Letters to the Editor
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On Finances and Consulting
Hillary's campaign is in the red?
I wonder just how much they paid consultants like Mark Penn. A few million? Give or take?
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No Joint Ticket
If you haven't caught the drift yet, Obama supporters are outraged at Hillary's campaign. Her GOP style swift boating, personal attacks, and general disrespect. If you think Obama would ask Hillary to be on the ticket against the wishes of all of his supporters, you are clearly mistaken. Obama WILL win the nomination and WILL get the support of working class men. The only question is if working class white woman can forgive him for defeating a woman.
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I know why I hate campaign season
Because everyone gets drunk and drunk people scare the living crap out of me.
I can't believe Hillary doing shots on TV.
The Clintons attacked marijuana users for almost the entire eight years they were in office.
But the 150,000 people who die every year from alcohol-related illnesses and injuries don't mean anything.
No, we're not going to weep for them or any of the people they left behind.
No, she's not being a bad role model. She's just campaigning, that's all.
Now if she went to some college campus and took a hit from someone's bong, now that would be a bad role model.
Alcoholic privilege -- that's one lesson you can't miss during campaign season.
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Charles Foster Kane
Salon is starting to remind me a little bit of Citizen Kane, where Kane makes sure his editors run positive reviews of his wife's operatic performances. This just smacks of biased journalism. Salon used to be way different. It's been a gradual change, but the difference between now and just 4 years ago is pretty big.
How about a headline story about all of the pandering Hillary has done (flag burning, video game violence, defense industry, credit card companies)? How about a story critical of her tough talk on Iran where she actually alludes to using nuclear weapons?
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H0tR0d
I'm not so sure of that. Most reasonable Obama supporters I know would NOT agree with your statement.
I think a joint ticket would be a concession on BOTH their parts. She for wanting the top spot conceding that he has indeed won more delegates and popular votes nationwide and he by having to work through personal differences (something he says he can and will do as President) and focus on their similarities in policy.
It would require compromise on BOTH their parts, for the good of the party in November.
I'm a strong Obama supporter and even I feel this way. I have no problem being level-headed and objective. I'd like to see a ticket that could be the same way.
To me its a no-brainer.
How will HE sway white working class voters while fighting off McCain and the 527 attacks in the general?
How would SHE effectively attract Obama supporters if she is awarded the nomination without the majority of delegates?
And how do either of them win without the others' constituencies?
The answers are not neat or simple. We cannot ignore the fact that Obama will have challenges with some of Hillary's base solely because his race (look at PA exit poll numbers on the subject) and Hillary also has some serious challenges with regard to gender (although I think to a much lesser extent) and trust issues especially with Obama's youth base.
Your pat answers are scary because they make lots of risky presuppositions we just simply cannot predict because we have no historical context through which to filter them. (Example, will those white male blue collars be more comfortable with McCain who is pro gun and pro life and white, even though his policies will hurt them? Or would they go with Obama? We just don't know. This is uncharted territory. We can SAY they've voted Red in the past, true. Or that they wouldn't vote for any Democrat. Not good for our team. BUT we can also say that the economy is MUCH worse than its been in over 30 years and our message may resonate well with them above all the red-herrings the GOP will put out there as distraction. I hope so but who knows?)
I think we need more objectivity and level headedness or we're running the risk of being in big trouble in November. My suggestion of a joint ticket removes ALOT of the risk and uncertainty from his equation.
That's all I'm saying.
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Compromise ?
Obama will win the nomination fair and square and has no reason to compromise. My opinion is he will have no problem luring back working class white woman. Can you give me an example of one presidential election where the VP choice mattered ?
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SHAME ON THOSE
supporters of either Clinton or Obama who would either sit on their hands or vote somewhere else in the November election. If either faction does not support the other, we will be saddled with BushIII if McCain captures the White House. It does neither Democratic candidate any good to win in August if the opposing faction does not support the nominee in November. If you don't want McCain, WAKE UP!
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The 2008 Jake Tapper award goes to...
Dear Ms. Traister,
I'm sorry, this is a five-feature week for you since your Obamaboying, isn't it? I'd like to nominate you for the 2008 Jake Tapper award. Since your sexist remarks, you've been rewarded amply by Joan Walsh, and I can only hope someone at ABC or another MSM outlet recognizes that you do not belong amongst the shrill progressives and liberals that dominate the Salon letters. You have accumulated enough intellectual dishonesty and Serious Journalist acumen to get you away from this mid-career Salon.com pitstop. I doubt if you can recall the last time you thought you might be wrong about any of your assumptions.
I wonder if you, Jake and Joan sit around wondering how big of a hit Salon would take if you turfed Greenwald and the naive, unpragmatic ilk with which he has infested this site. You do not want the readership you have. Nothing has been more evident over the past two months.
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Hillary Clinton...half alive...
After receiving a hail of near fatal invisible bullets in Bosnia, we CAN rebuild her, Hillary Clinton IS the OBLITERATOR! Look out Iran, she has plans to turn Persia into a parking lot!