Letters to the Editor
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BushClinton
Bush has always believed that he was owed the presidency and that getting an actual majority of voters was a small tedious detail that would be taken care of by Carl Rove, the Supreme Court and his daddy's cronies. Hillary Clinton thinks just like him. The fact she's behind in the delegate count and popular vote and has no chance of overtaking Obama, means nothing to her. She believes the nomination belongs to her and that it's the duty of the DNC to finagle a way to make her the nominee, although she has lost the nomination process. Beyond the disgusting fact that although most of her voters aren't racist, she gets her margin of victory in states with large older, white, undereducated demographics from a group of voters who is racist and ignorant, would never vote for a black candidate, and tends to vote for the GOP presidential candidate.
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Keep up the good fight, rufus11
I don't blog for you traitor sabotuers. I blog for everyone else.
If it weren't for your fine posts I would have long gone from this neocon shitrag. About time someone called them for what they really are. If you keep jabbing a sharp stick at a sleeping tiger, don't be surprised at the end result. Cause and effect. The neocons have lost their sense of causality. They think they can jab at the tiger forever and ever. But the tiger is beginning to wake. It sees its abuser. Its only a matter of time now.
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You Hillary Supporters Would Be Okay if the SDS gave it to Hillary?
Really?
If he's won the popular vote and has the most delegates coming in the convention, and he's won the most primaries, you're telling me that you would be okay if the Super Delegates turned around and handed the nomination to Hillary? Seriously? You really care more that she wins than whether than whether the decision was fair? How could they possibly justify doing that, if he's ahead on EVERY SINGLE LEVEL as he still is, today? Whether she SHOULD be ahead isn't the point - she isn't ahead, she's not going to pull ahead, and damn it, bottom line is IT IS NOT OBAMA'S FAULT THAT SHE'S BEHIND. This was hers to lose, everyone knows it, and she went ahead and lost it, which sucks for her and possibly for us, but NOW what do we do? But now we're going to change the rules and hand it to her anyway? And you're okay with that? Wow. The "adversary", ladies and gentleman, is McCain, not Obama who even if you don't like him, is still the better choice.
And also, I'm tired of people saying that he can't win in the general. He will if you vote for him. He will if you don't stay home and vote for him, and remind everyone you know to vote for him, THE DEMOCRAT, and they all go and vote for him. Stay home with you sour grapes and you have no one to blame for yourself when McCain DOES win.
Jesus Christ.
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hey, Villemar, jab jab
bend over, Tiger. You know how much you like it. You only really pretend to be sleeping.
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GET IT RIGHT.
Um... Hello!?! Obama WON TEXAS by five delegates. I love how the media is just totally glossing over this FACT. Texas did not have just a primary. They caucused as well and with final numbers between the primary AND caucuses HE WON the "big" state.
*knock knock* is ANYONE home???
So yea, he's sealed the deal in Texas.
Where do these people come from.........?
Is there at least ONE journalist out there that has done his/her homework?
It is LAUGHABLE.
No wonder we talk about things like "name recognition" in elections. I can believe it. No wonder Bush got elected.
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It's the demographics stupid!
You can look at each state and see how it is going to go- no matter what. People from different walks of life see the world from different perspectives. As a college educated African American with household income over 100k- You know how I voted. I don't the Hillary thing. Never will I guess. Women want one of their own I understand. I don't get why old people and working class whites find her so appealing. Maybe I fail to remember the 90's as the golden age. Who Knows? Clinton supports feel the same. Neverhteless, Obama not closing the deal is just Clinton spin. He has his folk. She has hers. We already know how the rest of the contest will go (except IN maybe). Clinton should go home and we should try to beat McCain. The sad truth is America is not yet ready for a black or a woman or a member of the LDS Church. It's just the demographics.
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Campaigning - it's about democracy
The media begging, harassing, and practically threatening Clinton to quit give the impression that campaigning is against the spirit of democracy.
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Dem's System is the Problem. Not Either Candidate.
Regardless of which candidate you favor, I think any honest assessment would admit that the Democratic party's system is fundamentally broken. Some 10,000 caucus voters in either Iowa or North Dakota seem more important than two million voters in California and a couple of million Democratic voters in Florida don't count at all because the GOP set the primary date? In Texas a record turnout of voters is basically "over-ruled" by a handful that go to a Texas Caucus. Why did anyone even bother to vote in Texas? Does that make sense to anyone?
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Her campaign
Is against the spirit of democracy, and the spirit of what it means to be a Democrat. She does not deserve the nomination, and if she gets it, and I am forced to vote for her, it will be with great sadness and regret.
And when they swear in John McCain, I will wonder if there wasn't something more I could have done to stop the train-wreck, the absolute hubris, and the unmitigated, unpatriotic disaster that was Hillary Clinton and the 2008 Democratic National Convention.
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obamatans
Many Hillary supports--progressive or centrist--will not vote for Obama in Nov because of the sheer disrespect and hostility they've endured from Obama's intolerant and rabid supporters. Krugman is right. Much of the venom of this primary season has come from the Obama camp.
Respect and civility go a long way.