Letters to the Editor
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Media complict
in exploiting non-issues. I care about Clinton lying about her experience, but I do not care about Craviile calling Richardson "Judas." I care about issues of race and Wright, which Obama answered beautifully and superbly.
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Carville is right and Obama can't win
I agree with Carville. Richardson waited to endorse to see what kind of deal he could get. Clinton didn't need him for Latino support, Obama did and probably made an offer he couldn't refuse, the political equivalent of 30 pieces of silver.
I just read Obama is calling on Clinton to denounce the letter from the DCCC donors alerting Pelosi that Democrats will lose their support if they insist on enforcing the arbitrary "pledged delegate" position.
The Obama camp says the letter amounts to "extortion" and has demanded Clinton denounce it.
Who the hell is Barack Obama to demand someone denounce PRIVATE CITIZENS for writing to politicians or denounce PRIVATE CITIZENS for telling those politicians they will no longer support them?
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124 Years Can't Be Wrong
Well, consistancy is a good thing, I guess. If people actually got smarter in that time, it would have showed up years ago. Nope, in fact this might be good news for Creationists. Darwin's theory of evolution doesn't seem to work. We are not evolving.
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nature abhors a vacuum
This is sort of like the "loudness wars" in the music industry: every part of the signal is pumped up to nearly maximum volume.
The result is a wall of noise.
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So why is one a saint?
With all the attacks going back and forth and lying from both candidates and all other politicians for that matter...why is Obama the saint? I will never understand that, or why people buy into it. I agree with the labels "kool-ade drinkers" and "cult Obama" and "Obamabots" etc. -- Obviously not for all of his supporters -- but for many on the blogs and at his rallies and for the media as well. He has as many scandals and lies under his belt -- even with less years and experience -- than any of them. His campaign has been as negative and his supporters have spewed hatred at times that is worthy of the worst of us. One reason I can't stomach Obama any longer is the continuation of the lie that he is something different and running some different sort of campaign -- it is such a farce.
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Carville? Come on.
Clinton is a "Judas" to the truth.
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@ joejoe
WHo has called Obama a saint?
Which one of Obama's supporters has said he is perfect?
That's your interpretation of his supporters belief that he is different than any politician who has run for President in a long time. We don't believe Obama is different because he is perfect or won't fight dirty. We believe he is different because he hasn't spent a lifetime near the seat of power.
There is an undeniable change in a person who has lived in a bubble for decades. You begin to understand ordinary Americans less and less. That Obama is not so far removed from worrying about paying his bills, that he hasn't been decades near the seat of power that lobbyists are able to sink their claws too deep to be removed.
That's how he is different. Senator Clinton doesn't understand this. That's why her campaign's attempt to make him look like a regular politician hasn't made a difference. We already know he's a politician. What matters is his soul has not yet been sold to the highest bidder (though it may be on short term lease). That's why for us, saying "35 years of experience" is no different than saying "I'm bought and paid for". If one believes that in order to get to the economic changes we need (ie health care), big lobbyists have to be defeated. You can't do that if the candidate we elect is a wholly owned subsidiary of those very lobbyists.
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"His soul hasn't been sold to the highest bidder"?
Obama voted yea, Clinton voted no:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2005Feb17.html
Congress today handed President Bush a major second-term victory, passing legislation he had advocated during his reelection campaign to restrict class-action lawsuits.
The bill, the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005, passed the House today by a vote of 279-149, after having sailed through the Senate last week in a 72-26 vote. Bush is expected to sign it into law Friday.
Critics charged that the legislation would deprive Americans of legal recourse when they were wronged by powerful corporations.
"This bill is the Vioxx protection bill, it is the Wal-Mart protection bill, it is the Tyco protection bill, and it is the Enron protection bill," said Rep. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.), the Associated Press reported.
Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) called the bill "the final payback to the tobacco industry, to the asbestos industry, to the oil industry, to the chemical industry at the expense of ordinary families who need to be able go to court to protect their loved ones when their health has been compromised."
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Independently speaking as an Independent
I never called Obama a saint, and I'll be damned if I personally know anybody else who's called him one either.
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Everything but the issues!
Sometimes it seems that the media is intent on covering every aspect of the cammpaign except the actual issues. Lately we've been "treated" to the whole overblown furor about some admittedly intemperate things Sen. Obama's pastor said, and the deplorable efforts of his political opponents to twist and distort Obama's remarkable speech in which he addressed the issue. (How could anyone SERIOUSLY listen to him and take away nothing more than the willfully perverse notion that he "threw grandma under the train"?)
And then there's the whole flap about how Hillary Clinton described her experiences on a trip to Bosnia. While there are some legitimate issues relating to whether she was embellishing the facts for political purposes, it's still not something that deserves to be the major focus of coverage for as long as it has been.
It's truly depressing to see how much time and effort is expended by the media to manufacture and hype controversies of any kind when what is desperately needed is real examination of the gargantuan challenges that will face whoever winds up in the Oval Office and how each of the candidates intends to address them.