Letters to the Editor
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@ Aka
Give it a rest, please, with the sarcasm and the petulance.
We're trying to move beyond that sort of thing.
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Smith
I don't see her as a racist.
I see her as a disgracist.
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Get a clue
People are racist. That's a fact that is universally true. White people are racist against black people. And I guarantee you there are a lot of racist white people in West Virginia. The Clintons know that too. They cut their political teeth in Arkansas for Christ's sake. You think they don't know how to get the racist vote in a subtle way? Bill practically invented the bubba speak technique before Dubya ever thought about using it. They are doing it again. These two are cynical, narcissistic political cyborgs. I have always been a Bill Clinton fan, but I know what he is when it comes to the campaign trail. That's why I have always admired him. But now they have lost and they can't turn themselves off. Well, they are going to get turned off and if they keep going, they will take a lot of dumbass old liberals with them when they get flushed by the new leader of the Democratic party. Do you people think that black votes are somehow less effective than white votes? Where evangelical votes less effective for Bush than non-evangelical votes? When you can get 98% of any voting block to show up for anything, kiss your lucky ass! Barak has supercharged the black vote and the youth vote. The rest of us are going along for the ride. We're going to float up the Potomac on the bloated corpses of Harvey Weinstein and other old white people that are just as much a part of the problem as Cheney, Rove and the rest.
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I don't think she's racist...
But I do think she will do anything to win. I do not understand how she can justify staying in the race other than to hurt Obama's chances in the November, hoping she can run again in 2012.
Bah!
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Yepper!
She crossed the line in bold strikeout that time. Sorry Mrs. Clinton but nobody with a conscience can vote for you after that hefty zinger, did your husband conjure that one up or was that an original?! Good luck in the Senate, I hope New York can stomach your statement!
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So..
Does that mean somebody is going to shoot Clinton now too? If so, when??
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You sort of got me there, lolcait
when you bring up the reporter asking her the question directly. The only thing I can say is that Obama's been asked similar questions and he's managed to avoid the divisive language of separating out groups. I suppose he evades the question a bit. Hillary has proudly mentioned that "When asked directly," she has said that she would have left Rev. Wright's church, so she too uses this crutch of blaming a divisive answer on the fact that she's been forced by a reporter to do so.
I don't buy it. Good try though.
(As a bone, I'll throw this out: I usually hate the candidates who don't actually answer the question given them. I'm pretty honest myself and tend to focus on the trees rather than the forest, the laundry list rather than the vision. I've always thought I'm actually more like Hillary. But I'm honestly way too alienating to ever be a good President. I like her, though, in a weird way. And I always like her better when she's taken a blow. Not sure what that's about. But I can't stand her Rovian tactics, and focusing on electability here at the end is Rovian. The real point here is that she should not still be in the race. That's really the crux, I think, and that enrages people. But, truly, many of those even on her side say so, so this is not a knee-jerk partisan thing. I believe party-insiders are genuinely concerned about the party.)
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If the future of Hillary's campaign...
...rests on the redneck vote, it still won't be enough to float her boat.
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Like the GOP wouldn't go there if Hillary hadn't...
Please, Joe. Wake up. The GOP will say and do A-N-Y-T-H-I-N-G to hold onto the White House. Sooner or later their attack dogs would have whispered that Barack was...not ready. Naïve. Different. Liberal.
Not like us. And oh yes, he's black. And we can't have that in the White House, can we? A black man lording it over us all?
Hillary's speaking about a real political possibility. It's not right or fair or pleasant that there are still Americans who still won't vote for a black man--even one who's half white--as President. It's too bad that she's using that as a reason to ask voters to choose her. But my guess is that the lines are already drawn, and that people aren't going to move away from Barack because HC pointed out that Barack's skin color may be a divisive issue.
No matter what the effect Hillary's words may have, the GOP will be playing the race card over and over again. By campaign's end, you won't recognize Barack Obama for all the mud that the Republicans will have thrown at him.
I'm tired of all the foaming and whining about HC. She has a right to run as long as she wants. There have been times that's she's gone too far, but Barack's supporters have been hyperventilating an awful lot--as if any opposition is a conspiracy to destroy the Chosen One. Just wait until they watch the GOP attack machine in action.
Also Joe Conason, it's quite strange that no one does articles on the dehumanization and demonization of Hillary in the press. I wonder if that had anything to do with her impending defeat. Or whether it will make things that much harder to unify women voters behind a Democratic ticket. Crazy thought, eh?
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Wait, Percy, My Doilie's Crooked
Oh, my little finger's crossed, so i can't drink tea.
Yesterday, my fortune cookie said that white people are hard workin', even when they don't have jobs!
But my campaign would never imply nor encourage any hint of racial uncertainty in the minds of Americans.
Voter nullification has nothing to do with it.
The people of New York, Scranton, Chicago and Little Rock know that just as well as all my friends in Washington and Columbia and Bill's friends, too, in the Balkans and Jessie Jackson's friends in South Carolina and almost half of Guam and all of Michigan, especially their Governor and the Canadians.
And Mexicans, no matter where they come from or what it says on their driver's license if they don't have one.
So, we must, to be fair, count what doesn't count.
And, because i won Texas despite them being tricked into giving him more delegates, you know i can guarantee because it's a big state, that i'll carry it, even if i have to run as a 3rd, don't make me do it, party candidate in November, obviously.
Remember my heartfelt and graciously historical honoring of that small state marginal caucus organizer on TV?
Oh, you know who i mean. He's supposed to be a Senator. I think his name is Black Obama. Or Jack O Ramar, maybe.
And he's from Kenya; which is almost totally African, i think.
Right. So, now, many of our very small states, to be cute, tried to encourage a fair contest; which i have always thought would be good for our country. And they did it very well, first time out.
So, in that same diversity embracing spirit, i decided to run as a woman candidate.
Now, i didn't have to do it that way. But i just believed it was the right thing to do, probably.
I know some confused novice amateurs think my campaign is blacked into a corner. Or that my path to our nomination is blacked.
But i seriously urge you to black that out of your minds.
It's not by blackcident that i've received every single white voter's vote, encouragement, blessing, prayer, adulation and @ $23.
The young and college crowd will all eventually turn white. That's what they went there for, really.
John McCain knows that i am white.
He'll never say i'm not.
He might say i'm a woman if he wants to. I think maybe his own wife might be white, and possibly a woman.
But let's get black to the election; even though we all know i've already won. We do have some more states that must vote for me before i can officially announce this victory.
And i know i'm gonna win in November. Been knowin' it. You know, they don't never wanna have to call it The Black House!
So, Bill and i will soon be back where we belong, hear?
Oh, i can't wait!