Letters to the Editor
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oh I get it, rufus11
It isn't an act--you actually ARE a nutso. I hope you get the treatment you need.
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Manos99 grows stupider....
by the second
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The seconds..
..become minutes...the minutes become hours...the hours turn into days...the days become weeks...
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YOU GOT TO SAY SOMETHING PEANUT GALLERY
When the facts and issues, or the candidates aren't on your side. I guess you got to say something. All you got is "i know you are but what am I" and "you smell bad"
hahahahahhaha
you got to say something. You are undermaned and outmatched. I don't hate you sabotuer nazis. I pity you. Post on meat puppet.
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Obama can't close the deal
Mr. Shapiro,
Nice article but maybe the spin should be, "Clinton can't close the deal". After all it was not all that long ago that Billary was the sure thing for the Demo's. The Clintons were to walk back into the White House as the honored guests for another 8 years.
Well guess what, there are two sides to the Democratic Party and the educated, affluent, young, and black, have a say in who will lead this country. If you are from the old school politics and want more of the same old negative tactics then Clintons your gal. After all to use your numbers (68% of voters in the exit polls thought that Clinton "attacked unfairly" and 41% say she is not "honest and trustworthy". Her victory as you write was because women (57%), the over 40 crowd, non college degree educated (58%), and white Catholics (71%)put her over the top. When you really think about these demographics it is a bit like Bush-McCain supporters. Want more of the same vote McCain-Clinton? Maybe that's the "Dream Ticket" for these voters.
Let's hope the "weary, befuddled superdelegates", are College educated, affluent, younger, black and vote for the candidate with the majority of delegates. If they choose correctly then the Democratic Party can present a leader who is for "real change" and a candidate who will have the young, educated, affluent, and black on his side to take this country forward instead of the same ole,same ole Washington BS.
The fact is Obama is the "People's President" with all of his small campaign donators vs Clinton and McCain and all their "Special Interst" dollars. It's the "People" vs the "Special Interest". Should be fun. Let's hope the "People" win for a "Real Change"
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The Hillary plan
Hillary ran as a caste member of The Deer Hunter, playing Russian roulette in this instance with the Democratic Party’s chance for the White House and control of Congress. In the final days of the campaign she rhetorically obliterated Iran with the clear implication that this is what real Presidents do, whether at 3 am, after breakfast or before dinner. What was Obama meant to do? Come on as a gun-toting black man? The Pennsylvania State Troopers would have gunned him down.
Hillary must know that she cannot possibly win the nomination by any rational standard. Hence the comic moment on Tuesday when her finance chairman Terry McAuliffe was asked to define what Mrs Clinton would invoke as a fair claim on the Democratic nomination. McAuliffe said it would either be a victory in the popular vote in Democratic primaries and caucuses - including Michigan and Florida – (a very remote contingency) or a lead in the pledged delegates (an impossibility) or a lead among Superdelegates (among whom, since March 6, HRC has collected 12 and Obama 88) or there would be a consensus among party leaders that Obama is incapable of beating McCain. Obama is still ahead of McCain, though thanks to Mrs Clinton’s efforts the margin is narrowing.
In other words there’s no rational scenario here, except the her real Hillary plan to ensure a McCain victory this year and come back in 2012.
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Union Efforts in Big State Primaries Mean Nothing in the General Election
Hillary Clinton's basic argument why she, the person with less votes, should be awarded the Democratic nomination is that that she has defeated Barack Obama in obtaining the supposedly key demographic: the white, uneducated vote in large states. But this reasoning is based on a fallacy. Democratic parties in big states have much more potent (read well funded) union political operations than those in small states. One of the main reasons why Clinton has won in these states is that political leaders, who are indebted to the Clintons over the last 16 years, have pulled in the union chips and the unions are out campaigning for Clinton to pay those debts. But after the primaries, the debt is expunged and local political cronies and unions no longer rule the day. At the two California Democratic conventions I attended as a delegate, the numbers, money and juice of the unions for the weak, forgettable Phil Angelides was awesome. But Angelides got annihilated in the general by Arnold Schwarzenegger - including getting killed in the white, uneducated, male union vote.
Hillary's reason to overturn democracy is based on crony intraparty politics that gives virtually no advantage in the general election. For goodness sake, Pennsylvania organizers demand to be paid! That won't happen in the general election and union organizing will mean jack squat for the Democratic nominee. Non-union get out the vote, progressive internet fund raising and organizing and media spin and dominance are much bigger elements of victory in general elections than union efforts. Plus there is a rather obvious aspect to the union/white uneducated advantage - many union members who obey the local and give out flyers in the primaries vote Republican anyway.
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Say what???
Hey Walt,
You say its Obama who can't close the deal? Excuse me. Since before the very first primary its been Clinton's nomination to lose, and she's doing a pretty good job of losing it. Obama leads in states won, popular vote, and delegates. And now, in order to overtake Obama she must run the table in the remaining primaries. But according to you, Walt, it is he who can't close the deal. Wow, that's some interesting reasoning. Its.Clinton, the odds-on, presumptive favorite who hasn't closed the deal yet. Open your eyes, Walt.
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Write Obama's Name on Ballot if Clinton Steals Nomination
If Hillary Clinton steals the Democratic nomination from Obama, I will not vote for her or John McCain. I feel strongly about voting because people died so that we could have the right to vote; however, I cannot in good conscience vote for Clinton or McCain. Early during the primary season, I was okay with Clinton or Obama winning; however, the prolonged fight, increased negativity, and dirty tactics have soured my opinion of Hillary Clinton.
I don’t trust her now, so how can I trust her as president? I’m a registered Democrat. I used to be an Independent until I realized in Florida you had to belong to a particular party to participate in primaries. Her kitchen sink strategy and determination to muddy Barack Obama beyond repair for the General Election is too much.
If Clinton “steals” the nomination and you plan on staying home or writing Obama’s name in on the ballot, please sign this guestbook so that the media, pundits, voters, and superdelegates realize that the media spin and polling is not always accurate and can be skewed.
-Ceci Bell of Florida
http://gbook.dvercity.net/