Letters to the Editor
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@Clockwork Smurf
"We will have to see exactly where the New York Senator's feelings truly lie."
Yeah, because she's been *so* ambigious about her *true* feeling lately, RIGHT?
I mean, I was just thinking, "Gosh, I wonder how Hillary really feels about Obama..."
Thank you for verbalizing what many of us were thinking but simply didn't have the courage to do so.
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@Cultural
Oh, and to be perfectly clear. I am one of those people who believes that he _is_ "just another pol". Which is why I am going with the devil(s) I know.
And I do not think I am the only one.
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LACKLUSTER SENATOR CLINTON
Clinton has spent the last 7 years in the senate either pandering to the moderates or as..... kissing the Republicans. Being a New Yorker, the only things she is good at is press releases and photo opps. She is mediocre at best and for sure has the New York Times in her fat pocket.
Barack is a breathe of fresh air. I love the way he responded to her and her sort of husband suggesting he would a be a great Vice President on her ticket. He said and I'm paraphrasing If he's not ready to be President how could he be ready for VP. A place where you have to take up immediately for the president in a crisis or death.
She is really a disgusting character and has no place anywhere near the White House....
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Veeper's sweepstake Or 99 and One Half, Just Won't Do?
As the politics of personal destruction enter its last primary phase, the internet is ablaze with gossip about the Democrats and republican quasi-scandals capable of toppling even the mightiest ideological icons of the big Left and center Right. Conservatism of big-government taxers and spenders is the Bush legacy willfully endorsed by Team McCain to keep the promise of contuity with the Prez with the lowest popular ratings in modern history of the presidency.
The ultimacy of Hillary is enshrined in civil rights mantras and Post-Al-Gorisms "about counting all the votes to ensure that not one potential delegate is disenfranchised."
To not-count Florida or Michigan delegates is patently discriminatory and denies voting rights constitutionally protected under the voting Rights act of 1965 (you know , the one King bled for, but that he needed President Johnson to sign?)The faux-irony of American black civil rights icons backing the white woman based upon her socialist roots and her promise to further expand the welfare state by socializing medicine does not escape easily.
The fact that Senator Obama will win primaries in Mississippi and the city of Philadelphia but not the entire state of PA does not shed light upon his electability in November. Winning ten to fifteen Red states which , like Mississippi, will likely vote Republican in the general election, does not help convince super-or automatic delegates that you have the juice to win against McCain. Those white liberal handlers of the non-black-above-black Black candidate are like Kerry and Daschle setting up the African-American kool-Aid swillers for a tremendous letdown by using their Bill Clinton hatred to argue against Hillary's consummation of the nomination in spite of losing the race for pledged delegates to Obama. Who can best win Ohio, California, Texas, New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Florida (or New Jersey and Massachusetts?)-- and should that person become the nominee instead of the winner of the Mississippi and South Carolina democratic primaries? or the winner of the Wyoming and Idaho primaries? I mean this is about potential for winning, not cult of personality or Clinton-hatred as a political commodity.Hillary wins and pandemonium breaks out as civil rights leaders split and the hip-hop angry young white generation COMBINE literally riot in Denver throughout the black community. The National Guard will be called out in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and New Orleans to quell rioters. The phenomenon of strident left-wing black Clinton hatred will manifest in an out-pouring of black support for John McCain. Where are the McCain black republicans marshalled to handle and receive gracefully this banished throng.
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@ Nancianne
Being a New Yorker, the only things she is good at is press releases and photo opps.
As a New Yorker I resemble that remark :-). Guess we might as well add the "my state is better than your state" to the other constructive comments here.
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@red_gti
You wrote:
"Obama. Here's why.
The GOP is campaigning for the center and center-right. Hence, McCain. They have given up on the ultra-right.
Obama will be very easily portrayed as ultra-left. Voting record + supporters (moveon.org, Farrakhan, et al).
Clinton is campaigning for center and center-left.
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there are a few fundamental flaws with your logic.
First, and this is obvious, the GOP NEVER picked McCain. McCain certainly appeals to the center more than the Right but he was not the choice of the GOP. The GOP, in case you've missed the last 2 decades, has been controlled by the far Right wing of the party. If not for Huckabee, a total and unexpected fluke in the system, Romney would be the GOP candidate.
Secondly, in his quest for much-needed support and campaign dollars (he's almost broke), McCain has dismissed, vocally and repeatedly, many of his own "centrist" policies and grovelled at the foot of the GOP Right. This list includes tough anti-immigration laws, gung-ho on Iraq, no answer for the health care crisis, NCLB remains intact, and last but NOT least: permanence for the Bush "give to the rich" tax cuts.
I have a piece of news for you: Those are NOT stances relfective of the center of this country, they reflect the Right.
Thirdly, Obama can easily be called Left wing but how does this approach work to tarnish him when the Right wing has given us: 8 years of blown budgets, spiralling deficits, unemployment, abysmal military strategy in a doomed war? Obama's core issues are: Reforming education, reforming health care (not as radical as Clinton FYI), ending the Iraq war (a winning point).
Obama also has something Hillary as yet does not: a vast legion of young voters and new voters across the United States who will be throwing their votes to the democrats. Obama doesn't need everyone, he just has to pull out his base and take along most democrats. Not a hard feat at all. He will also assuredly have some Republicans who have wearied of Bush's war and his stagnating economy.
Some of these Republicans may vote for Clinton, my bet is that most would just sit home rather than throw their votes to her. She is hated as so many have pointed out, and hated by many on the Right and in the Center. To borrow a phrase, Clinton is a "polarizing figure."