Letters to the Editor
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LOL Shawn
They hate her cause she can beat them - and she IS electable - she wouldn't have run if she wasn't
The idea of HRC sitting one out for the team is about as funny as it gets. You live in a dreamworld. She's been running for President since '93, nothing was going to keep her out of this race.
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Anonymous
Obama stupidly started the race fights
he's the one who trivialized HRC's truthful relays of her fights for civil rights which then caused a BLACK supporter of HRC's to point out tha tshe was fighting for civil rights when he was having fun in Chicago doing whatever he was doing. (it was Obama who insists it mean when he was doing drugs - another foolish move that won't help him).
It was Obama that insisted a perfectly truthful observation that MLK's inspiration was well-aided by LBJ's legistlation (among other white liberals and white and black churches) got civil rights moving.
Nothing racist about it. Obama wanted to think Rove was his friend and insisted on taking the bait and calling the Clinton's racist, and now he'sthe one who painted himself as a black-only demagogue, not HRC.
Really, by having used drugs 30 years ago--when just about EVERYONE his age was doing them--and then having written about it in a book 20 or so years later in which he not only explained why did used them but also admitted that it was a mistake, he "stupidly started the race fights"? And Churchill started WWII by writing books about WWI that were critical of Germany...
Was she fighting for civil rights when she supported welfare reform, the war on drugs and DATD, or voted for the Patriot Act? Or perhaps when she campaigned for anti-labor and civil rights nutjob Goldwater in HER youthful (indescretions--one stupid point certainly warrants another)?
Was Obama being racist and devisive when he was being concern trolled and dogwhistled by Shaheen, Kerrey, Penn, Johnson, Hillary and Bill? Blaming the victim seems like just the sort of tactic that an ACTUAL Rovian such as yourself would engage in. It's always about some form of projection with you trolls, be it of the subconscious or deliberate sort.
Poof! I'm hungry for some good venison and wine now! So long as it's not Bambi or her mom...
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Paul Daniel Ash.
Pedinska can pound a dog like that india-one in a wood pestle bowl until it looks like fine ash dust.
If you want to sell fish at the Ohio Stare Farm Market display a dead dog head on a silver platter.
Pedinska can always fetch a few feline or a caged Gila Monster
if she feels like it...She ruff.
Pedinska is no damsel to tango with.
She steps on your toes when she slow dances.
Pedinska has a mean bark but she's also nice.
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kovie?
Bucky1?
Sherry?
You are civil.
We can be silly.
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This is nothing. . .
. . . compared to the onslaught Obama or Clinton or Edwards or any nominee will face from the Republicans. Was Bill Clinton's comment out of line? I don't know. That all depends on where that sacrosanct and forever moving "line" is at any given time. Personally, I hope Obama hits back. I'm not sure the feminine angle would play as well, but the d00d is going to have to learn to play tough and why not learn it by being attacked by one of most aggressive and successful politicians these days. I would of thought Obama had already learned "ugly politics" from the ward-heelers during his Chicago days?
I can't say I will support either of these candidates (though I would be leaning towards Obama, I guess). But I think it is important that this be a rough party primary, not only to help energize and engage it's members, but to get them ready for the real mud-slinging, innuendo, coded racism/sexism and, quite honestly, pure hate that the Republican Machine™ WILL turn out.
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Dio.genes
Don't be silly.
First, he apologized for the Punjab smear, and since it was an isolated incident--as opposed to the Clinton campaign's unrelenting reference to his race and past drug use--it cannot be shown to have come from or been approved by him or be part of a wider pattern or strategy.
And second, while I agree that her MLK/LBJ remarks were misconstrued by all, intentionally or not--including, it appears, Obama, in a likely opportunistic and if so shameful way--she did pose them in a way that lent themselves to being misconstrued (not unlike Kerry's stupid but not troop-unfriendly attempted joke last year, or Bill's fairy tale remarks).
But taking in the overall view, I simply do not see how it can be objectively asserted that Obama has been anywhere near as divisive on matters of race and background as Clinton has.
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This is idiocy to top all idiocy
Oh, and don't forget Oprah
Don't forget him putting heavy-again Oprah out there all over Iowa with her ample breasts hanging out of her shirts trying to chip away at HRC"s black and woman supporters implicitly bringing race into it.
Size-ism, sexism, racism and, if there's such a thing, mammary-ism, all in one sentence. Quite an accomplishment. Way to go there, Grasshopper.
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Grasshopper? You mean Barbi's brother, Thumper.
If we can all attend tomorrow night's State of the Union speech and sit in the peanut gallery it would be a riot of fun.
I say a contest can be judged by kovie. He can be the honest judge and help with a step toward democracy.
He can determine whoever can make the loudest armpit noise making-sound ~ wins a box of cranker-jacks with a prize in the box.
I'm gonna practice that armpit sound now.
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Stop the Analytical Madness Already!
Here's the deal:
1. Bill Clinton needs to take a chill pill because the guy just can't help himself. He's a political animal, and he's probably not the best person to have out front of his wife's campaign. Spouses are not objective. And because he is the former President, he needs to show a little class.
2. The Clintons are out to win, and we pity the fool that tries to get in the way! They play for keeps, have been put through hell and back, and yes, politics is a contact sport, and if you can't stand the heat yadda...yadda...yadda.
3. The media has blown much of this out of portion - IMAGINE!
The media wanted this fight, this horserace, and now that they've gotten it, they want to carp and whine and criticize.
They didn't quit until they knocked Edwards out of it, right down to ignoring his 2nd place finish in Iowa. They wanted Clinton and Obama and that's exactly what they have.
4. The guy is black. Is that lost on the media or anyone else? Hell, no! John Edwards has a nice head of hair. McCain has a lump on his cheek. Romney is so polished that a person probably leaves smudged fingerprints on his jacket when they touch him. And we've also noticed that Hillary wears lipstick and earrings so she is female. Obama is a black candidate! Geesh. Everybody stop acting like we don't notice.
5. The majority of voters in South Carolina Democratic party are African-American. We acknowledge that. So what? They wanted to vote for Obama. Fine. We can understand on many different levels why they would. The majority of Democratic voters in New Hampshire are white and more liberal than Iowans. We understand why they would vote for Hillary too.
6. Obama's campaign was reportedly strong-arming casino workers in Nevada, deliberately distributing wrong information to Hispanic voters about how caucus worked, and reportedly harrassing people when they were asked to stop bothering them at work. Were was the indignant statement from the Man himself about the conduct of his own people?
7. Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carlina, separately and collectively, hardly tell the tale of how or why or anything else going on in this country with respect to the Democratic primary. And two of those were caucuses, not voters going to the polls.
8. Large turnout in Iowa, especially first-time caucus goers, benefitted Obama. Same in South Carolina. The Clintons need to expand their voter file and run a better GOTV program.
9. The polling doesn't include younger voters with cell phones in their sample, who are most likely to consider Obama. The polling sample would probably not include first-time voters/caucus goers either, or recently registered voters. That could easily explain the pundits missing their mark in South Carolina with respect to Obama's point spread.
Summary: No, Obama can't behave badly in Nevada and then chastise the Clintons for behaving badly in South Carolina. Like his low road is somehow higher than their low road.