Letters to the Editor
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Is everybody angry?
Is everybody who posts here just angry as hell, or what?
People hate Hillary, people hate Obama, people think each one of them is a dirtier politician than the other, people picking up little snippets of information and blowing them into huge balloons of ire...
Calm down. Hillary is not a racist. No one said she was a racist. The concern was that as a political PLOY (not as a life philosophy), Bill Clinton was talking to the racists out there in America who might have different feelings about a black candidate. It wasn't his REAL stance in life; it was a political thing. I don't think there's anyone in America who thinks the Clintons are racist, even the people who don't like the Clintons. But that doesn't stop them from making comments that have a political purpose.
Obama is not stupid. Read his books. Look at his record. And he is a politician, just like every other candidate is. He's in the race to win, just like the others. Nor is he selfish; every speech I've ever heard him make is all about bringing people together and working together for the common good and being in service to all people.
Those ads of his are national ads. I don't live anywhere near Florida, and I don't live in a Super Tuesday state, and I see them on TV quite a bit. Maxine Waters made an eloquent plea for Hillary. Ted Kennedy SAID he felt it was time for "a new generation" -- he wasn't making any effort to link Obama to the old-style politics, but to renounce the old-style politics and "have the courage" to take a new direction.
Why can't we agree that we are SO lucky this year to have not one, not two, but actually three people in the Democratic pimary race of whom we can be really proud? Any one of them would make a good president? Why are we so eager to tear our own candidates apart? When is the last time ANYONE saw candidates in the running who were the caliber of the whole Democratic pack that started out this year?
In the immortal words of BC: "Give me a break!"