Letters to the Editor
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Blame goes to one side in this case
I am tired of the suggestion that has been made over and over that both Obama and Clinton have equally contributed to this squabble.
I may be an Obama supporter, but I also like to think of myself as somewhat objective in my political analyses. When has Obama done anything to stir the pot?
The Clintons continue to make disparaging remarks (it takes a PRESIDENT to get it done, what a fairy tale) and then play the victim card whenever people call them on their bullshit! I'm sick of it, the Clintons play the victim card way too many times.
I respect that the Clintons desperately want to win. What serious candidate wouldn't? But the tactics they are using, the brutal way they are playing with race will lead to nothing but a Pyrrhic victory. Hillary may win the nomination if she keeps this up, but she will find that key Democratic constituents will be too alienated to give her support in the general election.
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since we are talking about electing the best nominee:
who do you think Hillary should pick as her running mate?
I think Wesley Clark would be an excellent choice.
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Damnit!
Three pages, Gary - did I miss even one word about how Obama or his supporters are responsible for the reprehensible way Hillary Clinton has been treated by the beltway pundits and the tabloid press?
I've heard for almost a solid week how "both sides" want to or need to ratchet down the rhetoric. But I pay pretty close attention and I haven't heard one word from Obama or one of his spokespeople about race or gender, while HRC continues to run out a parade of proxies saying the most embarrassing things I think I've ever heard from a Democratic campaign.
And when she's called on this bullshit, what happens? That's playing the gender card.
I expect this kind of lazy stuff pass for reporting in the major papers. (Do you have one demonstrable fact on the third page?) I don't expect to see it on Salon.
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And now I'm with Soixante60
Wesley Clark would DEFINITELY be Hillary's best choice for VP.
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While the Constitution Burns the American People Fiddle
Newsflash! What we are seeing here is nothing more than a corporate dog and pony show. As to who is the dog and who is the pony is truly irrelevant.
Whether it's Obama whining about Hillary and the race card, or Clinton's stooges whining about Obama "doing a little blow" in college or even Edwards crowing about the dastardly corporations (he's right), all this is doing is creating the false notion that the American people still control their own fates within the "electoral process".
It's all total bullshit.
Is it a mystery to anyone reading these words that there are very powerful and wealthy people controlling every single word we hear on the MSM? Is it any wonder that from the beginning of the process Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul (who are very good friends and strict Constitutionalists) were marginalized in every debate? Go back to the first debates before one vote was cast. Check the amount of time each candidate received during questions. Even in the news coverage their names were rarely mentioned. Even when Ron Paul set a record for fundraising that was practically ignored.
The corporate media is in our face about the fact that THEY and their masters will decide who we hear from and who we will be voting for. Two states out of fifty have voted and already the MSM has decided for the American people that from now until the primaries are over we will only have two to three candidates to hear from in either party. Gone are the days of real debates, state by state elections and duke it out conventions where NO candidate sails in with a lock. Where we can see democracy living and breathing. Our democracy is on life support right now as we quibble over the agenda the MSM has set for us!! Hello??
If all this isn't a solid argument for a SAME DAY NATIONAL PRIMARY then nothing is.
And please bear in mind that while they are putting on their show for us in the form of these bogus "debates", not one candidate, except Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich, is even mentioning the "C" word. After almost all our civil liberties have been legislated away by both parties.
It's time the American people walk over and pull the curtain back to see "who" is really deciding our fate for us, if it isn't already too late.
And if you think we have "free, fair and transparent elections" with secret corporate voting machines that are uncounted by WE THE PEOPLE, check this out:
http://www.dailypaul.com/node/25994
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@abbeywood
It wouldn't be political discussion thread without a Ron Paul support jumping in and rambling about something that has nothing to do with the topic at hand.
You guys would crash a thread about the economics factors contributing to the rising cost of dairy products.
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convenient, isn't it?
This campaign seems to have been going on forever, already. Race and gender weren't really issues (beyond the fact that a woman and an African American were serious contenders for the nomination)...untill the minute Barack Obama won the Iowa caucus. Its been psycho-drama ever since. The Clintons have dragged this campaign down to their patented sleazy levels, and of course we're all supposed to fall into their "the world against the Clintons" nonsence once again.
The Clintons are toxic. They will hand the election to the Republicans and leave the Deomcratic Party in ruins.
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Gee, I'm so agreeable today...
Right on, Abbybwood. I am also a big fan of the "same-day national primary" idea. It works just fine for every other election.
(Then again, so does "whoever gets the most votes, wins," but we're still inexplicably stuck with the ridiculous electoral college concept. *sigh*)
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for once I agree with Kamiya
he is absolutely right that obama gets a "free pass" because people are afraid of being regarded as racist. Clinton is accepted as a person, as a politician more than Obama, so people freely insult her just as they would any one.
the idea that white women have suffered as much as black men or women is one of those crazy liberal ideas that are based on fantasy. My status as a white woman is nothing nothing like that of a black male or female. No one ever told me to sit in the back of the bus.
one fault with this article, he ignores black women. instead of saying Women and blacks, why not just say "white women" and "black men". that would be honest.