Letters to the Editor
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What Are You Talking About?
"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. "
This is about the most disconnected language I have come across in a long time. I thought the Dems loved Bill. Hillary is the top divideR in this country. If you LOOKED AT THE POLLS OVER 45% OF THE PEOPLE SURVEYED SAID THEY WOULD NEVER VOTE FOR HER. Couple that with the young peopLe who stay home if she is the nominee and you HAVE JOHN MCCAIN AS THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE US.HE IS LGHT YEARS BETTER THAN THAT HORRIBLE WOMAN.....
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I challenge anyone
Hillary supporter or Obama supporter, to read through Garvey's post and find a single line that wasn't blown straight out of his ass.
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Obama not a uniter
There was a column in this morning's paper by Charles Krauthammer about Obama's (demonstrable) history of ducking controversial issues which require reaching across the aisle. The NYTimes published a front-page profile of him yesterday which said essentially the same thing. So subtract the 'uniter' label, something which is now being done, and Obama looks like a much weaker candidate. My thinking is that the Republicans would rather face Obama, because this country is in a mess and is almost inevitably going to get cold about the new kid with the rather thin resume.
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TO REALITY COUNTS
If you support our mediocre lackluster senator Clinton you are not living in NY where she promised to bring jobs to Upstate NY and hasn't brought any. They are in worse shape now than when she was first elected. By the way she has never and a formidable opponent until now and look what a vicious, lying campaign she and her handlers are running.. You must be i LA LA Land
I think her unbridled quest for the White House is a very dubious reason for the American people to put her there. Honesty, decisiveness, forthrightness and candor are qualities of a leader, not just the desire for power. She is not a leader.
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Who Would The GOP Rather Face?
I am a conservative, and I don't any of the three candidates.
I think it will be very hard for John McCain to win the election. He will still have the veterans with him, a lot of high powered special interests (he has more lobbyists in his campaign than any other candidate), and the REpublican Party Machine and Mehlman and Rove. He will get a lot of the hispanice votes, because he supports amnesty. He will also continue to get pretty good press from the liberal mainstream media. But McCain will continue the Bush Wars and Foreign policy, and everyone knows that. The dead bodies on that mountain will be very hard for him to climb over. In addition to that, his carefully nurtured image of the "Maverick" hides a business-- as--usual--in--Washington record which will likely be peeled away in the campaign. He will looked more two-faced than Janus by the end of the campaign. I will never vote for John McCain.
Beyond that, McCain is an emissary from the past. His views date basically from WWII and the Cold War, and he will be 72 years old by the time he takes office.
Obama will have the same advantages against McCain he has against Hillary, including the kid gloves treatment. McCain will not want to be seen as attacking a black guy. Obama has also used the same arguments against Hillary he will use against McCain, which will have proved devastatingly effective if he gets the Demo nomination. Obama won't get my vote, because he's a power-hungry marxist with a carefully crafted misleading public persona. A poster for Obama on another story on the net asked "What's wrong with voting for someone who can organize a great team and gives wonderful inspiring speehes?" Well, nothing. Except Marxist Vladimir Lenin and Socialist/fascist Adolph Hitler had "great" organization and gave "inspiring" speeches. Both were among the greatest political monsters in history.
Hillary, too, will have the advantage of her Gender in a matchup with McCain. Especially after her nomination. The liberal media which is so enamored of "OBama Obama" now will coalesce somewhat around Hillary, but not entirely (Dick Morris has admitted McCain is liberal, so the media won't go completely against him). And while McCain has the veterans, Hillary has women. She has gotten a lot of hispanic votes in the contest with Obama. She will also have conservatives like myself who oppose the Iraq War, McCain's Amnesty plans, and despise the hypocritical egomaniac behind his carefully contrived, flag draped public persona.
Of course, a lot of us voters are going to stay home this election.
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@AlecsMom
"...the GOP NEVER picked McCain..."
Ok, then. If I said that the Republican Party (as evidenced by those who voted in their primaries and caucuses) picked McCain would that satisfy you? Same result -- a center-right candidate was chosen by the party. I argue that this is evidence that the GOP is trending towards the center.
"I have a piece of news for you: Those are NOT stances relfective of the center of this country, they reflect the Right."
I refer you to my previous posts on this thread with regards to "perceptions of reality" vis-a-vis actions. I reiterate that, for the general public, McCain is perceived as a moderate Republican (e.g., centrist Republican). And _that_ is what counts.
"...how does this approach work to tarnish him when the Right wing has given us..."
I am very sure that the people who convinced Obama to run this year were -- and still are -- counting on that very fact to carry him all the way to the White House. Will their gamble turn out right? I think they may have miscalculated. I have in my letter history a rant in which I accused them of throwing away a very good chance of a 16yr hold on the White House by the Democratic Party because of this bet of theirs. But now, in a year where the Democrats should have had a 100% chance of winning the White House -- we still have McCain very close to either of the two Democratic candidates in the polls. I think that is because the general public does not think in black and white -- so they do not automatically assume that McCain will be bad for the country even if Bush presided over this whole mess.
"Obama also has something Hillary as yet does not: a vast legion..."
Sounds pretty good. Gives me visions of the conquering Persians in that movie, 300 ;). Maybe a tad overstated, don't you think?
"Obama doesn't need everyone, he just has to pull out his base and take along most democrats. Not a hard feat at all."
I still argue that it is the centrist voter that wins a general. But you are entitled to your opinion, of course.