Letters to the Editor
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The total ignoring of Hillary's "bomb Iran" statements do bother some of us
Coupled with her vote on the Kyl-Lieberman Amendment, and her statement that we should form a protective "nuclear umbrella around our allies in the region", one has to start wondering if this is less about protecting Israel and more about bombing Iran.
She really scares me. I honestly think she's a neo-con in Democratic clothing.
The fact that there are those who are willing to risk another war with Iran in order to simply see a woman elected president is deeply disturbing.
As usual the ones actually responsible for this are the media, which have chosen to completely ignore her statements and focus on the horserace.
Know I sound crazy, but this is how we got tricked into the Iraq War. This time I'm not staying quiet. She needs to be called to task for her increasingly disturbing and saber-rattling comments on Iran. This is part of the new fear doctrine and how we manage to always get into these wars.
When has Hillary Clinton not said exactly what she means? I really wish the press would stop just focusing on politics and start focusing on policy. Coupled with the ABC debate where they just attacked Obama on inane issues for no reason and I feel like we, as the voters, need to ask if we're being hoodwinked again.
If Hillary is elected, and gets us into a war with Iran, everyone's going to claim they were "caught unaware" again and "had no way of knowing." But the truth is people choose not to know. They choose to only pay attention to what they want to pay attention to.
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@cythera45: I'm not Ducking your point
I answered these very questions in my previous letter challenging your silly points.
Also, if we consider Wisconsin a major swing state (NY, CA, and, arguably, as it has gone Dem in the last 4 elections, PA are not swing states). Wisconsin, however, is a purple state. And Obama cleaned the fucking floor with Clinton in Wisconsin.
Obama also trounced Clinton in Virginia which, with major Democratic victories in the last couple years, could be considered to be in play this fall, hence, a swing state swinging left.
I suppose the question could be put to you: how come Clinton is not able to win by significant margins in the large states? Also, keep in mind, most of her victories are coming in traditionally blue havens. She is not winning over new Dems, and this will be critical in the fall.
I think with these last two letters I have answered your question and not "ducked your point." You may not think so. This is troubling to me, but then I realized that you may not know what your point really is, as I do not think you know very much about any of this.
Evidence: in another letter you wrote that Clinton will win by 15, and it will be a huge blowout! A PR disaster for Obama!
That's kinda true, except for the fact that it probably won't happen.
Is the weather nice on your planet? How's the exchange rate?
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bmaggiee
I do something positive. As an Obama supporter I am still making calls into other states even though our election has been over since march 4. The local Obama office near me in CA is still open. 100s of callers pour into this office to make calls as each state election to make call to other states. 100s others like me, make from our homes with an online list.
I must say the calls into PA were much different than other states I have called. Boy it was a tough crowd. Most of the names on the list I called were men. I suspected from their voice mails messages and the people I talked to they were working class. When women answered and I was asking for their "man" they were immediately suspicious. Of the few women on my lists, if the man answered, he listened in on their conversations. I had a DeJaVu about why I left the mid west. After over 50 calls I decided to take a break, went to the back yard trimmed some bushes, then returned to my calls. I Decided to pull a Hillary tactic and be the gal from PA. I lowered my voice, and was less cheery. It worked.
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The Weather here is LOVELY!
It's a cold front meeting a warm front and wiping out the Dems! A testicle-crushing vistory for Clinton tonight. Obama will be hideously wounded. The superdelegates will panic like sick dogs. What's happening on YOUR planet? Has Obama ascended into heaven yet?
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Cytheria can't seal the deal
Um, it's not working out that way for him since Ohio... He's spending desperately in the hope of success--and falling short. A bad sign, frankly. He will have a huge money advantage over McCain, but if he can't seal the deal with voters in key swing states, he's going to lose, no matter how much he raises and spends. And Clinton is proving, in Ohio and today in Pennsylvania, that he can't seal that deal.
Going from 20 points down to a horse race is not falling short. In fact, it's part of the reason he will win the nomination, because he consistently does just enough to win. You constantly conflate primaries and general elections as though they are related by some super-pixie-magic-formula that no one (including you) has explained to date, but rather have merely asserted to exist. People point it out, and you don't justify your leap of logic, you just ignore the criticism. Now you're trying to spin a record number of small donors and record amount of money raised by Obama as though it's a bad thing and spells his doom in the general election. Is there any limit to your backwards, counterintuitive, unbound by any facts, "reasoning?"
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Coming from you, Renegade Iconoclast, with your dubious assumptions and special pleading
a critique of my reasoning is actually praise. Your candidate will be mutilated this evening. Spin it as you please. If he loses by only 14 points after trailing by 20, is that a victory? Only in Obamaland.
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What if Obama wins?
Let's pretend to be pundits.
Obama does not expect to win in Pa, but does expect cut into the double digits... but.. What if Obama does win. How will Hillary spin it? Do you think she would drop out?