Letters to the Editor
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Obama and the White working Class
I tend to agree with Obama only because at one time I lived in the Pittsburgh area. I saw factories closing down in Corapolis, Neville Island, Aliquippa and Ambridge. There are many who were offered jobs but unfortunately the pay was not near what they were making. When I went back a couple years ago, driving through Aliquippa I noticed many buildings boarded up that had been since the closing down on factories particularly J&L. People sitting outside those buildings drinking alcohol. Were the people bitter, you damn well know it as the factories closed down because taxes were too high and they moved to the south. There are still similarities today! I believe one has to read the whole statement by Obama and not just a sound bite.
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That's rich
And her [Hillary's] income taxes for the past year show that she and her husband gave about 15% of their income to charity.
Most of which went to the Bill Clinton Foundation. Yeah, it may technically classify as a charity, but it's little more than putting unaccountable money into their personal slush fund.
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Question on the Hillary Electability Argument
I favor Obama at this point, but will vote for Hillary if she somehow wins the nomination.
Question to all the adamant Clinton supporters, who see Obama as a disaster in the general:
What states are Clinton likely to win that Obama is likely to lose in the general election?
The nomination process is a process which pits Dems against Dems. The general is a process that throws everyone into the same voting booth. Surely many voters believe that our current administration hasn't done too well. Surely they will realize that McCain is a doddering old fool who is going to continue EVERY policy of Bush.
If not, where will the problems occur? I'd really like the predictions about which states will break to McCain.
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People Joan knows
that she is fighting a losing battle. As I said before she is like the losing basketball team trying to foul the oppenent to extend the game as long as possible.
The clock is running out on the Clinton era. No one wants another Bush or Clinton. The Clintons know that when Barack wins he will get eight years and his lagacy is washed away. They are the eptiome of the status quo and people are tired of the status quo.
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Get this shit:
Clinton has wasted no time to create a crisis. Stormtroopers for her campaign, all across the state of Pennsyvania, are distributing bumper stickers that simply read "I'm bitter." She's also reinvented herself for the umteenth time as the church going pro-gun gal who wants to be your president. Will it work?
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I meant to say Bill's
lagacy is washed away
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manos99
I love your level of "Yo Mama" jokes as a signpost of your Ultimate Obama Supporter status. I'm sure that wins you friends down at the Fake Black Panther Community Center though.
But word to the wise - you don't have to be drunk all the time.
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The sad part
is that we have to admit that by the tactics the Clintons are using against Obama maybe the right wingers were right about them all along.
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Speaking the Unspeakable: Barack Learns a Lesson in Modern Politics
Obama's remarks are reminiscent of John Kerry's to some student assembly (as I recall) during his campaign. He urged his audience members to stay and do well in school or "you'll wind up in Iraq," or words the that effect.
His opponents accused him of showing disrespect for those in uniform; of being an elitist; and all the other usual accusations that follow a remark as un-politic as Kerry's.
This time around, the un-politic remarks have come during the primary season. So it's fellow-democrat Hillary who is leading the charge to paint Obama as a man out of touch with the common people, the working folk.
There are several points of interest in this (and the Kerry) brouhaha:
1. The underlying veracity of the statements are not an issue. In fact, Obama now and Kerry then are being castigated for truth-telling, perhaps the greatest vice any politician can have.
2. Over and over and over again, candidates have--usually unwittingly--displayed the fact that they are as far removed from the bus driver, cashier, assembly-line worker, as are Madonna or A-Rod. Yet politicians are required to perpetuate a mythology that even the common wo/man doesn't himself take seriously.
3. The real insult to all the Average Joe's and Joan's is that true, dyed-in-the-wool pols, like HRC, interact with the as if they were children in need of being told fairy tales only, lest the truth, the reality, of situations scare like the bogeyman scares a 5-year-old. In short, these average people are there only to be manipulated, cajoled, pacified; the goal is getting their vote every few years, period.
Kerry speaks the Truth. He's crucified by his political enemies.
Obama allows Truth to spew from his mouth; HRC is right there to make him pay for it.
[Note: There is an argument that can be made that Barack and John, by speaking the unspeakable, have thereby shown themselves to be inferior politicians, politicians who are unlikely to win elections, especially presidential ones. This may, indeed, be a valid argument. If so, it makes me shudder.]
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'lectro
Like I said, you my friend are a lifer.
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Not Angry Cause it is True
You know being originally from Montana I can tell you for a fact it is 100% true, had to move away 22 years ago so we could get jobs, you know have a house, our own family. Seattle is a nice place don't get me wrong, my kids are Seattlites, my grandmother was a Seattlelite until 1930, when she moved to Montana after being married. There were jobs in Montana then, mining jobs, good jobs, lumber mill jobs, good jobs, when those jobs went away unfortunately there was nothing to replace them, nothing. People are a bit bitter, frustrated, been screwed by Democrats and Republicans since Ronald Reagan. You can't tell me it isn't true, too many of us moved away only to visit once or twice a year, see parents and relatives, visit, but they never get to just race over on a bike to see your aunt, hair flying wildly (no helmets then) laughing in the dry hot summer air. Trudging through the snow to hang out with a great aunt or grandma, mow the lawn, walking down the store on the corner to buy penny candy and playing kick the can in the alley, it smelled like dust and pine trees. I wish my kids knew it too, knew the smells, the air, the midwestern summer. They dont. They missed something.