Letters to the Editor
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A vote for Obama is a vote for the Republican Candidate
It's pretty clear that the pukes will nominate Mccain, and he's their best man so I don't blame them.
Mccain, like Hillary, support Iraq so they can't trounce each other over that. They've both said the plan for the war was executed badly, so they're even there too. Last, they have both been in the public eye for ages so there is little dirt to use against them anymore - the Keating Five is old news as is Whitewater and bill's blowjobs and the like.
But here we have Obama, a man who has admitted to using coke and weed. You and I might not care too much about that but I can assure that a black guy with little experience who talks about his past drug use is not going to get the votes in the midwest and south. It's just not going to happen.
Sure, you can vote your heart like the Naderites did. See where that got us? Or you can face reality and accept that Hillary is our best chance of retaking the White House and saving this country while there is still some left that we haven't sold to the Chinese or given away to Halliburton.
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Tell it, Uju!
Thank you for making the point so...so...pointedly! Excellent shot, red star material, great letter, bullseye!
That's all. I'm in awe. Wow. Damn!
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Consider voting for Mike Gravel; otherwise cast a write-in vote for someone you do find acceptable.
If you're in a closed primary state, you could vote for Mike Gravel, as he's still in the race, although the MSM is blacking him out (much like they did with Kucinich, and, to a lesser extent, with Edwards). Apparently the truth-telling of both Gravel and Kucinich during the debates they were actually allowed to attend cast an uncomfortable spotlight on the other candidates running (particularly Clinton, Edwards, Biden, and Dodd) who had voted for the Iraq War, as well as the Patriot Act. Similarly, although Obama didn't cast a vote for Iraq, he was taken to task by Gravel for not being willing to take the nuclear option off the table in regards to Iran.
At 77, Gravel is certainly no youngster, but he does have experience (having served two full terms in the Senate), as well as decency and principles (exemplified when he put the Pentagon Papers into public record, as well as when he tried to end the draft).
If you can't (or don't want to) vote for Gravel, do consider writing in a candidate you believe in. The primaries should be about voting your conscience, not choosing the lesser of two evils forced down your throat by the MSM.
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NYamiga
Not everyone in New York is voting Hillary. She may take New York, but she won't take all the boroughs...
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Even If
Obama does get the nomination he's run way too far to the left to appease the liberal wing to win the general now. They're happy because they can continue to pretend she's responsible for the Iraq war and they can continue to bitch and moan about a Republican Administration and revel in losing - they're favorite thing to do of all.
Mrs. Clinton did the sensible thing - trying to stay as much as in the center as she could knowing that if she didn't she'd lose the general. However, as usual, the leftwing and now the spokespersons for the Great Black Hope have probably shot the Dems in the foot. Again.
As Maxine Waters said, we'd been living on Hope and shoestring. What we needed now is Help. Instead of that we're going to get John McCain and the end of employer provided health insurance and the very end of the trickle of the union labor that has held out.
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A response to Traduced...
I do understand what I am wishing, but I also understand that too many people in this country have been led astray by the far-right's war against the Clintons and so much else.
I do not subscribe to the notion of political sainthood and so I no more think that Hillary is perfect than do I approve of the petulant canonization of her opponent.
Still, Hillary Clinton has done much for this country, and along the way has been dragged through more mud than any of us can imagine. She has been demonized for the horrible notion of believing that every American in this country deserves access to health insurance. She has been called a murderer, a traitor, a bitch, a lesbian, a drug-dealer, and much, much more. We have allowed and, at times, took joy in her constantly being pilloried and, in the end, it is now proven that it all worked. Even fair-minded people now seem to have bought into the gross mischaracterizations and I think that we should all be very ashamed.
It will only be when a great man like Barack Obama has been treated thusly that the world at large might finally regard the truth for what it is. Only then will be able to close this chapter of the far-right's ascendancy and claim once more a more a liberal majority.
Thank you,
Robert Sandy
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A Vote for "My Side" or Vote "For the Country"
I'm torn as well but it really has nothing to do with race or gender...sorry to disappoint the media pundits.
For the past 6 years the country has been divided into sides and "my side" has been subjected to a nightmare. Clinton was on "my side" and I know she's a more capable and connected politician and could probably get more done than Obama. She'd satisfy my taste for vendetta on the right wing as they for reasons real and imagined HATE her.
Obama will dream big, probably flop big here and there but he has the potential to unite this country behind something other than fear. He doesn't stir the right wing vitriol like Clinton but he'll have a tougher time filling the shoes and getting me what I want.
As a professional marketer for large consumer brands I've seen the power of ideas. I study and watch carefully what "moves the masses" with a soulful care that may come as a surprise to critics of my profession. I've decided I'm going to vote for what's best for the country and forgo my desires for revenge and envision a day when we can all be members of one country again. I'm tired of left and right, I want to move forward.