Letters to the Editor
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Hillary won't carry the South either
The key states are very much in play for either Obama or Hillary. the folks who won't vote for an African-American man, aren't exactly going to be tripping over themselves to vote for a woman either. And Hillary has the added problem of high negative ratings, which Obama doesn't have.
I've always considered myself a feminist and I was over the moon when Geraldine Ferraro was nominated as the cice presidential candidate in in 1984. I literally wept with joy when I heard the news, so I understand why Rebecca might be tempted to vote for Hillary on the basis of her gender. But this election is too important to allow identity voting to over ride the issue of electability. There will be other women candidates for president, and I look forward to the day when I can vote for one. But Clinton is the wrong candidate at the wrong time, largely because of the baggage left over from the Clinton's first eight years in office. Fair or not, the Republicans will start with the intern jokes, as soon as the balloons drop at the Democratic convention.
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I'm voting for Obama
I find it funny that so many posters in here are accusing Obama of dishonest behavior when all I see in HRC is nothing but all-out ambition to say anything to get into the White House. Same went for her husband so all of you who hang on Bill's word, shouldn't.
This is the main reason why I'm voting for Barack--he came out against the Iraq war from the beginning, whereas HRC rolled, like too many other Senate Dems, on the 2002 resolution authorizing Bush to invade Iraq.
C'mon! Clinton, like the others, were too afraid to look 'unpatriotic' and let our current White House administration roll over her. And now she's backpedaling. Telling us, 'if I knew then what I know now.'
Horsehit.
She didn't leave her philandering husband over the Lewisky affair, not because she loved him, but because she wanted to ride on his coattails for political purposes.
At least Nicolas Sarkosy's exwife had the guts to leave when it became obvious the marriage wasn't working.
Clinton and Obama have very similar policies--the difference between them is integrity. Clinton has none. I'm willing to take the chance on Obama that he does.
Besides, I voted for Bill Clinton--twice--holding my nose. I'm TIRED of holding my nose.
Obama all the way! BTW, I'm a white woman. Race and gender mean nothing to me. I'm voting for the candidate I believe in.
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I'll Take McCain over Clinton!
I unabashedly support Obama. I don't want to revisit the days of Monica, Marc Rich, deadly political destruction, et al. Same old, same old!
I think Obama realizes that the politics of government are undeniably vicious and nasty. Everything revolves around money. Yet Obama offers me some hope. I abhor torture and preemptive war and I am not convinced that HRC will be any different than Bush. In fact I can't recall anyone as non-positional as her since Nelson Rockefeller.
I would never vote for a Bush or a Clinton again. I can't recall HRC ever doing anything worthy of note that was good. I only remember the health care fiasco of the early 90's. She also has recorded $500 million in earmarks as a senator doing what a senator does. Who cares if it stinks to high heaven?
I stupidly thought a democratic congress in 2006 would put the brakes on the Bush administration. So obviously, I am a pretty dumb individual. But hope springs eternal.
But the reason I am writing this post is to support the proposition put forth by a poster that there are many, many, democrats such as me who won't vote for HRC. I won't vote or I shall vote for McCain, who is honest, I think.
What can you say that's nice about HRC? She stood by her man as he went through hordes of willing women. That makes her worthy of the presidency of the USA? I think not.
If she becomes president she will be encumbered by many debts to many unsavory people.
No thanks!
P.S. I also think that this was a dumb, poorly-written, and self-absorbed article.
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more kool aid
i sit here after reading some of saint obamas supporters letters and wonder what planet they are from.certaintly not from the one i know as someone who has seen 12 presidential races that i can remember ,you people are deluded one issue idiots ,obamas only statewide campaingn in illinios was against alan wacko keys for heaven sakes.that does not prepare him for what is coming in the fall,he will end up in the dustbin of history just like mcgovern did after 1972,so dont listen, do your own thing be lemmings ,i for one wont ,if hillarys not our nominee ,i gaurantee mcain WILL move to the center and all of a sudden call for a almost,i repeate almost compleate withdrawl of combat forces from iraq,also they will chop him to small pieces about licenses for illegals.please all of vote for the person that knows how to street fight,that doesnt give away any chance for health care reform[see krugmans collum in todays n.y. times]who actually has a plan concerning the housing meltdown, vote for hillary, for if you dont vote for her i do not want to hear any crying in november when we that have been around the bend say, told you so.
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Clinton's "Experience"
Everyone supporting Hillary Clinton seems to refer to her "37 years' experience." Well, she has held one elected office for 5 years. She seems to be counting her time as the wife of an elected official as if it were she who'd earned the office. By her measure, then, couldn't Mrs. Clarence Thomas just as legitimately be appointed to the Supreme Court?
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NYers, remember all the protests Hillary ignored?
As a New Yorker, I have already been represented by Hillary Clinton and I have been deeply disappointed. I do not wish that fate on the rest of the country. When the US was gearing up for to invade Iraq, more than 250,000 people demonstrated in the streets of New York City and Hillary Clinton, our senator who publicized her ability to listen to her constituents, whose office was surrounded by protestors, did not even address their pleas. What kind of president is she going to make if she cannot even address the kind of extraordinary anti-war movement that occurred in New York? She has styled herself as a hawk and I regard her as such.
I think we need a new kind of government, and I'm certainly not the only one who feels this way. A vote for Obama is a vote to transform the presidency, and transformation-- not mere regression to an earlier, more Clintonian, era-- is exactly what our country deeply needs, especially in the wake of the Patriot Act. Ms. Clinton has proved herself opportunistic enough to convince me that she has no intention of diminishing the gross expansion of federal power that has occurred under the Bush Administration. I can't say the same thing about Obama. His lack of experience may be his saving grace if only because he has not already made the mistakes that Ms. Clinton is certainly guilty of.
I think all of you who assume that southerners are too racist to vote for a black man have another thing coming. Obama is inspirational, he is charismatic, and he will make it clear that John McCain is simply going to continue Bush's policies. I do not think Americans want another Bush in office, no matter where they live.
All of you who think a vote for Hillary is a feminist vote had better rethink your position. Feminism is about rethinking the way power works.