Letters to the Editor
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I Couldnt Agree More
I actually think this will form a battle tested experienced candidate and network. Its naive to think the repubs arent going to be 10x worse than anything seen in this primary no matter how hard fought it is. Let's use a bit of good old fashioned survival of the fitest and get the strongest candidate.
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long democratic primary season
Joan
this is utter nonsense. I travel a lot and currently live in North Carolina and hear a lot. The poison and hardening of positions between the Clinton camp and the Obama camp is real and it is permanent and is going to do real damage to any prospect of a democrat winning the white house. And, regardless if you want to acknowledge it or not, Clinton is the one that has caused this dramatic polarization with the voters.
If Hillary Clinton buys into your argument she would not be pulling anything and everything to try and damage the campaign of Obama. She knows that the path to the nomination is to damage him. Period. And, how in the hell is that a benefit to the democratic party? Or a constructive reason for her to continue the daily spin from her people. No Kidding,
Millions of young people and a large chunk of the American-African community are going to walk over the back and forth of negativity and it is Hillary Clinton and her band of thugs causing it. Can't she tell the truth or simply run on her merits?
bhobo1257
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@ Joan, who claimed on TV Salon was "all over" Hillary's Bosnia lie last week.
I guess that claim was Joan's lie. It must be contagious when you have your head that far up Hillary's... well, you know. Just look back at last week's articles on Hillary's Bosia fiasco and see for yourself how thinly covered it was at Salon. And absolutely no coverage on it by Joan, of course.
As for Hillary's other lies, here's a list courtesy of Dick Morris, compliling Hillary's admitted lies along with all the ones she hasn't quite fessed up to yet:
ADMITTED LIES:
• Chelsea was jogging around the Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. (She was in bed watching it on TV.)
• Hillary was named after Sir Edmund Hillary. (She admitted she was wrong. He climbed Mt. Everest five years after her birth.)
• She was under sniper fire in Bosnia. (A girl presented her with flowers at the foot of the ramp.)
• She learned in The Wall Street Journal how to make a killing in the futures market. (It didn't cover the market back then.)
WHOPPERS SHE WON'T CONFESS TO:
• She didn't know about the FALN pardons.
• She didn't know that her brothers were being paid to get pardons that Clinton granted.
• Taking the White House gifts was a clerical error.
• She didn't know that her staff would fire the travel office staff after she told them to do so.
• She didn't know that the Peter Paul fundraiser in Hollywood in 2000 cost $700,000 more than she reported it had.
• She opposed NAFTA at the time.
• She claimed to have organized "instrumental" meetings in Belfast and baldly asserted that she "helped to bring peace to Northern Ireland" -- never mind that key negotiators dismissed her as "totally invisible," "cheerleading," and "a wee bit silly."
• She urged Bill to intervene in Rwanda.
• She played a role in the '90s economic recovery.
• The billing records showed up on their own.
• She thought Bill was innocent when the Monica scandal broke.
• She was always a Yankees fan.
• She had nothing to do with the New Square Hasidic pardons (after they voted for her 1,400-12 and she attended a meeting at the White House about the pardons).
• She negotiated for the release of refugees in Macedonia (who were released the day before she got there).
• She claimed to have "helped start" the federal Children Health Insurance Program -- never mind that the program’s original sponsors noted that Sen. Clinton fought the initial bill and had no role in writing the legislation.
• She bragged that she was the "first" to call the disaster in Darfur "genocide" -- never mind that several other senators had done so in 2004, while her first press statement referring to Darfur as "genocide" wasn’t until March 2006.
Joan and Hillary. Two peas in a pod when it comes to lying.
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Mending Fences
We could take a timeout for a couple weeks and have Hillary and Obama star in a remake of MANDINGO.
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virtue001
She claimed to have "helped start" the federal Children Health Insurance Program -- never mind that the program’s original sponsors noted that Sen. Clinton fought the initial bill and had no role in writing the legislation
Marian Edelman who headed the Children's Defense Fund and Hillary alleged close friend and confidante, broke all ties with the Clintons during their term in office and now has endorsed Obama. I used to think that Dick Morris was an all time sleaze bag. But his rancor against the Clintons is not without just cause.
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Yes, if...
Clinton cools down on her negative framing of Obama. If she succeeds in poisoning his campaign, rather than going to the finish honorably, she builds negative images of her campaign and his campaign that will work against the eventual Democratic nominee. If it reaches the point (and, frankly I'm nearly there) that a plurality of supporters of one campaign view the other candidate as unacceptable because they are buying into Clinton's race-baiting or Clinton's view that Obama is too inexperienced to be "Commander-in-Chief", the advantage of organization building will be negated and a shift of voters to McCain (who should be unacceptable to Obama's and Clinton's supporters) could be a very real result.
I wish Obama and Clinton could at least come together and make a statement that the other would be a better president than McCain. Because of the cryptic patriotism comments (linking McCain and Clinton), and things like the "3 AM" ad, I find Clinton more at fault than Obama.
Only about a month ago, I was still defending Clinton, even if I disagreed with some of her tactics. However, as she has continued to use racially charged language and patriotism remarks--as she goes to the Republican playbook--she is becoming a more and more unacceptable candidate. If she manages to become the Democratic nominee, I will have a hard time rallying to her, and I am strongly considering writing in "Barack Obama."