Letters to the Editor
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Selected!
...not elected!
I can't wait to use that mantra.
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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.
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re: The Tonya Harding Option
If I remember correctly, Tonya Harding pleaded guilty to avoid prison and her career was over. Clinton's career will be over as well. the Democrats will have nothing to do with her after this.
If the Republicans are smart, they won't worry to much about an attack plan for Hillary Clinton. She'll lose in a monumental landslide without much effort on their part. What the Republicans should be do in the unlikely event of a Clinton nomination: aggressively court the African American vote. If Clinton gets the nomination black voters will stay home in droves. The Republicans could have a real chance to smash one on the Democrats strongest voting blocks. That would cripple the Democrats far, far beyond the 2008 election. That would ultimately be the Clinton Legacy.
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Why do boomers hate America?
The Clinton-Bush attacks on the constitution, the sending of the young off to die in Iraq for the boomers political gratification--is it really about GOP versus the Democrats?
What is it about the boomers that make them want to trash every process, every institution, and blot the future for their own petty political gains?
Why are we even still talking about Clinton winning? If the situation were reversed, Obama would have had to concede long ago.
I'm not scared of 527s. I fear that Bush-Clinton-McCainism will continue to destroy our democratic traditions and trash our collective future.
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Hillary
Is simply teaching the democratic party how to fight. Primaries or general. The Obama folks have a generous portion of wimp in their psychological make-ups. That's been changing a little thanks to Hillary. ....We've been picking our nominee early with no fight. How's that been working out for us.....I mean other than the Clintons who have been the only democrats to win, save one 4 year term of Carter, since 1968.
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KcM Said It
The effect of this article is not to look at how the GOP would attack Clinton (we could all write that one). It is to present Clinton as viable in the primary.
With the Bosnia f-up she just showed us that she has an empty tank when it comes to: a) experience, her own measuring stick (you'd think with so much experience she wouldn't offer up as her primary example something she had to lie about/didn't even remember); and b) judgment, her opponent's measuring stick (again, you'd think she wouldn't judge as her best example something she'd have to lie about/misremember).
So what does Salon do in the wake of this f-up? Return to September coverage that looks past the primary to a Clinton general election.
Tomorrow on Salon: "Rev. Wright says schools still 'separate and unequal' -- does this spell the end of Obama?"
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@ confetti
"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."
Hear, hear!
I was lukewarm on Obama for a long time as well, not considering him leftwing enough. Eventually I was won over for a variety of reasons, among them precisely this point: he's beyond boxes!
So cogent a point.
He's not left or right or liberal or conservative, but I'll tell you what he is: he's a leader, he has a fierce learning curve, he has vision.
The real question, as someone around here said once, is whether this country deserves him.
As to Clinton, yes, I loathe her too. Couldn't in good conscience vote for her.
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@smoothyo
Regarding the "Hillary lied about her Bosnia trip" story - no one drank any media kool-aid because none was offered. There has been barely any media coverage of Hillary's, uh, "mis-statements." Even though the CBS footage of her trip - which proves that her account was, uh, "exaggerated" - is out there for all to see, this story has barely registered.
Yet, this is a very important story. It goes to the heart of Hillary's case that she should be President - her "experience." Her need to fabricate and exaggerate to make the case should set off alarms for any thinking voter. And it is not only the Bosnia story, it is also her claim that she was instrumental in bringing about peace in N. Ireland. And those 2 are just the beginning of a very long list of fabrications and exaggerations. And the media has done very little to examine these statements. She claims that she urged Bill to take action on Rwanda - has this claim been "vetted?" She claims that she was against NAFTA - yet there is no evidence to support that claim. Not only is there no evidence to support that claim, the fact that it was she who "winked" at the Canadians (i.e., I have to be anti-NAFTA to win over certain voters but, dear friends to the North, do not worry your NAFTA will be safe in my hands) and NOT Obama has been totally swept under the rug by the media. And the notion that there is any anti-Hillary bias is the biggest fabrication and exaggeration of them all.