the exact same number of primaries as Obama and who actually leads in current delegates is "heading for Dunkirk".
I feel like I'm reading a "report" from somebody who has spent the day scrawling "Obama" all over his middle school folder in different shapes and sizes. Maybe trying out "Walter Obama" even.
You'll break down the white vote under 40 but make no mention of the 80 percent black vote for Obama in "bi-racial" SC which of course is the reason for the "thumpin'"
Just title the piece "I'm in love with Obama and Can't Stand the Clintons" and be done with it. Let's not have this facade of "reportage".
I may vote for Obama, I send him money, but the more I see this sense of superiority among his supporters and outright contempt for his opponent, the less enamored I am of the man and his "fervent supporters"
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@ doc5467
"Ooh, he's so....so groooovey!"
"the transformational politics of the 21st century were flashed on the electoral tote board as Obama -- the apostle of change -- defeated the back-to-the-1990s Clinton machine." Good Lord, Walter, do you always write in purple ink? It's fine to be happy your guy won a contest, but don't drool on your keyboard, man. And you don't really need to show us all your comtempt for two great Americans named Clinton--we get that from reading your disdain and distortions every day.(/blockquote>
Ditto, ditto, ditto.
The media "pundits" are the real king-makers in this election. Sen. Obama is their guy because they'll be able to mold him into whomever and whatever they want.
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Thanks, Bill!
Obama couldn't have done it without you. You demonstrated better than anyone why Clinton-style campaign tactics are ready for the trash heap. Keep up the good work!
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Past versus future?
As a babyboomer myself I resent the implication a telegenic, eloquent Obama concluding his speech by implying HRC as past and himself as future. It seems all the media are fawning over his coronation as certainty after Iowa and now South Carolina. I dislike HRC's vote on Iraq, but she make herself clear in the debates that her position on Iraq will be the same as other democratic candidates. Why is HRC so hated by the Republicans and some of the progressive and most of the media? Everyone belittles her resume, counting her 8 years as first lady as a sinecure position, her healthcare fight in 93 as a grand failure. Yet I consider that 93 failure as her glorious moment. She tried to change an intractable healthcare problem and failed, maybe she's ahead of her time and run into a buzzsaw of vested interests and indifferent public. She has learned her lesson and now intend to continue the fight but now faced a younger opponent whose surrogates used the race card against her for any criticism she leveled against him. She's fighting with one hand tied, her husband fighting for her was considered unseemly or undignified, Just as Carter was critisized for critisizing Bush as viloating the code of dignity of ex-presidents. I only wish Carter violated the code earlier and in stronger language. HRC's claim of 35 years of service is waved away as old politics, while Barick Obama was euologized for his what? community organizer? what community did he organize? certainly not tenants without heat, his law firm may represent some community organization in gold mining the government funds, like Rezko remodeling housing for the poor except the housing is as HRC claimed slum housing without heat. Some feminist may hated HRC for staying with her man, some may hate her for what her husband did, either way she can't win. As for burying the past I remind young people some of the past are glorious and not to be dismissed casually. I wonder whether some of the young people know the history well enough to appreciate it, like the founding fathers, Theordore Roosevelt fighting the monopolies, Franklin Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt. The furure does not born immaculate, it is embodied from past and present.