Letters to the Editor
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Not Much?
For all that, though, on the night before the election, not much had changed from when the candidates first landed here.
"Not much" as long as you don't consider having a 20-25% lead in the poll evaporate down to 5-7% in a few weeks "much". I mean, really, what 15-20 percentage points between friends? Clinton and her salon.com support staff will simply move the goal posts again and declare victory for Clinton no matter what actually happens.
The Clinton rule is that caucuses and primaries only count if Clinton wins. When Bill Clinton reduced a 20 point margin to single digits, he claimed victory as the Comeback Kid. A few weeks ago Bill was saying that she had to win big to stay in the race. But you can bet that if tomorrow night she squeaks by with 3% victory, she'll be saying "On to Indiana!"
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Pennsylvania is just one more state
It's unfortunate that this has to be seen as an 'epic' battle, as it's just one more state in what's turning out to be a 50-state contest; and maybe that is indeed a good thing that every state matters this year. But that's still the point: EVERY state matters, not just Pennsylvania.
We all probably have a pretty good idea how the day will end... Clinton will probably come out on top, maybe by 5%, maybe 10%, maybe even 15%. The difference in delegates between the two candidates will be small, and on Wednesday morning we'll wake up to the same reality we had after the last primary: Clinton will still have an unsurmountable deficit in delegates due to the superior campaigning of her opponent in so many other states.
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"Only in America" by the Drifters and by Jay and the Americans?
Is this the same tune? "Only in America... Land of opportunity..."
This was too ironic by the (African-American) Drifters, couldn't help it, nothing anybody could do. But it was a hit by (white) Jay and the Americans. But, ya know what? It grows more ironic, even by Jay et al., even though it still sounds good.
What's this version by Brooks and Dunn? Is this a neo-country, NASCAR, immune-to-irony, dipsick "patriot" version? Or is it a different song?
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Different song - I answered my own question via Google
And Brooks + Dunn's song would be okay if this were the 1940s. But now, their "Only in Americaaaaaaa" is a major embarrassment.
That song trumpets our discredited American myth. Those two rich guys (Brooks and Dunn) could have written and recorded something more realistic, something with a better message, and it still would have been a big hit. But it might have educated their fans in the real ways of our world, rather than sending them off on silly trips to the recruiting office.
Shame on you, Brooks and Dunn. I used to play in a band that covered one of your songs, and we allowed people to belive it might be our own original, because we liked it very much. Now, I would not play your fancy stuff no matter what.
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The Biggest One Yet
I wonder how many times Lincoln or Adams (of HBO fame) had to repeat themselves at rallies? (And who made fun of them.)
It is brutal what these folks have to go through. They both have my sympathy. I've started to find great humor in their constant retorts and now have trouble remembering most of them.
The article fails to mention the odds in Pa. How can we work them out? 70/30? 50/50 30/70? I hate to think of the fallout if it's Hillary in a landslide. I'm prepared to face them, but are they willing to face me?
I think personally I have an advantage since I don't give a shit (though I think Hillary is the better candidate and will make the better president) but it'll hurt. The gal is a scrapper!
Nonetheless, my fellow scribblers who don't know better, this is the biggest one yet. Oh the squabbles yet to come...
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"I'm Hillary Clinton and I Tossed This Kitchen Sink"
She will,at least, likely win some sort of award for one of the sickest, unintentionally funniest political ads in history. The only things missing were an actual kitchen sink and a clip of the Hindenburg going down in flames at Lakehurst. "Oh the humanity!" Oh the desperation. By now she has probably convinced herself that 3 AM call really did happen, just like that sniper fire she strolled through.
I'm with BenSen on this one, though, strangely enough (that rarely happens); this one is a Big One. It could be The Big One. If it's even close it will be.
Ready for the earth to move?
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The $ factor
Obama has apparently outspent Clinton three to one in PA. So what does it say that Hillary's still the odds on favorite to win the state tomorrow? For some of us, it sure feels like Obama's trying to buy himself a nomination, with incalculable aid from the moveon money spigot. The sheer amount of dough expended to extol Obama and Obama alone is getting pretty darned obscene. In fact, it's enough to bring on an attack of the bitters.
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This is negative?
Mr. Madden states that:
"Obama wasn't sticking to the high road, as he previously sought to do."
He supports this with the following quotes: "She is a hardworking public servant, but Senator Clinton does not understand the need to fundamentally change how Washington works," and "We can't have lobbyists and special interests setting the agenda in Washington."
Those are negative attacks??? Seriously?
Madden states that: "His campaign was running ads implying Clinton was using "fear and calculation to divide us" and making its own harsh phone calls to prospective supporters.""
Assuming the fear and calculation exist (and I think her 11th hour ad shows that that's exactly the case), how is it negative to point out that one's opponent is going negative? Isn't that just a statement of fact?
Where is the evidence of the "harsh phone calls to prospective supporters"? Nowhere in this article.
COME ON SALON! You continue to conflate journalism and editorializing. Admittedly, its the brave new world of internet news, but you do all of us a disservice by by not having a dedicated op/ed section, and by allowing your writers to put whatever the hell they want into their articles with what increasingly appears to be either no editorial oversight, or--worse--biased editorial oversight.
Mr. Madden's spin is completely unsupported by the evidence he sites. Shoddy. Despicable.
Increasingly unsurprising.