Letters to the Editor
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the stupid vote
"Given Obama's purportedly unassailable delegate lead, it was stunning that 43 percent of Pennsylvania voters said they believed that Clinton would be the Democratic nominee. Clearly, we have identified that proportion of the Pennsylvania electorate who never, ever turn on a cable TV news show."
yes, Clinton got the stupid vote. That's who we want pushing the agenda of this country. People who think they might vote for Obama but are hesitant because, well, isn't he a muslim who doesn't know the pledge of allegiance?
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an election is not a war
or a boxing match. There doesn't have to be a knock out punch. Just because someone is ahead doesn't mean the other candidate can't score. As in a running race, the leader only has to be a tiny bit ahead at the finish line to win. The second place runner may get more or less behind, but is still behind.
There wasn't going to be a shut down of the Clinton campaign. She has made that abundantly clear. And the original margin was a 20-point win. So, in a state where there were the manufactured controversies of Wright, elitism, Ayers and so much more, he and that she calls one of her homes (hmmm, multiple homes... sounds elitist....), he who was unknown prior to this campaign cut her lead in half and is still ahead in the delegate count.
Also, his campaign has managed to inspire record turnout of voters and a first-time active voting bloc in the youth.
But, really, we should install Clinton because she didn't receive a knock-out punch yesterday.
Now, imagine how much press there would be about this black man landing a knock-out punch on a woman. If there were gang-rapists at a debate, what language would be employed to depict that.
Obama himself has said that he is restraining himself because he's in the primary. He's trying to protect his party. In North Carolina last week he said, "I won't be so restrained in the general." Don't mistake wise graciousness for weakness. Also, don't mistake pugilistic persistence for strength. The voters should have the candidate they feel best represents where they want this country to go. Not the one who can throw the best punches.
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Yeah, it's time to get behind Hillary's nomination! Now!
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.
-- markthomp
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Out of touch
Are we losing our perspective here or what? Barack Obama is a 46-yr-old African American junior senator who came from nowhere several months ago, beating most odds that favored Hillary Clinton, to become the favored candidate for the democratic nomination. Six weeks ago many Pennsylvanians still had a vague familiarity with Obama, a new face on the national stage. Yet if you listen to Joe Scarborough or William Shapiro, his inability to win a democratic primary in Pennsylvania somehow forebodes an inability to win the general election. David is slaying Goliath, and the "story" is that Goliath just isn't falling fast enough.
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It is time for Change We Can Believe In! Now! The nomination should be Obama's!
I'll say it clearly.....She.....Is....Losing.
Why can't Salon and other Hillary media outlets understand the fact that Obama has won the primary fairly by all accounts?
More Pledged delegates.
Winning 30 states to her 15.
He has almost closed the superdelegate gap.
He leads her in the popular vote by 500,000 (and will recoup the 200,000 from Penn. in North Carolina).
The only reason she is still in it is the dynastic momentum of the name Clinton.
Clinton has made the specious argument that if Obama can't shut down her [wild, reckless, low-blowing] campaign, he can't defeat McCain. Why doesn't the media ask her why she couldn't shut down a relative unknown from becoming the frontrunner and winning the primary?
-- christoball