Letters to the Editor
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The real problem
is that while the MSM feast on a carcass of bones which is the dem nomination process the issues that affect Americans goes unresolved and in fact, get progressively more serious everyday.
The fact is that we have a progressively older population trying to retire and draw social security that will require an ever limited pool of medical resources at an ever increasing cost.
Our national energy policy and foreign policy are misaligned. Our anti-terrorism policy is probably creating more terrorists than it is eliminating and we are fighting wars (not one but several) that are straining our already seriously strained budget.
We are depending upon the Chinese and Russians and Saudis to continue to finance our way of life and keep our gas tanks full and to pay them off we have a government that is manufacturing play money and raining it down out of helicopters.
All the while, we're building walls and enforcing the border but we have no serious plan to deal with the illegal immigrants and terrorists that are already in the country.
Folks, we have more serious problems than Clinton, Obama or McCain!! We need someone in the White House that will stand up and face reality...give America a good hard slap in the face.
We need someone who tell us to pull ourselves up by our boot straps, tell our minorities (as a black american, I believe what Cosby said was right) to quit playing around and start studying, tell those working class folks...the jobs and the lifestyle (graduating from highschool and working in a mill for 30 yrs till pension won't cut it anymore) in the rust belt is GONE...never coming back...time to learn some new skills and figure out how to be productive in a new world.
It may sound harsh. But it is the truth. America is still great, but our failure to deal with reality is causing our star to fade. So far no candidate can fully tell the truth as near as I can tell....no candidate is willing to deliver the bad news....no candidate is able to project how we find a light at the end of this tunnel.
Until we get real, this country is in very serious trouble!
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@david sugarman
as for me, i can't imagine why anyone who's both intelligent and kind could possibly not want Obama to win. this makes me an obamabot in some folks' eyes.
Not only that, but it makes you an America-hating, latte-sipping limosine liberal elitist! We don't cotton to your kinda folk in these here parts. Goddamned Intellectual.
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Villemar, name your candidate and I'll tell you what is wrong with them
In fact, there is so much wrong with any of these three that I think America is in big trouble!!
And if folks are no wise enough to see it, then I can only be saddened as we drive a brand new Ferrari with no headlights down an unlit path blindfolded at night off a cliff.
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it might be bad netiquette, squalorholla
but i'm just learning. is Rambling Rose 22 a troll, or just a very determined reality denying hillary supporter?
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Bomb Zombie
You say you can tell us what's wrong with all the presidential candidates? What are you? Some kind of wizard?
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Two Largely Unelectable Candidates
Was I the only person in American who votes in Democratic primaries that saw Hillary and Obama as largely unelectable? Why is this news now? Hillary's deficiencies and the hatred of her on the part of many on the right, in the center, and some on the left was well know. Likewise, Obama's "preacher problem," his Rezko problem, and his Ayers and Dorhn problem, have been well know to those in the political community and those who cared to look for since well before the first ballot was cast. All of this is why I supported John Edwards.
The only way out of this mess is for the Superdelegates to come to their senses and start a draft Gore movement. Because right now, a Gore/Edwards ticket sure sounds a lot better than anything else we're likely to get.
And the damage that will be done if we don't come to our senses will be greater than just four more year of war, four more years of Republican judges, etc. Think of the public perception that will result if the Democrats can't muster a winning response in this year. When will we ever be relevant or be able to get our act together if we can't do it now?
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@squalor
"I'm also very close to positive that KateTex is another one [troll], for the reason I mentioned before; when she's on a tear she says things that no sane progressive would ever, ever say. Then again, she might just be nuts."
Wow, you know some progressives who are still sane after all these months? Not even close to paranoid? If so, Salon surely could use some new blood.
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dave, I should change my username to The Oracle.
Rose is legit. She's been around forever and her opinions are consistent. Also, though she is forceful, she is not a raging jerky meanyhead. And she doesn't use corporate-media buzzwords, which are usually a dead giveaway.
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As long as you're slinging stereotypes around
The Raleigh, Durham, Cary, RTP area has more post graduate degrees per capita than any other place in America, bar none. More then Seattle, Austin, Silicon Valley or Cambridge. Yeah we all dumb hicks. Where mah gun?
But Obama will still lose.
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Can someone explain this?
As a bit of an outside observer on the race for Democratic nomination, I don't have a lot of emotion invested in the outcome. Not that there's anything wrong with a bit of passion.
What I am grappling with a little is the nature of the debate that seems to keep happening on these comments pages. It seems like the relative merits of the two candidates are being discussed just as if victory were still up for grabs for either candidate. But any way I look at the numbers here, I can't see a realistic outcome where Obama doesn't win... unless you factor in truly, deeply unlikely results in the remaining states.
It seems to me that raving on about Hillary Clinton as the better candidate at this late stage is a bit like arguing that Al Gore or John Edwards should actually be the nominee. That is, there's nothing crazy about wishing for it, but it is just plainly not going to happen because they've already lost.
So, could somebody, whether an Obama supporter or a Clinton supporter, please explain to me what the scenario is where they imagine Hillary will win? Is it a 70:30 victory in Indiana and all the other remaining races, or is it something else? I'm just not seeing it. From here, it seems like Obama has essentially won and only needs to hold at 40% or so to stay ahead. So it would really make much more sense for Democrats of any stripe to get behind their party's nominee and start thinking about how to beat McCain.
Anyone? Exactly what chain of events could possibly lead to a Clinton win?