Letters to the Editor
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Why isn't this the featured aritcle?
If Salon must obsess and speculate over the race, writing like this which counteracts the doom and gloom should get top billing.
I'm especially heartened by this portrayal of people who support Clinton:
Dave Eck said he was in line "to listen to Hillary and reinforce my thinking about her."...Eck said that he felt that "Obama has some decent things to say," but his wife, LeeAnne, was less charitable,..."I don't even know what his name is," said Lee Anne, laughing. "Bahama Mama? Osama?"
Eck's words were not received warmly by the people standing around her; one man firmly told her, "His name is Barack Obama." LeeAnne Eck looked somewhat abashed. "Fine. I'll learn it," she said. "But I just love Hillary. I love everything about her. And I heard that what's-his-name doesn't salute the American flag. I don't like that." At this, about half a dozen people in line chimed in to correct her misapprehensions about Obama's patriotism. "That's just not the case, and you shouldn't believe gossip about him being a Muslim, either," said a woman wearing two Hillary buttons. Charles Johns, 68, added, "And even if he were Muslim, that's no reason not to vote for him."
Most of the Clinton / Obama supporters in Salon comments could learn something from that exchange.