Letters to the Editor
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If Obama is an affirmative action candidate, then
so is Hillary Clinton, as a white woman. She got to where she is, strictly hanging on to her husband's coattails. As first lady of Arkansas, she got herself a lucrative job at the Rose firm and did more for WalMart and corporations than she did fighting any civil rights suits for women or minorities.
Then she got to the White House, ostensibly as a co-president, and just as quickly lost out on her Universal Health Care initiative and gays in the military, with a hair brained idea called "don't ask, don't tell," a hypocritical adjustment to say the least.
After standing by her man over many of her husband's "bimbo eruptions" and an impeachment over Lewinsky, she beat a path to New York to run for the Senate. Not being a NY resident, to say the least, except maybe for a 6 month waiting period, she made her way to the Senate, need I emphasize, again on her husband's coattails. Does anyone really think that Hillary would be where she is, if she was not married to Bill Clinton? And now she is running for the President. Yeah, sure, she did this all on her own.
It is completely specious to lend any credibility to Ferraro's racial outburst, and I am glad that Conason is coming back to his journalistic roots. For a while there, he was sounding more and more, like Clinton mouthpiece on Salon.
It is imperative that people see the distinctions between the 2 candidates. Obama made his way on his own, and not through any dynastic nepotism. The last two weeks have seen the most vile attacks coming from the Clinton campaign, a campaign that is so riddled with disorganization, one has to pause and think, how Hillary will run the country. She cannot manage her own campaign, and she is going to manage the country?
She has done everything to dimunize Obama, from putting him as a VP on her ticket to mocking his followers, thereby implying that his supporters are all easily brainwashed.
My heart swells with pride, that a self made man like Barack Obama has gone beyond race and is winning not only African American votes, but also white. Hillary has no such pluralism. She has dangerously alienated the core of the Democratic Party. That is why she went on to apologize ad nauseam to the community yesterday. She knows that without AA, she will lose the general elections.
I am glad that Joe Conason is speaking out. For a while there, I thought Salon had become a Hillary PR firm.