Letters to the Editor
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@ odog11
Do you really believe McCain takes CA from Obama in November?
Are you that clueless? Or, like most Hillary supporters, do you not just think through an argument?
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What about the math Traister?
I am sorry you didn't mention the fact that a 20-point or less victory by Clinton virtually ensures that the only path she can take to getting the nomination requires delegates to overturn the will of Democratic voters. (Even a 20-point win would still require that she turns around Indiana and North Carolina.)
How excited will voters be if the party tells them to fuck off? That seems germane to the theme of your article.
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Attention, Salon. It's Over
There's no plausible way for Clinton to amass the delegates she needs. Pity, she's a pretty good candidate. But this just isn't her year.
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Today's our day Hillary
You're going to win it by 10 points today.
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Extended Primary
Just a quick point of order. The Primary was scheduled by the party to run until June. Continuing with the remaining scheduled primaries is not extended. They fall within the scheduled timeframe established by the party. If they had decided to run the redo primaries of Mich and Fla that would have been extended. We are in the normally established primary season. There are just a small number of primaries to complete.
If going to June is a problem, people should contact the party leadership and have them pull in the end date of the primary season. Six weeks since the last primaries to todays Pennsylvania primary probably could have been reduced and we could have had more than one going today. The end date is not normally a problem, these last states are normally throw away primaries because the candidate is selected before they get this far. This can be fixed by the Rules committee during the convention.
It is however a misnomer to say that this is an extended primary. The only way for this to be over prior to June is for Obama to win in Penn or perhaps Indiana in a convincing manner.
I have read and heard comments that as long as the candidates are attacking each other they cannot attack McCain. Why not. There is nothing that stops either campaign from pointing out the weaknesses of the Republican candidate while they are closing the primary season. I actually think it would make that candidate seem like they feel they are the democratic candidate.
This is not an EXTENDED primary.
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Not over yet
Michigan and Florida unresolved, with HRC favored in both.
She's ahead in KY and WV and within the margin of error in IN.
She does better than Obama against McCain in the general.
Superdelegates are entitled to vote for whomever they want.
Neither candidate has made it to 2024.
In closing, the disrespect and arrogance shown by the anti-Hillary crowd is appalling. I'm fine with either candidate, but some of the comments just drive me to want Hillary more for no other reason than to burst some people's bubbles. The only way I could accept HRC dropping out now is if it were accompanied by an announcement that she will be Obama's running mate.
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Well at least the Democratic train crash
Will yield another 8 years of blogworthy growling, threats and anger from Salondotcom. Because you know, the Obama express is going to fly off the rails and land in a river on election day and all the Obamatrons will simply be shocked, shocked I tell you. Which is a shame. They meant well and if they were going to trounce the GOP it should have been this time. It had to be this time. Oh well, 8 more years of this shit.
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One last Thought
The Clinton loss lays at her feet more than anyone else. Yes a strong and attractive candidate emerged to give her fits, but she had the inside track, the best staff options, all the key state officials signed on before Obama even announced. She lost on bad personnel decisions, myopic strategy, and votes that were sure to alienate progressives. So were I a Clinton supporter at the post mortem meeting I'd bring a bat.
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Why do you want it to be over???
There are still 10 primaries to go and 4 months til the convention. Why are Obama supporters so anxious to disnfranchise all these Americans? Why are you so anxious to give the republican hate machine a single target instead of having to dilute their attacks among 2 targets? Do you people just not understand politics? This is not bad for the party or Obama. Everything that gets out now would be coming out in the general anyway. It is far better to toughen him up, give him a little more experience and answer these questions now rather than later. Wake up boys!!!
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@Bandito
Stop reporting on the reporters and trying to claim innocence from bias. Please start using the term "we" and "I" rather than "they" when speaking about pundits.... Bandito
I think the word you're looking for is "narcissists". The press in this country is so taken with their own celebrity that they go on and on about themselves, ad nauseaum, "they (meaning 'we') believe this or that...blah, blah, blah." They're full of assertions, baseless, unsupportable assertions, about what it is that "most people" or "most Americans" think or believe or do. What they mean is that whatever it is their describing, that's what most of the people THEY know think or say or do. In other words other pundits and other so-called 'journalists', or just their friends and families. It's the most self-referential, narcissistic pile of baloney imaginable. Salon.com is not immune.
Journalism is not a profession. It's not a profession in the same way that medicine or the law or teaching are professions. There is no standards tests one must pass, no minimum proficiency standards one has to meet to get a license to practice journalism. Anyone can be a journalist.
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Equality of education for girls and women had some of its earliest beginnings in Pennsylvania
Members of the Moravian sect settled numerous Pennsylvania towns including Bethlehem where Hilary Clinton spoke yesterday. These settlers were early proponents of equal education for women. One noted leader of this sect, Comenius, argued back in 1632 that "not the children of rich or of the powerful only, but of all alike, boys and girls, both noble and ignoble, rich and poor, in all cities and towns, villages and hamlets, should be sent to school."
Upon settling in the New World almost one hundred years after Comenius's writing, Countess Benigna von Zinzendorf founded a school for girls in Bethlehem. George Washington requested admittance for his niece as the school developed an excellent reputation. Linden Hall Seminary, a Moravian girls' school in nearby Lititz, Pennsylvania, is the oldest girls' school in continuous existence in the United States. While equality of education is still just a dream in many parts of the world today, people in Pennsylvania embraced the idea centuries ago. It's too bad that the author didn't take a quick stroll around the town to discover there's more history here than just the Bethlehem Steel Company.