Letters to the Editor
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Our strategy is broken, let's fix it in 2008
The Democrats' recent woes seem to be the result of being overly cautious and defensive, and choosing "safe" DLC-type, uninspiring candidates. Nominating Senator Obama over Senator Clinton would be a departure from this trend of having great candidates and ideas, but chickening out when it really counts. I'd argue that nominating Clinton would be "snatching defeat from the jaws of victory".
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Two good candidates, but one's just a little better...
Why are people so antagonistic and bent on making Obama supporters out to be mindless dolts?
There really aren't that many of them, I don't think-- a few people who can't shut up, one or two I suspect are sockpuppets of the people who can't shut up, and then all these anons, who are really just us hiding under the covers pretending to be ghosts or Cassandras.
I mean, if you throw the negative arguments of the last two pages of comments together, you get Obama losing to McCain in California because he was mean to Gavin Newsom.
And yeah, Grassroots Mom isn't straight Hillary-bashing but I do feel obligated to give Hillary Clinton some credit. I'm glad she's a Democrat, even though I've gotten frustrated and angry at her during this campaign for a variety of reasons. I hope we'll be able to pull off a reconciliation and really kick ass in November against McCain.
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MO'D and the reasonable anonymous
I could spend a lot of time with MO'D - she is very amusing - but it is the more reasonable anonymous who unexpectedly draws my attention.
As you've seen, the sanctimonous Irish have another quality I've tapped into it, namely the ease with which one can wind them up. Of course I wasn't talking about Maureen Haughey per se, I was trying to point out to you that charismatic rogues like Haughey - and Bill Clinton - appear very differently domestically than they do to foreign audiences. You went down a rathole of assuming I was picking on the poor Haughey widow, which again exposes the huge chip on your shoulder. I'm embarrassed to even point it out to you, but let's just say you seem to have it in for the boys.
Now to serious postings. I don't share Anonymous's pessimism in regards to Obama. I think instead that the electorate will be presented with two very distinct choices: on the one hand, an elderly war hero who actively pushes even more illegal involvement on Iraq and gamely confesses his ignorance about the economy; on the other hand, a young energetic bridge-builder who wants to pull us out of Iraq (the number one foreign policy problem we have) and wants to invest heavily in our infrastructure (the single best thing the government can do economically.) I like our chances with that choice. Don't you?
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oh and ....
Hillary did cinch my vote for her tonight IF she beats Obama in the primary ... and I wouldn't even fault Obama for putting her on as vp, maybe she could learn to trust herself (& not her lameass advisors) & have more "Texas Moments"
But then, I'm just a sucker for all this "Sweetness & Light". Maureen - forgive us who want politics to be something other than an ugly street brawl & who believe that the tone to US politics could actually be raised up by the dems, rather than down to the level of republicans.
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@rhbohemian
There are some of us who have decided to support Obama because we think he has a better chance of beating McCain in November than Hillary Clinton does. Obama is clearly an intelligent individual and, if elected president, would probably govern very capably. I
Would he? I don't know. HIs Ill. legislative record and history is decidedly unimpressive. Each time he had a chance to help the needy he instead sided with big interests. There's also more than a small streak of disturbing anti-semitism in his associations, if not himself. So now he's lost the Jewish Democratic vote, as well as working women and Chicanos.
My problem with the people who insist he'd do better in an election against McCain is it is entirely emotional position in defiance of all reason.
Obama LOST all the big electorate states any Dem MUST win; he has done poorly with the elderly; has no chance of winning Florida, has done poorly with Chicanos out in the SW, NJ and California, does poorly with Asian Americans (Ny and California) and fares poorly with Catholic voters (NY,MA and NJ).
There's no way in hell he can do anything but lose in a landslide. And this is BEFORE the GOP starts their slime attacks on him - there is PLENTY of skeletons in his Chicago closet alone for them to do that with even before his loose-lipped racist wife gets blabbering, and he stutters on stage being grilled about his Senate absenteeism and lack of accomplishments next to a POW and man who sat on the Senate Intelligence committee for 30 years with a four front war waging on.
As for your question directly, to me he's the enemy for insisting on running for President before he obviously was ready or qualified to and for splitting Dem voters right in half with this (tired) theme of pandering to the lefties and factioning them off.
THAT, my friends, was not the actions of a man who gives a damn about what's best for Democrats.
defies all reason.
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@SocandTwigs
and I wouldn't even fault Obama for putting her on as vp, maybe she could learn to trust herself (& not her lameass advisors) & have more "Texas Moments"
YOu are just such a vacuum. Hillary wouldn't run on Obama's losing ticket even if he did ask her to which I'm sure he wouldn't.
Nope, you and Obama both go down in history with a big L for Loser on your foreheads and as footnote #901 in my new coming book "How the Fringe Left Extreme Shot Itself in the Ass Over and Over for 35 Years"
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Perhaps . . .
Ms. Clinton and John Edwards have been sharing a speechwriter?
Or, maybe, she is used to repeating others' thoughts: her husband's, her Senate colleagues', whoever's--because what original thought has ever been attributed to her?
And what, by the way, constitutes the "experience" Ms. Clinton is always trumpeting? Or the "record of accomplishments"? Other than a stint in a second-rate, politically connected law firm, and riding Bill's coattails, what exactly has she done?