Letters to the Editor
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This is EXACTLY why I wanted Lieberman...
...All along, I thought this might happen. Identity politics, racial grievances, simmering feminist rage. Even Edwards' poisonous association with the trial lawyers. It could never be Clinton, or Obama or Edwards because not one of them could win in the fall.
Joe Lieberman was the one unifier; a voice that could bring excitement and change and new, fresh leadership to the party. The end of party politics as usual. Not the same old Washington games and MSM spin. Not with Fightin' Joe Lieberman. He's on our side. A voice for the people.
Lieberman! For Change We Can Believe In!
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for those of you proposing a winner take all system
even assuming for the sake of the argument that in a winner take all system both candidates run the exact same campaigns (Senator Clinton goes for the biggies, Obama races for the smalls and the caucuses - not bloody likely):
realize that results in Hillary Clinton having a majority of delegates (it is true, sorry Obama people), but losing in the popular vote by about 500,000 [as it stands right now]. every non-bushie should be having terrifying flashbacks to the 2000 electoral college. perhaps proportional voting fits more in line with the democratic nature of the democratic party, no? just throwin it out there.
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Go ahead Shapiro spin away while you can.
Obama can't close the deal? How about Hillary? Obama didn't knock her out and this is bad for Obama? Come on!
The reason Clinton lost her 10% lead of her lead in a "state made for her" is because she relies on spiners like you, that don't understand the internet is changing politics.
Spin works in the TV world where the words are gone as soon as they are said. People had to rely only on their own memory, and spined fact had a chance of being remebered as true facts.
But people have learned to comparison shop on the internet. When they go to the store they may know more than the clerks.
What you don't even realize is that your articles are now part of the internet and at some point technology will help to find out just how much of a spiner you are, and it will most likely be made available for everyone to see. You can only hope it does not happen soon.
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Hillary needed to close the deal in Iowa...South Carolina...and super tuesday.....
Hillary couldn't prevent Obama from winning the primary, because she is a highly flawed candidate who cultivates distrust in the American people and has shown her ability to mudsling and tear down anyone that gets in her way.
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Obama supporter for Hillary
I'm a strong Obama supporter who by now desperately wishes there were a graceful way for him to concede the race to Clinton. Since he's not going to lose the primary race, he can't concede defeat, unfortunately. So how about a cancer scare for a close family member that later proves to be a false alarm? Yep, that's what I'm hoping for.
Why? Because Clinton has definitively proven that a shamelessly unprincipled campaign of lies, innuendo and fear-mongering can defeat Obama, at least this year, when he is still too exotic and unfamiliar to many voters. Many voters will think to themselves that, as Clinton put it, "as far as I know" he's not a Muslim Al Qaeda mole, but who knows, maybe he just might be.
It is by now also abundantly clear, from polls and from comments on Salon and elsewhere, that the Clinton campaign is a personality cult, and many of her followers would sell their daughters into sexual slavery before they would vote for the man who toppled their cult leader. Nevermind that there's no difference on policy between Obama and Clinton. That's another reason why he can't win. Obama supporters like myself, in contrast, will vote for Clinton, as much as I have grown to loathe her and her cult, because policy is more important than personality. So Clinton will have a somewhat better chance against McCain than Obama.
Though I loathe Clinton, by the way, I will crawl naked through broken glass to get to the polls to vote for her becuase she, or any Democrat, will stop the Republican assault on progressive taxation, which is slowly but surely turning this entire country into what will be a Rio de Jeneiro-like dystopia, populated by a few superrich hiding behind walls from the ultrapoor masses, within a couple of decades if it is not stopped. That's the most important issue facing the nation and I'll vote for anyone who will stop that.
To be sure, her fear-mongering campaign (which appears to be based on the assumption that Obama will win the nomination this year, but with her help will go down to defeat against McCain, paving the way for her return four years from now) has pretty much assured that neither Democrat can win this year.
Thus, I've concluded, it's best to give the nomination to Hillary this year, so that she can run, and lose, and the Clinton's quarter-century reign over the Democratic Party can end now, and the Clintons can get the f*** out of our faces forever.
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Obama should thank Ferraro
The bizarre rules of the DNC were crafted by a committee headed by Ferraro and those wretched culture war demons. Obama, instead chose to bash her. Now how grateful is that? The system was designed to create this outcome, yet you all complain. Brazille tells us rules are rules and you all just want to throw them out and not wait for the outcome. I want those Super Delegates to earn their keep. Stand for something. I want the Democratic party to have responsibility and ownership for whatever happens.
We were all against Bush, but now we realize we have different interests. The upper class meritocracy, does not and will not share the fruits of America with the lower income folks. So, get it in your heads, there are two Americas, Edwards was right, and the average upper class (allegedly educated) Obama supporter is not gonna bring Obama to victory. You guys had it all settled and sorted out.
It's always about class.
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what a wasted oppurtunity
1. To show clinton her bogus tactics and gop propogandists are not acceptable in a democratic race. To throw her out of the race for good, becuase she is a republcain.
2. To show the hannity's and o'reilly's that they are now irrelevant. That their gossiping tactics belong in us weekly and are done in american presidential politics.
Didn't work that way. Back to the old drawing board, as to how to beat and shut down rush fox hannity savage. The old ladies and catholics decide amoungst themselves they are going to keep both alive. I hope you know what yoru doing old ladies and catholics (republcains). yoour handing the presidency to the gop and validating their nonsensacil arguements.
Maybe that's why rush and the gop are so knee deep in the "opposition" parties primary. Back to the drawing board. i hold you stubborn old people know what yoru doing. Your burying this nation out of spite fear and pride. We have learned nothing in the last 8 years of fascist rule.
Western europe here I come.