Letters to the Editor
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The solution is obvious
Anoint the Lord Obama Ra Emperor of the World, for life, forego all elections and await his messianic age.
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Uh, "The Heartbreak Kid" didn't have a happy ending
The movie ends with Grodin's character singing a song to himself that he and his first wife used to love, realizing he made a mistake by leaving her for the WASP. It's a devastating portrait of the consequences of one man's selfish narcissism. You really thought it was a happy ending? That reminds me of the scene in "Barcelona" where one character explains "The Graduate" from the perspective of Dustin Hoffman's rival.
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We are as stupid and arrogant as the Republicans say we are....
It hit me the other day, that we--the Democratic Party--as as stupid and arrogant as the Rebublicans say we are. We respect the unrespectable, we honor the dishonorable, we cheer for the bad guy, we ignore history, we dishonor our elders, we spit on the flag. We are who they say we are, and this manchurian candidate Barack Hussein Obama is the physical manifestation of the perfect storm of our self-interested, self-hating, suicidal tendencies. He is us, and we are our own worst enemy.
Luckily, I am more of a radical progressive independent woman than simply a Democrat who ALWAYS chooses the best candidate. Normally, this is never a Republican, for many reasons. However, this year I am starting to feel embarassed for defending Democrats. This year I am starting to feel scared for believeing in Democrats. This year I am starting to know for a fact that as a woman I am just as belittled and hated by the Democrats as the Republicans. This year I am starting to realize that Dumb and Dumber is not just a movie, but the world and who rules it.
Obama is the worst candidate in the history of the world--no experience, many skeletons, racist, hangs with all the wrong types, etc., etc.--and at the moment when this country and the world most needs a decent leader this is what the Democratic party puts forward as a potential candidate. His supporters insult the backbone of this country, older people, and women, yet you scream 'isms' at those who choose to actually look beyond the spin. If Dumbism was socially incorrect, we might actually have a chance but unfortunately it is legal and seemingly popular to be dumb as dirt.
No matter what you think about Mrs. Clinton, she is the BEST candidate to win this election. OBAMA IS NOT ELECTABLE. To argue otherwise is dumb, and I will not go there. We have two choices, and I for one am not going to vote for Dumb.
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ProudTexasGirl: Luckily, I am more of Luckily, I am more of a radical progressive independent woman than simply a Democrat than simply a Democrat
I have a feeling you have some racial hangups more than being "Luckily, I am more of a radical progressive independent woman than simply a Democrat."
There's a common whiff in alot of your letters that doesn't smell too sweet.
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to ProudTexasGirl and other Hillary supporters
I've decided to become part of the 27% and growing number of Obama supporters that will NOT vote for Hillary if she wins the nomination.
For three reasons specifically:
1) I live in a blue state, so my vote probably won't make a difference anyway. I will vote for the Green Party candidate. I understand that if every Obama supporter feels the way I do in November, MD won't be a blue state anymore, but I'm willing to play those odds.
2) If Obama makes it to the convention with more states won, as the popular vote leader, and as the leader in pledged delegates and we come out of the convention with Hillary as the Democratic nominee, it will mean that the superdelegates, while acting within the rules, essentially negated the entire primary process. They will have wasted taxpayers' time and money with 8 months of primaries and caucuses when they could have just named Clinton the nominee back in January and been done with it. Even more insulting, they will have essentially said that African American voters, long the bedrock of the modern Democratic party are not valued and their voices are not to be respected, unless they vote the way party insiders want. No Democratic president since the 60's has been elected by a majority of white votes. The Democratic party needs African American votes to win and they will have thrown those votes out of the window under the delusion that African American voters have no where else to go. Meanwhile, McCain is down in Selma, AL trying to make inroads with black voters who recognize how badly Hillary and the Democratic party have treated them this election.
3) Just like Joan and others are turned off by over-zealous, and over-fawning Obama supporters, after reading Salon's letters pages regularly and reading Joan and Rebecca Traister's articles and posts and reading the articles that Joan has headlined, I am absolutely disgusted by the moral, logical and ethical contortions Hillary supporters are willing to do to continue to argue for why she should be the nominee (so now Obama is an elitist and a racist?!). No Hillary supporter that I've come across on these pages is willing to intelligently discuss how Hillary could legitimately win the nomination without alienating the majority of voters who want Obama to be the nominee. No one is willing to at least objectively look at how damaging this primary season has been to the chances of a Democrat winning in November, no matter who the nominee is. Instead, as an Obama supporter, I can expect to be insulted, belittled, and berated. Not one Hillary supporter has at least acknowledged the irony in claiming that by not counting FL and MI votes, we are subverting the democratic process, while at the same time hoping that the superdelegates overturn the votes of any democrat who didn't vote for Clinton.
Hillary and her supporters have made it their mission to tear down and destroy a candidate who agrees with Clinton on 98% of their issues and who is the Democrats best hope for winning in November. No Hillary supporter is willing to intelligently discuss why it is that Hillary's unfavorability ratings keep climbing, why her trustworthy-ness keeps dropping, why she keeps slipping in the spread between her and McCain, and why she has repeatedly lied (I'm sorry Joan, mis-spoke), and pandered to anyone if it will get her a vote.
So good job Hillary and keep up the good work Hillary supporters. And for the record, if she isn't the nominee but does a good enough job destroying Obama so that he loses the general, I will work even harder than I have for Obama this year to make sure that she is NOT the nominee in 2012.
Hillary supporters, do you really think that I'm alone in feeling this way? Are you willing to keep playing those odds?