Letters to the Editor
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dnglberrigrl
The Democrats get upwards of 80 percent of the black vote in the general election, too. Does that make them racists, n----r lovers, or what, exactly? Or are the rethugs the racists? Pick an enemy. White men? Immigrants? Moslems? Who's the boogie person? Obama? Hillary talks as black as he does, or blacker. Watch her in front of a black audience, droppin' them g's, and just 'a talkin' as down home as kin be. How's this for a novel idea- forget the demographics and look at votes. You know: voters. Americans. Give it a shot. Ignore the plumbing and the paint job. Just count. Take off your shoes if you need to do so. My only mantra is: no republikans in the general election will ever, ever get my vote. Or that of anyone in my family. Put up or shut up.
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Why Clinton supporters still don't understand history
Charismatic candidates win. Boring candidates lose. Ask Al Gore. Ask anyone. He's more charismatic, he's run a better campaign, hence he's winning.
America's favorite modern presidents are Reagan (no I'm personally not a fan) and JFK. Why? Because they were charismatic, optimistic and gave us hope for tomorrow. Examine both of their records and you will find them mixed at best. Yet Americans maintain that they are our best presidents. Find an historian and they will tell you the same.
Now it's nice some of you are sitting around with your psychologist and psychiatrist friends in your upper Manahattan penthouse or lower Queens apartment, trying to psychoanalyze the Oedipal nature of this election, but it doesn't change fact. She's losing. He's winning. Seeing as how charisma and optimism relate directly to human psychology it seems like psychologists would have long ago realized what the rest of us have: charisma wins people over.
She's made fun of it and derided it from the beginning. She's belittled "fancy speeches". This is fine from an intellectual point of view. It is, however, no way to win an election. Elections are about making people like you. The most likeable person wins. You don't have to like that, but it's reality. And unless you come face to face with it you'll never win.
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@libertyson
You say: "Charismatic candidates win. Boring candidates lose. Ask Al Gore. Ask anyone."
So you're saying we're better off with the guy America would rather have had a beer with than his wonky opponent, Al Gore the Bore? You really believe this is a winner for presidential elections, the American Idol school of electability?
Charisma is okay, though it can be dangerous. Character and sound qualifications, on the other hand, are vital. I'll take Truman over Dewey any day.
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There's the way it is, and the way it oughta be.
So you're saying we're better off with the guy America would rather have had a beer with than his wonky opponent, Al Gore the Bore?
Seeing reality for the way it is, is not agreeing with it.
American Idol gets more viewers than the presidential debates.It may not be right or smart, but it's true. It's certainly a hell of a way to run a country. I always liked Harry Truman (one of my favorite historical presidents) and thought he had a tremendous force of personality. It was just in an everyman persona, rather than a patrician like FDR.
As for Al Gore, I thought his best speech of that campaign was his last. Makes me wonder if he really wanted it. Just where was that Al Gore hiding?
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Sorry it's context
She didn't say it's the ONLY reason, get over that. You cannot ignore that black persons are going for Obama by huge margins, women are not breaking for Clinton that way. We need to get past the PC crap so we can talk about this stuff. Seriously, if Obama becomes president, will the racist charge be leveled any time someone says he's wrong? Why can't we discuss issues without the constant, it's racist or it's sexist charge being leveled. I am very torn between the candidates as they both are excellent but I'm sick of both campaigns using race and gender. Let's stick with policy and position.
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Know your history.
"Charisma is okay, though it can be dangerous. Character and sound qualifications, on the other hand, are vital. I'll take Truman over Dewey any day."
Truman was considered far more charismatic than Dewey at the time. That's one of the main reasons HST won, because he became "Give 'em Hell Harry!" while Dewey just lied there like a bump on a log, running a "civil but dull" campaign.
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So Dumb...
Geraldine Ferraro on Hillary Clinton's campaign as an adviser.
I was intrigued at first and found myself wondering what she'd been doing these last 20 or so years. The fascination wore off quickly when it became perfectly clear to me why, of all the women you could put on a presidential ticket, she was the least appealing. Or is that most appalling? Even in those days when I was a Christian and thought Ronald Reagan was all that and nice home on the range, I sensed something off about her. I had no idea just how much until now, when the first legitimate candidate who happens to be black comes around, she serves up this patently bigoted diatribe, and is so completely obtuse she doesn't even see that she is a racist, and always has been. She's one of these people who will refer to black folks with lines like, "Aint I always been nice to you people?"
"After all I done for those people and THIS is how they treat me?" I can almost hear Archie Bunker's intonation.
We've all met people like this. You try to talk to them. Reason with them. Sometimes, in an attempt to be "open-minded" you try to figure out what their point of view might be. But none of it tracks. They just sit there all disgusted about how "those people" have all these "advantages" that they don't have, even as they're surrounded by all the trappings of middle-class or even upper middle-class life, and it never occurs to them that, "affirmative action" aside, black people work for what they want just like anyone else. All affirmative action did was attempt to guarantee something that our Founding Documents envisioned: equality in the eyes of the law and an a fair shot to achieve. The rest is up to you. It's a shame people like old Geraldine can't see that, and it's a bigger shame that someone as smart as Hillary Clinton couldn't see this bile-soaked old broad for what she is. For his part, I thought Barack Obama dismissed it with class. Sort of the verbal eye-roll most of us gave her. Okay, Geraldine. Off you go now.
Senile old biddy.