Letters to the Editor
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To Rocky57
Right back at ya. Great letter. Best I've read here.
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Globalization Job Losses are at the heart of Obama's problems
Obama has a problem with appealing to women, seniors and middle class workers, who jobs have been outsourced and downsized.
Early in Obama's campaign, he talked about the need for redoing Social Security, which disturbed seniors and those near retirement, especially single females.
For the most part, Obama has led a charmed life, where he won scholarships to the top schools starting with prep school. As a result, he doesn't have a problem relating to their issues. But he has never had to deal with hard times and therefore has a hard time dealing with the impact that globalization has had on American jobs and families. This is NOT about the issue of Americans qualified to do the job. This IS about corporate owners finding workers at the lowest dollar cost and at the same time wanting more and more tax breaks.
I have been a Clinton supporter but I will vote a straight democratic ticket in November.
In order to undo all of the Republican garbage, the democratic candidate needs to win by a land slide of 60% or better. IMO, this means that Hillary and Obama need to be on the same ticket in order to unite the democratic base.
What I want is someone who will represent my interests fairly and fight to restore fairness and justice in our democracy.
I really don't think that race is the real issue with the voters in WV, Kentucky or wherever. I think that the problem is that these voters cannot connect with Obama. Everything in Obama's world has gone right.
Can and Will Obama fight for the American workers who have not benefited from globalization but have been harmed by it?
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The Real Question
After the nominee of the Democratic Party gets obliterated by the Republican noise machine ("he's [fill in the blank] liberal, totally inexperienced, a machine hack from Chicago, Rezko corrupt, etc.) how is the Democratic party going to regroup for 2012? I understand that it is assured that the media conglomerates want him as our nominee - Clinton hasn't a chance, but after he loses (and he will, big) what do we do to stop this uninterupted Republican rule?
He'll get ten states. No more.
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LindaHewitt
While I agree with some of what you said -
A scholarship isn't a symptom of a charmed life - it is a symptom of bloody hard work and a certain degree of aptitude. The issue of Obama's education is being raised to try and take what is in real terms a positive, and turn it into a negative.
If you look at his background it is significantly more working class than Hillary's, but that does not fit with the story the media or Salon wants to play.
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It doesn't matter
Dems will spend the next 8 weeks focusing on the ever important left handed lesbian Samoan circus midget vote in Nebraska while McCain stumbles his way to yet another GOP accidental victory. Good job, assholes.
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First they came!
First they came for the Elitists, and I wasn't one so I kept my mouth shut. Then they came for the "Eggheads", and I wasn't one so I kept my mouth shut. Then they came for the "Blacks", and I wasn't one, so I kept my mouth shut. Then they came for the "Men", and I wasn't one, so I kept my mouth shut. Then they came for me.
This is kind of divisive campaign Hillary Clinton is running.
Hillary Clinton--the Candidate of White Females and Racists.
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racism?
Yes, a quarter of those Kentucky voters said racism was a factor in their vote - and the vast majority of them went for Clinton. But pollsters and simple common sense tell us that many, many people will not admit to voting along racial lines, so that twenty-five percent of race-biased voters has to be, in reality, much higher. So when people say, "We don't know him well enough," or "He's not like us," or "Isn't he a Muslim?" or "I just don't like him," or "I just have a funny feeling about him" - isn't it likely that, deep down, what they may not even admit to themselves but what is the honest truth, that they just can't or won't vote for a black man? Obama is facing this hard fact head-on, and I believe that he's going to help so much to move this country along on the path it's already been traveling, toward putting our ugly racist past behind us. But it's not going to happen overnight, and expecting one man to work that miracle is unfair. So yes, he needs to keep trying, everywhere, even in Appalachia. I don't expect his campaign is going to write off an entire region in the general election. I know I live in the part of PA that is much like Appalachia, and Obama didn't win here, but he came very close - and I think he will fight hard for the general election, and he will win.
As for the very good letter Joan quotes, am I the only reader struck by the fact that if you substitute "Reverend Wright" for those Appalachian folks you don't agree with but can never and should never disown because they are like family even if you don't agree with everything they think or say, it makes the same valid point? People can't have it both ways, picking and choosing their outrage along convenient political lines.
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Enough
with the endless BS. Respect for Clinton and her supporters? Excuse me? How about some self-respect first? Hers has been a vile, divisive campaign, let her find some dignity at last. That's not up to Barack or us, his supporters.
D. Gergen said last night on CNN that Clinton would be well advised to utter words to her voters such as: "if you're voting for me because you have a problem with the color of his skin, I don't want your vote." No, she fans the flames of racism, that's what she does - and we are supposed to show respect?!
This woman is stewing in filth, let her start exhibiting some dignity, before asking us to show her respect. Barack has been dignified, and honorable. But enough is enough from Clinton supporters such as Walsh: no, I don't think you've demonstrated anything worthy of respect - at all.