Letters to the Editor
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Don't stop writing Joan!!!
I look forward to your updates every day, and although I don't always agree with your points, I recognize your attempt to be fair, and I appreciate it.
Thank-you--and for making your coverage somewhat personal, and talking with real people involved. What's happening this year is more interesting--for better or worse--than I think any of us expected.
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'Black Idenity" Political term used by whites to label Blacks who challenge White Paradigms
term has zero "street cred" and is often invoke to scare whites on a number of fronts..
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Amilcar
Thrasher... In light of this tremendous victory, I await your apology to BOTH Amilcar Cabral and Frantz Fanon, who you have dismissed so lightly.
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@ KcM
Maybe Obama should be grateful for the Clintons. After all, he looks pretty classy, in comparison, and apparently, the citizens of SC agree.
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you make my point for my Thrasher if the election is a contest between "street cred" and it's absence
the 85% of the population (white) which lacks "street cred" is going to determine the winner. White Americans may be content to let ghetto culture dominate the entertainment industry, but they surely don't intend to be ruled by it. I don't think Obama is about this, but some of his supporters may be and if they aren't careful they may screw it for all of us, and of course there will be enormously powerful forces doing all they can to help. (I'm not talking about the Clintons).
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gams: Both are even my equal...
Please note my blogging from Anderson.. My forcast this AM was 100% correct...
Even in spite of 'Bradley Effect" white voters here in SC supported Obama...
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In the delegate count....
A black man now has more delegates than any other candidate in the Presidential race....since the delegates before South Carolina were an exact tie. This is an historic moment worth celebrating....
Does anyone else see something ominous about that story saying Clinton did want her Michigan delegates at the convention after all? Maureen O'Donnell I don't blame you for being scared of our presidential politicking ways. It's been a cage fight, that's for sure.
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It's you media who are tin-eared and you still don't "get it"
I never thought I would find myself in the role of a Clinton-defender but you keep getting this wrong over and over again, why is that?
Regarding the non-tempest/teapot that was wholly a creation of the media and publicity-seeking professionals:
For the MLK holiday, to stress how America needs a (good/strong/nice-you pick) leader as president, Clinton made the obvious-as-your-nose example that the important work of the civil rights movement was enabled by a key player in our system, the executive.
That's what she said to my ears. A simple civics lesson. In no way did it denigrate King but simply stated an historical fact we all know.
I would add here that Joan Walsh states: "...we all thought she was politically crazy to compare herself to LBJ, a president who got mired in Vietnam and didn't stand for reelection in 1968...".
I don't believe she did do that, unless I missed more context that was necessary to reach this conclusion. But in the sound bite I saw she was only stating the obvious.
The media, left-right-center, keeps trying to force down our throats scenarios of their own devising and projecting conflicts and issues that don't actually exist.
This is maddening, an absolute symptom of the banality of our entertainment-driven Media Noise Machine and the careerists that suckle at it's teat. Real issues are never examined, public dialogue is undermined, everything is defined by the shallowest of values or by meta-issues that are designed to keep the thinking public away from what really ails us.
Shame on you and your profession.
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ANON: Stop invoking the "Black Folks are the" Boogey Man card".. I thought after 9/11 it was Arab-Americans
please stop it with the tired old redneck politics..A New day is here..
Please note my blogging earlier today from SC.. I was 100% on the money even with the "Bradley Effect" in full operation white voters were still 30% for Obama..
Making a difference..are You
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more reasons to vote for Obama
For anyone who doesn't want to consider his achievements in the Senate (which actually match up pretty well--even strongly next to Senator Clinton's despite his two less years there and "less experience"--look up some of the 400 bills he sponsored or cosponsored on Wikipedia...) there are more reasons...
McCain will almost certainly be the Republican nominee. A "straight-talker" is going to need to be matched up with the person who comes across the most straight-forwardly--that would thus far be Obama. (Or Edwards, but he looks unlikely at this point to win enough delegates to win).
Obama can pull in independent voters who want to get out of the war in Iraq and know that he has been putting his money where his mouth is (he introduced legislation to remove combat troops last year). Next to Obama McCain will probably look disorganized (which he is) and....old....which he is....Obama's ideas are going to sound a lot more fresh and interesting next to McCain's ideas of how to solve the problems the nation faces (which they are)...
Next to McCain Clinton may look secretive--she doesn't often answer questions in as straight forward a manner as McCain or Obama--she will not look experienced as McCain has many more years than she does....his laid back tone may appeal to those voters who like laid back leaders and her ideas may sound (nearly) as outdated and old fashioned as his do (her remark "lobbyists are people too," struck me as just the wrong sort of tone for a "New Washington" administration).
Also, voters looking for someone to "clean up" Washington after the mess of the past eight years may not want feel the Clintons are up for the job....they are not the evil cretins that they have been portrayed as in the press....but "messy" describes their style even by their ardent admirers.
Just some things that voters should consider going into this fierce competition for the Democratic nomination.
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i hope you aren't confused enough to think that Obama can win the presidency with only 30% of the white vote
and you are perfectly proving the lareger point many others have made when you claim that any disucssion of his electability is "redneck poitics". Playing this game may make you feel righteous and "street credible" but if the end result is a Republican win then it doesn't mean much.
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Clintons vs the media
Obama complains that he is fighting 2 people to stay in the race - Hillary and Bill Clinton.
But Hillary Clinton is not only competing against Edwards and Obama, but the entire media that continues to thrust double standards down the throats of America.
In the end, this is a race between the media and the Clintons. The rest, both in the Democratic and republican fields, are only minor players.
We know who propped up the presidency, albeit the coronation on George W. Bush
The challenge for the voters is: will they allow the media to dictate who their next president will be?