Letters to the Editor
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Respect and Courtesy
I couldn't agree more that we need respect and courtesy. However, I certainly don't equate Obama's well-intended if clumsy remarks about blue-collar whites to Hillary's clear efforts to draw racial lines between herself and the "black candidate". That was not a well-intended remark. Clinton was signaling the supers to ignore the will of the voters and to toss aside the legitimate nominee in favor of capitualting to fear and bigotry. Obama was trying to provide a context for the attitudes he faces, Hillary was playing politics.
To be clear, I don't think Hillary really intended to imply that blacks were not hardworking or that only whites were hardworking. I think she simply had difficulty voicing a clearly contraversial topic and got caught up in her own words. That however should have been a signal to leave out racial terminology and perhaps just stick with "working class voters."
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Devise
Maybe you are not aware of this device you often use, maybe it just comes naturally to you, but I doubt that. First you give your reaction to a statement you miss-read, then, after framing your column that way you realize, after re-reading, that you left out a key word or two in the original statement, so you revise your posit, but still refer back to your original incorrect framing. You still get in your visceral point that you created on your own acting as if you are writing stream of consciousness columns. If you were honest you would just start over and not do this little framing trick.
Donna did not marginalize working class whites and Latinos at all. She just stated the fact that Obama has actually built a bigger tent where no single group or class or race of Americans can dominate.
It would be helpful if you finally found your way into that tent instead of continuing to kick the tent pegs.
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Two words and an abbreviation
Hillary Clinton VP.
There is a lot of healing that needs to take place, and empty words will not accomplish it. The two people who split the vote must reconcile before the rest of us will.
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There's nothing as boring as listening to .Americans blather incessantly about race.
People prefer talking about race rather than class because race is in everyone's face. Class?
Well, it doesn't fit the mythology about our society being classless, unless it's middle-classness, and class may cause people to rethink and —God forbid!—do something about it.
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This article is so untruthful.
So, Clinton's comment "seemed" to exclude blacks, while Donna Brazile's comments "marginalized" whites? Really?
Joan, you are not a journalist. You are a hack and a shill.
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no joan
"The fact is, I don't disagree with Brazile: I'm not sure she's right, but there are reasons to believe what she does. Obama has expanded the party's reach, which is wonderful. Still, she sounded ready to write off working-class whites and Latinos; it wasn't until I read the transcript that I noticed she said "just rely on white blue-collar voters and Hispanics." But she still sounds a bit like she's making excuses for the Obama campaign giving up on winning the hearts and minds of those voters, and that's unfortunate. I don't think she means it -- she's too smart to think there are going to be any electoral shortcuts for Democrats in November -- but that's how it sounded. "
It's those siding with clinton STILL who are turning their backs on the democrats. Not the other way around. You people are choosing the gop and their tactics. YOU ARE DOING THAT. YOU are the "democrats" who refuse to support the democratic nominee, Barack Obama.
So the question should not fall on democrats or obama supporters to reach out to you, more than we already have. What more can obama do? Seriously.
If you want to be republcains, or don't vote that is your choice. don't whine cry and complain. make yoru choice. vote or don't vote. Nobody is writing "working class whites" off. you are selling out to he republcains, those who still support the sabotuer clinton's candidacy. Please stop pointing the finger. Choose your candidate for the reasons you want. SAbotage the democratic party for whatever reason syou choose. But please please stop blaming obama supporters and democrats for the candidate and message. If you don't like it vote for john mccain. Or don't vote. Please stop the blaming and whining.
This is a shame. It's a joke. Clitnon is a republcain sabotuer. Her husband's presidency was all to setup the gop and the last 8 years. She did nothing to fight bush and the gop the last 8 years. At the time in need she sides with the gop. and you clinton supporters are angry at us democrats/obama supporters? Why? Because we have a candidate and are fighting for him? do you not fight for clitnon? Mccain?
frickin hypocrite gop. I'm so sick of yoru crying and whinging. you don't like obama for whatever reason, don't vote. Or vote mccain. You fascist sabotuers were going to anyway. Rather than pointing the finger and blaming stand on your principles and vote your conviction. Please stop the whining and false justifications.
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Outraged!
HRC's antics are bringing this country to a new low. And that is saying a lot considering the outrages of the Bush administration.
I am just so disgusted by the Clinton campaign. I feel Karl Rove would even be outraged at the gutter-type slime dished out by the Clintons. Lee Atwater turned over in his grave after reading "USA Today" saying "HRC, please quit the race, you're disgracing yourself and the country that you represent."
HRC has reached the nadir of humanity in using dirty, vile, untrue, trash. And she tries to keep changing the game by moving the goal posts in every inconceivable direction.
I think the country is lost! Down the old drain-pipe we go!
The country is too racist to vote for Obama. If he were white there wouldn't be any contest. He is a remarkably good, compassionate, fair, human being.
But he is alien to Washington,D.C. politics and the corporate controlled media will push McCain. There are too many people that have a lot to lose if he ever became President.
The elitists will win again.