Letters to the Editor
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Governor Strickland as a "psychologist"
Like Governor Strickland, I am a psychologist. I wonder what his problem is that he does not understand the positive "gut" feeling that people have about Barack Obama? And the negative "gut" feeling about Hillary Clinton--probably based on her Iraq War vote! Perhaps he is one of those "cut off at the neck" psychologists who never really understood what their clients were talking about, or where they were coming from. Good thing, maybe, that he retired from psychology and has become an out-of-touch governor!
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@jedimaster
Did Hillary really make the statement that McCain is better than Obama? If that is true, it should confirm for one and all that Hillary is more beholden to the GOP than the progressive wing of the Democratic party.
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Does Obama think Reagan was better than Clinton?
Yes, yes he does. He said so.
Obama is tearing the party apart. If he loses tomorrow he should drop out.
Any Democratic candidate who campaigns against the last successful Democratic president while praising Ronald Reagan should be run out of the party on a rail.
I won't vote for a do-nothing, know-nothing like Barack Obama in a general election. Too much at stake.
Let's hope it's Clinton, the only candidate who can do the job and who has a chance against McCain.
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I'd say the Hillary fatigue is running pretty high...
And I couldn't wish for her political obvivion to come about anytime too soon. Don't give up the boat and don't give up hope.
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The initial problem . . .
. . . was still the patronizing of the Obama supporters. The tone comes from the fact that for far too long they were derided as spoiled little children who had no idea what they were talking about and could not possibly make a difference. What tone did you think they were going to take? Not justifying this but simply explaining it. In the same way that some Hillary supporters have now taken a more angry and vociferous stance after they felt their candidate was being ignored by the media.
I feel that with the Hillary supporters everyone understands why they have this attitude. With the Obama supporters no real effort is made to find out WHY they act this way. Decrying someone, for months, as a poor, misguided, naive child is hardly an auspicious start. When this is done, day after day, week after week, for months, how do you think this person is going to respond when they're ultimately proven even partially right? (In this case right means, their candidate DID win some primaries, not right in the sense of who is a better candidate.)
Governor Strickland's asinine comments feed further into this.
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I would advocate Hillary fighting to the very end...
If she were running on her OWN merits, and not on just her name...
If she were running a campaign of hope, not of fear...
If she wasn't resorting to the SAME dirty tactics that helped put her and her husband in positions of power...
If she was a capable leader, as opposed to just a capable campaigner (which she frankly hasn't even done that well either)...
If she had voted her (so-called) conscience, instead of just going along with everyone else on the Iraq war vote...
If she wasn't just the absolute darling of the right-wing of the Republican party, who will stop at NO END in making her life miserable as President...if she wins...
If none of these facts were in play, then I would say she should keep running...but that's not the case at all.
What infuriates me the most is that she and Bill (and many of her supporters) have this belief that she is the "future" of the Democratic Party...it's that god-damn baby-boomer sense of entitlement, a belief that will lead them to do anything possible, to tear everything else in this world apart, if they don't have their precious way. Yes, how DARE somebody as young as Obama come along and throw a monkey-wrench into their little plans.
I don't care about her running thru the rest of the primaries...but if Hillary tries to broker some deal at the convention with superdelegates, or does some back-handed move to get the FL/MI delegates seated (after she SWORE with the other candidates that they would honor the national DNC's rules)...if she tries any of that, I swear to fucking god I'll vote for McCain.
I guess that would be a political version of M.A.D., but if Hillary and her gang are going to hijack the party like that, then I say nuts to the Democratic Party. And I'm not the only one that feels this way...
BTW, don't fall for this Pew Research crap about everyone suddenly liking Hillary better than McCain...Because there's a portion of this country that will NEVER vote for someone with the last name of Clinton...never...never-ever-never...
All of you in OH and TX remember that when you go to vote to more, if you haven't already...Hillary will NEVER win in a general election against the likes of John McCain.
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Acknowledging Obama myopia
Although I support Obama, I must agree with those who say the media is overly focused on him at this point. Even in an article about Hillary, Barack is the subject of the final three paragraphs, only loosely relating to the intended point of the article: Hillary's stand in Ohio.
We needn't make too much of the attacks being made between Barack and Hillary. It is nothing more than political strategies being played out along a predictable timeline. Once the winning candidate emerges, the attacks will end and the party will coalesce. I say the media should stick to reporting what happens and help the rest of us by fact-checking claims they make. May the best candidate prevail.
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Let's clarify
Hillary Clinton did not "vote for the war in Iraq." Google to find either the text of her floor speech of October 10, 2002, or the entire speech video on YouTube. For those of you who delight in saying she *did* vote to attack Iraq--and that Obama did not, you must remember that Barack was not privy to the disinformation that was being "released" to Congress. I thought it was a bad idea, as did many others of us, but you must read the speech to find that she was neither cavalier nor cruel in making that decision.
People are saying that her complaints about caucuses are "undemocratic." A possible reason for Hillary's concern over the TX caucuses, in particular, is the age-related dimension of this election. I waited two hours to cast my electronic vote during the early voting period here in Texas, and that's a lot of time on one's feet. Obama's got lots of college-aged supporters who stand around much longer than that at reggae festivals. But many of the middle-aged and older Hillary supporters may not have the stamina to wait one or two hours to vote, and then wait around to caucus. This does not come down to whether one candidate has more supporters than the other, but whether that candidate's supporters can physically handle the process. Fresh blood is definitely an advantage, even in computer voting scenarios.
Finally, it is distressing to see so many personal attacks on both Democratic candidates. Barack and Hillary are both being attacked, not only by right-wing commentators on radio and TV, but also by supporters of the other Dem candidate! There are reasons behind specific concerns (as noted above), so seek those reasons. It's not particularly patriotic to do less than that.