Letters to the Editor
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Cythera.
You've been indulging in straw man arguments about Obama supporters across several different columns now. Please, grow up.
I don't see Obama as the coming of a new political messiah, nor do any of the many Obama supporters I know. As I've said many times now, he's just a man and a politician, who, like everyone else, has had to make the compromises necessary to stay viable in the game.
That being said, I believe him to be a far better candidate than Senator Clinton, and the type of unifying, hope-stirring candidate we don't see all that often. And I think he has run a more above-board campaign to this point. The Clintons, on the other hand, are indulging in cheap Rovian tactics all the live-long day now, as I've articulated several times before to you.
As for Conason's lack of bias, or Grieve's, or Walsh's, these sorts of problems could be sidelined if every columnist would just admit who they're leaning toward upfront. That being said, I do think Conason has been pretty fair about attacking candidates across the board -- his most recent column at the Observer could hardly be called pro-Clinton. (As his last line testifies, I thought he seemed a lot more predisposed to Gore and against Bradley two cycles ago.)