Letters to the Editor
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@Anonymous
Do you have issues with their investigative piece on Rezko. I actually have criticisms cause they did not consult affordable housing specialists who would tell them of Obama's negligence and failures. Of course in Chicago or Illinois they would not speak, they would have to go outside. In a machine town, people would be afraid of retrobution.
Frankly I am amazed at the so called new media for not searching out the truth on this issue.
Hundreds of affordable housing units lost, millions of public dollars and Obama blames the low income neighborhood and the tenants. Insane. With no blame on his contributor Rezko.
Face it, this soils his progressive credentials beyond belief.
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Nice work stackey-dackey on trying to make me out to be a racist.
Is that what it has come to? Anyone who doesn't like Obama or comments negatively on The Snub, must be implied to be a racist? Stackey-dackey, I invite you to look at my previous posts in the archives and find one racist statement. You won't find a single one. You won't even find a post by me saying that anyone who opposes Hillary Clinton must be a sexist, although the language of the attacks on Clinton (shrill, strident, calculating, witch, throw water on her, bitch, cunt) sometimes seems to sexist.
Okay, so you don't want to trudge through my posts. Try this: Look back at the Since You Asked thread where Cary and many, many posters argued that it is okay to keep a racist friend and not challenge him on his racism. You will see me arguing that that is absolutely unacceptable, that it is really not possible to have racist friends and not harbor some racism yourself. You will read the story of how I distanced myself from a friend who I discovered was a racist.
So have we come to this stackey-dackey; that you somehow feel justified in taking the very, very low road of implying that I am a racist just because I, an Edwards supporter, thought that Obama's very public snub of Clinton was graceless? I have always followed my intuition when other things seem equal in making decisions. Why? Because every time I have not followed it, I have regreted it. Moreover, I have been reading the Chicago papers and I am a bit worried about Rezco. That's not intuition. That is a legimate concern because it would be truly awful should we nominate Obama and find that another shoe drops in his detriment in that case. It could cost Democrats the presidency, which seems so tantalizingly near.
Here is why Obama's snub matters. Go back and read violet's post on p. 9 of this thread. She says: I'll admit that as a southerner, Obama snubbing Hillary on the floor hit me as very immature and unbecoming, (and kind of fit with the "likable enough" comment), but I can let it go. (bold emphasis mine)
I have lived in Texas much of my life. I have known many people from places like Georgia, Arkansas, Mississipi, and Louisiana. I have also lived in the desert Southwest. Let me tell you, in the South, manners really count. Being polite to women and to older people and to people of consequence counts more than you can actually imagine if you have not lived here. Or maybe you are just a younger person who thinks these things don't matter. Okay. However, they matter to many older people in the South. Southerners actually connect them to class. People who don't have them don't have "class" -- although they don't usually use words like class. Sometimes you will hear that good old fashioned word "rearing," or people will say as a correction, "Don't act as if you were raised in a barn." Even in New Mexico and Arizona, the native populace would sometimes puzzle over the snowbirds. Why were they so rude? So abrupt? So outspokenly and bluntly opinionated? In such a hurry? Oh yeah. Now we remember. The are from New York (god, New Yorkers seem rude!) or Chicago, or one of those states up North.
(This is why Edwards could have an edge. When all the celebrity stuff starts to fall away from Obama and Clinton, it is Edwards who could be perceived to best understand Southerners and rural people.)
If the Young Prince (Obama) has any sense, he will take note of people like this who just do not get how someone could snub a former First Lady (as Shapiro likes to say) in a public setting with cameras flashing prior to the State of the Union address.
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@--Anonymous January 30, 2008 10:21 AM
What about the independents Obama typically gets?
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@ lateagain
How should Hillary respond to The Snub? As a practical matter, in any way that best benefits her campaign. This is politics after all. I get so amused by those who use words like political calculation as if it were a bad thing or who say things like "Hillary only wants to win." I should hope she wants to win. Otherwise, she and a lot of other people have spent enormous time in an exercise in silliness.
Why is it that it is bad for the female candidate to want to win and to do things to advantage herself to win, but it is not bad when male candidates do the same thing? Are we so backward that we really feel that girls are not allowed to play to win lest they appear to be unfeminine?
As a woman, I would like Hillary to respond very forthrightly to her attackers. Myself, I am a stand your ground and take no prisoners sort of woman. I don't back down.
However, it probably would not be very politically expedient for Hillary to be as combative as I. She still has to appeal to the South, remember? They like ladies to be ladies.
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which argument do you want?
I thought saying "Hillary Clinton" was as demoralizing as saying "Voldermort." How many times have I heard folks says he is *the* most divisive/polarizing/mean-spirited/unfair campaigner/immoral etc, etc, etc person *ever* to run for office? That just speaking her name caused flowers to wilt and little children to run screaming in terror, and grown men to cry.
But Obama "lost" Florida (which he couldn't have, since, I am told, HRC didn't really "win") because more people remember her *name*?
You need to pick your bedtime story and stick with it.