Letters to the Editor
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No hatred toward Obama
I don't hate Obama or any other political figure. I am, however, terribly upset that the press and the DNC have been so prejudiced, bullheaded, and one-sided in this primary. And it doesn't take a genius to figure out that Senator Obama is not the most intelligent person in the world. He does not know how to speak when he's asked a question that he hasn't memorized the answer to and he has nearly zero experience at doing anything that would qualify him to run one of the most if not the most powerful and complicated countries in the world. He makes us very uneasy and we don't trust him. I watched him speaking about Ted Kennedy yesterday. His speech was basically umms and uhhs and then some silly statement that alluded to him being Senator Kennedy's best friend. He reminds me too much of Bush. He would not be a good representative for our country. I don't, however, hate him..I just don't want him for our president. Obviously you do, so there we are.
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Joan
"...And yet, when a candidate who's all but wrapped up the nomination loses two primaries by more than 35 percent, there might be a few things he could do better...."
Like what? Staying away from two states where he was going to get pummelled to the tune of a 20 + point electoral beat-down, regardless of what he did, was smart politics; especially considering the campaign mindset of his opponent, and the ravenous, story-hungry beast that is the press [not that there's anything wrong with that].
Consider: he was on the verge of locking up the delegate count; he'd begun to engage John McCain as if he were the Democratic nominee and he had super-delegates tripping over themselves, whether they were uncommitted, Obamamites or Clinton backers, to join him. Why give Hillary an opening for yet another spin: "See, he even campaigned here and he was blown out." "There has got to be something amiss with his candidacy." Instead, he got a great bounce from that bucolic spectacle on the banks of the Willamette (I think it was the Willamette), shored up some important demographics and handily beat Clinton by double digits, in Oregon, to balance out a regional demographic he hadn't a snow-balls chance in hell of making a dent in.
My point of view? Smart move.
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The gop are hypocrites madam
News flash. :)
they don't follow rules. they even create new rules that apply to us, that they have no intention of applying to themselves. I call them fascists for a reason. The word has a definition, the gop 9clinton includeD) fits it. As well as propogandists. does that make them fascist propogandists? to me it does.
how else can you explain the fact that Bill O'reilly is single handedly responsible for getting professors judges and teachers fire FOR WHAT THEY SAY? Because he's "offended". He has that right. What o'reilly and hannity say greatly offend me. Do the laws o'reilly uses apply to him? Can I silence him and fox because I'm offended? If not why not? Why does the gop only get free speech? Why must we pay for everything we say?
Keep a stiff upper lip. One day the rules an dlaws will apply to all americans evenly. :)
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dog-walker
You feel hatred towards her because you perceive what she has done, as having given McCain a chance and as having helped McCain's cause.
The lies, the spin, heck the two endorsements of McCain, the abandonment of her principles (She started out in real terms as a warrior against racism and here she was, using race as a political wedge) the fact that she could have been, should have been heroic, and here she was, just another politician.
Now I can't say as I liked her from the start, but as the election went on I saw more of what I disliked and less of what made me think she would be viable as an option.
This election is about more than just winning. This election must also be about being right, it is not enough to put someone in the oval office, that someone must be a good president otherwise, what was the point of it all? And part of that is rejecting the rightness of wrong.
Part of it has to be a moment like when Edwards, the most admirable figure to come out of this primary, spoke on racist and sexist voters not being welcome in his camp. Sure, Hillary will lose, she will lose now anyway, but she will lose with dignity.
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nostalgia alert
Hey, remember the good ol' days when the worst we had to deal with was "Obama plagariazed a line in a speech!"
man, I miss those days...they were so innocent.
*cue the Don Henley*
:D
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Tired of supporting Democratic failures
I am a lifelong Democrat and have never voted for a Republican except for one local candidate. I have supported the liberal Democrats that we have been given as our nominee for years. We've had one non-liberal Democrat in the last 20 plus years...Bill Clinton, who won 2 terms. The left wing of the party always seems to come up with liberal losers who are totally out of touch with those who vote. They don't win and I'm tired of losing and having people like George Bush as president because the left wing of our party will not wake up and put forth a candidate who can win. They've done it again this year and we will surely lose again.
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"split decision"
A curious headline, seeing as Clinton has essentially already lost.
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Lezah2 I have an idea
Why don't you make a list of the policies that Obama has and the ideas for the country that you disagree with and/or think are unintelligent.
For example, do you think that ending the war in Iraq would be a bad idea in sixteen months instead of five years (or maybe a hundred)...
do you think that taking healthcare to the next level by making it available to everyone (although nobody would be "mandated" to buy it) might be one step in the right direction for health care (as opposed to letting the market decide on its own as if it had a consciousness and could do that)?
Do you think that talking with people who might or might not be building nuclear weapons might be one way of negotiating with them and discouraging them from continuing?
Do you think that fighting a war in Iraq AND Iran (as could happen with McCain and his tendency to confuse who the leadership is in Iran and whether or not al qaida are in Iran) would be an intelligent direction for the country to move in?
Sometimes I think Obama supporters and Clinton supporters need to get more down to earth and pragmatic and think about what DO we want to happen in this country?
The word "change" is nebulous. Even the Republicans are using it this year (I think it is "CHANGE--TO MORE OF THE SAME!!!") But John McCain has supported Bush's ideas for the country. Do you think this is intelligent or not intelligent of him?
Okay, those are a few questions to get things started.