Letters to the Editor
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Interesting
The Nation has an interesting article talking about Obama and media bias:
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters?pid=281917
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So now walsh turned this to an obama bashing page
Why? Because walsh is a woman? I don't mean to rain on yoru parade, but how did this go to a "the media is bias for obama" site?
How did clinton win new hampshire? No, not the crying. Matthews attacking her. Without "the media againt her" she would be done right now.
What really happened is the media downplayed obama for over a year. He won iowa and realized the horrible mistake they made by overlooking him. They went overboard. how long did that bias last? a week? two? And without it can hillary win.
Keep playing it up. you are sabotaging the democratic party and teh future of this great country. Congradulations. Keep up the man bashing. Great for hillary this country and her party. Continue.
For all the unwarrented hatred of obama, clinton cannot claim the same. Her hatred is warrented. Would bush have been impeached without the clinton spectical? Would bush have gotten away with half of what he did without clinton to point to? And where, pray tell was clinton (either of them) when bush was detroying the country the last 8 years? Right behind him.
I know I know. It's all obama's fault. Now whine cry and cplain abou thwo hard it is for women. WWWWWWWAAAAAAHHHHHH
You do all women and feminism a huge disservice. It's not about us vs them. Feminism is the same message as obama's. We are all equal. But you do want or think that really do you gop (clinton and her old ladies and ilelgals alien supporters)
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Insanely slow day at office
Yikes.
That article is sobering. I can't say whether the expectations are good or bad: good because a lot more people give a damn this time around, or bad because short of curing cancer, Obama will never make everyone happy.
Which actually leads me to wonder what do I want the future president to do after 8 years of spectacularly crappy government?
I want...
---A stable economy
---Out of Iraq
---Universal health care
---Decreased oil consumption and policies that will actually deal with climate change
---Stabilization in the Middle East
---Tax policies that don't favor the very wealthy
This is a LOT to ask of anyone, no matter how experienced they are. I feel sorry for whoever takes office. He/she has a lot of cleaning up to do in a very short amount of time.
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Edwards for Beginners
SocsandTwigs, Edwards has far more relevant experience than Obama. Where would you get any other idea? He was a senator for a full term. Obama has not finished one term. Edwards also campaigned nationally for President and vice-president in 2004 and was an impressive candidate. He did not come late, as you suggest, to realizing that the poor and disenfranchised need our help. In fact, he made "Two Americas" his theme during the 2004 campaign. Where have you been?
Before then Edwards was a trial lawyer who represented injured people against powerful corporations and insurance companies and he did so with tremendous success. But since the 2004 campaign, he has worked for the poor (yes, and was a lawyer for hedge funds) and traveled extensively overseas, meeting with leaders of other countries to fill the gap in his resume concerning foreign policy issues. He also endorsed and promoted a green pledge and a strong environmental program to combat global warming. Compared with Edwards, Obama is very inexperienced. His meager career, until he was elected to the Senate, has been at the local or state level. Edwards, moreover, was the source of the Democratic platform that Clinton and Obama are running on. They were craven and conformist till Edwards broke through the status quo and demanded universal health care. When they saw that his populist ideas were getting popular support, they imitated him. See Paul Krugman's piece on how Hillary and Obama are running on the platform Edwards built.
I hate to say it (again) but Obama is mainly just a cult figure. I find him personally very appealing and likeable but as a President, forget it. He has been shown to be inept, inexperienced and insubstantial. He has no savvy and no connections in Washington. If elected, he stands to become the next Jimmy Carter - nice, decent, idealistic - and totally ineffectual. He has no ideas except "Change" and "Transcending Partisanship" - mere abstractions that are capitalized to make them seem more important than they really are. What substantive idea has Obama ever had that he didn't borrow from Edwards? None.
We cannot afford to entrust the chief executive's role to Obama: it would be like sending Opie Taylor to be the sheriff in "High Noon."
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Is this fair to Obama?
Is it fair to point out that NY Times has an article that
Obama admit taking marijuana and cocaine in college?
Is it fair to guess taking drug is not a good image for a candidate?
What would people say if Hilary took drug and cocaine?
Is it fair to mention this?
How will this, and many other issues, be played out by
Republican machines if Obama is the candidate?
Even if Obama can be acceptable, not to mention electable,
by young Democrats. Will be be acceptable by majority of Americans?
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Think you know Hillary?
These are Hillary's words included an excerpt from Robin Morgan's essay:
"And this voice, age 21, in 'Commencement Remarks of Hillary D. Rodham, President of Wellesley College Government Association, Class of 1969.'
'We are, all of us, exploring a world none of us understands. . . . searching for a more immediate, ecstatic, and penetrating mode of living. . . . [for the] integrity, the courage to be whole, living in relation to one another in the full poetry of existence. The struggle for an integrated life existing in an atmosphere of communal trust and respect is one with desperately important political and social consequences. . . . Fear is always with us, but we just don't have time for it.'
She ended with the commitment 'to practice, with all the skill of our being: the art of making possible.'
And for decades, she’s been learning how."
That is what inspires Hillary - that is where she comes from, her heart. Those were her words, her dreams for this country...