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• Friday, September 12, 2008 11:29 AM

  What a Hoot

  Excuse me, Hootowl, but when you tell me "Don't you dare blame them for your stupidity," I don't know what you're talking about. It must be because I am "tired and lame" as you so nicely put it.

  I said thst it's incorrect to blame all of Obama's problems on racism and, in the remark that you quoted, that "in my small town, the people who won't vote for Obama because he is an African-American would never have voted for a Democrat in the general election."

  The people I speak of who will not vote for Obama because of his race would never have voted for Hillary Clinton, the candidate I supported in the primaries. They didn't want a woman president any more than they want one who is African-American. They would have voted for McCain, Bob Barr, Ron Paul or stayed at home rather than vote for either Obama or Clinton.

  For a long time, I doubted those who suggest that there are many Republicans on Salon working overtime to build up hatred between supporters of Obama and Clinton as their best shot at keeping the White House in November. But it's becoming obvious that the only way McCain will win is to attract Clinton's voters, particularly women.

  That strategy is going to backfire because as angry as we Democrats get at each other, we still share far more in common than we could ever have with a party that nominates someone with Sarah Palin's ultra-conservative views as vice president.

  —nananance Read nananance's other letters
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