Letters to the Editor
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YAY! NEW YORK GIANTS WIN!!!!
EVeryone said N.E. Patriots were invincible! Analyze that!
Ha!
NEW YORK RULES! Super bowl down, Super Tuesday to go!!!
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Vote for the Anti-Bush!
Wow, amazing that a Presidential primary election is being brought down to the relatively trivial level of "woman" vs. "minority." How sexist and racist is THAT?
Much as Hilary seems to be a bright person, she is also polarizing, opportunistic, and lacks the genius social skills that used to characterize her husband (until he lost it in the last week or two). She failed miserably when she tried to reform healthcare in Bill's first administration, and her current "plan" is uninspired at best. People who HATE her will come out to the polls solely to vote for her opponent. And do we really want dynastic leadership in the U.S.? Doesn't seem it's served us too well so far.
I would have voted for Edwards, but now my vote is going to Obama. He's ARTICULATE (oh, GOD, have I missed having a world leader who can string together a coherent sentence and isn't a global embarrassment). Obama is INSPIRING, and we need inspiration perhaps more than anything else. He's firing up the kids--and it would be hard to say it's not time to give them a shot at choosing a better leader, given the appalling job we've (supposedly) done in the past two terms.
Incidentally, has anyone noticed that what Republicans really want (and have seized over the past 7 years) is just a rehash of "Trickle Down Economics." HellO, it DOESN'T WORK to make the super rich ultra rich and expect that their spending will fuel growth. The reason we had such prosperity under Clinton1 is because wealth was distributed to the working and middle classes. It's a numbers name, and no big surprise why we're losing...
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To all white women angsting over Clinton v. Obama: Why didn't you vote for Carol Moseley Braun in 2004?
It's funny that Ms. Traister and many other white women are so conflicted about this choice between a woman and a man, and insist that for some reason now it matters so much to elect a woman to president, that we should all forget Hillary's hawkish, spineless opportunism, shameless courting of some fabled middle, and elevate her gender to erase her bogus lies, stubborn refusal to admit mistakes, and cowardly politics. We should just swallow these lumps and remember our ovarian loyalty. Recently, when I challenged a white female colleague, another feminist like me, on her assumption that all progressive women would and should naturally vote for Hillary Clinton by telling her that black women seem to be rallying for Obama, she answered that, well, that was to be expected, and black women in this case are biased and essentially don't count. But she suddenly didn't say any more and let the issue end at that, leaving me to assume what I always knew: When people, feminists included, say "women," they mean "white women." That's why Obama and Clinton are billed as "an African-American" and "a woman," as if whiteness were a raceless, colorless generic label that merits no mention or specification, AND, as if when white progressive women insist on being conflicted over whether to vote for Clinton or Obama, it is a race-neutral, race-objective, gender-only choice. But then, when black women seem to be hearing Obama's message, of course, we are motivated exclusively by race loyalty.
If putting a woman in the White House were so damned important, why was Carol Moseley Braun's 2004 bid for the Democratic nomination not taken more seriously by all these people who today are willing to ignore Hillary's bad politics just to elect a woman? Sure, Moseley Braun was not well known, and had little cash, but Obama came from nowhere as well and caught fire, because people support and believe in him. Why didn't white women organize and rally to support another "woman" for office in 2004 instead of the milquetoast Bushlite John Kerry? I even remember everybody dreaming of Teresa Heinz Kerry and wishing she was running instead of her boring husband, but she was born overseas! Maybe because Carol Mosely Braun, is another like the sort of women we all know who just don't count... except of course when the Clintons need their votes.
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Rebecca, it's an omen
The Giants just beat the Patriots.
Everything's possible!
Vote for Hillary and make it a super duper double for New York.
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Thanks for writing this
I am an ardent Hillary Clinton supporter (I hope you vote for her on Tuesday) as are all the women in my family. My sister gets really impassioned because a lot of her friends are supporting Obama and she doesn't understand why. Literally - can't fathom it. So I sent her your article, because her anger about it in recent days makes me not want to talk to her about it and it's the most important thing going on in our lives at the moment. And I think your article might give her a glimpse into why people choose Obama, or even why they don't choose Hillary. It certainly gave me that. I disagree - heartily - but I feel like at least I can sort of understand it.
Maybe Monday night you can spend some time on hillaryclinton.com. So that when you vote for her on Tuesday you don't feel ashamed. There is no shame in voting for the best candidate.
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Who Cares?
about edwards or black or woman.
Vote for the candidate who can beat the GOP and that only hope is Mrs. Clinton - that is if egomanic Obama, Oprah and liberal dinosaurs like Kennedy haven't crippled her.
Surely every bit of garbage the GOP can pull out against her is long tired.
Wheras amateur, rookie, and lightweight Obama's will all be new (Rezzo, nuclear, false claims of grandoise in the Illinois Senate. A ridiculously high no-show record in his short and unfufilled one term in the federal Senate... this along with soft-on-defense half-Muslim, black candidate Obama vs. the Patriotic, Hit them First POW McCain. And that's before they even begin to capitalize on his Big Dinosaur Leftist endorsements from Kennedy to Kerry to the more contemporary moveon.org.
I really wonder how the hard lefties think a moveon and Kennedy endorsement is going to get Obama the states Gore and Kerry lost.