Letters to the Editor
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Hillary is A NEOCON
Remember that crap about how it takes a village to raise a child? Man, did she ever change her tune. What a horrible woman. I mean let's just look at the facts: Over 2 million people left their homes for her shitty war. How many have been killed? How many women have been forced into prostitution? Good lord, I can't stand Hillary.
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And the Winner is...
a John McCain and Colin Powell ticket.
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@ wearedoomed....Hillary Was Not the Only One......REMEMBER COLIN POWELL?
The last time I looked there were a bunch of republicans and democrats that voted for this war, so don't lay all of the blame to one person.
Maybe if America was not lied to by the Bush Administration and by Colin Powell when he addressed the United Nations we would not be in this mess.
Senator Clinton has stated repeatedly that she will be getting our troops out of Iraq, so you are misinformed.
Lets stop the smearing.
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ncawley
Tell you what: We won't vote for Powell (A Republican) either.
How does that sound?
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Salon's kind of rudderless
Since that whole Gender vs Race thing lost steam.
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There's a riot going on
I'm going to be real disappointed if the superdelegates decide this election. If change is what we are really looking for, why look toward the ones in power right now. If that happens, I think Hillary Clinton gets it and there will be many upset Barack Obama supporters when the convention rolls in Denver. I'll be downtown protesting for sure. And I think McCain beats Hillary if there is an election decided in this fashion.
As for Florida (who wants to see Florida decide the president again?) and Michigan -- the rules have been set so why go back and change? If it goes to the caucus format in Michigan and Florida, I really think Barack wins. At my caucus in urban Denver, he won 78-20 over her and it seemed like publicly voting the crowd really went with him -- maybe to seem PC or cool -- because the room was full of his supporters.
The run up to the convention will definitely push McCain to the back pages, but if conservative media plays its cards right, they can push both Democrats toward unlikability. So I think it is imperitive that both candidates stay gracious.
el Carg
Ps Really bad photo choices for the article.
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A major bit of information
has just been noted on Dianne Rehm.
Warren G. Harding was actually black. That means that Obama can say that he is not the first black to be elected president. Now, of course, using Warren G. Harding as a path breaker is a dubious and possibly fool-hardy strategy. But, the fact remains that Harding's grandfather was from the West Indies, and appears that Harding was 25 % black.
Maybe Obama can say that Harding was a failure because he was not black enough.
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Still a race
Even tough I hope for BIg wins in the primaries for Obama I think OH an TX will be close. Obama has an advantage in caucus states because caucus goers are more informed on the issues and teh candidates. In primaries you have a lot of people going to the polls who just see the name Clinton and hit the button.
However I think Obama will have more time to spend with voters this time around, voters come to his side after they get to know him and based on his recent victories. In CA Hillary won the primary by a mere 10 pts. However in looking at precincts, Hillary win for her, Clinton got her 10 pt lead from "voter by mail " voters, who voted before Obama started doing well. In those same precincts if you look at the votes at the polls. Obama did very well.
Obama already has a grassroots org. Set up in both OH and TX,
and his "nation phone banking" get out the votes. He also has aqured a lot of new money in Feb.
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Hillary the HORRIBLE!
The fact is that she signed on to the war. Therefore, it is not a smear. Let us not forget that she also signed on to the Patriot act. She also has signed on to every dollar Bush asked for. The fact is that the Clinton and Bush families are pals. Another fact is that Hillary is a SHILL for corporate america-Rupert Murdoch is just one amongst many supporting her.
Now, what kills me is all the hand wringing about David Shuster's comment that Chelsea was being pimped out. Like I said in a previous post, Hillary is directly responsible for hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis and US service men and women. How she can be offended by Shuster and not by the slaughter in Iraq is symbolic of the cold blooded lizards she supports.
One last thing- GO OBAMA!
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Rules are Rules
Dear Ms. Brazille, Mr. Obama and all the new members of the Democratic Party,
Rules are rules you keep saying. If the rules are to applied to Florida and Michigan, then superdelegates can do what they want.
Thank you for your newly discovered love of the Democratic party. Now stop all the moralizing and may the best politician win.
Please, save some of that money for Congressional candidates, cause without them, neither the anointed one, Obama, or the competent one,Hillary, will be able to do anything of substance.
Sincerely,
Old base democrat.
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All the experience in the world doesn't matter if. . .
it doesn't help one to make good decisions.
Why does Hillary get a pass for voting for the war - the single most important vote of her career - just because a bunch of other people made the same mistake? It is a ridiculous argument. She got it wrong, dead wrong, and should be held to account.
If 'experience' is supposed to lead one to make good decisions, then Hillary got shortchanged.
She's still the better candidate than McCain, so she will get my vote in the general if it comes to that.
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AT THE VERY LEAST...WE'RE WATCHING HISTORY!
A black man and a white woman slugging it out for the Democratic Presidential Nomination...Who'd a thunk it!
What's obvious is that we're on the cusp of a new type of politics.
The old strategies favor Clinton: Go for the BIG states. Attack with plausible deniability. Announce specifics..."It's the laundry list, stupid!" Project inevitability even though it's largely an illusion at this point! Super Delegates and the looming spectre of smoke-filled, backroom deals with the bosses and the politicians selecting the winner...Raise money by putting the arm on the "Old Walletfull"...or try to!
The new strategies favor Obama. Win as many states as possible, picking off delegates one by one. Project inevitabilty even if it's largely an illusion. Attack with grandiloquence rather than specifics..."We'll change the world as easily as my wife can change a diaper...stupid!". Raise money on the strength of change and hope.
Where does this lead? A deadlocked, open convention in Denver with NEITHER candidate waltzing through a decisive first floor vote victory as well as subsequent failed ballots as each combatant's minions dig in their heels and refuse to cede a single delegate to the other and FINALLY...with little or no appreciable delegate shift and the Super Delegates unwilling to buck a trend they can't identify quite yet, Party "leadership" will (in the form of Howard Dean) bray, "HEY...What we're doing is electing Republicans, STUPID!"...and they will start to look for a NEW, compromise candidate acceptible to both hope and change AND the same old political verities...and "when the last ding dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening"...probably about five failed ballots in...there will be one more sound...the sound of a true populist representing REAL change AND hope AND specifics! It will be a Southern voice echoing not Mississippi, not even Huey Long's Louisiana, but North Carolina. It's a script penned by William Faulkner and Tom Wolfe ("Candy Colored..." Wolfe, not "You Can't..." Wolfe) with overtones of Eugene Ionesco, stage directions by Jean Paul Marat leading to Charenton?
Nah... TO FOGGY BOTTOM.
Improbable? Sure! Impossible? Hell, NO!
INEVITABLE!!!