Letters to the Editor
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To: Chris Neimeth, CEO, Salon
Please read this thread and see what Ms. Walsh is doing to the magazine. She's essentially using it for the sole purpose of promoting her own future career in other MSM (TV, most likely). It's destroying the legacy of Salon for her own selfish interests - something I would think the CEO should be interested in.
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Seriously Joan,
you are joking right?
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Joan, how did you get this job?
Joan
How did you get to be Editor in Chief of Salon? Did you know somebody? Did you inherit money? With all the talent in Salon, how is it that you are the least talented?
You simply cannot get over your Hillary fixation can you? ANY attempt to take a shot at Obama and bam, there you go.
What did you expect Hillary to say? She LIED to make herself appear brave. How can you apologize for that? She lied at least three times on different occasions. She has run a terrible campaign, and despite what you want to believe, Hillary has had ever possible advantage. A junior Senator with a funny name, who is black, has beat her. THAT must rankle those who want a woman-ANY woman to be President.
Do you really want the Clintons to be back in office? With the far right sinking do you really want to give them a target to rally around?
The problem is you want a WOMAN to be President at any cost. You are no different from the Republicans that you blast. THey want a Republican at any cost and you want a WOMAN.
Tell the truth. If Condi Rice was the Republican candidate and ANY man was the Democratic candidate, you would vote for Condi wouldn't you?
Why, because... Oh God... a WOMAN would be the President and you could jump up and down for 8 years.
If a man felt the way you did, you would call him a sexist. When a woman is a sexist, you (and others) say they are empowered, a feminist, etc.
Of course, you will brand me as someone who is a sexist. But, sorry, I believe there is no differences in the sexes, or in races. There are on individuals.
So how DID you get this job, Joan?
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these questions may be stupid and irrelevant to some but not to others
In my opinion, the questions about lapel pins and Wright and Ayers are all pointless. Unfortunately I am not America (and you can't too!) There are people with legitimate concerns, not so much about Obama's lapel pin habits, but about his past association with Jeremiah Wright, certainly. My dad is a hardcore conservative who has no desire to vote for McCain, but all he knows about Obama is that he attended a church where a radical pastor seems to have preached hate against whites, and now Obama is pretending he didn't know about it. This may not sway a hard-core liberal, and an Obama supporter can come up with any number of rationalizations and dismissals of Obama's association with Wright, but issues like this still scare the crap out of a lot of voters.
Obama could have used these debates as an opportunity to first intelligently and calmly assert his viewpoint on the minor issues, explain that, yes, he did associate with those people, but his views are his own and he does not agree with hatred against whites, and that ultimately, he thinks such issues are mere distractions from the the issues his campaign is concerned with. Such a well-crafted response could have, in one fell swoop, taken the concerns of independent voters seriously, assuaged their fears, and still gotten the point across that he is above minor issues.
Unfortunately Obama flubbed in a big way. It will cost him, maybe not in the primary, but certainly in the general.
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Turn Off the Rhetoric and Wait for the Results in PA
All the "analysis", opinion, speculation, and rhetorical wanderings are just so much blah, blah, blah. It is a reminder of the 90's when EVERYBODY had opinions about Bill Clinton's "scandals".
Let's knock it off and wait until next week. If Hillary does not win by a large margin, which she must to continue a viable campaign, Obama will have done well enough in PA to neutralize any further threat from the Clinton campaign until the end of the primary season. The threat that Hillary intends to hold on until the Dem convention has little meaning unless her supporters in the Party have an ace upo thier sleeves. Otherwise, the Clinton obstinacy is potentially harmful to the Dem Party (and Obama) but less directly. Obama will still face McCain and Hillary will have to go back to NY where she will be a prominent and very valuable Senator despitre the harm she has done to her own reputation in this primary.
THE REAL THREATS TO OBAMA'S CAMPAIGN WILL COME FROM THREE OPPONENTS: JOHN McCAIN, THE REPUBLICAN PARTY DIRT MACHINE AND ITS OWN MEDIA OPERATION, AND OUR CORPORATE MAINSTREAM USA MEDIA. Our mainstream media have alreadty been ABCing and swift boating Obama for weeks now. Just watch them go into action a couple of months before the general election. Al Gore's mistreatment by the media will look like a love-in in comparison.
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the way obama supporters respond
to a simple question ("will obama's debate performance hurt him") makes it clear that the promised unity of an obama presidency is a pipe dream. can't even get along with half of your fellow democrats. we haven't even gotten into the half of america that supports mccain. so good luck with that unity thing.
meanwhile, to the question: did obama's debate performance hurt him? something did, but i think that more likely it's been his post-debate reaction. in any event, clinton is moving up again in the polls and actually outpolled obama in gallup polling the night after obama mocked the debate.
he'd best let it go...
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Time to come out and admit it
Joan,
Would you please just endorse Hillary already?
The constant passive-aggressive comments about Obama are getting tiresome, and would be much easier to take if you were an avowed Clinton supporter.
Honestly, I think you are great, but whether you realize it or not, you are about as neutral as James Carville when it comes to this race.