Letters to the Editor
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@David Sugarman
Hello.
IMO, nobody should bunk out on their first and only Senate term and the Senate provides important experience and also experience for getting things done across the aisle a President needs.
I know a lot of the vulgar bots like to spew about how inexperienced others were here and there (when they're not spouting off anti-semitic slurs, enaging in beastality and calling folks "Bitchery") but the fact is this is no time to put inexperienced folks in office and experiement and the electorate knows it - particularly those pesky swing voters Democrats must get the votes of to win an election.
This is one of the more vulnerable areas the GOP will have heydey on Obama with of course. He was running for president before he even unpacked his Senate briefcase and has done virtually nothing and spent no time in the role. They'll have a heydey with his absentee record along with much else (Muslim upbringing, name change to a Muslim name, Resko, domestic terrorist associations, elitism, unpatriotic wife, Excelon, anti-semitic associations, anti-Catholic associations, most Liberal Senator, etc etc.)
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@doloresflower not festering but from what i've heard
the umbrella strategy is a type of NATO alliance - but of arabs and directed against iran, not western europeans against russia. it would be automatic in theory. the base strategy is flexible as to whom is attacked and when and doesn't require allies. let's see what uncle comes up with!
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@maureen odonnell
Are you married???
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dolores -
I did answer you. It's to stop nuclear proliferation. If you don't understand that - that is very sad. Nuclear proliferation is one of the greatest threats we face - especially in the Middle East. The only way to help them not feel a need to protect themselves is to guarantee them protection.
Sugarman -
What you are saying is quite pointless and inaccurate. I assure you - you could not find a more modern woman than myself.
And to say that all women who support Hillary are not modern is assinine and ludicrous.
And I like the "DeeperTruth."
I feel we have a great need for more of it in our culture and society.
I am an Award-winning scholar (but not famously).
I live a low-income, independent, bohemian style life.
And I like it!
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@DeeperTruth
Are YOU married? Between you and Maureen a guy could spend a lot of time here.
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We are still here BryanS
Don't think for a moment we have gone anywhere! We're still here, just as committed, just as strong - perhaps what you are seeing is an increasing reluctance to offer ourselves up to be insulted by a$$holes. After all, if you think this blog is a true representation of the electorate, you are a bit on the obtuse side....I just made another docation to HRC's campaign by the way...
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watergate anyone?
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/politics/blog/2008/04/obamas_allentowngate_laptops_m.html
obama's campaign laptops and cell phones stolen...
Sugarman, do you ever read Greg Palast the American journalist who works for the Guardian? According to his book, Live from the Armed Madhouse, this next election is already rigged for the next election (as it was for the last two) and the GOP therefore will win....
For conspiracy theorists, it's the perfect set-up. The Democratic party tearing itself to pieces, the loyal female base verses the loyal African American base...and everyone will blame everyone else. Yet what are the chances there won't even be a fair election?
It probably sounds cynical of me to ask that....but after what we've seen in the past eight years....I'm starting to wonder if any of this could be real. Maybe it has never been real.
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DeeperTruth
I understand the intention of stopping nuclear proliferation. What I'm trying to understand is, are Democrats and Republicans all on board with this....
ie is there a foreign policy difference between McCain and the Democrats on this? The neocons want, I think it's pretty clear, to establish permanent bases in Iraq....have Clinton and Obama both said no to bases?
I'm just wondering what differences in foreign policy do the Democrats offer for this fall?
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Dataguyx., or whatever you call yourself....
You obviously know nothing about Ireland. Adams is a member of the Assembly of Northern Ireland. N.I. constitutes the six counties of the island under British rule. I was born and raised in an independent country, the Republic of Ireland. It is a sovereign state, you lummox, and I (as well as most people I know) want nothing at all to do with Gerry Adams. Try Boston first and all those singing "Danny Boy" on St. Patrick's Day. While you're at it, check out Mr. Ayers. He'd have far more in common with the IRA than I ever would. I think you're clutching at straws when you try to associate me, by virtue of nationality, with the IRA. Does that mean that African-Americans are to be irrevocably tied to the tyrant of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe? You should be ashamed of yourself.
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DeeperTruth What I think, vs what other people think
I've posted on this before at length, so I will attempt to be concise.
This is political speech, not a matter of linguistics. Just like Obama is going to get fried by the Pat Buchanan segment of the population for saying that people cling to guns, god, and xenophobia because of the economy. Pat will tell you many cling to the above independent of the economy.
I personally think her statement was clunky on a political level. She was making political speech. She wasn't in history class. The main point that the Clinton campaign was making at the time was that Obama was all hot air, starry eyed and all; his 'followers' entertained by his antics. A 'dreamer'. She should have left MLK out of it. A large and important block of the democratic party has the utmost regard for MLK and might be a little sensitive about any speech regarding him. You yourself had to add words to my quote (dream began to be Legally realized) to make it sound better. Followers of a hero are going to be more emotionally engaged. Given the context that Hillary was just mentioning that Speeches don't matter, reminding potential supporters that it took LBJ to get the job done may have pissed a few people off. And I really have to disagree with the main premise of the Clinton campaign at that point. Speeches matter, getting people excited and involved and on your side matters.
Hillary's words were not deal breakers for me. I still plan to vote for her if she's the nominee. I'm a little more dispassionate about the whole thing than you might suspect. I just have to call BS on 'the MLK/LBJ wasn't her fault' narrative.