Letters to the Editor
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Clinton is trailing, Obama keeps prevailing.....
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Bernbart, You're Dreaming -- Obama's Problems Would Have Emerged Regardless
Obama's negatives, such as they are, would have come out somewhere along the line even if he were unopposed in the Democratic nomination process. It would have happened in October, not March, and it would have cost him the election. Blaming Hillary for Obama's own mistakes is brain-dead stupid.
You and others seem to think it's Hillary's duty to "support the nominee," the anointed Obama, rather than continue to run against him. Too bad you couldn't get more people in critical states to agree with you. It will cost your man the election if he is nominated, since we still don't know who he really is and many people don't like his funny friends. Based on what we know now, there is no reason to trust him. Too bad -- we could have had a Democrat elected this year.
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Nevermore Nevermore Nevermore! --- It is to late!
It is to late ... from the vantage point of far away we have observed the appalling ability of American voters to destroy hope itself.
That we can see you are doomed in America by whomever you chose brings no comfort ... the treadmill of time is showing only an appearance of forward progress but the evident unwillingness to face life on "Adult" terms by so many of your citizens means a continuation of the quagmire of pain and sorrow for the world. Mr. Obama speaks to the truth frequently and yet so many people in the Democratic camp respond with slurs upon him.
I see no miracle forthcoming from the days ahead to forestall the grief of your own making as a narcissistic candidate with wealthy and old school ‘connections’ along with the collaboration of a self-serving media has partnered especially with the right wing media to smear of the one candidate who showed a glimmer of true understanding of the need to tackle the greater issues of the day with hope and optimism.
Hope and optimism are not ‘shallow’ expressions … they are actually the deepest longings of the soul … and America has abandoned the soul of so many of its dispossessed by failure to address the realities of the need for full and equitable education, universal health care and meaningful employment for its citizenry… Mr. Obama has pointed to this greater need and knows the necessity of responding to it!
Shame on your laxness of support for the obvious good … you have squandered the treasure that could have easily provided the basic human essentials for your own citizenry on “The Wars” … and you continue to tolerate and even extoll the grossest forms of personal greed and acquisitiveness.
This Canadian feels deeply that the majority of American People are in deep denial about the reality of the coming onslaught of a global social and economic collapse and will in all likelihood vote for a destructive continuation of the neo-con disaster under a McCain … or Clinton!
The future of the world may not totally revolve around the decision of Party Primaries but rather on the evolved consequence of American ignorance and self-centeredness that Mr. Obama has often tried to have people wake up to. It is the ignorance and self-centeredness that lets a third world mother and child starve or be riddled with shrapnel on the filthy streets of many villages where they continue to suffer… The brief flicker of such gruesome images and that damnable war in Iraq continues to occasionally appear on digital screens across America … but they seem to be treated as just 'light' intrusions to the viewing of episodes of ‘American Idol’, ‘Dancing with the Stars’ or some ‘Sports Spectacle’-(Chose whatever} .. This is obviously the "New Rome" with Bread and Circuses to distract the ignorant plebeians from the corruption buried within.
So America continues to stumble … bleeding by way of self-absorption until the tragic self-generated demise of 'The Great Republic’... I pray for you … but prayers will in themselves not be enough .. you will need to search your souls and come to action soon or it will be a long and hard time for all whom we love.
"The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.."
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It's Obama's Fault
The country's ready for change. George Bush and his cronies have lied to us for almost eight years. They have destroyed our constitutional liberties. Our friends around the world hate us. For the first time in our history we have engaged in preemptive war. We torture. I could go on and on. The country is hungry for change. Barack Obama has inspired millions of Americans. Older Americans remember feeling this way in the '60's. Younger Americans who were never interested in politics are suddenly engaged. African Americans who are the most reliable bloc in the Democratic party are coming out in record numbers. Independents and Republicans are so disenchanted with the policies of the incumbents that they are voting for Obama. So why can't he end the stalemate? He will have to toughen up, zero in on the concerns of working Americans, avoid getting caught up in distractions, e.g, Rev. Wright, "bittergate," and speak directly to Americans about the issues before the American people. I have begun to feel that the largest impediment to any serious discussion of these issues is the media, and that Team Obama which has been so lauded for its success as a money making machine has allowed itself to be taken off-message, losing, two, three days to trivia. Rev. Wright was on PBS tonight, (Friday), and he will be giving speeches on Monday in Washington. The good news is that he is not a soundbite, but a thoughtful, intelligent person, but the real test is whether Obama can stay on the message which he began to deliver in Indiana today which is, "I am a normal, pretty average guy, four suits, four pair of shoes, usually forget to get a hair cut, and by the way I like basketball." It wouldn't be a bad idea to wear a flag pin either, or talk about how much you love America. As Tip O'Neill said, "All politics is local," so your stump speech should be tweaked per region. No elitism, be someone you can relate to, someone who understands your problems, and because he does, can also be your President. Remember, our most successful leaders, Lincoln, FDR, JFK, always made us feel they understood what we were going through or, as Bill Clinton used to say, "I feel your pain," So, if he can stay on message, avoid distractions, use his surrogates wisely, don't let the media control the message, I think he can shut this down by May 6.