Letters to the Editor
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Get a life
This thing has gone on so long that many of you have lost all sense of perspective. The name calling--of the candidates and of each other--just demeans them, you and the process. The facts are these:
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama differ almost not at all on the policy positions they say they stand for. Either would be infinitely better for the country than George W Bush or John McCain.
None of us can have much of an idea who would make a stronger candidate against McCain. We're all entitled to our opinions, but none of us can know, so to get all hot and bothered about it doesn't make much sense, in my opinion. For what it's worth, I will support either Sen Clinton or Sen Obama in the general election with my time, money and vote. I believe that either of them will beat McCain by about 54-46 in the general.
None of us can know what either Sen Clinton or Sen Obama will do if elected. We don't know what circumstances they will face nine months from now, what sort of majority they will have in Congress, etc. And campaign positions are a notoriously bad predicter of what a candidate will do when elected.
Pick your candidate and support him or her; but enough with the childish personal attacks.
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What's the problem?
What on Earth is bugging these people who post vitriolic letters about Hillary?
She's a smart woman. She's more than capable of being President. She has experience. She's the perfect mature age. She's well-respected by foreign leaders. She's attractive. She comes with a husband who will be restoring our reputation in the world, not decorating the Blue Room. And she has a daughter who is intelligent, well-spoken, and not likely to get busted for a pot party.
Hillary is certainly not deserving of the type of comments being made here.
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The softer side of Sears
Has done a whole lot for them, either.
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I'm sure she's a great gal once you get to know her
Obama is the better candidate.
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Advice column
So Hillary wants to be an advice columnist? This reminds me of an email a Republican acquaintance sent me a few months back. It's a bit offensive, but there's a kernel of truth in it:
Dear Abby,
My husband is a liar and a cheat. He has cheated on me from the beginning, and, when I confront him, he denies everything. What's worse, everyone knows that he cheats on me. It is so humiliating. Also, since he lost his job seven years ago, he hasn't even looked for a new one. All he does all day is smoke cigars, cruise around and shoot the breeze with his buddies while I have to work to pay the bills. Since our daughter went away to college he doesn't even pretend to like me and hints that I may be a lesbian. What should I do?
Signed: Clueless
Dear Clueless:
Grow up and dump him. Good grief, woman. You don't need him anymore! You're a United States Senator from New York running for President of the United States. Act like one!
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She's not ads bad as you think
That's a glowing self endorcement for the presidency.
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It's kinda like saying...
...sure I suck a little but I'm not THAT bad.
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Obama and Thinking
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.
Nice post, Proud Texas. Unfortunately, Obama followers don't know how to think. If you've seen the interviews with the women from the recently raided LDS polygamist compound, the similarity of mindset and behavior is striking.
Just look how many Obama fans declare that they "used to love" the Clintons but are now disgusted by them. The Clintons are the same as they ever were, for better or worse. The difference is that The Clintons are now opposing The Messiah.
The self-image of every Obama follower is wrapped up in being an Obama follower. Don't ask for a reason for the devotion or the rejection of previous political figures they admire because Obama support is a psychological phenomenon, not a rational or even political one. It has nothing to do with party, or with liberal issues, policy, or ideology.
It's about how supporting him makes them feel about themselves. People from certain walks of life, with certain psychological deficits or needs, tend to cling to celebrities like Barack Obama, and assign them all sorts of attributes and qualities that don't really exist.
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Legitimate concerns
Why do so many analysts continue to frame this race solely in terms of personality and identity politics.
I support Obama, but I'm not "Obamabot." Clinton lost me with her vote to authorize the use of military force in Iraq in October 2002. Now, her supporters might disagree with me on the relevance of this vote, or her reasons for casting it, but it is lazy and inaccurate to insist that those of us who do not support Clinton do not have concrete, substantive reasons for our stance. My preference for Obama has nothing to do with promoting the new man above the hardworking woman.
Clinton has other policies I do not agree with. (For example, I think her individual mandate for health insurance will doom her plan's passage if she insists on it. Again, maybe I'm wrong, but this is a policy--not a personality--issue.)Still, for me, the war is the starting point of my inability to back her. It does not contradict my hopes to some day see a woman in the Oval Office. I just don't want to support a woman who's misjudgment (or whose politically expedient decision--take your pick) helped to further a disastrous policy that has cost tens of thousands of lives and billions upon billions of dollars with no commensurate gain in national security. Call me crazy, but I value human life above my gender's need to attain the presidency.
I don't care if Clinton's nicer in person, or if she's "not as bad as I think." When it really mattered, she showed she is not the best candidate for the job, no matter how long she's been in Washington.