Letters to the Editor
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NOBAMA
I am honestly one of those who will NOT vote for Obama. I will write Hillary in before I vote for Obama and I certainly won't vote for McCain. I will not change my mind. I do however wish you would tell Chris Matthews he should leave MSNBC and start working for the Obama campaign. Does he really believe that people think he is objective?
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@Joan--your argument is bogus
Sure it is great to get all these voters registered and engaged.
But this race is far enough along now and there are a million fired-up Obama supporters willing to knock and doors and go from the grassroots on up.
Conventional politics is over, the old rules do not apply. This is the politics of the future, and it doesn't need a protracted bloody battle to the bitter end to deliver the goods.
I know after a lifetime of being uninvolved I'm ready to get to work and my story is not unique.
What we need to be doing right now is healing the divisions between the two camps. Not increasing them.
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-- allhailmary
Yep, Chris Matthews is certainly for Obama and so is Olberman, Maureen Dowd and a slug of others.
They should be kicked out as soon as we can manage to kick out Joan Walsh and others who shill for Clinton.
Fair? Let's give it a try. But unfortunately, we don't have a media but a bunch of self styled, self inflated gas bags who try to manipulate our politics.
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btw I'm in a state that has not voted yet
--and I'm being trained and we're identifying supporters. We are a very late voting state so we're not even close to voting yet. And those like me are hoping the nomination is decided before then. If it is I'll be even more ready to get in there and work towards November.
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I read that on the Today Show
The question was broached why she (Clinton) hasn't already quit. I don't know what were the ensuing speculations, but democrats keep saying she's steering the democratic party up shit creek without a paddle. I'm an independent, so the state of the democratic part is pretty secondary to me. I'm onboard for Obama, but frankly the party and the people in it having a food fight is its own problem. I'll wait to vote Obama until the moon grows blue from cold if need be.
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Chris Matthews is not a journalist and he doesn't play one on TV
For all his faults (and there are many), Chris is pretty open about his bias. I don't consider Hardball to be a news show. It's commentary. So I can put up with that.
Olbermann is the one who I think is a less upfront about things like that.
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and most of all she has no chance unless. . .
some horrible new scandal broke regarding Obama.
If she withdrew now, and then such a highly unlikely event occurred, the Democratic party would have no difficulty re-instating her as its candidate, using the delegate system as it already is.
There is no need for the party to go through what it is going through now.
There is no way this is benefiting anyone.
I don't even think it is benefiting Clinton, I think she/they are self-destructing.
If these supporters were really her friends they would stop repeating her talking points and start gently giving her a dose of reality. Maybe an intervention is in order.
But we definitely have some enabling going on here. True friends don't enable. They show their love by confronting reality and truth.
"If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed." Chinese Proverb
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@ unschooler
Your enthusiasm is infectious.
At a time of so much acrimony, that's pure gold.
Keep up the good work, the good vibes, and I'll be out there knocking on doors with you when the time comes.
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@ unschooler
Speaking of a dose of reality, at what point does it become fair to start pointing out the similarities between Clinton and Bush as far as this issue goes?
At what point is the evidence sufficient for us to draw comparison between the two as far as cronyism/loyalty, the inability to ever admit a mistake, siege mentality, hubris, etc.
While their policy positions are for the most part quite far apart, I'm noticing more and more parallels as far as how the two do business.
It alarms me.
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@ unschooler
She makes me sick too (literally, I'm finding her repellent in much the same way I find Bush repellent--the brazen contempt she displays, the smugness, the entitlement), but don't ever be embarrassed to self-identify as a feminist.
Feminism is honorable although Hillary Clinton is not.
In fairness to her, though, as my mother pointed out to me recently, HIllary did come along at a time when, in order for a woman to succeed, she had to "out-male" the men.
I appreciate the position she was put into, but I don't like that behavior in men, either.
She has much in common with Bush and Giuliani, as far as character goes.
It's not ok in them and it's not ok in her.
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Clinton's Republican tendencies
"Speaking of a dose of reality, at what point does it become fair to start pointing out the similarities between Clinton and Bush as far as this issue goes?" Weeping for Brunhilde
I think it's been fair since the kitchen sink. I started noticing it then myself, particularly her similarity to Bush in difficulty admitting mistakes and a tendency to be very insular.
Her campaign tactics are particularly similar to right wing tactics, even to the point that she accused Obama's campaign of being Rovian when it was she herself being Rovian. Even to the point that she made her offensive comments yesterday at a right wing radio show.
Maybe she really is campaigning to be McCain's VP running mate (this was put forth as snark by Rachel Maddow on MSNBC).
I really am having a hard time understanding what she thinks she is accomplishing at this point. I don't understand the supporters who focus on what's fair instead of what is pragmatic. But then one reason I love Obama is his blend of idealism with pragmatism. Maybe not everyone else values or looks for that.
"Go to your bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know" William Shakespeare