Letters to the Editor
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@MadamFourntneroy (or however you spell it)
Start your own Blog. You have more interesting ideas than the Salon.com staff.
It's easy...even I was able to do it.
I'm non-partisan; you're not. But we could link our Blogs and maybe have some interesting interchanges.
E-Mail me at fbernanke@cox.net
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-- FredrickBernanke
"@MadamFourntneroy (or however you spell it)
Start your own Blog. You have more interesting ideas than the Salon.com staff.
It's easy...even I was able to do it.
I'm non-partisan; you're not. But we could link our Blogs and maybe have some interesting interchanges.
E-Mail me at fbernanke@cox.net"
But will you respect me in the morning? See, you don't even say my name properly.
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WTF maggot crawled into Walter Shapiro's tiny brain and ate what was left of his sense of reason?
Walter Shapiro: "What Richardson's blessing signified was that an ambitious politician with close ties to Bill Clinton (they watched the Super Bowl together) decided that his self-interest would be enhanced by choosing Obama rather than Hillary."
This analysis is based on......what?
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Hindsight is 20:20
Everything becomes obvious in the rear-view mirror.
There should be no super delegates, since if they use their supposed expertise that is seen to over-rule the common man. So, why bother if you can't even break a possible tie?
Caucuses are not remotely democratic, witness the ability of Obama supporters to overrule the majority of voters in Texas, by hanging around until late at night and shouting louder.
Winning almost every large, critical state is of no value if you can't win caucuses.
Pandering to Iowa has had profoundly negative impacts on the average American worker, jacking up the price of food to subsidize the useless folly of corn-based ethanol.
The Democratic party is so gullible that it would rather self-destruct than admit the Republican party had outmaneuvered it and, once again, disenfranchised Florida voters.
So, the Democratic party has three choices in the future (this primary being an inconclusive disaster) either A) do away with voting and go back to the smoke-filled rooms that produced FDR or B) have one national primary vote, if you truly believe in democracy or C) stick with what you have already because you prefer the entertainment of this soap opera to actually being able to make a practical decision.
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Clinton desperation
No, here's a FACT. You can pass go and go right to hell.
If you sh*theads hadn't come along with you videos and your amateur half-black dreamy (but unviable) candidate and willfully made the primary a race war, than Mrs. Clinton would be leading John McCain by about 30 points right now.
What planet are you transmitting from? Your bile is more than a mite tiresome.
Hillary Clinton is a hack politician who cares only for her self-aggrandizement. People like you seem to forget how divisive she was (mostly through no fault of her own) during her husband's administration. The GOP would love to see her get the nod.
As for her much ballyhooed experience, it's largely a bunch of codswallop. She had no security clearance and in the one major initiative that she was front and center on (health care) she got her head handed to her because of the hamfisted way she went about it. Great job, Hill! No doubt many of her supporters do so because of the old two-for-one deal that was one of the free coupons foisted off on the voters back in 1992. Judging by the slimy comments Bubba has been reduced to making on the stump, it seems people are getting as tired of the tender mercies of eight years of the the Clinton family as they are sick to death of having endured twelve years of the Bush clan.
No doubt that Hill will soon be claiming to have grabbed a grenade launcher and popped off a couple of boomers at the bad guys in Bosnia as she ran (serpentine!) through the sniper fire at the airport.
Whatever transpires over the coming days, if Obama has won the popular vote and then Clinton is handed the nod at a brokered convention on the ludicrous notion that she is more electable, the Democratic party will reap the whirlwind and that is something I seriously doubt Hillary Clinton gives fuck all about.
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Gallup poll shows Obama back ahead of Clinton -- check out the groovy graph
http://www.gallup.com/poll/105529/Gallup-Daily-Obama-Edges-Ahead-Clinton.aspx
If this poll shows anything, it's that the entire premise of Shapiro's article is pointless.
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Obama has the momentum
Salon...
Clinton good... Obama bad... Clinton good... Obama bad...
The way you twist and turn in the wind is sad. Go home.
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Yeah, Wright
Speaking of Reublican invective, how about this canard: If the Rev. Jeremiah Wright is such an unsavory character, did Hillary Clinton object to his visiting the White House--then her home--when her husband needed political cover for his extramarital blowjobs?
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Who is ShawnWM...
and why should anyone care? Talk about concern trolling. Nothing he's written shows the slightest bit of thoughtfulness, intelligence, rigor, or analytical acumen. He slings around accusations about Obama, about the so-called "left wing" of the Democratic Party, etc. without bothering to define his terms or offer any evidence whatsoever to back up his spurious claims (which he delivers with maximum obnoxiousness).
The Powers-That-Be that Salon (I'm looking at you, Joan Walsh) should consider implementing a User Rating (see DailyKos) where readers can rate comments up or down. Those with negative ratings will be automatically kicked over to an editor so he or she can decide whether a ban-worthy offense has been committed. Someone like ShawnWM and his headache-inducing screeds would be forced to behave himself or, if he refuses, face banishment.
As for Walter Shapiro's analysis, it's disappointing, both because he also makes wild, unsubstantiated accusations with, like ShawnWM, little evidence to back them up (but less egregiously, of course) and because his article is so poorly edited, which falls on Salon's in-house staff. Shapiro needs to spends more time writing, his editors need to spend more time editing, or both. Either way, Salon's reputation depends on better written articles.
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The whole voting system needs an overhaul
Lucky for the later Dems, they actually have a choice. Not so the Reps who live in any of the 10 TEN states left to vote.
Unless the parties do something to make a national primary, there will be an incentive to push primaries earlier. Who wants to be last? Who wants to risk having only one viable candidate left by they time they get to vote?