Letters to the Editor
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Thrasher...
I'm not particularly a Hillary backer, although I do consider her well-qualified to RUN for President. Whether she should BE President is entirely another matter.
As for my advice to leave this "crying" episode alone and move on, anyone who hates Hillary Clinton as you evidently do can take or leave my advice as you wish -- I'm just suggesting that using THIS angle to hammer her isn't going to work. Try something else, try anything else -- just not THIS.
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Obama webcheckers: Please have your staff contact me I can do great things for Obama ..
planeidea@msn.com
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eat too much?
Tim must not be feeling well. This doesn't have a pure St. Obama spin on it other than the whole "I didn't tell Jesse to say that" bitter politician response. Huh... weird. I hope Tim sees a doctor.
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Rich: you are wrong!! Obama should turn up the heat
NOW!!!!
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gypsy tears....
Where do they get these peoples? "analyzing tears"....Sounds like something from Borat.
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"Obama webcheckers: Please have your staff contact me I can do great things for Obama .."
...except write clearly, coherently and persuasively, with proper spelling, punctuation or other such factors required for effective communication.
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Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree with Anyone Else but Me
Did Jesse Jr. just say that black Democrats in South Carolina will now vote against Mrs. Clinton because she did *not* cry over Katrina? That is truly a bizarre argument, an utterly classless effort to twist a racially-irrelevant event (Mrs. Clinton tearing up) into a racially charged story. The Jackson apple hasn't fallen far from the Jackson/Sharpton tree. I thought that this was the sort of thing Mr. Obama was conspicuous for *not* engaging in. If he wishes to remain conspicuous in that regard he should unequivocally dissociate himself from Jr's intemperate blather.
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Ugly politics!
I am so tired of the post mortems on Clinton's tears and this one by Jesse Jackson, Jr. is downright disgusting. It implies that her emotional moment was a fraud and that she is not allowed to have emotions on the campaign trail. First of all, the scene has been played over and over again, analyzed over and over again and is absurd; supposedly her eyes welled up in response to a sympathetic voter. I know that I am often tearless about unhappy circumstances until someone offers me sympathy. It is human nature.
Hillary is allowed to get emotional over her hopes and dreams. Another point, she hasn't cried when attacked...that would make her a crybaby. Who knows how she reacted to Katrina in private...I'm sure she was horrified to see the horrible event and had she cried over it, the same people would be calling her a fraud and an emotional broad!
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I think anybody named Jesse Jackson...
...or anything similar, should think twice or three times about injecting the same old divisive racial politics into a campaign that so far has been blessedly free of them.
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No tears for the people of New Orleans
I didn't see Hillary, Obama, or any other presidential hopeful (or co-chair for that matter) shedding tears for victims of Bush's botched disaster relief after a Katrina.
John
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It's focus on trivia like this that make this country a joke
Will Clinton almost-but-not-quite-crying have an affect on this election in the same way that:
1)Al Gore was a chronic liar: Remember the trivia about Invented the internet, toured the state with FEMA, love canal, love story, saying LOCKBOX too much, and being rude by sighing when Bush was taking him to task for his phony math??
2)John Kerry: Was a French looking, French loving, windsurf having wimp who shot a unarmed child in the back in Vietnam??
and the other lies like
3)Bush is a uniter, not a divider who is just as moderate as Gore but he was a responsible grown-up who wasn't a serial liar??
As for Clinton not crying for Katrina, or for the war, or for unequal drug sentencing laws, or etc., etc. that's just B.S. from Jessie jr. to try to tear down the opponent of his chosen candidate. Did Jesse Jackson Jr. cry when our house in California were burned down?? Oh, and has championed and accomplished any sort of meaningful Katrina relief himself??
Clinton crying seemed like a human moment from an exhausted candidate facing large hurtles. In NO WAY should it make her more or less qualified to be president. It just shocked the EMDIA who had been saying that Clinton was not in fact a human for the entire campaign.
The same way some people seemed to LIKE Bush more and would have preferred to have a beer with him (even though they could not because he a recovering(?) alcoholic.)
The real question is this: Why isn't the media focusing on policy positions in relating to voter
If we allow the press to shape our elections like this after the disastrous 8 years of the Bush presidency then this country deserves to become a second class state.
Who new that when Morton Downey jr. was talking about pablum-puking losers he meant our entire press on air press corp?
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Bad move
Come on Jesse Jackson Jr. "something we are analyzing in the Obama campaign". That's just ridiculous. He should have had the same response as Barack Obama. I see the point that Clinton tried to make, but to say that "oh no, Hillary is all of a sudden sensitive, how clever" really rally reeks of "sore loser."
If I were Obama and really were interested in running a transformational campaign, I'd sack Jesse Jackson Jr. immediately, or at least give him a public drubbing.
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In the crucible
Dang, I walk away from the computer for a few hours and the whole world goes wacky. The Obama campaign ought to find a way to keep Jesse Jr.s mouth closed because what he's out with today can only hurt the Magic Man. If they are going to play the race card with each and every close or lost primary election, ain't no way they gon' make it to the promised land. Junior ought to remember one of his daddy's most famous lines: "keep your eyes on the prize."
In the interest of fairness, it should be pointed out that Terry McAuliffe seems to have little of substance to say as well. His announcement that it's now a "one-on-one race" is not only demonstrably inaccurate, it will have karmic repercussions he cannot begin to comprehend.
Now that this is getting interesting, I think we'll finally see how the candidates respond to and act under pressure, and thereby finally have something real upon which to base a vote for one of them over another.