Letters to the Editor
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Giddy Up, Democrats
Are the Democrats becoming the new party of failure? After watching Bush and the GOP reinvent political and military insanity it would seem to be relatively easy for the Dems to put together a cohesive strategy for the upcoming Election.
Instead, we are seeing petty squabbles having nothing to do with solving real problems.
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The DNC is responsible!
Under Delegate Selection Rules for the 2008 Democratic National Convention Rule 20.C.1.a., Florida, Iowa, Michigan, New Hampshire, and South Carolina should have ALL lost their super delegates and had their pledged delegates reduced by HALF since they ALL violated Rule 11.A. which stated the timing and order of primaries caucuses allowed.
Instead of strictly adhering to Rule 20.C.1.a. and reducing their pledged delegates by 50%, the DNC Rules & Bylaws Committee decided to take it a step further. Despite the fact that Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina ALL voted earlier than the rules allowed. None of these three states were punished so why should MI and FL get extra punishment! MI and FL have been harshly and unjustly punished for breaking rules that were OK for other states to ignore.
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What did Obama Get in Pennsylvania
For example, exactly what benefits did Obama's better than 2-to-1 financial advantage on television buy him in Pennsylvania?
It bought him a campaign in Indiana and North Carolina where he can outspend her by even more than that. I think there was a conscious effort to try to use his superior resources to deplete Hillary's resources defending a place she should have had in the bag. Sure, she got a fundraising boost after she won, but she was going to that boost regardless and, if her margin had stayed at twenty points it would have been massive. If he'd won, it would have been a bonus--and they apparently thought they were headed that way until ABC and Politico manufactured Bittergate for her--but win or lose, the next two states were favorable to Obama and she will miss that "one" she spent hanging on to Pennsylvania a lot. Obama won't miss the two he spent there a bit.
Obama's campaign is thinking strategically, where Hillary has just improved her way through it, state by state, since her Super Tuesday strategy failed. Give them some credit for it.
He's using the Grant strategy against her and Hillary ain't no Lee.
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Hillary's win
Hillary's PA win is below double digits now. There is No stalemate Obama is winning!
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Right church, wrong pew...
Factoidus -- The winning democratic team is Hillary/Obama 2008. And by that I mean, that will be the Democratic team AND it will win.
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W.E.S. Sez:
If Buckwheat loses Indiana, Kentucky, and West Virginia people are gonna start talking and doubting more than they already are.
Why don't you just call Obama a "nigger".
You know you want to.
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stalemate obama/clinton
The reason for the stalemate is that both candidates are dreadfully flawed. Hillary is a liar and unelectable. Barack is black and we are not ready for a black president and a first lady prancing around the white house in her bare big black feet!
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Wow, Shapiro!
Two articles in as many days! You sure do post a lot when your candidate is "winning!" Well, kudos for your optimism and your attempt at fair play. It's better than one can get from 99.999% of other Clintonistas.
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Bob in Pacifica...
I hate to break it to you, but Bill and Hillary Clinton are two different people. I am so tired of so called progressives insinuating that because Hillary Rodham married Bill Clinton, she is now little more than a subset of his personality.
And for the record, I don't support Barack Obama because I don't think there's any substance to the rhetoric. I think he's just like everyone else in Washington and claiming he's a cut above is annoyingly hypocritical. I think his ephemeral claims to want to change Washington are horribly naive. Politics didn't become shrill during the last few years, it has always been such. The difference is that recently, profit has been made by highlighting the shrillness.
But you know what? Issues like abortion, immigration, health care, and foreign policy are life and death. And because of that, politics is never going to be civil. It can't be. Not in a nation like America. In a small homogenous nation, homogenous economically, socially, ethnically, culturally, perhaps politics can be civil. But America is none of those things and it never has been.
As for the champagne socialist term...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champagne_socialist
Barack Obama's core support is with politically liberal high income earners. This is not new. Why pointing this out is offensive to you is beyond me. If it's the particular epithet, well then I'm more than open to an alternative one. You are an Obama supporter who is not a high-income earner? Bully for you. I am a champagne socialist Hillary supporter.
My point was that Obama's core support is, by it's nature, far less likely to vote for McCain in the fall than is Hillary's.
And I stick by that assessment.
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Most distressing
The stalemate may be a product of the media's lazy insistence that there's no policy differences between the candidates. The reality:
Clinton pro Bush's Iraq War, Obama con.
Using cluster bombs in civilian areas (estimated to have killed or wounded upwards of a thousand civilians in Iraq), Clinton pro, Obama con.
Torture, Obama con, Clinton claims to be opposed, but it was her husband who started the Extraordinary Rendition program that shipped terror suspects to Egypt for "enhanced interrogation."
Corporations writting the rules that govern their regulation? in 2001 Clinton voted for a bankruptcy bill largely written by the credit card companies.
Foreign policy, Obama proposes dialogue with Iran, Clinton gleefully fantasizes about "obliterating" them.
If the press spent more time telling the public what Hillary was all about instead of treating the election like a horse race, Democrats would be horrified and stop supporting her.
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Agree with NCSteve
The Obama campaign forced the Hillary campaign into the red over PA. Apparently they are not even counting her $5M loan. The Obama camp is not projecting to win WV and KY. They are looking at NC, IN, and OR instead:
Source: http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0208/Obamas_projections.html