Letters to the Editor
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something smells in here....
The sense of entitlement you get from the Clinton supporters posting on here shows just how badly things are going for her right now. She didn't expect this challenge, and her supporters are outraged, OUTRAGED, that the anointed-one is having a rough go of it.
Here's betting that the level of shrillness from her supporters only increases (provided that's even possible) as February goes on.
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Experience?
He and his supporters may be right, he may be the future, but he is NOT the present. The current world is just too *darn* dangerous for inexperience.
Obama has more experience in office than Lincoln had when he became President of the United States. Are you seriously suggesting that Lincoln shouldn't have been elected, due to his "lack of experience"? Because I wouldn't trade Lincoln for a thousand Hillary Clintons.
Experience counts, but there are plenty of people in this country who have more experience in elective office than Hillary or Obama. Like Dick Cheney. That doesn't mean they'd be any good as President. I want someone with leadership skills and good judgment, and my experience with the Clintons over the past 16 years suggests they're sadly lacking on both fronts. You only need to look at the shambles she's made of her campaign - one which has outspent Obama 2:1 - for a demonstration of how ineffective a leader she is.
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RealityCounts
If you're voting for McCain instead of Obama--should he be the nominee--then you don't really believe in the ideals that Hillary stands for. If you would support McCain just to teach young Obama a lesson, you don't really stand for the ideals that both Clinton and Obama share in common.
You're right. This election is too important to waste. On Sixty Minutes tonight Hillary Clinton says that she still has a photo of Obama and his family standing with her at an Illinois fundraiser, hanging in her office. And tonight on Sixty Minutes, Obama was asked if he was ever going to bring the skeletons out from Hillary's closet. He said never. His criticisms of her would be for policy differences only.
Vote for whomever you wish, of course, but the ocean of idealism that we can turn our country in a better direction after the disaster and mismanagement of the past eight years isn't necessarily going to die or to disappear because you or people like you are sprinkling a handful of sand over it.
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It's going to be... a huge Obama win, or huge after these primaries
I'm not psychic or a see-er but I interact with many who aren't even dems. Barak has a huge wind at his back and Hillary and Bill aren't go to screw him because too many fair minded folks are watching, like hawks.
You wisely say how does this woman know what is coming. The answer is I don't know but I do see him winning the nom and easily and winning the race even more easily. Something there is that is afoot now and to haggle about little testy things misses the big picture. I'm not arrogant but about elections, most of which I vote for the loser, I am rarely if ever wrong. Sounds disgustingly arrogant, but my reality and the reality of soooooooooo many.
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Did somebody really just compare Obama with Lincoln?
Seriously, what's wrong with you people?
I'll be voting for McCain over Obama too, for precisely the same reasons mentioned before. If you think this country is mismanaged and falling apart now, wait until some know-nothing who never stood for a damn thing in his life and is a mainstream media MIRAGE gets done with it.
That it's possible Barack Obama could be the Democratic party nominee is comical (but not really). That it's possible he could become president of the United States is downright terrifying.
This Democrat will vote McCain and so will almost every Democrat I know.
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@Bill Sterns
I'm glad I'm not the only one that feels that way.
The big issue right now is how we can stop this bickering between the two candidates. I think a little more honesty and objective analysis of what we read is order for both sides, not just respining the previous weeks spin again and again. We are both guilty of it to some extent. Think it's time to lay down the gloves and talk about real issues with the candidates so we can have a solid coalition in the fall to ensure a landslide win over McCain.
The country is certainly ready for it, we need to deliver.
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ELECTION FORUM No. 8 : "Meet The Families NIght" - Mount Vernon, Va. [ intermission ]
CONTINUING: - - - - - - -
The auditorium hallways are packed due to the Rest-Room Surge of 12,647 Republican Weedlers -- The Birthday Girl, Miz Roberta Wright McKlean, has been swallowed up into the Black Hole of the GOP.
Pushing through the crowd and into the packed Men's Room is M&M cub reporter, Lucy Goo who thrusts a mike into the snout of the famed non-aligned political observer & Talkinghead, Mr. Cow Head Soup, Esquire.
LUCY GOO: "S'cuse pleez, s'cuse me --- Meester Soup, I Lucy Goo weese de "M&M BUFOON" --- Pleez ann'sa all Lucy's good questchuns, pleez"
COW HEAD SOUP: "What chew tink of deez policktickal peopleses to-night? -- hey?"
A large group of women begin to file into the Men's Room and crowd in on the cub reporter and her 'job'. A small, freckle-faced strawberry named Petunia leans to her gravity-challenged girlfriend and asks;
PETUNIA: "Hey, Olga honey, ain't that Cow Head Soup, the famous non-aligned political talking-head freak?"
OLGA-HONEY: "Shure iz --- hey, he shure iz a cutie-pie in real life."
PETUNIA: "yeah --- he looks so fake in the cartoons, dontcha think-so?"
OLGA-HONEY: "BURRRRP !!" -- "Shhhh, shhhh -- let me hears what heez sayin"
[Due to the ever-growing, noisy, toilette-flushing crowd, the 'more-than-buxom' cub reporter presses in upon the debonaire Mr. Soup until her nose begins bobbing up & down with his very, very large adam's apple]
LUCY GOO: "Meester Cow Head Soup -- yu iz veery veery famous for haabing neva guess wong'd a pesadent'chal elect'chun eeen manie, manie yeear, -- Yes?"
COW HEAD SOUP: "True-True, Mizz Goo. --- Never-Ever"
LUCY GOO: "So !! So !! --- Beeeg Ques'chun --- who bee eeeen de peopleses Whitehouse, cum in Janawarary? -- Who, who ?"
COW HEAD SOUP: "Early last year Miz Goo, I told the schmartie-pundits that that Warmongerer up on stage tonight would be elected.
LUCY GOO: "Weeely, Meeester Soup? -- Deees iz so?"
COW HEAD SOUP: "Uhhhhh, ----- Yup"
LUCY GOO: (nose begins to glow from Apple-Friction) "Aiine, who dat, who iz de McKlean's Nice Presy'dent?"
COW HEAD SOUP: "That's . . . 'Vice' President"
LUCY GOO: (eyes flash & flutter) "Lucy like Vice, Lucy like Cow Head -- yes ?"
COW HEAD SOUP: (beading sweat) -- "To answer your question, Mizz Goo, the next Vice President will be ------- Condo-Leasor Vice, errr, --- Rice."
A loud commotion begins to build as a path to the interview is swathed by a 12 foot, 480 pound Amazon Woman who picks the cub reporter up by her hair & chucks her out the open window.
LUCY GOO: "AAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEE !!!"
[The Amazon's bulbous eyes then bullet down upon Mr. Soup who attempts to nonchalantly shuffle out the rest room and back to the auditorium]
BIG BERTHA: (BELLOWING ECHOES crack & shake the paint off the walls) "MY-MY, YOU IZ A CUTIE-PIE, LUVER-BOY,--- jus likes all mah Sistas said you wuz."
COW HEAD SOUP: (trembling within the Big Squeeze) -- "Heh, heh, --- I believe intermission is over. The forum's about to start."
BIG BIRTHA: "I DO BELIEVES EYE'S GOTS DE HOTS FER YOOU, SUCKA, ---- WHOOOOOOOPIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE !!!"
A Great Sucking Vacume Sound fills the Rest Room: "SCHLURRRRRRRPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP"
[A LOUD hallway BUZZER announces that the candidate & the McKlean Clan are preparing to resume the night's forum. As Bertha and the others file out into the hallway toward the auditorium, Cow Head Soup is nowhere to be seen]