Letters to the Editor
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@Slackie
Good post, I agree. I am an Obama supporter, but when this is over, I don't think that anyone will say he won as much as Hillary lost. She had almost every advantage (her high negatives).
But her campaign was a disaster. She may be tried, seasoned, ready to start on day one, whatever; she's just a lousy candidate. She's faced down the GOP attack dogs, but she's never had to run against them. She had Guiliani in the race in 2000 for about 20 minutes; her 2006 run was a laugher (and they still managed to spend a bazillion dollars)...frankly, nothing about this woman's past campaigns point towards a proven winner.
Furthermore, the lack of planning beyond Super Tuesday, the failure to understand the Texas primary structure, and the failure to file a full slate of delegates for the PA Primary speaks volumes.
Hillary Clinton has run the Iraq invasion of political campaigns, displaying the arrogance and shortsightedness of George W Bush and the failure to plan beyond the horizon that has wasted Billions of dollars and thousands of lives.
Campaigns are a test, and she's failed miserably.
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Hillary's Sound Bites
The problem is that Hillary did all the name calling and the calling out. If you would listen to their campaigns Obama never said anything about Hillary or called into question about her campaign. she did all the talking abot him. There r no clips of him spewing out lies and calling him all talk. So it was legitmate for them to ask her. She did it to herself. She did all the name calling and denoucing his speeches as just words and saying he was a pie in the sky candidate. Well she has all the clips. She has to face up to her saying all those things about him. You find a clip of Obama calling her all types of names and saying her campign was a fairytale. He took the high road on this. She went negative. He didnt. then she gets upset about mailers that she was doing since Iowa. Give me a break. It was 2 against one and they didnt achieve anything. Plus release your tax returns if there is nothing to hide. Can you trust the clintons?
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The New Russian President
It probably escaped your notice, but Hillary fluffed the name of the Russian President-in-waiting, and came out with 'Medvedova' after a bit of fumbling. And a Russian name ending in 'ova' or 'eva' is female. So much for competence in foreign affairs.
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Of Obama
I try and like Obama but I just don't believe him. When you look at his record he seems more driven by ego than desire to help. He has only finished 1 term that he wasn't running for another office.
I hope I am wrong but I truly think he is a George McGovern at worst and Jimmy Carter at best, both of whom I liked but neither is what our country needs now.
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Obama and his positive message won the debate
It amazes me how the Clinton supporters cannot accept the fact that the CHANGE American voters want is a president reaching across the aisle and bringing both Republicans and Democrats together to get needed legislation passed instead of the Clinton way which is demonizing the opposition, and being totally divisive and polarizing. Hating the Republicans is not going to get our nations business accomplished, and this whining about Russert and the moderators sounds like a sports fan's paranoia that the referees in a game were always penalizing their team. Poor losers make those kind of accusations. Obama will work with both parties to get needed changes and his message is uplifting and working together whereas Clinton's message is tearing your opponent apart. If what you want in a president is a mean, nasty and divisive person then vote for Clinton. However, our nation deserves better and progress never comes from mean spirited, nasty, divisive politics.
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Constitutional questions unasked...
What I would like to know (well ok I already know why) but rather I would like the candidates be asked and required to answer questions about signing statements, rights of habeaus corpus, eavesdropping/wiretapping, and I want hillary to state explicitly why she did not return (as obama did) to vote
against the senate reauthorization of the PAA (protect america act)- but wait could you imagine the GOP spin machine- “she..voted..against…the…PROTECT AMERICA ACT!!…- more juicy than barack HUSSEIN OBAMA not wearing his little flag pin…
People who are unable to ask critical questions and demand actual answers from candidates ultimately get the candidates and officials they deserve. Until we start treating candidates for president as if they are running to be President of the United States, rather than Senior Class President, we will continue down the road towards universal retardation.
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NAFTA softball to Obama
Did anyone else notice Tim insisted on quoting Hillary's NAFTA statements word for word (and out of context), then he STOPPED her from quoting Obama saying he was going to get to it, but then of course good old Tim softballs it over to Obama with a gentle "now you've said some things" and no quote???
It wasn't just that he didn't quote Obama, it was that Tim insisted on dramatically skewering Hillary for her more-or-less identical quote and then didn't follow suit with Obama.
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This is the meme that should have emerged months ago...
[i]Hillary Clinton has run the Iraq invasion of political campaigns, displaying the arrogance and shortsightedness of George W Bush and the failure to plan beyond the horizon that has wasted Billions of dollars and thousands of lives.[/i]
It's an apt metaphor, and her (in)ability to run a coherent, effective, even just-barely-competent national campaign suggests that she's nowhere near ready to "govern from Day 1". In contrast, Obama's campaign may well go down in history as not merely one of the great modern democratic insurgencies, but the new template for early 21st century political campaigns. It's clear that his team is not only leagues ahead of Clinton's, but way out in front of the rest of us, public and press. Looking back, I can only marvel at its brilliance.
And, sadly, I continue to run into Democrats who are convinced that the general election will be a cakewalk, and that Clinton is plenty good enough to take on McCain. I'd love to believe this, but it's bubble-talk. We can't kid ourselves. The Republicans still hold the advantage, the nation is still extremely conservative, and this election will go down to the wire.
Even as I perceive Democratic complacency setting in, along with the concomitant schadenfreude regarding the perceived weakness of the GOP, I am ever more thankful that our likely candidate is the one most capable of taking them on, of not underestimating the task before us, and possessing of the organizational and intellectual capacity to follow-through on the promise of his campaign.