Letters to the Editor
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"quartz"
Welcome to Salon, I see you just signed up today. Now how about a nice cup of Shut The Fuck Up? Neocon troll. Do you really think we are that stupid?
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half=pintz
Yes, oh wisest tool in the drawer, we should all bow before the pre-ordained Billbitch. Unfortunately for you droolers, reality now says that now conceivable series of events will win Her Holiness, the Chosen One, the Ejaculate of Big Bill's Big One, the nomination. Watch tonight's Daily Show, the most honest and funniest new show on television, maybe ever, in which they play the bitch tapes and categorically demonstrate she has nothing but contempt for the voters- unless they choose her. She is doing nothing but following her own bloated ego over the brink. love, heywood.
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StacyInDC
Okay, so what does Obama represent.
A few things that have impressed me over the course of this election.
One of his major core constitutiencies is the black vote - which will not vote Democratic if the superdelegates take the whole thing because it will be percieved as a racist choice - yet he is opposed to slave reparations.
He has policies which are almost exactly the same as Hillary on illegal immigration - the major difference being that he supports illegal immigrants being able to get drivers licenses, yet at the same time when asked about inner city unemployment he stated that the problems involved were deeper than "Them Mexicans is stealing our jobs." Hillary (Purely to show how easy it would be to do) emphasised "Mexicans are stealing our jobs."
On international trade he acknowledged that protectionism would be very difficult to implement - even though he was speaking in front of a union gathering.
On international politics he has emphasised talking to America's enemies even when this has been unpopular. His focus on military matters is Pakistan, which has nuclear weapons, and a history which indicates it is less than trustworthy with them, rather than Iran, which does not, and can make life quite uncomfortable for America besides. Iran is the world's second biggest oil producer and is developing stronger ties with a lot of the smaller producers.
What has struck me about his campaign, and the change he is promoting, is that apart from religion, he seems to have avoided hitting any of the easy buttons.
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Wrong
And also, I'm tired of people saying that he can't win in the general. He will if you vote for him
er, no he can't. He fares dismally with the elderly,hispanics and blue collar voters and Catholics. Nor with needless to say evangelical populists think he's got terrorist ties (he actually does domestically) and is the anti-Christ (he was Muslim in fact most of his life).
Critically important Dem consistuents demonsrate, no, he can't possibly win. This has been demonstrated over and over again in every major state that Dems need from Mass to California to Pennsylvania and the South west.
Had he not registered about 10 million "new" Dem voters who were Republicans willfully voting as spoilers, he likely would have lost Penn by 30 points instead of 10.
Sorry, I'm not trying to be mean to the Obama supporters (vulgar as most of them are) but it is time to grow up and face facts.
If Obama is shoved down our throats he WILL lose to McCain demonstrably and gigantically. It will be a blood bath.
The lesson is the left needs to grow the fck up and work as a coalition in the Democratic party instead of a petulant self-destructive spoiler.
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Hillary Won College Students in Pennsylvania
Just a little under-reported fact...
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That's Hillary Won College Graduates
She did well among college students too.
She will be The People's President.
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Shapiro Got Suckered
Despite the fact that Hillary's win in Pennsyltucky was a foregone conclusion, and that she won by precisely the margin that the Obama camp had long predicted, and that we all inoculated ourselves against the inevitable "comeback" and "turning point" spin that we predicted and that has come to pass, Walter has succumbed to this spin with his "can't close the deal" nonsense. The fact is that the "deal" has long since been closed, but the loser refuses to leave, with the assistance of those who benefit from the horserace such as yourselves. My advice: stop watching CNN and stay out of Joan Walsh's office.
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Obama Supporters in PA
In The Nation last week, it had an article regarding the supporters of Obama. Guess what, there are many who were Republicans who voted for Bush and are voting for Obama because he promises to be an "uniter." So, the people who gave us Bush are now pushing for Obama. Also, Democrats have not learned from the 2004 "Anybody but Bush." If you are voting for Obama because you hate Hillary, you will lose. You will not elect a president out of hate. Obama supporters, if he gets the nomination, you have turned off many of who would consider voting for Obama, but you dialog towards us. The reality is not everyone sees Obama the way you do and that is okay. Some of us support Hillary and are not ashamed of that and that is okay. We are not uneducated, poor, etc. We just happen to support her.
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Obama HAS closed the deal. HRC is being Teddy Kennedy in 1980.
The NYT's Patrick Healy has a reality check today:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/24/us/politics/24clinton.html
Exit polling and independent political analysts offer evidence that Mr. Obama could do just as well as Mrs. Clinton among blocs of voters with whom he now runs behind. Obama advisers say he also appears well-positioned to win swing states and believe he would have a strong shot at winning traditional Republican states like Virginia.
According to surveys of Pennsylvania voters leaving the polls on Tuesday, Mr. Obama would draw majorities of support from lower-income voters and less-educated ones — just as Mrs. Clinton would against Mr. McCain, even though those voters have favored her over Mr. Obama in the primaries.
And national polls suggest Mr. Obama would also do slightly better among groups that have gravitated to Republican in the past, like men, the more affluent and independents, while she would do slightly better among women.