Letters to the Editor
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To cpaige:
Your 2:52 post is good writing. I like the nuanced way that your mind works. Clearly, you are able to see people as more than cardboard cut outs. I wish I could say the same of most of the other people here.
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@AKA Smith
I was the one asking for your reason (opinion?) behind your claim that Senator Clinton is more experienced than Senator Obama. You suggested that I comb your responses, so I shrugged and went to do just that.
2901 posts? Seriously? Sorry, if you're unwilling to enlighten me in real time, I'd rather live in ignorance than read them looking for your reasonings. Though it tells me something about the amount of time you have on your hands.
But if, as you threaten, you are truly planning to leave Salon, clearly your absence will be felt by the resonant silence you will leave in your wake.
(2901 posts? I've published 25, or 26 now, despite my eight years reading Salon. What am I doing with my life?)
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To melthough:
I know you're not a bot. You are one of the thoughtful people here and I appreciate your good opinion. However, I am getting awfully tired of having to wade through these posts to get to the gems. Did you check out the person who said Hillary "violently refused" to release her tax returns? I am trying to figure out how a non-action can be characterized as "violent." Reading through here, I wish I could I could enforce a moratorium on adverbs.
I am sick of the sound and fury.
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April 15 for 2007 taxes, but what about 2001-2006?
I believe those taxes were paid and can be easily made available to the public, particularly since Senator Clinton jumped all over her republican opponent in the NY Senate race for not releasing his returns. She had not been a resident of NY until the year she ran, so her taxes in 2001 were not yet available. These are the particular tax returns requested. It's in the public interest to see these returns.
As many have noted, there is nothing to the Rezko scandal. I'm sure that the reference to Whitewater is simply incredulity that Whitewater was an issue for the Clintons despite them having been cleared of wrongdoing. Obama did nothing wrong with Rezko and no one is accusing him of any wrong doing (except the Clintons and media that are not willing to do their homework, or have bias for the Clintons themselves).
And by the way, the Rezko trial codefendants have all actually donated to the Clintons, in much larger numbers than the 10-foot piece of land cost. Have the Clintons returned those donations? Maybe a journalist could find out for us. There have been no financial disclosures regarding the Clintons' personal finances and fundraising efforts disclosed since she's been in office.
I hardly think Bill is retired. I have been a long-time subscriber to Salon and have used your site as my homepage for years. I am very disappointed in your political coverage this campaign season, excluding the excellent Glenn Greenwald. I have not been visiting as often because I can find more hard-hitting journalism and investigative reporting elsewhere. I am writing to voice my concerns instead of fuming about them privately.
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On Alice Palmer
Palmer was indeed a mentor of Obama and thought so highly of him that when she stepped down from her Illinois Senate seat to run for Congress, she supported Obama as her successor. When she lost her Congressional bid, she and her supporters urged Obama to withdraw from the campaign so she could reclaim her seat unchalleneged.
What the hell is that? I don't think Obama is a bad guy for refusing to do so. Or for actively fighting against her play to get back into the race.
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Permalink - a friend till the end
Permalink: I understand that you have no problem with Obama turning on his friend and mentor so that he could get ahead. Some of us, however, have a different ethic when it comes to how we treat our friends, and to us, this is offensive. Moreover, if Obama will betray his friends to get ahead, how do you think he will treat all of us anonymous members of the public?
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AKASmith
AKASmith aka senior statesman for Clinton on Salon
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AKA let us know when you are really leaving and Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
You kvetch like a nattering chatterbox spewing pungent bile on Barack Obama people. I am reading some of the crazy crap you have been writing, especially last night. Have you been taking your meds?
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Hillary can't take it..
The whole "Hillary's a fighter and can take whatever the Repubs can dish out" talking point seems more and more ridiculous with every passing day.
Here's a few peeks at what her "good friend" John and his Repub cohorts have in store for Mrs. Clinton:
•Hillary can't be a feminist because she didn't leave Bill after the Monica affair. She is obviously so power hungry that she'll ignore her own husband's infidelity to get elected. Extrapolate any personality flaws you care to from that.
•Hillary is a closet lesbian. Just what is personal aide Huma Abedin's job anyway? Stress relief specialist? Extrapolate any personality flaws you care to from that.
•Peter Paul vs. Clinton: nothing like trying to run a general election campaign while being sued for wrongfully taking $1.5 million in campaign donations. Extrapolate any professional flaws you care to from that.
•Mehmet Celebi, one of her "HillRaisers" produced a film called "Valley of the Wolves: Iraq" - a 2006 movie that depicted a Jewish doctor removing the vital organs of civilian prisoners to sell to wealthy transplant patients overseas. Why does Hillary hate the Jews? Extrapolate any professional flaws you care to from that while remembering that we're looking at a 10,000 vote margin of error in the Florida general.
•Whitewater, Travelgate, Paula Jones, Lewinsky, Mark Rich et al. Progressives may think these "scandals" are water under the bridge, but a majority of Repubs believe they are not and will be using them anew in the Fall.
•The Vince Foster "Murder", selling secrets to the Chinese, what Sandy Berger was shoving down his pants in the National Archives: Progressives may know these as distortions or outright lies, but a majority of Repubs believe they are true and will use them to turn out the base come November.
•Crying won't help. Calling the attacks "below the belt" or other "poor me" defenses will no longer work, because Repubs don't care and, honestly, they WANT to make her cry. It plays to their inherent misogyny.
•There will be a 527 that will run a non-stop ad with Hillary comparing herself favorably to McCain this fall. That will be all it takes to reassure the soft 20%ers in the middle that a McCain presidency wouldn't be too bad.
Thats' what she's up against this fall. Sort of makes Rezko and "monster" look dumb, doesn't it?