Letters to the Editor
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Howard Dean on Jon Stewart, OT
Just finished watching Daily Show...
So annoying--I love Jon Stewart like everyone else, but he's getting to be all about me lately.
Howard Dean was interrupted just about every time he was speaking, including when he was quite literally about to announce how he was going to seat the FL and MI delegates.
Why bother having a guest on if he's not allowed to inform?
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@Melthough
You wrote:
"I don't want to alienate anybody
Ah, the Democratic party motto. They could at least put it in Latin so it sounds more official. Or maybe Esperanto, so as not to offend any sensitivities."
Too funny. Thanks for the laugh.
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But sagcat,
And like everyone else in the party, I blame the candidate whom I don't support. Damn the other side for not seeing that my candidate is the far superior choice and rallying behind my candidate as our Party's nominee. (Yes, I honestly feel that way, and no, it doesn't matter whom I support.)
But sagcat, my candidate really is right and your candidate really is wrong! ;)
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They do seem cowardly
If they have a preference they should declare it. I'm with Claire McCaskell, they want to endorse Obama but they're too scared of the Clintons' so-called retribution and too cowardly to take a stance.
Someone needs to tell them, we're not going to forget their cowardice. Time to step up.
Anyone else think Joan Walsh is calling them nightly and begging them not to vote their conscience and endorse Obama?
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Great, AJCalhoun!
But I don't think it's going to be stamped into anything, let alone set in stone. I'm thinking the DNC can hand out those tiny little Zen sandboxes to each Democrat elected to any public office, state level or above. That way, they can all write the motto there in the sandbox and quickly erase it if anyone walks into the room.
I do vote Democrat at the federal level pretty consistently, but I don't register Dem or give them money. My first vote ever was for Bill Clinton, and then he pushed Don't Ask, Don't Tell his first week in office. I still supported him, but that ended my love affair with the Democratic party.
Here in Vermont, Progressives and Dems sometimes split the vote at the state level, which is how we got a Republican governor. Miraculously, the Ps & Ds passed instant-runoff voting for all state elections last month. And the governor vetoed it. I am not sure how to get out of this system. Sigh.
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@Ancient
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Where'd you come up with this "common assumption" fellas? I'm a passionate supporter of Obama, and I'm not assuming that the superdelegates are ready to break for Hillary.
I'm assuming that they're afraid of retaliation or excommunication by an apoplectic Bill Clinton, or they have to work with Hillary Clinton in the Senate and don't want to face her steely wrath any sooner than necessary, or they don't want to end up on the front page of the newspaper thanks to psycho RaginCajun Carville deciding they are the devil incarnate, or, perhaps that they simply want to wait until more votes are in before they go on the record.
I felt exactly the same way you did about that particular statement in this piece.
btw: Did anyone else think it was weird that one of the superdelegates wanted to go fishing in Denver but not to the convention? Somehow that didn't come across right. When I read that, I felt kinda like, Hey buddy, I'm happy to take over that tough job of "Majorly influencing the American election" for you if you don't feel up to it.
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Donna Brazile @ Fester
I've taken to psychological analysis lately. Donna Brazile was on something or other last night and I found I was scrutinizing her body language and every word to determine who she really wants. Same with Carter and even Dean tonight on Jon Stewart. Dean is just inscrutable, but I think both Brazile and Carter like Obama.
Anyway, it's sort of fun in a distracting kind of way.
PS My own Senator, Sherrod Brown, is also at this point undecided. But I'm sure about his vote. You know how? His wife, Connie Shultz, the Pulitzer-winning columnist for the Plain Dealer, seems really to favor Clinton. Is that sexist of me to assume that she has sway over him? Or that he previously swayed her? Or maybe they disagree and are at blows at the dinner table each night. See what I mean how fun this is?
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@lateagain pyscho-analyzing D. Brazile
Donna Brazile was on something or other last night and I found I was scrutinizing her body language and every word to determine who she really wants.
Wadda think? I saw her on Colbert. She was awesome. I couldn't get a sense of which way she's leaning. I think Steve pushed her a little too far with his 'I don't see race' schtick. She definitely saw him and raised him. Like I said before, I give her credit for her public position.
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Donna Brazille, neutral! LOL. Good one.
Actually she was among the very first stand-by-my-colored-man blowhards. In any event she's incompetent and shouldn't have any credibility since she lost the election so patently with her sucky campaign for Al Gore.
Donna Brazille is just another bitter Kennedy style loser.
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Clown-like accusations of Clinton "retribution"
As usual the pro-Obamateur clown can be counted upon to trash the Clintons in the most moronic fashion.
And how by all abandoned logic would they "retribute" anyone who really wants to support the Wright fellow who can't win anything but young urban liberals and black militants?
I mean last I looked the Clinton's weren't on the courts, the Republicans had a solidly locked up judicial system, and the press and corporations with the big money were all in the GOP's court as well.
Oh, well, I suppose in the same way they figure electoral math is irrelevant, the Clinton's have magical powers to get even with all these superdels who are just dying to watch Obama lose in a landslide.
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Sherrod's predicament is obvious.
PS My own Senator, Sherrod Brown, is also at this point undecided. But I'm sure about his vote.
He has an obvious predicament. On one hand he's an Ohio Senator and Ohio went firmly for HRC and he can't get re-elected with the nutty liberal and black vote alone.
OTOH, of course as a more liberal type he feels the pressure to appease the nutty liberals who insist that we must take a hit loss because half-black Obama just so deserves to be our nominee (irrespective of whether or not he has a snowball's chance in heck of winning).