Letters to the Editor
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Dancing on her grave since Iowa...
Given that the corporate media has been hammering across the notion that Clinton is always about to withdraw from the race, it's astonishing that she's managed so far to evade the jaws of this relentless establishment bulldog we once knew as the free press. Where the article states that Clinton was "widely faulted for complaining about always getting the opening-gun tough question", it fails to identify that the faulters are the same pundits who have had a vendetta against her from the getgo. Both they and the journalists who relentlessly cheerlead for Obama - even during their interviews with Clinton - seem to be getting paid by commission. The more points Obama wins by in a primary, their news directors appear to have told them, the bigger their bonuses. Fortunately, many TV viewers, especially those watching the debates, are not fooled by the Big Brother propaganda, and are doing what they can to help her, hence the $35 million haul this month. One thing they can't stop, however, is the massover crossover voting drives of Republicans in the Democratic primaries being organized by Karl Rove's dirty tricks team and the Obama camp. Without those G.O.P. voters, his delegate lead would likely evaporate. For more on this, I've posted an article at thecityediton.com. Click on my screen name for a direct link.
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More of the same self-promotional garbage.
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Apology Accepted
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About those about faces
Why do I have this strange feeling that so many of those who post on this and other sites, claiming to have been former Clinton supporters who have Seen The Light and Been Saved By Obama, are nothing of the sort? Sorry if I'm insulting anyone,
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Apology accepted, because this post is insulting. I hadn't even seen more than an Obama soundbite until the recent debate, instead making my choice based in reading stuff in the MSM, both candidates' sites, and places like this. My reasons are based both on my convictions and on calculation, and really have next to nothing to do with being seduced.
Here's why I switched:
1) Hillary supported the effort to go to war. This is the single biggest policy decision she's ever made, and she got it wrong, apparently, because she made the wrong political calculation. A real leader [Not a manager, which isn't the same thing] would have gotten it right. Plenty of us got it right when we protested in the streets and with letters. Should we expect our politicians to be held to a lesser standard on THE most important issue?
2) Obama attracts more independents. There is a lot of anecdotal evidence that this support isn't rovian, calculated, or insincere. Not everyone is a political junky who reads the comment sections. The tendency to "game the system" is not actually all that common among most voters; even if it exists, the impact is insignificant. The simplest explanation is that he's a more attractive candidate. If we want to win in November, we go with the most attractive candidate.
3) She's run a pathetic campaign, and the endlessly changing themes and memes "inexperience vs. experience," "fear," "safety" "ready on day one", "shame on you" "change you can xerox" etc. etc. etc. betray a poor ability to lead.
As I've posted before, I do like and respect Clinton. She's MUCH better than McCain, clearly, and would normally get my vote. But Obama's positions are significantly better to me, and he would be a more effective president based on his charisma. "Being Saved" has absolutely nothing to do with it.
""but I've yet to see a post claiming the opposite - and I've been doing way more than my share of reader comment sampling this past month. This just seems very odd.""
There's a simple explanation for this: nobody is switching from Obama to Hillary. It only seems odd if you ignore the fact that Obama is a stronger candidate.
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@Salon Fan
Thanks for pressing send. Thanks for the reminder that these aren't just abstract popularity contests, but people are voting with pocketbooks, bills, health problems, families. Yes, the conversations here do become abstract and depressingly vicious. I grew up in a Republican household and the Republicans I knew were nice to one another, and mean to liberals. I had to grow up to find out that liberals are mean to eachother, and nice to everyone else.
Good work making phone calls and supporting a cause you care about. Don't let this silly stuff get to you. Good luck. I saw Samantha Power speak a few days ago, and she confirmed to me that the people who work for Obama, with Obama are smart, compassionate, wise and enthusiastic.
Hang in there.
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Hillary Clinton is the Little Engine that Could
Thank you Walter Shapiro. Your article grabs the tone of Hillary Clinton's supporters. We're punch drunk with all the biased media and the Obama campaign's theme of, We don't want experience, we want Obama. This is just another case of an underqualifed middle aged man trying to force a woman, who is greatly qualified for the job, to step aside. Every woman in the workforce has been there. We're the one's giving our grocery money to the Hillary Clinton website. And Clinton isn't giving up, because she knows what quitting gets you. Nothing.
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Looks like we need a Texas History lesson here...
AHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Good one manos99
"Who Knows?
Maybe Clinton can claim the endorcements of Sam Houston, Stephen F. Austin, L.B.J. too!
-- manos99"
No, see, I was about to say OBAMA should have made a parody ad with actors playing Sam Houston, Austin, LBJ, Senator Yarborough, Davey Crockett, Jim Bowie, and William Travis...all in support of his candidacy...seeing as how only men vote for Obama, or so we've been told by Hillary's followers.
Actually, Hillary should have had Texas Gov. Ma Ferguson on her list of female supporters...the parallels with Hillary/Bill and M.A./James Ferguson (also a former TX governor) are just too tempting to go into detail here. Look it up, yall, it's interesting political history to read...and it's partly why Texas governors have almost no power to speak of any more...
I probably would have been more upset if she had used Barbara Jordan in her ad...guess Hillary's staff figured that would have been pushing it, seeing as how, ya-know, only black people are supposedly voting for Obama...
My only regret is that you beat me to the punch-line on this one.
Obama 08