Letters to the Editor
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The "firewall" states
Texas and Ohio are supposed to be Hillary's firewall states, however, if they're just flikering out flames, she'll only have her swell headed pride and arrogance to blame.
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How in God's name is Hillary Clinton's experience comprable to McCain's?
I mean, c'mon. The man served two terms in the House and has spent over 20 years in the Senate. That "35 years" nonsense won't hold up against McCain's much more substantive resume. He wasn't married to Senator; he was a Senator, with security clearances, privy to all of the back room dealings, and the connections. Maybe Senator Clinton was a formidable First Lady, but she wasn't an elected official. I'm sorry, I don't think it counts.
I feel like Clinton has really backed herself into a corner with the experience gambit. The fact is, she can't stand up to McCain in that respect. Obama won't even try to, because he's not running a campaign based on experience. If she gets the nomination, she better shift her
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The ugly truth
The fact that after the last 8 years of Bush/Cheney, a Republican, any Republican, has a 50% chance of becoming the next president, means that it really doesn't matter who the Democratic nominee is. The ugly truth is that at least half of the US population is dumb and ignorant beyond belief. In any other western democracy, a political party with a similar record of hubris, corruption and criminality would be sent by the voters to the political wilderness for decades and its strength cut by a half or more. We just have to face the fact that's recognized world wide:we have a population that's comprised largely of backward, dumb, dead-enders who are clueless beyond hope.
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Yeah,
There are a lot of hicks in the sticks who would go from the Bush to the Hill, but we'll just have to see.
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There's Not a Democratic OR Republican Party Worth Belonging To Now!
Badger Blue says:
"I have never in my life yet voted for anyone other than the Dem candidate, but if she steals the nomination this year and Obama and his supporters walk out of the convention and into a 3rd party run, I'll join his crowd because there won't be a Democratic Party worth belonging to at that point."
Memo to Badger Blue and everyone else on this thread who "supports" either Obama or Clinton:
There isn't a Democratic OR Republican Party worth belonging to NOW.
Never mind all their combined pre-9/11 high crimes and misdemeanors! I'll give but one example for Bill Clinton and it has nothing to do with what the meaning of "is" is. Does anyone recall the sanctions against Iraq during the Clinton administration and 500,000 children suffering and dying as a result? Do you remember Madeleine Albright's response? "It was worth it."
Then the bogus election with Gore and Lieberman of 2000 happened and not a PEEP out of Al Gore to fight for this country. He just caved and walked away. Remember John Bolton busting into the counting room in Florida? "I'm with the Bush/Cheney team and I'm here to STOP THE COUNT!!!" Well, had the good Democrat Al Gore asked his supporters to go to Florida to show support for a full recount of the whole state, Florida probably would have collapsed into the Gulf of Mexico due to the influx of demonstrators. There would have been a different outcome if he had been a patriotic Democrat and the voters had been thinking more as CITIZENS and less as CONSUMERS.
9/11 changed everything for our country and the world and everyone reading this knows it in their hearts and minds. How can we "support" either party since the events of 9/11, the bogus 9/11 Commission that was put together after over 400 days of foot dragging by BOTH parties, the Commissions final report that is so filled with lies, distortions and omissions that many have taken to boring HOLES in it!!?
Our civil rights have been legislatively stripped away by BOTH parties beginning with the Patriot Act. Think about it! Two stalwarts of the "Democratic" party recently gave the thumbs up for Michael Mukasey to be "the People's attorney" after he LIED and said he didn't know what waterboarding is! (That would be Schumer and Feinstein).
The Democratic traitor to the Constitution, Nancy Pelosi, REFUSES to ask Conyers to start impeachment against either Bush or Cheney. Not enough crimes committed yet Nancy? What about the now ADMITTED illegal spying on Americans by the telecom companies that Bush is in such a hurry to protect (with the help of Republicans AND Democrats)? Torture? Illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq? War crimes of the highest magnitude? No investigation Nancy? (I say she's a rock in the stream at this point. We should take our grievances to the Senate where impeachment was started against Nixon...).
Thank God there is an Initiative being circulated right now in New York City for the November ballot calling for a NEW Independent Investigation into the events of 9/11.
Until we know the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth about the events of 9/11 I feel neither the Republican Party OR the Democratic Party deserve one single vote from any of us. This charade needs to end. Sooner or later we'd all better admit there is a HUGE elephant in the room and seriously discuss how we are going to deal with it collectively as American citizens.
Here's a link to a new video that was produced in Europe. This is what the rest of the world is wondering about 9/11 while we fiddle away discussing the recession and national health care. While the Middle East is being raped and destroyed with our depeleted uranium ammunitions:
http://video.google.de/videoplay?docid=4092196668758946293
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my apologies if someone has said this before...
...because I just couldn't read all the way through every page of letters, but I see a theme emerging.
"Let the people have their say" or "let people vote" seems to be Clintonspeak for "let's hgang on for as long as we can and see if this Rezko thing pans out and we can win this nomination by default."
I'm not going to go into the math like Chuck Todd always does on MSNBC, but after tonight she'll probably need to win 65% of delegates, something she's only accomplished in (I think) one state (Arkansas. If there are more, please post, I'm just doing this by memory).
Her campaign has stated that the will of the voters must be respected, and thus they will not actively court superdelegates to overturn the will of the people.
That leaves one option: hang on, and hope that the superdelegates fulfill their one actual useful purpose, and that's to prevent the party from nominating someone who has the majority of delegates but is unelectible because of a scandal or a revelation that comes out after those nominating contests are over.
For example, let's pretend that the GOP superdelegate process was identical to the Democratic one, and maybe for the sake of the argument that McCain-Huckabee was a little closer but still a foregone conclusion. Now imagine the Vicki Iseman story stuck, that she went on 60 Minutes and spilled the beans that yeah, the relationship was romantic, and yeah, he did her favors in exchange for her doing him. Uh, doing him favors, sorry, doing him "favors."
That's what superdelegates are for. To ensure that Hypothetical McCain couldn't hold his breath and stomp his feet and take the party down with him because he had the pledged delegates to take the nomination as Dead Candidate Walking. Now substitute "Rezko" for "Iseman," and you have the reason why Clinton wants to stay in.