Letters to the Editor
-
Whiners, crybabies and Hillary supporters
"If Hillary Clinton wins the nomination we should all give her our enthusiastic support. It should be pretty easy for all Democrats to agree with that."
I am a Democrat. I believe in the Democratic team. I vote Democratic.
When I hear some whiner say that if Her Sainted Maidenly Charmhood is not the nominee, that they will vote for Grampa McDepends, I know one thing: That person is not a democrat.
Democrats do not do the Cult of Personality. We believe in the Party, not the Person. If you follow a Person and vow to vote for the opponent if your Person is not the nominee, you are not a Democrat. You are an idiot.
For the True Hillary Lusters, those for whom Hillary is wonderful and without sin, we are not a religious order. Your deranged comments about how Hillary is the best ever demonstrate that you are mentally ill, and are not being rational.
This is a political campaign, not a religious war. We believe in the ideals of the Democratic Party, and not in the Person of one candidate or another.
-
And yes
I will vote for the Democrat. If it is Hillary, I will hold my nose and vote "D". If it is Obama, I will vote D.
I challenge all the readers of this board to indicate your allegiance to the Democratic Party, not to the person nominated.
I am a Democrat. I want a Democrat in the White House. So, for you supporters of both candidates, I challenge you to say the same.
-
Re - It doesn't further discussion on any of the issues that should be forefront.
snark - If we want to know about issues, I thought all we had to do was go to Obama's website. /snark
Seriously, though, Obama will have to do a better job of explaining his policies. I watched him on MTP on the Sunday before the NC/IN primaries, and when the discussion turned to energy policy, Obama
- criticized both Clinton and McCain's gas tax holiday proposals and provided good reasons for doing so, then he
- pandered on ethanol
- made vague, generic statements about nuclear power, coal, solar, etc that amounted to nothing more than being for the good and against the bad.
He's going to do better than that, and he'll need to do a lot better than saying he's a believer in clean Kentucky coal, whatever that is. See http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/06/obama-flier-panders-to-ke_n_100416.html
-
"Death with dignity"?
Here's dignity for you: She keeps winning.
I don't get this, I really don't. She wins the bigger states, she polls better in the states we have to win, she carries Latinos, which we have to carry, and yet the pundits--like it was their decision--keep hammering at her to get out of the race.
Has this ever even happened before? RFK had less of a shot than Hillary does. Did anybody tell him to get out of the race?
Your guy leads by a handful of delegate votes, racked up mainly in red states where few people live, and which we will never carry.
My guess: The pundits finally have a candidate that they think is as cool as they are, so they identify with him.
-
Addition: The lost art
"don't get this, I really don't. She wins the bigger states, she polls better in the states we have to win, she carries Latinos, which we have to carry, and yet the pundits--like it was their decision--keep hammering at her to get out of the race."
Well, it's called addition. You add up the delegates that Obama won, and the delegates that Hillary won, and Obama has more.
I know that, for many persons, math is hard. Addition is hard. 1+1=2. Clinton delegates are 1 and Obama delegates are 1. When you add, even if it is hard and one of those complicated things, you get more for Obama.
Whoops. It's the reality-based community again.
-
Why the Sour Face, Pussycat?
With the Reign of the Bush/Clinton duocracy maintaining its velvet steel fascist death grip on this nation since 1988, starting with Bush the First, I am marginally happy to finally see some break in the weather.
I say 'marginally' because there is little sense in pretending that either of the new clowns, McCain or Obama, will be any good at turning the country away from its current slide towards a mega-Argentina, a socialist/fascist third world ghoulish super police state with endless rights and privileges for the few super-wealthy and endless face stomping punishment for the rest of humanity.
the GOOD PEOPLE lose yet again to the evil forces that saturate this planet.
Maybe, just maybe, I can click my heels together and hope that the good people wake up and realize that none of the forces arrayed against this country currently is any good. Maybe people are smarter than me and think they can bail if things get really bad. Maybe people think, "as long as I am doing better than my neighbor, even if we all live in a hellhole"...
MISANTHROPY RULEZ!
-
Okay
Here's dignity for you: She keeps winning.
Nope. She is behind on every metric. If she kept winning, she would be ahead. Not behind.
I don't get this, I really don't. She wins the bigger states, she polls better in the states we have to win, she carries Latinos, which we have to carry, and yet the pundits--like it was their decision--keep hammering at her to get out of the race.
Those states where we have to win? that is because we limit the states that are in contention by ignoring the other states.
Because Obama has outraised McCain, and can thus outspend him a more agressive 50 state policy means that the Democrats can drive McCain to spend funds in states where Hillary would just not be viable, making the race easier in the big states while possibly turning more states purple.
Has this ever even happened before? RFK had less of a shot than Hillary does. Did anybody tell him to get out of the race?
They probably did.
Your guy leads by a handful of delegate votes, racked up mainly in red states where few people live, and which we will never carry.
Are you sure about that?