Letters to the Editor
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First!
Clinton's.
Also, how about the gumption of Clinton to demand YET ANOTHER debate! Huh? After the last one? Yay! More race baiting!
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Nah, It's the Obamateur and his Nutty Supporters
Sorry, but a guy who didn't even open the door to his Senate Office before he was running for President and his looney supporters blathering about his opponents supposed "entitlement" mentality is just preposterous.
Similarly liberal dinosaurs from Kennedy and Kerry to Richardson, endorsing a candidate their own constituents solidly rejected is worse and they deserve whatever fate awaits them at their next election.
It's been clear to any rational being at least since SuperTuesday that Obama can't get the margins in the elderly and hispanics that he needs, that any Dem needs to win against McCain. Not to mention Catholics and blue collar voters.
This without even getting into the pesky details of Resko, Axelon, Wright, Ayers, etc etc which obviously the GOP is ready to fire, and I do mean FIRE on. All fresh new red meat too.
In a sane world we wouldn't even be arguing about it. We wouldn't have this liberal surefire loser shoved down our throats AGAIN by tghe liberal wing of the party, oh, I'm sorry the "netroots".
However obviously 8 years of George W. Bush just wasn't enough for them. Maybe a solidly Republican Supreme Court will be, because that's what we're looking at.
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Too Much Analysis
Maybe, just maybe, the Democrats are fielding two very popular candidates with very passionate supporters. This campaign has been ridiculously over-analyzed. Obama cannot attract Hillary supporters because she is a very strong candidate with her supporters and vice versa. What is so hard to figure out about that? Why should a Hillary supporter switch to Obama and why should an Obama supporter switch to Hillary? Is there something Obama could do to convince a Hillary supporter to stop supporting her? I doubt it. The opposite is true too. There are, of course, enough voters on the fence that the polls move a bit and demographics have shifted ever so slightly in some of the contests to date, but there is one overwhelming pattern, and that is that Hillary supporters are not abandoning her and Obama supporters are not abandoning him. And, the reason is not that the campaigns have misstepped, it is that both campaigns have been so strong and stayed so strong though thick and thin. Everything will be fine in the end for the Democratic party. To the extent that negativity has caused damage, it will make the Republican smears to come old news. The bottom line is that Hillary supporters and Obama supporters are not going to vote for McCain in the fall no matter what pundits might think, or they might threaten in the passion of the moment, because there is no common ground between him and either of the Democratic Party's two very strong candidates. The American press has an obsession with calling a winner in everything and anything (witness the sad example of College Football). Fortunately, this obsession has not discouraged the passion or commitment of the millions of Democratic primary voters who are making their primary votes count for the first time in history. In the fall, this passion will create a record Democratic turn out and sweep either Obama or, perhaps, Hillary into the White House, and all of the hand-wringing by the press and pundits will be forgotten.
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Disenfranchising two battleground states is okay?
But winning with superdelegates is akin to a dictatorship?
Buy a clue Walter - Obama can't win without the superdelegates either.
Obama is another Dukakis - an electoral disaster waiting to happen.
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Walter -- Thanks for Carrying Water for the Clinton Campaign -- You're Doing a Great Job!
Walter -- I was SO very glad to see that the Hillary campaign bus is still driving on, with Salon at the wheel! We need even more optimistic, pro-Hillary pieces like this!
My favorite parts...
When you make fun of Obama's ability "fill the Grand Canyon, if necessary, with rapturous supporters." Because really, how dare he be able to do that. Who does he think he is, anyway? And why are those supporters so rapturous. They should be cranky, like us Hillary fans!
When you ask "exactly what benefits did Obama's better than 2-to-1 financial advantage on television buy him in Pennsylvania?" You are SO right. AND on top of it all, bankrupting Hillary's campaign was such a NASTY byproduct of Obama's Pennsylvania campaign spending, wasn't it? How dare he put our girl in such a position!
"The internal response to any crisis... is for Obama to give a speech. Again, WHO DOES HE THINK HE IS with all this speechifying? The internal response to a crisis should be to lie! Or to "misremember." Or to claim that you're tired on the campaign trail, and make mistakes. Or to send out the surrogates to misdirect. But is certainly should not be to give a thoughtful speech, or attempt to rise above the petty arguments. How DARE HE offer "soaring rhetoric" in response to niggling arguments and gotcha campaign tactics.
His supporters have "true-believer enthusiasm." You know, I have to wonder. What the heck is wrong with them? Why can't they just have lukewarm feelings toward their candidate, like so many of us Hillary supporters. What's with all that enthusiasm anyway? All those whippersnapper Obamabots must be on drugs or something.
"Obama is the first insurgent candidate in memory who has not come up with a new issue to challenge the establishment favorite." That's because, as you and I know, he's really falling down on the job. Stopping the war in Iraq, restoring the horrible image of America around the world, changing the stifling and corrupt Washington culture, and getting our economy back on track are just not new enough issues on which to base a campaign.
He has "predicated almost his entire campaign on inspiration and process (he can reform the broken system in Washington and Clinton cannot)...and deliberately forsaken bread-and-butter issues." I mean, really. How DARE he present all the bread-and-butter solutions on his website, and not bore us to tears with lengthy policy wonk descriptions of how he will solve every problem. How DARE he inspire people to register to vote, and to actually vote, when he could be doing things the way they should be done, the way they've ALWAYS been done, and should continue to be done.
Thank you Walter, for reminding us all why we must vote for Hillary.
And SHAME ON YOU, Barack Obama, for all that inspiring speechifying and enthusiasm-generating stuff that is enrapturing supporters, and distracting us all from the important mission at hand -- electing Hillary!!