Letters to the Editor
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PS: To those who threaten riots
Thank you for threatening to riot if Hillary tries to use the political maneuvers. Obviously your whimsical anti war protesting amounted to nothing. The war went on and still goes on. Your "riots" did nothing to stop Bush and company. So, please figure out what you will wear in the next riot so we can be prepared.
May the anointed one bless your facebook and enter into your Myspace.
Lovingly,
Old geezer Democrat
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50 state strategy
Shapiro oddly writes: "If Clinton wins Ohio, Texas and Pennsylvania, she will end April having won virtually all the big primary prizes. It will be hard -- but not impossible -- for Team Obama to argue that caucus landslides in smaller states (Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota and Washington) should count more than the traditional building blocks (California, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey) of a Democratic Electoral College majority."
It's pretty simple actually: The Democrats will win those big states in November anyway. At least, they better. Now, if the Democrats want to win the election, they better start picking off states like Kansas and Nebraska. Hillary isn't going to do that. Obama, who clearly appeals to independents in a way Hillary never will, just might.
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Was Hillary Clinton supposed to dispute the solemn words of the most senior military officer in America?
This is all arrant nonsense, of course. General Colin Powell had already inveigled other countries into America's war with Iraq by, putting it as mildly as possible, being economical with the truth. As a result of his deception when he foisted flawed "intelligence" on an unsuspecting world, Britain, Spain and Australia sent troops to support the Americans in Iraq. It's not only American military that has died there, you know. Blair (UK), Aznar (Spain) and Howard (Australia) have paid the price for believing the word of a man whose honesty should have been impeccable. The British public turned against Blair extremely quickly and he became known as "Dubya Bush's poodle". He has now retired from politics, his political legacy forever blooted because of his reliance on American "military intelligence". Aznar was put out of office in a general election which reflected the anger of the Spanish people, and Howard lost the Australian general election in the last twelve months. Thus, you have political leaders from right around the globe putting credence in the words of General Powell, based on false military intelligence, and yet some dullards seem to believe that Hillary Clinton should have challenged the most senior military officer in America and suggested that he was uttering falsehoods. This was a deliberate deception engineered to dupe the American people, panic-stricken after 9/ll. AND, not only that, General Powell was part of the diabolical machinations, whether you like it or not. He fooled the American Senate and also the governments of two other nations in the Anglophone world. The the whirlygig of time it's very convenient to forget how the French were besmirched by Americans for not supporting, holus-bolus, what they shrewdly saw as an American "adventure". Now, it seems, Hillary Clinton is to blame while Colin Powell can rest on his (somewhat mildewed) laurels. I did not realize how deeply deception had eaten into the souls of so many Americans and, I'll be specific, the Obama supporters who have no trouble at all with spreading malicious lies. THE FACTS ARE THERE, NO MATTER HOW YOU TRY TO DENY THEM.
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DRAFT JIM WEBB VP!
Webb would be a phenomenal VP choice for an Obama ticket. He's war hero with a long and illustrious record on defense ... he served as Secretary of the Navy under REAGAN .. REAGAN.. the only card the GOP has to play for the American public and Obama can steal it .. he was a Republican until 2001, in which he quickly switched parties because he recognized LONG before the public at large did that the GOP lost all credibility on defense that fatal day. (He was an advocate for the Democratic economic agenda before then.) Like Obama is doing now, he defied electoral gravity in his race against Geoge Allen in Virginia (Allen was supposed to be the GOP presidential nominee). And best of all, Webb is a tough-looking, square-jawed redhead who visually would render Obama palatable to the kind of folks considering voting for the Democratic ticket but not quite ready to pull the trigger for a black man... Webb would make the ticket look like a feel-good buddy cop film. He would not only lead some Reagan Democrats back into the party, he would also create a new class of voter, the Obama Republican. Webb might work for Hillary too, but not nearly as well. He'd look emasculated by choosing to be third banana on a Clinton ticket .. Bill just looms too large.
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maureenodonnell
Obama didn't fall for it. Obama was right.
So was the UN.
So yes, yes she was supposed to go against the word of America's top general.
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Hillary has BLOOD on her hands
I'm going to write this just one more time. She has NEVER voted against Bushs extra cash for Operation Iraqi slaughter. Nor has she ever said how in the world we are going to pay for it. She has voted exactly like a NEOCON- see the patriot act. Hey, she even took money from FOX billionaire Rupert Murdoch.
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@ maureenodonnell
Actually, the problem I have with the whole war vote is how Hillary is handling it now. I would have respected her so much more if she took the Edwards tact and just said those three little words . . ."I was wrong"
Her refusal to say that strikes me as, dare I say it . . . Bush-like.
And yes, she was supposed to contradict America's top general. That's her job.
This just sounds like another "I voted for it but I am glad it didn't pass" equivocation that people are just sick of.
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Oh, and the facts are there.
Hillary Clinton, on 10 October 2002.
http://clinton.senate.gov/speeches/iraq_101002.html
Barrack Obam, 26 October, 2002
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Barack_Obama's_Iraq_Speech
Colen Powell, on 6 February 2003
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/02/05/sprj.irq.powell.transcript/
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dear maureen
do we know each other? - Are you the Maureen I met at Patty McGraws house
in Waterford - the crazy Black Irish, who used to tell all these nutty German Jokes (about dead people, who look at the potatoes from below) And I remember how we sat on his porch and we talked politics and you came up with all these hilarious stories - We know how you love to "banter" and that's okay, because each time the conversation drifted into dangerous territory - I smiled at you and said "don't be so serious, Maureen and you chuckled and we changed the subject and had another Tea. But one thing I don't understand - You used to be the dreamer and I was "the stupid realist" - didn't you tell me that you can not stand politicians at all and that you much rather vote for a milkman with a good common sense instead a professionell politician - and I was all up in arms and wanted to talk about "experience" and "facts" and laughed and taught me a lesson I will never forget. You told me that everybody has his own priorities of these facts. Tthere might be somebody - for example who is against the war and that is so important for him that he ignores all the other facts. And another one only is interested in the economy - and I recall you were the first one - long before Clinton who said this legendary phrase: It is the economy, darling and when I got really mad you told me: don't be so serious. Ralphie - and we laughed and had another tea!