Letters to the Editor
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Joan, Joan, Joan
According to the posters, it looks like you are getting a thumpin.....
You do remind me of my Hillary supporting friends though. God bless them. They just won't give up. My heart goes out to them. I will remind you of what I reminded them. Hillary is not the only woman in America. Ten years ago we never heard of Barack Obama. Twenty years ago we never heard of Bill Clinton or Al Gore. Eight or twelve years from now there will be a female candidate whose name we do not know now.
Take heart. She is out there. We will know who she is. She will be President. That is, if the Republicans don't blow us to kingdom come first.
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John McCain & Racial Politics (his family owned slaves!)
i‘m lookin fer McCain 1981 or 1983 CoNGReSSiONaL...
1984, 1990 etc etc SeNaTe...
CaMPaiGN PaMPhLeTs / brochures / literature...
where there may be potentially embarrasing positions...
vis-a-vis ‘pro-choice' flip-flops...
c‘mon people...
it's GoTTa be out there...
somewhere...
oh... btw...
did yu kno that his great-great-great grandpappy...
WiLLiaM ALeXaNdeR McCain had owned 52 SLaVeS!!!
NO Sh'T!!!
CZeCh iT Out fer yrself...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_S._McCain%2C_Sr.
here's a LiNk...
to John McCain's UNCLeS RaCiaL / RiGhT-WiNG pamphlet collection...
housed @ UNiV of SOUTheRN MiSS...
http://www.lib.usm.edu/~archives/m393.htm
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Obama can have a serious discussion about race ... can Clinton?
It's amazing how quickly everyone seems to forget Obama's groundbreaking speech, when the Wright issue first raised itself, that spoke with candor about race in a way we haven't seen in this country, perhaps ever.
(Should I be surprised that Walsh has forgotten that speech? I suppose not. That Walsh would write a headline that is so clearly refuted by a well-known speech Obama gave is simply par for the course at this time.)
Can Obama win white voters? You mean, like those in Iowa, Oregon, and Washington?
Why yes, he clearly can. He only failed to win "white voters" if you mean, as Clinton evidently does, "White voters in states where Clinton has done well - who are generally blue collar and poorly-educated, and older."
Any REAL look at the demographics does suggest that Obama does have a problem - with older white women. That problems starts to vanish if you look at younger white women, or older white men, or older non-white women, or ... well, you can spot the trend here.
Undoubtably, a lot of those older white women are voting for Clinton for reasons related to the politics of identity (which is undoubtably also part of the reason why Obama is doing so well among black voters). But whereas Clinton has done a lot of antagonize blacks, making some of us worry if they'll turn out in large numbers to vote for her, has Obama done anything similar to antagonize older white women - a vote which turns out to vote pretty reliably, regardless of the gender of the candidate?
This is not the first time in the race when it's appeared that the Clintons have tried to create a race problem. Maybe we should focus on the ways that Obama has transcended race by bringing large numbers of whites into the fold, rather than doing the Clinton campaign's work for them by hyping up a problem that really isn't anywhere as big as the Clintons would like it to be.
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I don't know if joan is getting her marching orders from the gop or from teh catholics
Either way. At least she shows her face. Like minds think alike. Rush hannity and o'reilly have all covered this conversation between two people, as if they are all of america and the issue. More media games and gop divide and conquer. Only works if you have credibility joan. YOU REPUBLCAINS lost that credibility in 2006. The american people rejected it. If you have no credibilitya nd crave none, you are a propogandist. As rush, as coulter, as hannity. no differance. The only differance is, democrats/liberals hold democrats/liberals to account. Unlike the clone cultist borg.
if you are gop by all means. but please stop teh cahrade. Please step down from salon, and give us our progressive/liberal webiste again.
"DECLARATIONS
By PEGGY NOONAN
Damsel of Distress
May 9, 2008
This is an amazing story. The Democratic Party has a winner. It has a nominee. You know this because he has the most votes and the most elected delegates, and there's no way, mathematically, his opponent can get past him. Even after the worst two weeks of his campaign, he blew past her by 14 in North Carolina and came within two in Indiana.
Martin Kozlowski
He's got this thing. And the Democratic Party, after this long and brutal slog, should be dancing in the streets. Party elders should be coming out on the balcony in full array, in full regalia, and telling the crowd, "Habemus nominatum": "We have a nominee." And the crowd below should be cheering, "Viva Obamus! Viva nominatum!"
Instead, you know where they are, the party elders. They are in a Democratic club on Capitol Hill, slump-shouldered at the bar, having a drink and then two, in a state of what might be called depressed horror. "What are they doing to the party?" they wail. "Why are they doing this?"
You know who they are talking about.
The Democratic Party can't celebrate the triumph of Barack Obama because the Democratic Party is busy having a breakdown. You could call it a breakdown over the issues of race and gender, but its real source is simply Hillary Clinton. Whose entire campaign at this point is about exploiting race and gender.
Here's the first place an outsider could see the tensions that have taken hold: on CNN Tuesday night, in the famous Brazile-Begala smackdown. Paul Begala wore the smile of the 1990s, the one in which there is no connection between the shape of the mouth and what the mouth says. All is mask. Donna Brazile was having none of it.
Mr. Begala more or less accused the Obama people of not caring about white voters: "[If] there's a new Democratic Party that somehow doesn't need or want white working-class people and Latinos, well, count me out." And: "We cannot win with eggheads and African Americans." That, he said, was the old, losing, Dukakis coalition.
"Paul, baby," Ms. Brazile, who is undeclared, began her response, "we need to not divide and polarize the Democratic Party. . . . So stop the divisions. Stop trying to split us into these groups, Paul, because you and I know . . . how Democrats win, and to simply suggest that Hillary's coalition is better than Obama's, Obama's is better than Hillary's -- no. We have a big party, Paul." And: "Just don't divide me and tell me I cannot stand in Hillary's camp because I'm black, and I can't stand in Obama's camp because I'm female. Because I'm both. . . . Don't start with me, baby." Finally: "It's our party, Paul. Don't say my party. It's our party. Because it's time that we bring the party back together, Paul."
http://online.wsj.com/article/declarations.html