Letters to the Editor
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@Chad
It was just a good old fashioned rational decision based on data, intuition and predictions based on past experience
Like maybe how well the Kennedy endorsements and running to the far left plays in redstate America perhaps?
Like it or not people, this election will be won or lost on electoral votes.
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Iraq
Do we counter a guy that wants 100 years in Iraq:
1) With a guy who knew it was wrong all along regardless of how it "made him look" or...
2) With someone who voted for the resolution just so it wouldn't make them look soft on terrorism, and even after all we know still refuses to express any regrets or personal responsibility towards it (unlike John Edwards).
I think the choice is clear. "I was against it all along" beats "I was for it before I was against it every day." Did we not learn anything in 2004?
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@Hudman
We're mostly liberals and progressives, right? Why would any intelligent liberal worth his or her salt even THINK of basing the vote on gender/race and not on qualifications?
I agree with you on this 100%. It's nauseating how the press, Salon included, has made this an election about gender and race when what it's really about is jobs, judiciary and most of all, whether employer provided health insurance goes the way of T. Rex.
But then you're certainly not promoting Barrack Obama based on his experience are you? At least not with a straight face I'd hope. Perhaps you're one of those promoting him based on the "enthusiasm" factor. In which case I ask how this enthusiasm will translate into electoral votes in states the Dems have lost the past two elections.
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What states would Obama win that Gore and Kerry lost?
Start with SC, NC, and Georgia for a few ....
I know NC and Georgia are just predictions, but I think there were a few more dem voters out in the SC primary & Obama stormed that one ... hmmmmmmmmmmm
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What states would Obama win that Gore and Kerry lost?
Start with SC, NC, and Georgia for a few ....
I know NC and Georgia are just predictions, but I think there were a few more dem voters out in the SC primary & Obama stormed that one ... hmmmmmmmmmmm
if you voted for Nader over Kerry, you deserve what you got ... Kerry would have made a great president (I have worked with him)
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Beth, calm down
I'm not telling anybody who to vote for, except Rebecca who asked for our opinion.
I respect people who have made their decision one way or another. What I can't stand is wishy-washiness.
Wishy-washiness gave us the worst president in history. Wishy-washers who voted for Nader gaves us another 4 years of the worst president in history.
Nobody pays me. I'm freely opinionated. Not wishy. Not washy. I'm a decider.
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States Gore lost that Obama WON'T win
include not exclude Start with SC, NC, and Georgia for a few ....
We've long carried the black vote in those states, and the reality is we've lost them anyway (except for Bill Clinton winning Georgia once). So Obama's popularity with the blacks changes nothing. They were at least as eagerly behind WJC II and Gore.
I know NC and Georgia are just predictions, but I think there were a few more dem voters out in the SC primary & Obama stormed that one ... hmmmmmmmmmmm
Yes, and I'll remind you that more Democratic voters turned out in the primaries for both Reagan and Bush 1. And we lost all three of those elections.
Wake up. By all trends and projections our best bets are Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Ohio and perhaps even Kentucky - and those depend on Latin and working class white votes - who overwhelmingly support HRC>
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Thank you!
makes me feel better to know i'm not alone.
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NY Amiga
NY Amiga: "what a bunch of spineless ninnies, weak-kneed women pandering to a peacock's verbal plummage. As long as women settle for the back of the bus, nothing will really change. What's next? Burkas on sale at Wal-Mart?"
That was one of your dumber messages. Why would you call a woman "spineless" if she voted her conscience and her conscience favored Obama? Wouldn't it be just as spineless for a woman to cave in to the insulting pressure that you are trying to apply here by insinuating that not voting for Hillary is somehow an anti-woman thing to do?
Also, it's pretty hilarious for you to use Wal-Mart for a zinger, considering that Hillary sat on that company's advisory board (or whatever the exact title was) while they were implementing some of their most anti-little-guy policies.
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My projection
we're not going to win states with a heavy white evangelical population inthe deep south. That includes Georgia and South Carolina - one of the two states that actually went to Goldwater for crying out loud.
Obama's playing the black card in SC will not win us that state by any stretch. Similarly if blacks in SC decide to pout and stay home on election day if he is not our candidate it really won't matter. Although I certainly hope they don't for their own sake.
I hate to be so hard, but this is how it is.
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A response to SocsandTwigs....
What has Hillary Clinton done for this country, you ask.
Here is just a sample:
She has worked tirelessly for several decades on behalf of children and children's rights. Her legal work on behalf of the Children's Defense Fund is some of the most relevant in the field.
She worked on the inquiry staff during the Watergate scandal and was one of a small army of legal minds who helped ensure that President Nixon was forced to leave office--that in itself is worthy of great praise.
As a member of the board of the Wal-Mart Corporation she has been described as "a thorn in Sam Walton's side" because of her advocacy of women's and minority rights; though she does not seem to have fought for unions in way that she should have. Her efforts had a real and lasting effect in the lives of many of the employees of one of the world's largest employers.
She was the architect of many of her husband's most successful policy roll-outs in both Arkansas and, later, nationally. From education to healthcare it was often she who did the work, developed the ideas and counseled her husband. I have alway attributed the success of that administration to his personality and her work.
She stood up in Beijing and called China to the flood for their horrible civil rights record. She did it as a representative of the United States and I have rarely been as proud of any leader.
It is Hillary Clinton who forced her husband to begin the conversation of universal health care and to put it on the table; she been a constant advocate for almost two decades on that issue.
Her work in the Senate has been marked not by show-horsing but by a nose-to-the-grindstone work ethic. She did not only work on a great big pieces of legislation but also on small, incremental bills whose aims were to have real an lasting impacts on people's lives.
More than that she has simply dedicated her entire life to public service in some capacity or the other. She has been in the trenches fighting for progressive ideals for longer than many of the people voting for Obama have been breathing.
That seems like quite enough there off the cuff...
And if you do not think that this enough than I would ask, "What have you done?"