Letters to the Editor
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what pressure?
"The debate on Wednesday proved one thing -- Hillary is tough under pressure and very presidential."
"you care to comment on the pastor controversy mrs clinton? You do? go ahead"
" do you care to comment on obama not wearing a flag (don;t worry about us asking you that question. Only for african americans)? you do? Go ahead and bash"
"Do you can to bash obama on people he has met in the past? You do? go ahead and bash"
That's pressure? hahahahahahha.
you show yoru face gop. No one is buying it. After hillary drops out next week political silly season is over. This sean hannity gossip lines are going to invoke laughter. Nothing more. And that's teh way it should be. Allow the gop to toil in the irrelelevance for a generation. Tehy sure earned irrelevance. To not give it to them (clinton included) does them no favors as they, and the system we all want to change, will not.
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When Blue Dog Democrats like Nunn endorse Obama, Hillary should run - away from her campaign
Obama endorsed Friday by former Sens. Sam Nunn of Georgia and David Boren of Oklahoma and Robert Reich, Clinton's Secretary of Labor.
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To my fellow yinzers
Wednesday's farcical proceedings in Philadelphia have prompted me to send this entreaty to all the Democratic voters in Pittsburgh, my hometown.
I'm the son of a sheet-metal worker and a remarkable woman who raised seven kids in a tiny two-story, three-bedroom home in Carrick. My dad died last year at 82; we honored my mom with a surprise party on her 80th birthday just last month.
Although work and wanderlust have taken me to California, I love my birthplace, its history, and, most important, its people. Specifically, I love Pittsburghers' reputation for neighborliness and plain speaking (albeit with the filigree of that distinctive accent).
It is our innate desire to dispense with humbug that I appeal to here. With this reputation in mind, I feel certain that you are as appalled as I am about the wasted opportunity that was Wednesday's "debate."
Those of us living outside my home state have some recourse; me, I'm sitting here in my Pirates jersey writing to you. However, unlike those of us in California who have already voted, you have a more direct course of action. You can send a strong message at the ballot box next Tuesday.
By voting for Obama you will accomplish two important goals. One, you will be voting for the next President of the United States. Two, you will be emphatically stating to ABC News, the rest of the media, and cynics in both parties that you reject having your intelligence insulted and more important concerns about gas prices, Social Security, the Iraq war, and education tossed aside in the superficial pursuit of pins and preachers.
Make me proud. Make yourselves proud.
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Because there is no way to soothe Hillary supporters
You try to be nice to her in a debate, not hit back, not treat her like you're the Republican and she's the Democrat, like she does Obama, and her supporters start laughing and screaming about how weak you are.
You beat her soundly in 12 straight states, you slam her, you win everything it's possible to win, and then when you point out, like any sane person would at the end of any competition, it's over and they start screaming sexism.
Be nice to them and you're weak and patronizing. Be straight up with them and you're mean and sexist. The reason we stopped trying to win Hillary supporters over is because there is simply no way to win them over.
The funniest thing is still the debates where, when he pulled her chair out for her he was being sexist and when he didn't he was being mean.
When he wouldn't talk to her he was a rude, bullying man. When he told her, "I think you're nice" he was a sexist, belittling pig.
The point is there's no way to win with her and her supporters. Frankly this goes back to some of our feelings that a certain Hillary segment thought this would be a coronation and are mad simply because it isn't. But that's not the way democracies work. We have elections. And she's losing them.
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Guilt by Association
I wonder if Obama stood up and told America during a debate that he lied numerous times about a story he knew was not true how fast would the Clinton Campaign and press be asking him when he is going to drop out.
Maybe they would ask, how can America elect someone who lied numerous times to our face.
I would never expect it if the Clintons and Media thought telling people they vote against there own interest which is the truth to be a major problem for Obama.
Hillary does go pretty far to prove the point about the people Obama knows.
It seems to me Hillary from her own experience has taken on the values of her husband.
Former Liar in chief Bill Clinton.
Maybe she isn't that bad.
But after 8 years of Bush aren't you tired of being lied to.
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A few things missed
This article is not that bad, but the conclusion is faulty. The delegate math is doesn't just favor, it is nearly impossible to overcome (thanks to Mark Penn's fine big state "strategery"). The other wrong point is when you say she has "money for television" which is a half truth- she has money for television only because she isn't paying the vendors- the small businesses that bring in sandwiches, and set up sound equipment for appearances. She still has people in Iowa who haven't been paid- not a good sign. And she still hasn't paid herself back the $5 million loan. She's in deep trouble.
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It's called propoganda libertyson.
It's about saying what you have to, to get what they want. Truth or party/country never enter in. It's me me me. Gop? I think so. where was she and her husbadn while bush was destroying the nation? Why, bill was touring the world with him. Hillary was enabling him. Where were the clinton's when it mattered? Teh same place they are now. With the republcains.
Propogandists.
"Propaganda is a concerted set of messages aimed at influencing the opinions or behavior of large numbers of people. Instead of impartially providing information, propaganda in its most basic sense presents information in order to influence its audience. The most effective propaganda is often completely truthful, but some propaganda presents facts selectively (thus lying by omission) to encourage a particular synthesis, or gives loaded messages in order to produce an emotional rather than rational response to the information presented. The desired result is a change of the cognitive narrative of the subject in the target audience."
Terrorists (using fear to acheive policital or economic means)
and fascism
"Fascism is an authoritarian political ideology (generally tied to a mass movement) that considers the individual subordinate to the interests of the state, party or society as a whole. Fascists promote a type of national unity, usually based on (but not limited to) ethnic, cultural, racial, and/or religious attributes. Various scholars attribute different characteristics to fascism, but the following elements are usually seen as its integral parts: patriotism, nationalism, statism, militarism, totalitarianism, anti-communism, corporatism, populism, collectivism, autocracy and opposition to political and economic liberalism"
Lie spin discreit. Whine cry and complain. that is all the gop has left, clinton included. do not give either the credibility they crave. Allow them to toil in irrelevance, like they have earned. Otherwise they think they are untouchable. Those untouchable days for the gop are over. The laws apply to all. Justice is blind. Or will be soon enough