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.
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Vox Populi!
It is pretty exciting, and refreshing, that the people in most of the United States, not just a few of them, have a chance this year to influence the nomination Maybe we will prove to be the "Democratic" party after all.
Just a little quibble; this is for Ms. Lori Heffner, and only because you are supporting the "Words matter" candidate (for whom I will joyfully vote if she becomes the nominee). Conventions select nomineees, not presidents. And, if you are 47 years old you don't "remember" any conventions that went past the first ballot. "Heard of," Learned about," maybe, but the last one was in 1952.
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Actually, it is over
Every other candidate, Democrats and Republicans withdrew when they had no chance of winning the nomination. Hillary has zero chance of becoming the nominee, yet she won't quit. Every day in which McCain escapes scrutiny for his numerous and profound faults, corruption and irrational behavior, is a day the Democrats would never get back and increases McCain chances of becoming the next president. Hallucinations such as "It ain't over", a complete fallacy, are certain to put McCain in the White House. It is over, the Clintons will never acknowledge it is, but the rest of her supporters shouldn't behave like Kamikazes.
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This is better, Ms. Traister
Well, compared to a lot of gossip columnist quality pieces from Ms. Traister in recent months, this piece was a breath of fresh air. I still dislike your habit of using quotes from a handful of people and thus representing the essence of the (insert here: electorate/punditocracy/candidates/etc.), rather than rolling up your sleeves and doing some real research. But at least this piece was not saturated with negativity and sniping comments.
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Strange definitions of over
I see that the Obama spin has reached high gear with one of it's classic memes. Though neither candidate will get to 2025 without superdelegate help, apparently in hardcore Obama supporter speak, leading means won while trailing means lost.
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@LeCastor - What am I missing?
I'm usually the first to jump on any article that prescribes marriage as the only antidote to single-woman poverty, but I didn't read the CNN piece you linked to that way at all.
I actually think it's pretty positive that, for the first time, single people are being recognized as an important constituency with their own stake in the economy, rather than some amorphous lump whose concerns are the same as - or even less important than - those of married couples.
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Rob H
so in essence you're saying someone that can't carry large states within their own primaries won't make a difference in the general election...Ya, that makes alot of sense...Dem rules don't apply in the general election...When you have a candidate that panders to the far left and elite of the party, the folks (Dems and Republicans that run down the middle) will have some issues...If Dems really wanted to win they would nominate Hillary and have Obama as her V.P...This is the only path to a Dem victory...If you don't think likewise you're deluded...Most Obama supporters are content to have him win the nomination but lose in the General so they can say that it was Hilary that cost the Dems the election...Brillaint strategy and only one that Dems could come up with...
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Ten Things to Remember on Tuesday Night
Wish I wrote this, but I didn't. These are the brilliant words today of Seth Grahame-Smith. It can't be said any better...and certainly bears repeating...
Hillary Clinton will win Pennsylvania.
Arguments over the meaning or meaninglessness of her win will dominate MSM and stretch bandwidth to its breaking point. Bloggers and pundits will dust off their favorite boxing metaphors: "Hillary's off the ropes!" "Obama can't land the knockout!" Hillbots will rejoice, Obamabots will panic, and McCainbots will watch Murder She Wrote and go to bed at six-thirty. I'll probably write a scathing post attempting to prove that Hillary is the devil incarnate. We'll all lose our minds.
In hope of preventing some of this hysteria (especially my own), I thought it'd be helpful to keep a few things in mind during Tuesday night's results -- from Hillary's "victory" speech to the blizzard of spin that's sure to follow:
1. Remember that there's no way Hillary can become the nominee without a superdelegate coup -- which would alienate a generation of young Democrats and dangerously fracture the party.
2. Remember that her campaign leaked internals showing an eleven point lead (as a means of firing up her supporters and getting out the vote). Therefore, any win smaller than eleven points should be considered a disappointment by her own assessment.
3. Remember that every time Hillary begins a sentence with "you know," or "my opponent," the next thing out of her mouth is a lie.
4. Remember that when Clinton surrogates say "this proves Obama can't win the big states," they're ignoring the fact that he actually won more delegates in Texas -- not to mention twice as many states as she has.
5. Remember that when the pundits argue that Obama can't win in white rural areas because they broke for Hillary, they're ignoring the fact that he won (in alphabetical order): Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
6. Remember that when Hillary talks about who will be "better against John McCain in the fall," she's talking about the fall of 2012.
7. Remember that Hillary's campaign is $10M in debt, while Obama's has more than $40M in cash on hand.
8. Remember that Hillary's lead in Pennsylvania was as a high as 26 points only a month ago.
9. Remember that Hillary's late Pennsylvania rebound was forged in the fires of negativity and fear-mongering.
10. Remember that the only manufacturing job Hillary ever brought to Pennsylvania was the manufactured notion that she was a middle-class, whisky-swilling duck killer, and not an anti-union multi-millionaire.