Letters to the Editor
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Anahadhooves
and you're old too. Just die already beeyatch!
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Sugarman
Thanks for your kinds words the other day. You're sweet.
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@Rose (pg3) missing the point? That's backwards
Obama's campaign was not designed to go the distance.
This is exactly backwards. Hillary's campaign was not designed to go the distance. She said in Jan '07 that the campaign would be over by Feb. That's one of the big reasons she tanked in Wisconsin. Re read this article:
Obama did head into Wisconsin with a big edge -- an underfunded, poorly organized effort by his rival. Clinton didn't bother sending paid staff to the state until about two weeks before the primary. "It really was right before Super Tuesday that it was, 'Oh my God, we are running a real presidential campaign,'" said Heather Colburn, Clinton's volunteer state director. "We just never thought those 32 delegates (up for grabs in Wisconsin) would matter, and now here's what we know -- those 32 delegates mattered." [emp. added]
Meanwhile: http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0208/Obamas_projections.html
Obama's camp projects winning IN 53/46 and NC 53/45 from a spreadsheet leaked in Feb that goes all the way to PR.
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@Uncle Fester
Obama's camp projects winning IN 53/46 and NC 53/45 from a spreadsheet leaked in Feb that goes all the way to PR.
Do you think that will be accurate? Have they revised that? If Clinton stays away form gas station latte machines I think she could take Indiana, but it would be less than 5 points. I don't see a blowout there.
I suspect that no matter what Obama does, he will not win over the hard core segregationists. Those people will never vote for him or a woman. Race mattes more than money to them.
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he'll need to recapture the working-class voters who helped him rout Clinton
And if he doesn't, Saloniks will suck their sour grapes and claim those people were really secret GOP neocon zionist racist gay bashing carbon belching carnivores anyway. And screw them, when the Revolution comes, they'll be first against the wall!!!
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Proud TexasGirl
After reading your most recent post in this thread I have come to a conclusion that's really painful. You head your post "Obama Has Already Lost", which on the face of it is not rational, but then go on to say: "Read my postings for months. He is a racist hypocritical liar and he attends Trinity Church."
So because you've been harping on this one exhausted issue for months here (and perhaps, god help them, other places), you would appear to believe your own racist judgement rooted not in critical, but rather wishful, thinking, makes your pronouncements fact, when in fact they don't even make sense.
Based upon this not once, nor occasional, but daily repitition of a mantra which makes no sense, I have to conclude that, in the words of the immortal Screamin' Jay Hawkins: "They's somethin' wrong wit' you." There is. There's something wrong with you. Please get help, which will also help the rest of us who now no longer need to read your posts because we already know what they will contain. Please note: no one is deemed a prophet because of this unmagical foresight. We've tried all the buttons, but you only have one record in your jukebox.
Wright doesn't matter. It's over. The race goes to the strong and, sometimes, to the good. Ritual sutras to the contrary don't change it, but they do get old and undermine whatever credibility you may have had your first time out.
I'm sorry to have to be the one to tell you this, but really, there is something wrong with you.
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So the Democratic nomination turns on the outcome in two Red states
like North Carolina and Indiana?
That makes as much sense as the Republican nominee being picked on how well he did in Blue states like California, New York and New Jersey.
Um.....
Never mind.
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@Green Job
It would seem strange, but only to someone who became politically aware over the past eight years. Prior to that time we didn't have "red" and "blue" states, let alone "purple." But most of all, the change which so many seem to dread has already started. It's happening. It's a new day.
True enough, the south, much of the midwest, and the rustbelt have been neglected, ignored and even occasionally despised by the Democratic party, but someone woke up this time around, and I think it was the noise from all the shouting from the wonderfully crazy campaign still going on.
The shift is happening. I'd hold onto something for the next little while, but not so tightly that you can't let go once the earth quits moving.
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Democrats once again practicing political suicide
The DNC and the far left Democrats have been come effective in how to lose elections. The 2006 election was a fluke and under Pelosi and Reid, the Congress has a 22% approval rating. They have now crowned Obama the nominee which will stand them to lose the House, Senate, state and local elections. This should go to the convention but that would let the American people see how corrupt the Democrats have become that even long timers like myself are now Indenpendts and will work for and vote for McCain if Obama is the nominee. Another shoe will probably fall when someone sings to save their own skin at the Rezko trial.
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Fester, or May I Call You Puff Daddy?
I mean, Mr. Sean Combs has traded in that moniker, and "Uncle Fester" does, of course, conjure up images of...well, you know.
But I digress, yet again. What I was aiming to actually say was: Didn't that "The campaign will be over by February" kind of sound like "Mission Accomplished"? Same ring to it.
That's really all I have to say about that. The rest is history being written as we speak.
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Quandry for Obama
He has to debate Clinton again.
Problem is, Clinton has more mastery over the issues, the intricate details and her policies are more well-formed than Obama's. The debate could expose Obama and take him outside of his comfort zone of giving uplifting speeches to admiring audiences.
If Obama does not debate, he's seen as ducking Clinton and running out the clock. He is losing momentum to Clinton and he's seen as sitting on victories that came a while ago. If your biggest argument to become the leader of the free world is a mathematical delegate advantage gained months ago, your candidacy can be seen as fairly weak. Lst thing he needs is to back-in to the nomination while losing more than he wins.
But, if he does debate her, there is a real chance he'll get thumped again. Clinton knows this and will bait him until he gets on the stage with her again.
Obama, keep in mind, also has a much bigger war chest so he could continue to carpet bomb N.C and Indy with TV ads (just like he's hammering us to death with his ads on this site).
Rough spot for Barack right now, no?