Letters to the Editor
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I still don't understand
What baffles me is why Hillary taunts Obama for not being "able to close the deal" when a) she was the presumptive nominee with all the structural, demographic, monetary and institutional advantages and b) she is behind by all measures, is losing, and will lose.
Even the NY Times, which endorsed her, comes out with an editorial decrying both the tenor and tactics of her campaign and suggesting, as she is clearly not going to be the nominee, that she is only hurting things now. What exactly is her motivation, besides pure personal ambition and ego?
Face it. There is no future in the White House again for her.
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good grief
Hey JulieB!
Nice listening and reading comprehension! What did you want her to do...talk about his pretty hair and suits?
Just goes to prove that some folks are so caught up in the cult of personality that is 'The Obama' that they can't even see/hear straight.
Just for you own edification...here are the exact nods from her speech last night:
"This has been a historic race and I commend Senator Obama and his supporters tonight. We are, in many ways, all on this journey together to create an America that embraces every last one of us."
"It was in this city that our founders declared America’s independence and our permanent mission to form a more perfect union. Neither Senator Obama nor I nor many of you were fully included in that vision, but we’ve been blessed by men and women in each generation who saw America not as it is, but as it could and should be. The abolitionists and the suffragists, the progressives and the union members, the civil rights leaders, all those who marched, protested and risked their lives because they looked into their children’s eyes and saw the promise of a better future.
Because of them, I grew up taking for granted that women could vote. Because of them, my daughter grew up taking for granted that children of all colors could attend school together. And because of them and because of you, this next generation will grow up taking for granted that a woman or an African American can be the president of the United States of America."
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Can't Close the deal?
We should not forget: HIllary Clinton was the presumptive nominee. Then, she lost February. She lost Momentum. She lost tens of millions of dollars. She lost the high ground. She lost me. And now she has the temerity to say that Obama "can't close the deal"?
Let us not forget, this is NOT about a candidate "being knocked down.. and getting right back up again." This is not about gender (although all can acknowledge the terrific misogynistic challenges that Clinton has had to battle to sustain her candidacy). This is about the future of a very fragile nation and it's sustaining values. When HIllary resorts to the Rovian playbook (because she has to?), we get a glimpse of the values she will sustain during her Presidency. She will do it well. She will do it with experience and competence. They are just the wrong values.
"Yes We Can" is more than a slogan. It is a Kennedy-like opportunity. Yes, we can -- riff on it, belittle it, appropriate it. And we can extinguish the hope it embodies. But that does not make us right.
It's time for Dems to gather around the important ideas that could salvage this great nation from the intolerable mess that Bush/Rove/Cheeney have bequeathed us. This liberal's reluctant conclusion is: Hillary can't do that. Obama just might be able to.
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From Pennsylvania Victory to Pennsylvania Avenue -- YES SHE CAN!!!
Rebecca,
Again, you do not disappoint. While Joan seems, inexplicably, to be losing her blind faith in our girl Hillary, you are carrying our torch.
Maybe it's just a behind-the-scenes editorial decision -- you know, maybe Joan decided it wasn't in her best self-interest to express her love for Hillary so vocally, so she's asked you to do it for her? Or maybe it's a true reflection of your feelings.
Either way, you have not diappointed with this piece!!!
Hillary's "bionic quest." Crafty Hillary supporters coopting Obama's chant, and yelling "Yes SHE Can!" "The American people don't quit, and they deserve a president who doesn't quit."
My heart is going pitty-pat with excitement.
Because YES SHE CAN!!
Obama may have to die, or get hit by a bus, but YES SHE CAN!!
Every single super delegate will have to vote for her, and some of the already committed ones will have to jump ship in her favor, but YES SHE CAN!!
Already committed delegates may have to switch allegiances, but YES SHE CAN!!
Hillary and Bill may have to stage a coup d'etat at Denver, but YES SHE CAN!!
Woo-hoo, we're all fired up and ready on day one!! Throw some more kitchen sinks--- heck, someone get a big old Fridgidaire and chuck it at the loser!!!!
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If she wins the election, I hope she runs the country's finances . . .
. . . better than she runs her campaign's finances.
Then again, who better to manage deficit spending than a deadbeat? It seems to be working for Wall Street and Congress.
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Hillary /Bush Live in the same state of denial
In some ways I wish that Hillary would just go away. It is becoming abundantly clear that she lives in the same state of denial that President Bush lives. Bush has never been able to admit that the Iraq war was a mistake and that there never were any weapons of mass destruction. Hillary cannot admit that Obama has won the nomination in the hearts and minds of the Democratic party and in some of the Republicans. He is the right person for this time.
The way she is digging in her heels and fighting away is another sign of how she would handle certain issues if she were President, which is obviously not a good sign. Okay, she won Pennsylvania, but one state does not an election make. I have no doubt that she is incredibly capable and intelligent. But we don't need a street fighter as President at this particular juncture. We don't need a person in office with the attitude, I would use the cartoon character Mutley, the dog, who was always muttering rickam frazzim as he was constantly frustrated in his attempts to get the cat, I see Hillary saying to herself," I am going to get this nomination if it kills me" with her eye on the nomination as the prize. If only she could take the high road like John Edwards and bow out gracefully. But I don't think it is in Hillary's DNA to do things gracefully.
With the world we live in, with the U.S. possibly at it's eclipse as an economic power we do not need a street fighter as President. We need someone who is a conciliator, who can mend all the broken relationships we have across the world and who can unify the country rather than tearing it apart. Hillary's failure to take the high road could potentially tear the Democratic party apart, her boxing gloves are probably put to good use in the Senate but we do not need them in the White House.