Letters to the Editor
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Ack
WHY are you bothering with this? Virtually everyone who fiddles the math agrees that Clinton cannot possibly win the nomination. The rest is spin and it's hateful, divisive spin that's eating the party and undermining every progressive hope. Clinton needs to step down. I've moved from respect to hearty loathing of her, and so has everyone else I know. We need to stop this fruitcake McCain, and stop being so absurdly cynical about Obama. He represents an extraordinary chance to get out of the old polarities... he isn't even really a liberal. I thought he was too fiscally conservative initially. He can be a fierce hawk. He is just not in a box. (McCain actually is.) I had to do what I knew needed doing a long time ago -- realize that "left" and "right", "liberal" and "conservative" have very little coherent meaning any more. They are lazy slogans that usually appeal to fairly reflexive responses. They are obsolete and constricting terms functionally, and too useful for manipulating the great unwashed. If Clinton and the gibbering media would be quiet so that we could stop spinning and focus on our candidate, I think the party would come together pretty quickly around Obama and pull a lot of independents and republicans, too. Why is Salon becoming so politically noxious? Used to be a decent rag.