Letters to the Editor
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Does Xrandadu has a staff
of typists, researchers and go-fetchers to help him write so many huge postings? Or is it that he doesn't have a job or a life to speak of that allows him to spend all day composing them?
Just wondering...
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Hillary's Experience Worthless...Obama's Judgment Priceless
Hillary brags about her experience...yet...as Stephen Zunes detailed this past Monday in "The Capital Times" of Madison Wisconsin, her judgment was WRONG in supporting the Iraq War... Zunes details her actions and quotes her words back in 2002...and she was WRONG. Zunes also quotes Obama's words back in 2002, a state senator at the time, whose judgment from the beginning was CORRECT. The entire world will forever know that Hillary's husband is a man who LIES under oath, so when the former president said (as reported in the Zunes article) that Obama saying that he had the judgment to oppose the war from the beginning was the biggest fairy tale the former president had ever heard...well...its no surprise to discover that he is just lying again. Hillary's experience is WORTHLESS when she doesn't possess the common sense JUDGMENT of a person like Obama, especially when her husband has not learned to stop lying. Hillary says she will end the war...does anyone believe her? After all she voted in lock step with the Republicans. Hillary says she cares about the working man yet she voted for the lobbyist written bankruptcy bill endorsed by Bush that virtually makes it impossible for struggling families to exert their constitutional write to a fresh start. Hillary says she wants health care for everyone...but is garnishing the wages of those now unable to afford health care, forcing them to participate in a broken system that will probably deny them the procedures they need anyway the answer? At least McCain is honest about his support of the war and his lack of compassion for the middle class. Too bad for Hillary that she (and her husband) are not. Zunes also points out that Obama has surrounded himself with advisors who opposed the war...Clinton has surrounded herself with advisors, who, like herself, supported the war. In psychology, there is an interesting concept called "projection"...that is, the fact that people tend to accuse others of the very thing they are guilty of themselves...perhaps Bill Clinton is the "fairy tale" and Hillary is the candidate with just speeches and empty words.
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Bowling for the minuscule
It's not plagiarism to use your friend's words, though I tell my students to attribute quotes to avoid problems; it's not insulting to say what Michele said about pride in country--no sane person has had much to be proud of the last 7 years. But it would have been wiser to put the time frame in, or add the grace notes about the first African-American and the first woman to make it so far in the process. The real problems are:
He criticizes her health care plan, using the infamous Harry and Louise ads of the insurance industry and the GOP. So, it very important to compare health care plans--hers covers everyone and thus can lower costs, while his doesn't and thus will raise costs. Blue-collar workers need affordable, reasonable health insurance.
He criticizes unions and offers GOP and investment bankers claims that Social Security is in big trouble, though it isn't--Medicare is. But he takes money from Goldman Sachs--a big investment group and a major champion of privatizing Social Security. Blue-collar workers need unions to protect their wages and need Social Security because retirement plans based on the stock market are not always dependable--as we have seen only too recently seen.
So it is very important that she connects with the forgotten base of the Democratic party while he connects with yuppie baby boomers and their children.
I too am yuppie scum, as Garrison Keillor used to call himself and us, though, as a professor at a Community College, a poorer member of the yuppie-boomer cohort. Still, I own my home thanks to my parents; I have good health care insurance thanks to my job; I have a good retirement plan also thanks to my parents and my job. I don't need too much I don't have. I am an army brat. I am on paper a perfect Republican (and like Hillary I was until college), or Obama supporter.
But my students are the blue-collar Democratic base and their children, and they have much to worry about. They need unions to push for higher wages and good benefits. They need a universal health care plan that by virtue of being universal will push costs down instead of up.
They need someone who will fight for them rather than talking to the industries and the GOP and then caving--as Obama did with Exelon. He took their money, rewrote his bill (the original of which Clinton co-sponsored) until the Republicans and the corporation were happy. The bill went from a requirement for notification about nuclear leaks to a suggestion.
Obama is a decent man, a gifted orator, and, he is better than any Republican, but he is not good enough--not now at any rate. He takes money from corporations and then accuses others of being in the tank for the big money groups. He needs to see those blue-collar workers and their children up close and personal and forget about his-our-fellow boomers and their comfortable children.
Linda
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Hey newday3!
your "newday" sounds like yesterday's nightmare
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Playing to win
Among the zillion inane, stupid, and plain sexist charges hurled against Hillary there's one that, in my opinion, takes the cake "She'll do anything to win."
What the heck does that mean? Of course anyone entering a competition of any sort will do anything to win--that's the reason you entered the competition in the first place.
Imagine if the NY Yankees went into the 7th game of the World Series not ready to do anything to win. They'd be pelted with beer cups by the fans.
But in the case of the female candidate, what lurks beneath such charge is the specter of evil, murder and mayhem, claws in full view.
Isn't Obama doing anything to win? Isn't McCain doing anything to win?
I hope so. Who wants wimpy candidates who give up at the first reversal?