Letters to the Editor
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A Hit Job of Jedi Mind Tricks
Are you on the Clinton payroll? How can you gloss over the fact that Obama had nothing to do with the punishment of Florida and Michigan? He, along with all the other major candidates, agreed not to campaign in Michigan or Florida. And he didn't.
Hillary expressed absolutely no interest in the Florida and Michigan issue until she was losing and wanted to change the rules in the middle of the game. Say what you want about Obama, but he followed the agreed upon rules. And for that he is antidemocratic? Not transformative?
Given Obama's superior organization and fundraising ability, his team would have figured out the realities of a winner take all primary system, adapted their strategy, and he most likely would still be winning.
This is obvious. Any other conclusion is the stuff of Clinton reality distortion Jedi mind tricks. Enough already.
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While we're at it
Lets fix the infield fly rule. And the designated hitter rule.
Oh, and offensive pass interference and the notorious leg before wicket rules too.
Heck, I think it is about time the whole red-line blue-line thing got a second look too.
Enough of this playing by the rules thing. Too arbitrary, right?
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what?
This is a bullshit arguement of an article if i've ever seen one. I'm getting pretty disgusted with clinton apologists who want to rewrite the rules to suit their agenda. I tell you what, clinton cheats her way in there and she's going down in the general. People aren't going to put up with this crap from some political hack who didn't have the guts to stand against the war when it mattered.
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Changing the rules
The Democrats said last year that the votes in Michigan and Florida WOULD NOT COUNT!!!!
Now they want to change the rules and count the votes. How about the voters that did not vote because THEY WERE TOLD THEIR VOTES WOULD NOT COUNT?????????? They believed the Democrats.
THE DEMOCRATS DO NOT KEEP THEIR WORD!!!!!
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No: Read the title: If the system made sense, Clinton would be far ahead
Members of Obama's fanbase are so entrenched in their cult they don't understand that the article is an argument that the current system neither makes sense nor is "democratic."
That's a ridiculous comment. The article says that if the current outcomes in the states were re-interpreted using different rules than actually used then Clinton would be ahead. Which is fantasy.
If there were different rules in play from the beginning, everyone's campaign strategy would change to account for that. Who knows, Edwards and Biden might be duking it out now.
It's worth noting that Obama is still ahead in the popular vote, even if you include contests with one person on the ballot.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/democratic_vote_count.html
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Our focus should be on McCain, not "the system".
There's plenty of blame to go around for the failure of the Clinton campaign, but "the system" should be the least of their concerns. The storyline has come full circle, all the way from "Clinton is inevitable" to "Clinton never really had a chance because the system was stacked against her". It goes without saying that when you support a candidate you believe that candidate "should" win. However, if Barack Obama had lost, I would be disappointed, but wouldn't be re-shaping reality to fit my belief. It's disappointing when your candidate loses - just acknowledge the disappointment and let's move forward.
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Forgive us for not anointing the entitled one
Once upon a time the Democratic party had winner take all primaries, but that changed.
The current system and its rules, including opening p the early primaries to only 4 states that represented 4 different regions of the country, were well established ahead of time. All HRC and her campaign had to do was show some respect to the process and go to the trouble of learning how it works. I tend to think that the failings of her campaign, despite a massive initial advantage, is the first objective measure of her leadership abilities, or lack thereof.
As for this article, how about some rancid cheese with the whine!
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Obama is who the people want using the current system
Democratic registrations are way up, not Obama registrations, and not Clinton registrations. Come the general, the Democratic nominee is going to receive many more votes than we might otherwise expect. Some of those votes will be voting against McCain and the Bush administration, some will be voting for the Democrat to win, and some will be voting for Obama.
Much of Obama's money has come from individuals, not lobbyists or large corporations. Right or wrong, Obama's charisma resonates with people. Right or wrong, Clinton has a credibility problem, and it doesn't help that she will do or say anything to get elected. She gets caught in one lie after another (shot at in Bosnia, involvement in the Ireland peace process, etc.), yet still expects people to give her their trust. She runs on the record of her husband, and claims that is her experience. She votes for the war, and never apologizes for her vote, blaming the whole thing on faulty intelligence.
Obama doesn't have a lot of experience, it's true. But he's smart, and an expert on the Constitution. He voted the right way on the war. He gets his money to run from the people. He's a self-made man, not a former President making other people wealthy, and getting paid tens of millions for speaking engagements. He's hungry, he's young, and he's black as well as white.
You know what? I'm going to take my chances with Obama. He didn't set up the proportional primary system, but he's playing by the rules (unlike Michigan and Florida). Hillary is too ruthless, and only seems to care about the will of the voters so long as they favor her.
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In The Pool Hall Forty Years Ago
...a friend of mine who suffers from "Engineer's Brain" syndrome commented to me, after I failed to sink a tricky shot,"If you'd done that exactly right it would have gone in."
It's been forty years since I've heard anything so simultaneously funny and idiotic. Thanks for helping me celebrate that Francis Alfred Hurley III moment.
"If you lived here you'd be home now." Fifty years ago, somewhere in Pennsylvania, on a roadside sign. Yeah, and I'd be voting in the April primary. Unless I'd moved since then.
Damn. One whole side of my body just went numb....