Letters to the Editor
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@ KateTex
You're conflating "Hillary-haters" with "Obama-supporters." They're not always the same thing, although there's plenty of overlap.
"Any conjectures out there (other than the previously discussed sexism)?"
As to why Hillary inspires such hatred, the reasons are many. She's associated with the Clinton administration, which many people hate. She's viewed by some as a political opportunist because of her run for the NY Senate. She was a board member at Walmart for years, and some people have deep-seated hatred of Walmart and all things related.
Far more reasons can be listed, and many of them are irrational. But then hatred tends to be irrational, yet there's obviously plenty enough to go around. Look at the folks who hate Obama, too.
Me? I hate McCain.
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run for US Senator of NY, not NY Senate
wish I could correct that.
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Underdog candidate. Heh.
Hillary Clinton still boasts the three ingredients that an underdog candidate needs in order to continue in presidential politics...
It's worth noting that the three ingredients in question -- which amount to money, name recognition, and access to party machinery -- are ingredients she has only because she's not the freakin' underdog candidate.
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The Horse is beaten, flayed and now worked into a fine pulp
At one time Salon would have been at the forefront of covering the torture meetings in the White House. By this time the site would be on its second roundtable of leading thinkers.
Even a year back, Salon would be kinda sorta in tune with the readership and exploit audience fury at ABC and the media in general with a few articles.
At one time Salon would actually be in tune with the global food crisis enough to realize an article about cupon clipping by Heather H is tone deaf. Although it does follow the long tradition of personal fluff articles, and it's not as bad as most.
Now Salon has YET ANOTHER empty campaign article, this time with an insulting headline for Clinton. Again nothing of substance aboutt how her programs stack up to Obama. Again nothing about her opinions on say, torture or the unitary executive branch or the current judicial nominees or any pressing issue except a bit of the economy.
Joan Walsh get a clue, you are no longer an alternative, you are a sad little shadow of the mainstream.
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@ Thebigkate
Perhaps you don't think she's a bad person, but apparently you haven't been keeping up with the letters section here at Salon if you can't tell where Shapiro is coming from. A huge number of the Obama supporters here seem to think she is some kind of antichrist to their own candidate's messiah. And if you read a few pages of their posts, you'll find that's no exaggeration.
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ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
Is anybody just simply bored with all these largely superficial, ultimately irrelevant articles about this primary season's daily soap opera?
How about an article about something interesting and important -- say, the situation in Zimbabwe? How about some real journalism, just for old times sake, Salon?
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Could we dumb it down anymore people, and this is NOT a rhetoric question
Barack Obama is a fiction whose genesis is everything bad -- racism, misogny, hatred, ignorance, big business, back room deals, old OLD money -- and you slobber him up. Yum Yum yells the masses, give us more. WAKE UP PEOPLE. Wake up please.
You hate the person that cares and whose programs benefit the majority of Americans, and embrace this fictional persona who just repeats the mantra of hope, change and unity as if anything beyond this is too much for us. And, for many of us, it is.
Why do you think that the powerful stay powerful, and the weak weak? Because we are easily led, easily distracted, and easily overcome. Give us what we want, not what we need, and we love you even as our backs break and our spirits deflate.
Now, at a time when the country--and the world--is at a breaking point, those with the most power create this Frankenstein of a candidate and back him with $138.00 million dollars and train him to repeat a mantra and point to a pretty picture. AND YOU BUY IT! Just like you buy breast implants, Paris Hilton, McDonalds, and a million other items that kill you slowly (or quickly in some cases).
If it doesn't matter who he prays to, who his mentor is, who his friends are, what his constituents say, what he says, what his wife says, that he has no real experience or work history, and that he came to the table with more money than any potential candidate in the history of the USA than what does matter? What should we point to or ask regarding a potential candidate?
Did you ever stop to think that maybe the powers that be want Mr. Obama to win, because he is their 'man.' They have already bought and paid for him, and he is going to do their bidding and he will say/do anything to get elected. That perhaps those with the power and money are laughing at us--you more than me as I will put up a fight to the end--and our support of this 'messiah.' People don't give over a hundred million dollars (i.e. the Kennedy's and the Rockefeller's) to a politician and expect nothing in return, and NOTHING they could want would be good for the majority of this country. Republicans are not the only group of politicans who are self-serving, and there are MANY Democrats that are just as bad.
We need someone that really cares about everyone to be in charge--old, young, black, white, hispanic, male, female, American and non-American--and Barack Obama, by his own words, and his actions (and non-actions) is not this person. Look behind the curtain, look beyond the pages of his self-serving book, look before it is too late. It saddens me to think of the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer, and I see this slow train wreck being one more crash in the thin ice holding this country and the world together.
Sometimes when I read the hate filled letters on this site I have to laugh and sometimes I have to cry, but sometimes--and tonight is one of those times--I have to beg that someone out there listens. Mr. Obama is a fiction, and we have to choose someone real and while you may not all love her at least she is real--good and bad--and she is our only chance to take back the USA next year. The Republicans will destroy us, and rightly so, if we put up Mr. Obama as our candidate. I don't need a poll to tell me this, because common sense is a gift from God that we all have. The fight hasn't even begun, and he is bleeding heavily. And while I may lose no sleep over his demise, I do not want him to take us all down with him. PLEASE think about some of this, google, read, and actually think about how this man got to where he is right now. The power is ours to give away, please don't waste it.