Letters to the Editor
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the Independent vote
@ the critics:
Sorry that you don't like what Camille Paglia has to say, and also sorry you don't have anything better to reply with than ad hominem attacks. Sheesh - unless you have something constructive to ad, what is the point? This is a place for thoughtful discussion, and I encourage you to play to your better sides in the future.
Now to the article:
Refraining from attack ads is good strategy if Obama wants to portray himself as something different. If he starts acting like the rest of them, you'll see his Independent support weaken. Its a sad day when refraining from objective behavior is praiseworthy, but yet here we are.
Speaking of the Independents - if you can get 51% of Democratic support in the general election, what net % does that win you? Something like 35-40% would be my guess, and that's losing hand in this contest. Perhaps the strategy is to force a bunch of already discontented people to vote for the lesser of two evils in a Clinton / McCain contest.
So the question is whether or not the Democratic party superdelegates have the sense to read the writing on the wall that the traditional element of their party is only marginally less despised than the party they aim to unseat. How could they possibly miss this point? We have only to look to the past to see the many ways they could.
Speaking for only one Independent - go ahead Democrats, nominate Clinton and lose the general election. Please! If you aren't going to lead or follow, then get the hell out of the way.