Letters to the Editor
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An offensive and shameful attack on Obama
The Lind piece is really offensive and an all-out attack on Obama and little else. If this line keeps up, I will be canceling my subscription to Salon. When we have the Republican National Committee, why do we need Michael Lind's posturing?
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Oh, and before people get all pissy
The crux of my last post is that the bloody North is getting fairly bitter too - with its own reasons for it.
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Educated brainwashed simpleton is still a brainwashed simpleton
Obama supporters bitter that not all have seen the light, cling pathologically and religiously to platitudes such as “Change and Hope”.
See just like Obama, I am being courageous, and confronting the truth on behalf of his educated, but brainwashed simpletons.
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sajwan
Yeah, you Clinton Cultists, who believe Hillary can do no wrong because she was "Vetted" all of seven years ago, sure do make a strong case for yourselves.
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Get A Clue!
I haven't read this article but I don't have to. Anything other than worshipping at the feet of the master gets the Obamatons all riled up. If y'all are even capable of thinking for one single moment, you'll realize that it's not what he said (rather clumsily)but where he said it that people other than Obamatons find upsetting. Why did he not say these things in front of the people instead of talking about them behind their back to a latte-guzzling rich crowd in San Francisco? If you feel their pain, say it in front of them! I know I'm just wasting time, but if you really value your candidate and are not just robots following the light, you'll advise your candidate away from stuff that will surely lose him the general election. McGovern, Kerry redux. Watch for it! This clinging to unreality by your wing of the Democratic party is why Clinton was the only two-term Democratic president since FDR.
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Jameka
Maybe it is because that "latte guzzling crowd" is deeply pissed at the South.
People write off what the North thinks at their peril. Voting power may be concentrated in the South, but the day will come when the North stops being so willing to foot the tab for a bunch that doesn't even like them.
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Soundbites
In your article you talk about "soundbites." Well that's exactly what you're overreacting to. Try checking this post for a look at the whole speech Obama gave: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-coleman/i-was-there-what-obama-re_b_96553.html
Obama didn't deepen the rift, Clinton and the media did.
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Obama's Negatives Soar
With the extended Democratic contest, I've discovered that:
1) Barack Obama's church and pastor are anti-white and anti-American. If he disagreed with Rev. Wright's polemics and positions, why didn't he either speak up or get up and leave? Obviously, he must agree with the Rev Wright.
2) Barack Obama disses small town Americans as "clinging to" religion, guns and an antipathy toward anyone different and "bitter". How demeaning, simplistic and divisive can one get? And, just how big a stick with which to beat Democrats has he just handed the NRA and Religious Right with that verbal diarrhea?
3) Barack Obama publicly disses Hillary Clinton for having a shot and a beer with the working-class voters of Pennsylvania. Just last month, Senator Obama hoisted a beer or two with the same kind of white, working-class guys in Pennsylvania. Can he possibly be any more hypocritical?
4) Barack Obama claims to be a "new kind of Democrat". His financial relationship with disgraced money-man Tony Rezko makes one wonder exactly what kind of quid-pro-quo is afoot in the Chicago burbs between the two.
5) He constantly whines that Hillary plays dirty with the facts while his campaign honcho...Mr. Plouffe...follows the Rove playbook chapter and verse.
That 44% of Clinton supporters who will not support Barack Obama under any circumstances grows exponentially daily. And, who is to blame for that? Barack Obama and his minions.
Chew on that, Obamatons.
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@Jameka
Actually it would help if you READ THE ARTICLE.
The posts one here actually have little to do with what was written directly. The posters will talk about what they want - and they want to argue about this latest "event".
The crux was about the broader issue of the cultural divide in the democratic party. I think THAT would be an interesting issue to discuss but alas, Salon is not the place apparently to have a reasoned discussion about anything except whichever scandal is racking the Democratic candidates.
Pity.
Problem is we dems have two VERY different consituencies - we tend to have the secularists, intellectuals and hose who are sometimes called elitists. One the other hand we have generally liberal but more "traditional" voters who, as Obama said and everyone acknolwedges, live in a different place than Manhattan and San Francisco.
Our problem is that a lot of the dems who are from those more traditional places, have a lot common with what we consider to be the traditional Right-wing in America. And the right wing has siphoned off their votes away from democrats before based on some of those similarities. That doesn't mean they are stupid or low-information.
The democrat's challenge is to somehow appeal in earnest to these voters as well as the "other camp". This is not an easy task since on the face of it they can appear so different. The challenge is to get each group to understand that although this one side maybe believes in evolution and not god, and the other side likes to hunt deer and go to bible study, we SHARE the same policy goals.
This is a tough task that if not accomplished will allow the right wing to steal small town voters using the commonalities they share. This is the reality and we as democrats have to figure out how to deal with it. We can;t keep breezing into these towns with pandering and NOT delivering or we'll lose them forever. On the other hand we cannot pretend that they have the same outlook and lifestyles as the Berkeley crowd. They don't and its not wrong to take note of that fact.
WE SHOULD BE TALKING ABOUT HOW TO DO DO THIS. WE'RE NOT. WE'RE STILL ARGUING ABOUT THE MEANING OF THE WORD BITTER AND ELITIST AND WHICH PART OF THE STATEMENT WAS F**KED UP OR WHY OBAMA SUCKS OR HILLARY SUCKS OR WHATEVER. ITS STUPID.
I'll tell you what I'm getting BITTER about Salon.