Letters to the Editor
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Uh uh
Proud Texas GIrl... please reconsider. Clinton voted to invade Iraq, a war that's killed over 4000 Americans and cost half a trillion dollars. Obama opposed it. Clinton voted against banning the use of cluster bombs in civilian areas (which has killed and injured over 1000 Iraqi civilians), Obama voted for. Clinton talks about "obliterating" Iraq. Obama favors diplomacy. Obama is far from perfect, but at least he isn't Bush with breasts.
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Addendum
"...due to those motivated new voters who survey the current economic and geo-political landscape and see the GOP for what it is--a Party for, in the immortal words of Michael Moore, the "Haves and Have Mores...."
Of course, I mean't "the immortal words of George Bush" as memorably reported by Michael Moore in his classic, "Fahrenheit 911"
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The delegate game better change tomorrow
Otherwise you're going to start to hear it from some of us. It's cool. But honestly at some point, like all things in life, this has to start to move forward or backward.
And there must be a winner or a loser.
And if you want to rob someone, just rob them and get it over with.
Otherwise we're continuing to live in a fantasy world and (sorry) but that's not something I can keep doing.
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Follow the Money
Obama most likely will have little if any positives going into the convention, his negatives are expanding eponentially at this point and medocore showings if not outright failures in the remaining primaries in no way enforces the idea of Obama as a strong candidate.
But he does have this. Money.
Since he has so much due to clever exploitation of the Internet, he is and has been funneling more money and money promises to the super delegates than Clinton. This is all legal and really just politics as usual.
But so much for no more "old" politics. The bullshit pile just keeps getting bigger and bigger with Obama.
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Only one thing scares me...
...And that thing is reading the comments section on Salon. And it kills me that Walter Shapiro felt the need to dump on Timothy Noah, when Noah managed to write one of the few level-headed columns about the election that I've read in months. And Shapiro calls Noah a -- what was it again -- "rigid numerical determinist." Cute. I guess he's referring to the fact that Noah uses math -- math! -- to calculate the delegate and popular vote in his column. Oh, Noah! Oooh, you! What are you, some kind of math facist? Adding and subtracting and using rational thought-processes and whatnot! Outrageous!
You can read the Noah article here, if you haven't read it already: http://www.slate.com/id/2190556/
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Obama's pass-over??
Why is this day different than any other primary day? It's the day that Obama may finally pass-over.
I was in a sour mood the morning of the PA primary, because the Zogby tracking poll had caught a swing to Hillary. Now, he's showing a strong Obama surge in North Carolina and even a small lead in Indiana. From his lips to God's ear. An Obama win in Indiana would really seal the deal.
If Zogby is right than it will really be over except for the Applachin vote in two states which voted for Bush. The only issue is when will Hillary and her die-hards understand the real damage she is doing, not just to the party, but to herself.
Her ridiculous pander on the gas tax has made her look like her Republican enemies worse caricature of her. She's much smarter -- and better -- than that.
If Zogby's off this time and she pulls some chestnuts out of the file - actually only one, a near win in NC, than it gets worse.
But right now, save some wine for Elijah.
johnklotz.blogspot.com
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New York Lawyer
Today Obama may or may not seal the final fate of this dreary soap drama, he may seal it with a period, but it's more likely it'll be a comma.
The fact of the matter is that Hillary cannot and will not resoundingly win, and it's time for her to take true stock, of the place that she's in.
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I don't know what's more disheartening...
If it's the constant and improbable predictions of doom for Obama's candidacy like this article, which cloak themselves in uncertainty and fuzzy math. (So what if seating of Michigan's and Florida's superdelegates raise the total votes required? That won't change the wide margin that Clinton needs to overcome.) Though I've never been a rabid enough Obama supporter to see Obama-bashing everywhere, a piece like this one can't pretend to be neutral. I'm not expecting an Obama coronation, but there's a certain gloom that Shapiro keeps projecting in his columns that is getting tiresome, and is frankly unrealistic. In the likely event that Obama is nominated as believed, some Clinton supporters will stay home in November, many will likely grudgingly vote for Obama. In the highly unlikely scenario of a Clinton nomination, the reverse will be tue also. Who really believes that a Republican will win the White House? Even if the Democratic race were contested until October, all it would take is a week of media coverage to rally the Bush-haters into voting Democrat.
But more disheartening might be the ugliness and short-sightedness on both sides of the debate in the letters. It just gets uglier and uglier. In February, Clinton supporters merely argued that Obama lacked experience. Now, he's an evil terrorist (to paraphrase a girl from my home state), a liar, a crook, who, gasp, has raised money! Foul play must be afoot. Clinton used to be an unpleasant holdover carrying too much of her husband's baggage. Now she's an evil, dishonest, cheating, shrill, calculating harpy who dares to stay in the race despite certain defeat by a whopping 5-10% margin. Has everyone forgotten that either Democrat would be better than John McCain, a candidate who is so tainted by merely accepting Bush's mantle as to be utterly useless in the White House?
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@Proud Texas Girl
Proud Texas Girl: "Barack Hussein Obama is a very dangerous man, he is a dream stealer, he is a terrorist, and he is alligned with the devil."
So you don't like him, then?