Letters to the Editor
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@tompayne
The reality is that NO ONE knows how Obama would've voted on the Iraq war resolution had he actually been in the Senate and he has admitted as much - under pressure. In fact, he flat out states in "Audacity' that at that time he didn't believe the war was necessarily a bad thing. Then he speaks out in the Illinois legislature against the war. When he made it to the Senate (as a virtually unopposed candidate), he didn't vote for a troop drawn down until after pollsters indicated this would be safe. This isn't exactly a profile in courage, and it doesn't put Obama one millimeter ahead of Clinton in the character column. In spite of this notable lack of consistency, Obama has been allowed to make a tremendous amount of hay out of what doesn't even amount to dust on a barn floor.
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@ droogy
You write about Obama: "Acknowledge your station here!"
Given that he's already winning the delegate count, the raw vote, and the state count, you must mean that he is black. Nice work.
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@KateTex
Hey Kate,
Possibly. But Hillary is sure getting a lot of mileage out of her '35 years of experience' which has not been scrutinized in earnest. She counts a lot of charitable work and some of her work in the corporate world and her time as First Lady...all experiences, yes, but...admittedly it hasn't been scrutinized by the MSM.
I'm not discounting what she's done, per se. I'm just saying that it seems that her assertion of experience has not been examined all that closely - good or bad.
Maybe we should all be examining everything. But I think in the end we will still vote for who we prefer. And that's OK. I think Clinton and Obama have done some posturing (her move to NY to run for Senator comes to mind) and it appears Obama may have done some of that same stuff too.
OH WELL. I guess we could go on forever with that. But we shouldn't.
Incidentally I am not a Hillary hater. I have a measure of respect for her as well. I have no need to see my world in all blacks or whites (no pun intended).
She is a sane and apparently rational woman. But between you and me she should've dumped Bill ages ago!
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@droogy
No such thing as a black man in America who went to Harvard who can't fight. Sorry. He's got thicker skin than he's letting on. What a fantastic strategy. What school yard bully hasn't has hi block knocked off by some bookish kid he thought couldnt fight? I can attest that I myself had the immense pleasure of doing this myself in grade school. What a shock it was, indeed. I was a hero!
He is not attacking Clinton because DUH he's ahead. Clinton is NOT his opponent. He ALWAYS refers to McCain as his opponent. Hillary is his rival. Its a different thing. Your rival is someone who you compete against to 'make the team'; your opponent is who you meet when you go to play the 'away game'. At footbal practice, you plat against your own teammates but you play with a whole different intensity when you meet the 'other team'.
If you think he's gonna be a rollover...keep thinking that.
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Karl Rove Doesn't Care
You think McCain's preference matters?
It's Karl Rove's preference that matters, but he doesn't care who we nominate. He has plans of attack that are equally vicious and dirty-handed for Obama and Clinton, and dare I say it, a "dream ticket." Rove doesn't care who he has to take down. He will take him/her down in a very methodical way.
As much as I despise him, the man's a political genius. Who would have thought that gay-marriage initiatives would win Bush a second term? Rove, that's who.
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NYShooter....Lemme try another tact
Well, at least were getting closer to policy. However, please drop the straw-man arguments.
In terms of working for minority causes, how do you defend billary's welfare reform? NAFTA? PNTR-China?
Those actions hurt minorities, union workers, and people of lesser income particularly hard.
billary read a poll that said "do it", so they did.
Then they sold pardons.
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@ ethics_professor
I question your calling Rove a genius. He is clever, no doubt. But he has one trick that Democrats are too cowardly to counter: brazenness. He knows that he can go over the top and Democrats will try to counter logically. This is his magic trick. It is not deep genius.
He knows that if the bully on the playground kicks the others, they'll back down. If they try to fight back, kick them more and they will eventually back down (and all the other kids will refuse to consider joining the abused). Look at his history. Full of bullshit fronts. The key is that it works. If anyone fought back, who knows if Rove would know what to do -- it's never happened.
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Obama is Smarter than 35 "Years of Experience"
I agree with the comment that Obama has thicker skin than he is perceived as having...smart people always do...and he is smart...Clinton is clever...and that is her strength...but cleverness can be out smarted...so far, relying on her cleverness has been her downfall. She is still, even after Texas and Ohio, 150 delegates behind!
Incidentally, it is interesting that the candidate who has been trailing so far behind for so long is graciously offering Obama a place on her ticket. Anyone who thinks she would choose Obama as a VP hasn't been paying attention...she is clever...she will invoke Obama's name and the tidal wave of his support...to gain a few votes...but keep her word...here is someone who doesn't read a bill authorizing war before she signed it...and she is an attorney...and,we all know how the Clinton's treated their own VP.
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Nope, "reality based"!
Reality-based liberal worte:
Given that he's already winning the delegate count, the raw vote, and the state count, you must mean that he is black. Nice work
Not at all. I mean that he is a JUNIOR, first term Senator! He has nothing in the way of seniority vis-a-vis HRC. The delegate count you all Obie lovers are obsessing over is neither here nor there. The key and critical aspect is whether he can win BIG, electoral vote rich states. The data show he isn't!
HRC has won CA, NY, TX, OH and other states that tally 263 electoral votes in all. Obie has won in states that total 193. And most of those are hard core red reep states, that will not go his way in the fall. They will go to McCain, because the white conservatives in those states will outnumber the blacks that went for Obie in the primaries. THAT is your basic math!
By all indications, NEITHER Obie nor HRC will reach the magic 2025 number. This means, like it or not, it will be up to the superdelegates. They will be convinced in Denver on the basis of WHO can take the big, electoral vote rich states.
Now, I wonder who that is, exactly?
Another little thing, if the insane Dem primary structure were like the Reeps, winner take all, HRC would already have it all wrapped up by virtue of the much higher delegate nos. in the biggies. Oh, and counting FL and MI too!