Letters to the Editor
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I felt hope die
When I saw the headline this morning (got sick of owly Keith trashing Clinton last nite), my heart sank. Now we will have four years of either a stammering amateur fumbling around trying to "change" Washington or a throwback serving out time changing his ideas back and forth. We will still not be governed as a country and our problems won't be solved. I know everyone says this, but I am actually planning to leave for Canada or Costa Rica. Our country is so far down, I just want to put my head in the sand and get away. I know--don't let the door hit me in the ass. WhatEVER. This blog and Huffington are so full of nonthinking, name-calling people, it has further discouraged me about our American educational system and the intellectual development of the people.
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Don't have the stomach to write about yesterday's primary results, Joan?
Pardon me, Joan, but wouldn't it be more appropriate to write about the results of yesterday's NC/Indiana primaries instead of this "Brazile-Begala Smackdown" twaddle? I mean, something rather important transpired yesterday. Has it left you in denial? Has it left you under the bed sheets in the fetal position?
You see, Obama now leads Hillary by 700,000 in the popular vote, "obliterating" any gains she made in Pennsylvania. In fact, his margin of victory (more than 230,000) was even larger than the amount Hillary won Pennsylvania by (about 215,000).
So much for Hillary's popular vote argument.
And in Indiana, Hillary's slither of a lead netted her a paltry 18,444 votes -- possibly the thin margin Republican mischief was able to muster behind Rush Limbaugh's Operation Chaos.
In addition, since the Pennsylvania primary two weeks ago, Clinton has picked up 11.5 superdelegate endorsements to Obama's 22, according to an Associated Press count.
Oh, and did I mention that Hillary is not just out of money, but very much in debt?
See a trend here, Joan? One worth writing about? Perhaps, once you're feeling yourself again, you could craft an article called, "Hillary is Toast."
As I wrote to you back on April 26th, "...after the North Carolina and Indiana primaries on May 6th, your beloved Hillary will begin her final downward spiral, greased by her own lies, racism and duplicity. It will be delicious."
And so it is.
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@thestar (The Death of Hope)
You're right: 4 years of watching a misty eyed dreamer fumbling for pens and pencils, sharing tea with tyrants and acting as if the poorest are upset at our country's glory. 4 years of listening to powerful speeches and then watching him hop off the stage like a little boy and stick is nose high in the air like a psychotic king. We now must look forward to either 4 years of Bush's third term or 4 years marked by letting the leader of the most glorious country on earth slowly learn his way into office, slowly realize that his new terrorist friends are using him and slowly learn that he has no hope of getting four more.
And all we had to do was put the person in office who used to live there, who obviously loves all Americans and who is certainly the greatest uniter-not-divider our country has ever produced.
so flee away, thestar, and send us word of your whereabouts, letting us escape- if only occasionally- from the muddied bed we've now made ourselves. Flee away, staryone, and find refuge from the gathering storm that only She-Who-Can-Not-Be-Named could have blown away with her day-one doggedness and her only-electible obviousness. Keep us in your thoughts as you live a life marked by your better judgment. And please keep a few pieces of hope for those of us still entranced by the millionaire of the misty mountains, the vagrant of vacant valleys...
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THE CONNING OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
and the American media by Barack Obama.
The guy will be a disaster for this country if he is elected President. John McCain, please get your head out of Bush's ass and start running a real campaign. You won't need those right-wing nuts. There's a ton of Democrats looking for a reason to leave the Party.
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@Rambling Rose 22 (what are we suppose to do?)
How can anybody imagine Obama having a positive effect on this country? You've got to have brains to help. You've got to really care to help. You've got to have lived there to help. And you absolutely positively without a shadow of a doubt have to have collected more support than your opponant to even win!
Obama was such a long shot to defeat Clinton. He was such a long shot that I'm not convinced we can consider his victory a true one. He was not expected to be able to run an effective campaign to take down Clinton; in fact, maybe he didn't. Maybe he ran such a poor, unorganized, unintelligent campaign that his "victory" was more like the culling of the dazed masses.
Obama was not supposed to be this effective. Are we, as true democrats, really willing to slip into the trance he's pushing? He was suppose to get trounced by Her. Are we, as people who care about the future, really willing to support a man who is laughing his way to the bank? Barack Obama has NEVER been president. He has NEVER been a senator as long as Clinton and he has NEVER said he is ready on day one. Are we, the true hope for the future, going to support a man doesn't even have the press credentials as the Maverick McCain.
We must remind everybody we meet in these tired and tedious days that Barack can only sink the battered ship of America faster than it's already sinking. Vote for anybody but the man who wasn't suppose to have this success. Anybody.
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Yes, he was gracious, and....
he will really need Clinton's savvy when he gets into the White House....even maybe in his campaign. He has had a learning curve through this and he will have a really steep one in the general election. As some have said, he has never been through one of those, and it is a whole different dimension than anything he's known yet.
It's a shame Clinton has been trashed so badly and so long that she can't win the White House. As soon as some in the media began a bit of negative coverage of Obama, his supporters began whining that the media were going to wreck the election. Well, that was nothing compared to the bashing and the innuendos and lies Clinton has been the victim of for the past year and much more.
Obama will need Clinton - the real Clinton, not the made-up one touted negatively in the media - big time.