Letters to the Editor
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AFFIRMATIVE ACTION?
"what Obama should do
Obama has to do what JFK did.
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JFK started the affirmative action program. That's what obama needs to do? I disapree.
As barack is a black man it would make this a racial issue.
I agree with the other poster. Race and gnder have nothing to do with this election. Be wary of those who say it does.
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@Joan Walsh
Thanks, Joan! I don't know if you happened upon my comment or not, but last time you wrote about this I was curious to know the specifics of this comment, so thanks for providing it—along with fair-minded analysis and a constructive question about how Dems can move forward (not that I necessarily agree...lol).
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@joan walsh
"educated elites" - i.e., Joan Walsh; "working class," i.e., the cleaning woman who dumps my waste basket; "ethereal nature" -- that would be umm, umm oh yeah the guy who talks "above us" and "above me" and who is "above it all" - oh yeah its the "uppity" guy
forget it: this election is about inclusiveness versus ugliness; hillary clinton's recent remarks have brought new meaning to the latter.
stop taunting your readers
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@Ricardo Malocchio
I would not say that Clinton supporters have "embraced" ProudTexasGirl. I have not seen a lot of praise for her musings. I don't counter her because 1) I have my hands full with commenting about the more offensive anti-Clinton rhetoric and 2) I respect that she seems to be trying to talk honstly about issues that are relevant, even if I don't always agree with her. It's very hard to talk about welfare or affirmative action and black people without sounding like a racist. We generally tiptoe around it. She is a bit harsher than I would like, and often has facts wrong, but if we're going to talk "honestly" about race, then these are the kinds of ideas we have to address. You can't hold a discussion about race when the first words that come out of your mouth are "You are a racist". That's dismissive and insulting, and will immediatly end the discussion.
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ok.
"@rufus11
I want to vote for a Democrat. I really do. But they have to give me a choice that is reasonable, not a charismatic figurehead whe doesn't even bother to read what his aides write down as his opinions and doesn't study for debates and doesn't have any experience. I will not vote for a Democratic version of George W. Bush.
-- jebldmm"
Like clinton with not reading the iraq report before authorizing us to go to war? What's your choice. mccain and staying in the middle east? Forever.
the draft? the george bush karl rove school of politics?
What are your options if not obama? are you a democrat or aren;t you. I am an independant. I don't vote along party lines. I also am not represented in american politics. I am in obama. YEah sure, I wish he would take differant stands on certain issues, like the propoganda media and illegal immagration. But if I wanted a candidate to be exactly like me I would run for president.
We are all individuals. Nobody is perfect. Obama is a man. He is falable like anyone. What are your choices though? We have no choices as patriotic americans BUt to vote for obama. To me, at the time, gore is bush. Kerry is bush. the clinton's are bush. Or should I say gop?
I for one, want change. Obama, for all his flaws, if positive change. He is not gop. finally we get a chance at a two party political system in my lifetime. He is not a race baiter. He is not a black man. He is not a democrat. he is an american. As an independant in his first election I like that. I have never voted, as I have never been represented. Millions others haven't also. Why? Is it their fault they are not represented in american politics? no.
Obama is not perfect. He will start the process. Baby steps. this is the greatest country in the history of civiliaztion. We have lost our way the last 50+ years, and have started to decline (morally, idealogically, legally). We have a choice. the decline, due to bush and the current neo-cons is steep. If we screw this chance up, we may not get another chance.
Obama cannot fail. The first minority president. He cannot and will not fail. He is going to set presedence one way or another. I beleive he would not allow himself to fail, as the people that surrond him would not. all americans should embrace this. this country is not obama's to save. It's yorus and mine to save. Obama gives us a chance, he will enable the people's will to be done. the same cannot be said of the gop, clinton included. We have seen that.
we have a choice. monarchy or democracy? Choose america
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Hypocrisy
Let's just call it what it is: hypocrisy.
I don't know which is worse; the blacks who engage in wholesale racism and hatred against all else, or the white "liberals" that condone their doing so.
For instance Dems couldhave won this November instead of nominating a candidate who on his best day will pull in 7 states: if not less. But both blacks and "liberal" whites wanted no part of it. And the vitriol, slurs and fabrications they spewed throughout the primary were the ugliest I'd ever seen in my life. Bar none.
I do believe the difference between blacks and all other racial communities the nation has and continue to develop is a desire to succeed.
For whatever reason blacks are stuck in a mentality of perpetual victimhood. They'd rather lose with Obama than win with Hillary or someone else and then of course be furious not with themselves or the right: but with Democrats a little to the center of them. Liberals of the left have the same mentality.
The right knew it and that's why they paved the way and made it so easy for Obama: up to now that is. Now obviously his usefulness is over.
So my feeling is if it's not too late, and it probably is, is that Dems should regroup and leave the Al Sharpton's and Donna Brazilles behind along with the equally martyr-embracing lefties.(how anyone intelligent can even take that horrible woman seriously when she so stunningly ran Gore's campaign into the ground is beyond me)
The rest of us are actually sick and tired of losing elections and watching our kids and grandkids and parents suffer for it.
IOW, it's not about race. It's about stupidity.