Letters to the Editor
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It's time to take aim..
..at John McLame!
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Has Clinton shot herself in the foot with new video?
The Clinton campaign has just put out a web video in which they use the dead Ann Richards to "endorse" her -- against the will of Richards' two sons. Could backfire in a bad way:
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gf97fT9TeFGux6d4utCMmZkMj6CwD8V2EDH81
The video is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOqzK-TDAK8
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Dewey Defeats Truman
While I am certainly no supporter of Senator Clinton, I am sickened by the continual assault by the press on the people's right to choose among the candidates based on their positions on issues. Campaigns are being routinely presented as if they were ongoing soap operas. The members of the Fifth Estate should acknowledged their unethically premature dismissal of some of the candidates through negative editorializing and just plain not covering their campaigns.
We need a national primary on a single day to give everyone a chance to vote for the candidate of his/her choice. This would help focus the press on meaningful coverage of the campaigns without all the coverage of "campaign drama", which does little to advance our ability to select wisely among the candidates.
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I was living in Austin at the time Anne Richards was governor
For the life of me I can't remember her doing anything much more memorable than making the clever comment: "poor George Bush, he was born with a silver foot in his mouth." True enough, but Richards isn't really remembered for much more than that, besides her battle with the bottle. This ad sounds like a real non-happener. Funny how people outside of Texas seem to think Richards was some kind of legend. To most of us she was the woman who beat Clayton Williams for the governor's office, and nobody but the crudest redneck could have voted for Williams. I voted for Richards because she was really the only alternative.
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Propaganda is not journalism
The alliteration of "dogged defiance" puts you a cut above rush limbaugh.
Just one cut above, thanks to some English classes.
I don't think you are aiming low enough to be a successful copy writer yet. Keep diving, never come up.
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This is about who will be governing the us for the next 4 yrs
What on earth possesses people here. We need a good manager,nothing more, nothing less, not a saint or a hero or a tough acting lady. Unfortunately there is no one left in this race who qualifies, while the country is going to pieces. This is juvenile, ridiculous!
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Fair shake?
Maybe she's been treated unfairly occassionally, I can accept that. However she only had a chance to run because of her husband's name and she only had a chance to run for the Senate for the same reason. I'm not dismissing her as an astute politician - maybe if she hadn't spend so much time supporting her husband's carreer she could have run on the merrits of her own. However she had name recognition, she had enormous funding and she benefitted tremendously by the media casting this as the "Clinton vs Obama" contents from the start. All this gave her advantages over many of the other candidates, she is the very last person who can complain about not getting a fair shake.
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Hmmm
"But, in her latest character test, Hillary Clinton has chosen another route -- an unbowed, unbroken, unflappable determination to press forward as if she, not Barack Obama, was in the catbird seat."
Did I miss something? Would you hear whining about debate questions, references to SNL skits in campaign speeches, and complaints that the "playing field is not as level as it should be" (last night on Nightline) if she was unbowed, unbroken, or unflappable?
The last week has showing us Hillary as unhinged, unsportsmanlike, and unbelievable; and showing her determination to press forward as if the Democratic Party were about her and Bill.
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Ann Richard's support.
Hillary's campaign has resorted to using OUIJA boards to garner support?
The mainstream media is indeed awesome, as there are no longer any living who do not cry out for Obama to lead them into the future!
I guess dead people are harder to con.
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Molly Ivins was a big big Richards fan
And Ivins couldn't stand Hillary Clinton. Maybe now that Ivins has passed, Clinton will claim her support as well.
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Who Knows?
Maybe Clinton can claim the endorcements of Sam Houston, Stephen F. Austin, L.B.J. too!
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Actually, working southern Ohio is a good move for her.
Speaking as a long time Ohio resident, Ohio, particularly the southern parts, is not a particularly bright state. They consistently vote against their own best interests. Clinton should do fairly well there.
I don't think ANY of the candidates are particularly good. Obama seems like the least toxic choice permitted by Corporate America. I'm still wishing for a decent third party candidate. I should probably wish for a pony and a Democratic congress with a spine while I'm at it.
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One Wonders...
While she could, of course, still pull it out, one wonders what might have been had Hillary actually found her voice. If she had talked with passion about why she should be president and not managed a campaign calibrated to polling data. She has looked tentative when the moment cried for boldness. She has seemed shrill when the moment called for command. Funnilly, I don't think that is her. I think she has lived so long as the calculating politician (and that isn't really intended as a disparagement), she has forgotten or at least failed to project why she wanted to be in politics in the first place. So, what comes across is so often patronizing and condescending, rather than compassionate and inspired.
If she loses there will be a lot of disection of why, but we should also all keep in mind what might have been...had her campaign been better, had she "found her real voice" and stuck with it, had she demonstrated an ability to manouver and dance with the moment rather than projecting an inevitability that the times were not hungry fo.
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I love futhark's comment
One national primary day and all of this crap goes away -- the two parties focus on their nominee and that's that. I don't believe what we learn about the candidates through the process outweighs the negatives of having public opinion shaped by early primaries or the divisiveness of the process -- not to mention the waste of money.