Letters to the Editor
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Reality-based Liberal
the real hard decisions are for Super-Delegates in Nevada and Texas...Do they vote based on Popular vote or on the vote-rigged proportional delegate winner...I think we should stick with Obama's and the increasingly shrill Pelosi's stance that SD's should vote based on the delegate winner for the particular state (Just to see Ted Kennedy, John Kerry and Bill Richardson vote for Hilary)...Lol...Too much...
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No Surprise, Joan...You're Going to Jump on Anything That Can Help Justify Hillary's Continued Presence in the Campaign
I'm not surprised that, in a week that has been dominated by the ridiculous lies told by Hillary Clinton to try to trump up the seeming importance of her foreign policy undertakings, that you, in your limited time available to blog, have chosen to blog this.
Yes, Joan, we know that you are looking for every reason, and every opportunity to make excuses for Hillary, to justify her continued presence in the campaign, to argue that she has the goods to back up her boasts. And we know you are at the same time looking for passive-aggressive opportunities to undermine, chip away at or straight out malign Barack Obama.
Frankly, it is sad to see Salon's Balkanization -- With Glenn Greenwald out there in the wilderness trying to speak the truth, and Alex Koppelman wiffle-waffling between trying to speak truthfully and trying to follow your direction, and Schizophrenic Shapiro, and the whole coterie of conflicted and confused Salon reporters offering their bipolar political coverage -- and you at the helm, with your subtle but definite anti-Obama bias which is always couched in those passive-aggressive wink-wink pseudo-compliments, and your quite overt admiration for Hillary at every ugly turn of her campaign.
What's next on the editorial calendar for you and your staff, Joan? Articles about how Hillary's kneecapping of Barack Obama is just getting him in shape to face the Republicans in a general election? Articles on how if Hillary manages to win the nomination*, she'll have vetted and prepared Obama for a future run for President? Planning a few more in-depth, academic explorations of how the Clintons and their surrogates' couched racist tactics are actually good for America because it opens up the discourse about race? Maybe you can find someone to argue that accusing Obama of being unpatriotic is a good way to remind us all of our our lost patriotism -- that might be a good one to schedule for Flag Day.
How many ways, Joan, can you take a twisted, rabidly ambitious and truly ugly campaign and its Machiavellian tactics, and try to sell them to us as some sort of liberal/feminist/BabyBoomer fairy tale dream come true?
*thus assuring us of a John McCain presidency
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Also
Why has Michelle been bottled up lately...I found her candor and honesty refreshing...Maybe she's been "dis-invited" like Uncle Wright...
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heck if I know
Heck if I know how this will affect the general election. Nothing like this has happened in recent years, so it seems to me that any predictions are mere guesswork.
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Please,
Come on Joan, you have made it more than obvious that you support Hillary.
To try and mask that with this piece of fluff, please.
This race is a non-race, there is already a winner. Only the media (you) keep pushing the close race story. ANY other candidate would have already quit.
The math has been done, what the hell is wrong with you people, don't you know how to count.
She can't win except a super delegate coup. You think that is good for the party?
Every day the super delegate argument gets weaker and weaker.
If McCain wins, I know exactly where to lay the blame.
This election was practically in the bag, the democratic runoff was basically the presidential race. Hillary lost, so she is basically now going to ruin it for everyone. It's like a spoiled little rich girl, crying about the color of her gift pony.
Lets make this clear, THERE IS NO WAY this is helping the party.
Please make a phone call and tell her to quit.
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What about McCain rising in the polls?
Only so much attack ad time is allowed by informal decency rules. Obama and Clinton are turned on each other. They use up their attack quota on each other instead of "Keating-5 Broken The Financial System Once Before Plan on Doing It Again" McCain. Yes, turnout is a little better, but watch the polls. McCain is on the way up against the Dems. Dems are taking too many hits from each other, and not giving enough back to McCain. Turnout is already high, but national poll numbers are going lower.
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@ Ancient Assyrian
Well said. I'd have said it without the sarcasm, myself, but all your points are spot on.
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cab305
So true...Hilary has a hard enough time winning the delegate total in states she takes the popular vote...So Cab, please explain this new math to me...
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i didn't think i had to explain it this simply
we are talking about how the votes are going in this democratic primary of 2008.
it does not matter what happened in the last election cycles.
it's called crossover voting.....when the opposition party "crosses" their own party lines to taint the results of the other party.
and there is no other way of getting that except but having open primaries which many states have.
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Here's some math for you
1 Senate win (Barack Obama) + 200,000 raise(Michelle Obama) = 1,000,000 earmark for University of Chicago Hospital. Expresion on taxpayers face = priceless...
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As I've Said Before
These Obama folks finding excuses for Obama losing 8 months in advance sure is inspiring.
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The Clinton Formulae - CLASSIFIED!!!
These are the lacunae and formulae which drive the minds of Hillary Clinton and her robotic followers. When utilizing these items for analysis, please exercise caution. The insertion of contradictory programming can cause a permanent fatal error in most Clintonites.
Basic Programming Formulae for Clintonite Model 2.0:
"Helping Hillary" = "Helping the Party"
Eg: 'My 35 years of leadership experience trumps the democratic process.'
"Not Helping Hillary" = "Hurting the Party"
Eg: 'Because you won't give me those votes I promised not to campaign for, the party will be hurt'
"Hurting Obama" = "Helping Hillary"
Eg: 'He would not be my pastor.'
"Helping McCain" = "Hurting Obama" = "Helping Hillary"
Eg: 'Wouldn't it be great to have two candidates who love America.'