Letters to the Editor
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OrbitBoy....Lemme try another tact
We can sit here all day chucking out accusations against our opponents. Here's little revelation for you, they're all politicians. The Clintons have been around a lot longer, so there's more grist for your silly, unhelpful, and worn out mill. Obama, while being much newer, is also extremely brilliant. A brilliant politician is about the most dangerous critter one can imagine. Look at how "brilliantly" he managed to wipe out a lifetime of dedication to minority causes the Clintons have fought for. He did it with a "brilliant" stealth stiletto instead of a baseball bat. The first "Black President" became a Racist overnight. And he even managed to engineer the abandonment of a huge Clinton majority of Black voters to flip 90% to 10% to Obama....overnight. Of course those of us old enough to have been involved in the Civil Rights movement of the 60's, and who questioned the rapid and truly sad flip of loyalty were immediately branded........you guessed it, Racists.
But unlike you I didn't get mad. I smiled and said, "Congratulations Bama Baby, you learned quick."
“Orbit,” I don't care who you support, or vote for. But please, after Hillary killed Vince Foster, and Bill finished loading the last kilo of cocaine into the secret plane at his secret airport, I stopped counting.
Everything you've said....we've heard it all before....a million fucking times!
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The Polls Show Obama Pounding McCain by 12 Percentage Points
Pounding McCain is the important thing because of the large coat-tails effect. We Democrats want to sweep Independent and Democratic House and Senate candidates into office. We need this mandate from the people.
Only Barack Obama, the Change Candidate, can provide it, a 45 state victory.
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Obama & Iraq
Here's how courageous Obama has been re the Iraq war. From a story on the front page of yesterday's NYTimes:
"Determined to be viewed as substantive, Mr. Obama kept his head down, declining Sunday talk show invitations for his first year, and consulted Senate elders for advice. He was cautious — even on the Iraq war, which he had opposed as a Senate candidate. He voted against the withdrawal of troops and proposed legislation calling for a drawdown only after he was running for president and polls showed voters favoring it."
Obama's stance(s) on the war seem patently political, calculated moves intended to advance his career with regard for ethics and lives lost coming in a poor second. He's gotten a lot of mileage from the Iraq business, but only because he's chosen to beat Hillary Clinton to death with it, with complicity on the part of the media, and the willingness of his supporters to do a certain amount of squinting.
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@Person
Opinions, opinions and more opinions. You have the complete freedom to state them. Doesn't change the nature of your statements. They are _only_your_opinions_. Facts are what matter. And the fact is that -- if the Democrats lose this election -- the Republicans get another four years.
BTW, that "Sympathy Troll" thing. Nice one. Thought it up all by your so-intelligent self? How inventive. But if you were referring to me, I would have to demur. Right now I'm the one feeling sympathy for a lot of my fellow Americans. Because I know that I am in a much better economic situation than they are. Pity, that.
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Senator KateTex
The United States Senate is the most hide-bound, rule-entangled, precedent strangled deliberative body in the democratic world. It's meant to be. It's supposed to be slow. What was Obama supposed to do- come in from Chicago and stage a coup? What did the junior senator from NY do? change the drapes? These supposed votes of late "for" or "against" the war are all jot and tittle and tied in Gordian knots. The legislation that would set a hard exit date would never reach the floor, and never pass the house either. so, read up before you bull up. the only way the Democrats could have passed a veto proof war ending piece of legislation would have been with sixty firm votes. How do you think Holy Joe Lieberthing would vote? We have 51 votes in the Senate on a good day. That cannot and will not bring change. The vote that mattered is the one where Hillary, and an ugly number of her equally spineless party colleagues, all capitulated to Georgie and handed the bastard a blank check. Hillary has yet to openly and unequivocally apologize. Russert finally dragged a reluctant "I wish I had that vote back" out of her in debate number 21. No, I don't want her answering a red phone, or a freakin' Princess phone. go back to the senate, Hillary. You wouldn't be there without your husband's name. Feminist my veteran ass.
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This is a no-brainer
C'mon! All the reeps I know want Obie and they want him.....like yesterday. To them, he's the ultimate tackling dummy - on whom they will be able to heap any and everything and he won't really fight back much because he insists this is not his shtick or persona and he must remain above it all. In the ozone.
The reeps are already getting whole Switfboat sites ready to blast Obama if and when he is declared the numero uno. (Which I doubt, because I submit all the remaining superdelegates will vote for HRC - as the adult in the choice)
Obie is a nice guy, don't get me wrong. But he simply is not cut out to be CIC. He could be HRC's PR man, or perhaps press secretary - though I'd prefer him as veep. (However, he already shot that one down today in his dissing, insane arrogance. Hello, man! YOU are the junior here! A guy that couldn't even beg off a floor pass for the 2000 Dem convention. Acknowledge your station here!)
Obie can't help it, but by his easy going nature the reeps will steam roll him, filet him, and then barbecue the remainder before they toss the scraps to their Rottweilers.
His "hope" shmooz song is ok, but maybe forty years from now. The mass of people fighting at the level of class war are not yet ready for his Pollyanna skit just yet.
Another eight years, Obie, then you might be ready.