Letters to the Editor
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We're winning in Iraq too.
"But if you look at the way the race had tightened over the last two weeks -- the surge of momentum Obama got after winning South Carolina, the endorsements of Caroline, Ted and later Ethel Kennedy, SEIU and MoveOn.org, the predictions that he'd take away Massachusetts and he might even win California -- then it looks like a pretty good night for Hillary Clinton."
I'm sorry, but this rather equivalent to how people say the surge is working in Iraq: Set the bar for success so ridiculously low -- and in obvious contradiction to previous benchmarks -- that success is all but assured.
Two weeks ago, Sen. Obama was down 20 points nationally and leading in only two states: Georgia and his home state of Illinois. Meanwhile, Super Tuesday had been deemed -- by Terry McAuliffe and others -- to be Sen. Clinton's knockout punch. That, of course, didn't happen. Clinton swung and missed, and now it looks like we're going the distance.
Other than the one goofy Zogby +13 poll, which was such an outlier that few took it seriously, there weren't very many predictions going around that Obama would win MA and CA -- until the second round of exit polls. To suggest MA and CA were meant to be Obama pick-ups is, I'm sorry, disingenuous.
I haven't ventured into the asian-american discussion, so I presume you're correct in saying that awful and stupid things are being said by Obama promoters. But, trust me, Obama supporters (Obamamaniacs, Obamatons, "Obamamite dogs") have no monopoly on intemperate and idiotic rhetoric at the moment.
By the way, now that the California primary has come and gone, may I ask who you voted for? (Here in NYC, I voted for Obama.)