Letters to the Editor
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Hillary Rodham Clinton
As Alex says in the U.K., the 'press' feels the 'media' in the U.S. is biased toward Obama. No; say it isn't so. Incidentally, they are. If you talked to anyone besides other reporters or 'students', you would get a much differant picture of how things really sound.
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McCain vurses Obama and Clinton
To say that MCCain would lose against Hillary is absolutely rediculous. Nearly every single poll shows that McCain would destroy Hillary in the national election. Why? Because many of Obama's supporters simply wouldn't vote for her and also, many Hillary supporters wouldn't vote for Obama. I can safely say that McCain WILL be the next President. Obama is far to young and inexperienced and continually runs on one word, "change." He doesn;t know anything about economics and he is clueless about what to do about terrorism. He's another Jimmy Carter. And look what Carter did. He nearly destroyed the U.S. economy becasue pof his inexperience. Obama and Hillary have also proposed nearly $1 trillion in NEW spending. And where are they going to get this money exactly? Taxpayers of course. Raising taxes is a love of the Democrats and the rest of the far left kooks. Why would anyone raise taxes in an already struggling economy. Also, Hillary and Obama have proposed relief at the gas pumps by "going green" and finding alternative sources of energy. Why not use OUR OWN resources of oil in Anwar and the gulf? We are hurting ourselves by not digging for our own oil. McCain will expose the far left socialist ideas of Obama and Hillary that have proven time and time again not to work and that is why McCain will defeat either Democrat canidate.
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"and for my whole freakin life either a Bush or Clinton has lived in the White House. This is America people, we shouldn't have two political families that control everything."
soooooooooooooooooooooo tired of this silly argument!
Since 1980, a Bush has been either President or Vice president for all but 8 years.
A Clinton was the White House for 8 consecutive years.
The Clinton administration was a completely different animal than either Bush administration, or the Reagan-Bush administration.
Beyond the White House, the Bush "Dynasty" spans at least 5 family members over 4 generations and nearly 100 years. The Clinton "Dynasty" is the career of one couple, spanning (if one takes HRC at her word) 35 years, mostly at the state level, until 1992.
Conflating the two into "dynasty" makes people sound like Ralph Nader.
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Clinton implied Thursday that McCain was more qualified to be commander in chief than Obama.
Thanks a lot. What side are you running for again?
And on a completely unrelated note, anyone notice how blatant the Clinton endorsements have been from Saturday Night Live? First the appearance by Clinton helps throw last Tuesday's primaries to her, and this week a re-hash of the "3 a.m." call makes Obama out to be an incompetent fool.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton
If I were an intelligent reporter, and there aren't any, I would speak to other people and do my job reporting what they had to say, rather than listen to other people just like me. If you think you have a corner on political intelligence, you don't. But people who do will talk about it. Ordinary people.
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@ lolcait: "If Obama wins the nomination, I will vote for McCain."
Really?
100 more years in Iraq doesn't bother you? Nomination of more right-wing supreme court justices doesn't bother you? A continuation of the Bush tax and economic policies is okay? The attack on our civil liberties remaining un-addressed?
I'm forthcoming about my support of Obama, but I will gladly vote for Hillary if she is the nominee. I can't imagine the logic of a sour-grapes vote for McCain if Hillary doesn't clinch the nomination. It doesn't make a bit of sense to me.
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@ krispy9160
To say that MCCain would lose against Hillary is absolutely rediculous. McCain will defeat either Democrat canidate.
I hope he also plans to increase funds for education so that republican trolls can learn to spell.
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Just to Say It
It is in Senator Clinton's best interest to beat Senator Obama like a rented mule. For her personal goals she has no other practical option other than to throw the kitchen sink at him.
Vicious unrelenting attacks will do one of two things, either weaken Senator Obama enough to allow Senator Clinton to earn the nomination, or it will leave Senator Obama so bloodied that Senator McCain will have no difficulty beating him.
If Senator McCain wins the presidency Senator Clinton will run again in four years saying "see I told you Senator Obama couldn't win, and now you must recognize that I should be the nominee".
Although certainly similar attacks will be made against Senator Obama by Senator McCain, it has a different tenor when the words come from a theoretical ally of Senator Obama.
From Senator Clinton's point of view the only reason not to utterly defame and destroy Senator Obama is out of a sense of loyalty to the Democratic Party and the Nation as a whole.
We will have to see exactly where the New York Senator's feelings truly lie.
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Huh?
Can someone please explain the following link:
http://thehill.com/campaign-2008/clinton-camp-says-obama-must-pass-national-security-threshold-to-be-veep-2008-03-10.html
What exactly does Hillary mean when she says she would consider Obama *IF* he passed some sort of "National Security" test?
Are they going to check him for explosives every time he enters the White House?
Can someone please explain this to me?
(And please, no more "omg! Hillary Hater!" responses, ok? please?)
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@Cultural Amnesia
I agree with you 100% that people are fed up with bickering, partisan politics, do-nothing washington, etc. And, definitely, he is riding that wave to his current success. But that is exactly where the GOP will attack him to win the centrist voters -- paint him as "just another pol". Granted, his supporters will not be swayed by this -- but the rest of the country? Until this primary season, he wasn't even on the national radar, so his team was able to stage-manage people's perceptions of him. That will not be the case should he become the nominee. And if he succumbs to the "just another pol" and the "liberal lefty" labels, I am convinced the electorate will go with the devil they know _precisely_because_ we are in such turbulent times. If he had ran in more stable times his handlers would not have had to market him by creating such high expectations -- expectations that make him highly vulnerable to the "just another pol" attack.