Letters to the Editor
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He's the man!
If the Democrats make the mistake of nominating Hillary Clinton, the rancor of the last eight years will pale in comparison to the next four.
Clinton is a divider, not a uniter, and her nomination will kill the left's best chances in a decade for retaking control of the political agenda in the United States.
I've said it before, if the Clintons ever thought about anything other than their ambition and self-serving agendas, they would pull out now and let Obama's momentum carry him all the way to the White House.
Unfortunately their self-destructive tactics may well cost the Democrats the general election in the Fall...
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He Won the Black Vote
Jesse Jackson won South Carolina twice, in 84 and 88. Bill Clinton pointed this out, and Josh Marshall thinks his pointing it out was racist. So now the facts are racist.
This win was expected, predicted. Clinton will win Florida, and she'll win on Super Tuesday and Tweety and Joey and KO and Mrs. Alan Greenspan will be very sad.
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Obama hits Clintons for a change
The Clinton's played the Karl Rove way and SC did not like that game. Hopefully the rest of the nation will be as smart!!!
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Whose boos?
or proximity to the White House" -- and here there were boos from the crowd.
Probably boos for Clinton, though, right? Rather than the insinuation that the boos are because Obama said something to get HR Clinton's ire. HR Clinton's banked on her "White House experience"(tm) and it's fair game to use it against her, so I imagine the boos were for the Clintons, and not Obama.
The Clintons fought hard, had the gloves off, and they got smoked in South Carolina. They'll pull every dirty trick they've got on hand to try to win. I just hope the Clinton drive to commandeer the Democratic Party doesn't end up destroying it in a must-win election. Boo, indeed.
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Better boxer than the Clintons
We can all agree, or not, about the tenor of the Clinton campaigning, but Obama's speech was as loud of a pop as you can deliver.
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Obama is guilty of the very thing he criticized the Clintons for
I saw his speech and found him to be profoundly distorting Hillary's statements. Looks like Obama has a so-called Rovian game of his own.
But people prefer to see the world with rose colored glasses.
An interesting thing: according to CNBC, the exit polls in S.Carolina show Edwards voters going to Hillary and Barack equally if Edwards was not in. That is amazing in S.C. It very well be more towards Hillary in the states where Hillary has more support to begin with. Everybody takes for granted that the Edwards voters will go towards Obama, but if you look carefully at the demographics, they tend towards Clinton as much as Obama, and the exit polls bare this out.
PS: How do you like those filthy liars on CNBC criticizing Hillary for not congratulating Obama in her speech in Memphis before she even gave it. Clinton doesn't play by the rules, they pile on. Then she did just that, early in her speech.
Did anybody on CNBC apologize? What a bunch of filthy liars.Even Olberman, Oh, it was only 1/3 of a sentence. Give me a ****ing break.
Keith Olberman: Today's woooooorst person in the worlddddddd
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I nailed this with my prediction earlier today..LANDSLIDE FOR OBAMA..
WOW
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More Errors About Nevada Results
A week after the Nevada caucuses, Alex Koppelman repeats the lazy falsehood that Clinton won the "popular vote" in Nevada. The fact is that the popular vote wasn't even announced. Clinton won the race for county delegates, who have virtually nothing to do with selecting the presidential candidate. Obama won the rights to 13 national delegates, and Clinton won the right to 12 delegates. Obama won Nevada. The Clinton campaign ran a bare-knuckle aggressive campaign in Las Vegas based on suppressing the Obama and Edwards votes, and eked out a win in that bizarre city. Obama won broadly throughout the rest of Nevada - wide swaths of rural areas and every major city and town outside of Clark County. Obama won Reno, Lake Tahoe, Carson City, Sparks, Virginia City, Winnemucca, Henderson, and Elko. Facts are facts. I was there. I witnessed it. Check it out.
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this uniter will ultimately be xposed as a divider
Obama is as divisive as they come. he is pompous and arrogant and his lightweight campaign is going to fizzle in a few days. let him bask in his temporary glory. his fall is going to be precipitous and then I would like to see the crazed looks on the pundits' faces, just like they ate crow in NH.
obama, remember this. pride comes before the fall. and you will fall.
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Poster Boy
Gag me. I feel another "hang on kitty" moment coming.
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A Scathing Attack???
Alex a scathing attack? What Obama said is hardly an attack muchless scathing! Obama was basically warning, not attacking the Clintons. He had to stand up for himself.
It showed strength and sent a clear message not only to the Clinton campaign, but to the republicans as well. Obama demonstrated he is a force to be reckoned with.
His message was appropriate. Rather than selling their policies and leadership the Clintons have taken their arguments to levels, some of which hit below the belt. Attacking a fellow democrat or a republican attacking another republican are traditionally off-limits for the most part. Comparably criticizing & differentiating policies, and attacking are completely different matters all together.
** Anonymous at 7:17 PM referenced Josh Marshall's take on Bill Clinton's remark as racist. Yes Jesse Jackson's wins are fact, but there is more to it than that. The undercurrent in Clinton's remark was two-fold: 1) he compared Obama with Jesse Jackson intimating he won because he is black and 2) he marginalized Obama's victory suggesting he cannot win in the Super Tuesday Primaries. The Clintons will not come out and say those things, but they certainly convey that message albeit subtlety. Using innuendoes gives them enough wiggle room to leave doubt. I cannot say for sure that is the case, but it appears to be. Only they really know for sure.
Personally I do not believe the Clintons are racist at heart, but they will use whatever tools available to win. Understand raw ambition, political or otherwise, drives individuals to do things they would not normally do even if that means pitting left against left, democrats against democrats, liberals against liberals, blacks against whites, so on and so forth; It is called divide and conquer.
Obama recognizes what they are doing and he called them out on it. That is not an attack; It is a clear message that says he is not going to take this laying down.
If he let it go not only would he look weak, the Clintons would feel free to crank up their onslaught of verbiage distorting his record and whatever else to tear him down.
If Obama cannot stand up for himself, how could he stand up for us!