Letters to the Editor
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This Is Big
Now the guy has to watch what he says.
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oh no she dint!
snap!~
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W.E.S.
The status quo means ruin. It means years in an unwinnable war which nobody even knows what defines victory.
It means an economy in the toilet, crumbling infrastructure and an increasingly jaded public.
It means a government which is willing to torture, and destroy the rights of its citizenry.
It means despair, fear and anger.
So when I see Obama making a speech, and his audience chanting "Yes we can" I too say look out - because anything less than that, and nothing changes, the status quo remains.
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Nobody Wins - Bullshit Detector Engaged
A previous poster mentioned that my bullshit detector should be pegged whenever I am standing near a Clinton. It is pegged and stays there when I listen to Obama as well.
Is anyone actually foolish enough to belive that any of the candidates are really different? Power hungry, money grubbing attention whores the whole lot of them.
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Why Obama's copycat style is a problem
If you copy your math homework from another kid in school, you won’t likely pass the test. It is the same with getting policies through Congress and the Senate. Unless you are intimately aware of the ins and outs of your proposed policy, you would have no idea how to negotiate the fine details that make or break the ultimate policy that gets approved. You can lose the heart of your proposal if you do not know your non-negotiables and things that can be compromised in the spirit of unity. This is why a “details” person in the presidency is important. This is why a track record of little accomplishment and borrowing things like speeches and economic plans, energy platforms, and other ideas from Clinton is a problem for Obama. He does not know the fine details about these plans like Hillary does. His plan of unity in Washington hinges on his ability to negotiate the things we democrats want. Another thing...You cannot govern by proxy on foreign policy and economy. I keep seeing articles in the paper about Obama’s great advisors and his ability to pick great advisors. This is exactly what George Bush said about his way of governing. It failed. When you consider who to vote for, please use your head and the lessons we all know from school. You have to do the study work and the problem sets yourself, or you just won’t pass the tests. Would you want to hire an engineer to build you a bridge if the engineer had copied his/her homework from someone else? How much confidence would you have that the bridge built by the engineer with that history would hold up?
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1 Point & 1 Question
Point 1
Evan Read - bad example of a Wisconsinite. But remember, he is a lawyer, not a real person.
Question 1
Since the Republican nomination is essentially sealed, do I vote for billary or obama?
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The inevitability of Barack
Dear FOH (Friends of Hillary):
Don't be upset that Obama is getting all the ink and the lion's share of the attention. I know you think Hillary still has a chance at the nomination, but she doesn't. Obama has won 8 straight primaries or caucuses, and he will add Wisconsin and Hawaii tomorrow and make it 10 straight.
Everyone is saying Hillary has to win Texas and Ohio on March 4th (and win 'em big) to stay viable. She won't; Obama has pulled even with her in Texas, and you know what that means.....it's only a matter of time until he moves ahead. It's that momentum thingy, y'know? He's got it, she doesn't.
Geez, Hillary may not even win Ohio on March 4th. Most people in the Democratic party have by now accepted that Barack is the strongest candidate and are backing him. Ohioans may start migrating his way. He seems to draw large, enthusiastic crowds wherever he goes.
Your loyalty to Hillary is duly noted and appreciated, but don't be upset because Barack is getting all the attention. He will be the Democratic nominee, and he will beat John McCain like a drum until that old man cries "Uncle."
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Factcheck,
Every politician employs paid speechwriters. That is a fact. Politicians' friends, volunteers, family, etc. often suggest how to polish speeches. That is also a fact.
If you are outraged by this Clinton-manufactured non-controversy, then that shows that: 1) you are ignorant about how political speechwriting is done; 2) you are ignorant of the fact that political stump speeches are not footnoted like your English term papers must be; 3) you are easily manipulated by the Clinton spin machine.
Now, I don't expect I will change your mind by writing this, but I hope someday you realize what a trifling attack this is. By the way, how do you respond to the fact that Clinton regularly says "Yes We Can" and "Yes We Will" and "Fired Up and Ready to Go" on the stump, in order to draw comparisons with Obama? Is she a plagiarist too? Here are the links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rweVOO-fhug
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhCikLeXb7c
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GW
You are fooling yourself. Beat like a drum? When was the last time a democratic Presidential candidate got over 50 percent and beat the opponent like a drum.......The last young smooth talker, Kennedy, barely won.
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In Fact
It was a Clinton that delivered the largest thumping that a democratic candidate has administered in forever.....8 points.
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jaygilb
I suspect that to be the case. I suspect that there is no real difference between the Republican and Democratic party for that matter - they both seem locked into the war, and they both despise the liberal vote.
But, I recognise the need to hold on to the hope that they are not.
Why? Because in the end, if they are all the same it means that America is doomed. America cannot survive another Bush, it cannot survive someone who continues to alienate your allies.
America cannot afford any more pet projects in place of real policies. It cannot afford AIDS relief to Africa, that gets stolen because nobody bothered to even go so far as to demand the books balance.
It cannot afford dumb wars, where money is flown out into a war zone and then "lost" and where mercenary companies charge hundreds of thousands to drive empty trucks to Bahgdad.
It cannot afford an education policy which wastes massive amounts of money on providing Children with an enferior education. It cannot afford to continue funding a welfare state for its biggest businesses.
America cannot afford to continue to blacken the name of its products by stonewalling measures against global warming and polution. It can no longer afford to send its jobs overseas and it cannot afford to build a fence, in lieu of actually doing anything about immigration reform.
It can no longer afford for change to be purely cosmetic. The deficit doesn't care if the president is male or female, black or white. The unemployment figures won't change because the president has a nice smile or functional tear ducts.
It cannot afford to buy into rightwing hysteria over new media anymore - where computer games are this generation's Dungeons and Dragons.
It can no longer afford to buy the media myth that dumb is good.
I say vote for Obama because while I suspect that he is just another politician, I don't know that he is. I say vote for the young guy, because ultimately, while he may be insincere he may not, and to fix America, risks need to be taken.