Letters to the Editor
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Forgive Me
I don't understand the premise of this article. The Ms. Traister suggests that for the millions of people who have yet to vote, the race isn't over. But consider that it is very unlikely that Clinton can overtake Obama with pledged delegates, the ones chosen by those millions of people. It seems more like if the race isn't over, it will be decided by some 300 or so remaining unpledged superdelegates. People in PA, IN, NC, Guam, etc can get excited all they want, but they will either deliver the nomination to Obama, or things will TRULY get ugly.
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Yeah, totally awesome
Except for the fact that HRC endorsed McCain over Obama, and has pretty much convinced at least 1/3 of her voters to vote Republican in the general. To me, that's the wrong kind of fervor. I supported her earlier this year, but she's Republican-lite now. I still can't believe her MoveOn slam.
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Future with Barak Obama
The Future with Barack Obama
Barack Obama is about the future.
A future under BHO rule looks pretty bleak to me !
Sharia law in the USA.
World Hunger as we use more corn for bio-fuel.
The press will be silenced; no hard questions for a sitting monarch.
Wives will be bitter when a rookie senator from Illinois decapitates our Queen.
Higher gas prices without more USA oil from California, Alaska, Florida or the Gulf.
Citizen soldiers fighting terrorists on US streets as our soldiers come home with our enemies following close behind.
Is this the future Americans wants?
Better get use to it; Barack is coming.
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@AnaHadWolves
"Give us a break, please; we Hillary supporters aren't the enemy."
Yes you are, once she started adopting scorched earth tactics. She's obviously trying to praise McCain and destroy Obama so that if she can't have the presidency this year, McCain will, and she'll have another shot in 2012. If you support this plan, you're the enemy, pure and simple. I've met many Hillary supporters who are fully on board with this, being all set to throw (just to give one example) a few million Iranians into the fire in the name of getting a Hillary presidency. Even that assumes that Hillary wouldn't kill as many Iranians as McCain, and that's not at all clear.
Except she's already attacked anyone and everyone in the Democratic base. Blue-collar workers like her in PA? Why? She enthusiastically supported NAFTA, which took away their jobs, and has lied about it relentlessly during this campaign. Think that lie will survive more scrutiny? She claims the "experience" of being a famous politician's wife, as if Laura or Barbara Bush are qualified for anything. And the only experience she has in the Senate is doing whatever Dick Cheney wants.
Notice her trick of accusing Obama of her own campaign crimes? Like how she accused Obama of praising McCain for merely stating that the latter is better than Bush? She's done far, far worse, going so far as to outright state that McCain would be a better president than her Democratic opponent. I have never seen a politician of either party do that.
That's the one that announced to me that Hillary Clinton was my enemy. That's the Rovian tactic that convinced me that she doesn't have the principles God gave a housefly.
Assuming she succeeds in destroying Obama's candidacy (and she will obviously continue to do so after she's forced out, because she doesn't care about the party or the country), I hope she's kicked out of the party for good, so she doesn't have a chance in hell for 2012 or ever.
She can join Joe Lieberman in his party of one as far as I'm concerned. It's time for Hillary to stop pretending she's a Democrat at all.
It didn't have to be this way. But she's revealed herself to be all tactics and ambition, and not so big on the honesty. She may well have supplied the ambition for her husband to achieve the presidency, because he would have been well content with much less on his own, but it was his ability to connect to the people that mattered. She doesn't have a scrap of that, and doesn't even know what it's for.
There are plenty of qualified women in political life. Put Christine Gregoire into the presidency, I'm right there with you. But Hillary's using feminist support, and whining victimhood for all to see.
I saw her whine about the glass ceiling last night on Olberman. For God's sake, woman, take the hundreds of millions of grubby dollars, the safe Senate seat that was handed to you on a platter, and shut the hell up.
You don't just get to be president because you want it really badly. You actually have to do something for the people, not just say you're going to do something for the people. In her 35 years of "experience", you'd think she'd have at least one goddamned achievement she could point to that wasn't completely made up.
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@Odog (and the Hillary Drones)
Is this your only rationale for voting for Clinton? That she won the big states in the primary? Putting aside the apples and orangutans nature of declaring that only Hillary can win these states because she won them in a primary, people like yourself completely ignore so many issues it's mind boggling.
Let's start with the fact that you ignore that Clinton's approval ratings are approaching Bush's and are not likely to pick up steam. Or you fool yourselves into thinking that her blatant lies and holding two positions on the same issue (many of which have not received much play) won't come up again in the general. Or you dismiss the praise she's heaped on McCain and think that won't be used in a TV ad. Or you conveniently forget that she's run one of the crappiest campaigns ever seen in political circles. Or you don't want to broach the subject of what Hillary basically stealing the election through the use of superdelegates would do to the party. Or you'd like to paint over her blatant insults to Iowa and New Hampshire voters, as well as insults to voters in other states that Clinton lost.
Those little purple states DO matter and Hillary has thrown them under the bus. If Al Gore had won New Hampshire in the general, we would not be having this debate. Simply put, there's a lot you Hillary drones would have us conveniently forget through use of the same, tired, shopworn arguments. Well, the people ain't buying.
You can blather on all you want about big states vs. little states, but the fact remains that Obama can and will win the needed big states in November. And shit, dog, why don't we just screw the rest of the country and only have primaries in big states. They're the only ones that matter, correct?