Letters to the Editor
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What was she thinkin'?
So, has anyone asked this woman why she would take her only child with her into a war zone, with snipers? Why would she allow the plane to land when there was active sniper fire? Commander-in-Chief caliber judgement? I don't think so.
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Really?
'the Secret Service "would not allow" the sitting president to go to the active combat zone.'
Really? Am I supposed to believe this? Maybe it's me but all her politicking since around Mar 4th has reeked of desperation. I know that she is desperate, but she shouldn't ACT desperate. Try showing a little class and treating the electorate with respect.
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@ W.E.S.
WES, Hillary Clinton would never, ever criticize America or our government. Everyone knows America has never done a thing wrong, ever. That's why she doesn't see the need to change a thing. Why change perfection? I'm just wondering why she didn't have a flag pin on her pant-suit lapel.
Mrs. Clinton is a true patriot. How do I know? Because she supported banning flag burning and eveyone knows the biggest patriots are the ones who really, really love the flag.
My nearest neighbor must love America more than I do because his SUV is just festooned with American flags and I've never heard him once be critical of our nation OR its government.
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It Kind Of Fits In WIth
The Obama spokespeople talking to Canada saying the NAFTA stand is bunk, and the other one saying the Iraq pullout plan is bunk. Obama is never the one saying it. He doesn't know about it. Listen to his words.
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xufapemu
I give you credit. I take it you are defedning Wright's statements. There is honor in that. Much more that just plain denying knowledge.
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P.S.
Hillary Clinton is married to a man who once protested against the United States in a foreign country.
That's about as relevant as the opinions of Obama's minister in this race.
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talking points
If you are going to report the Obama campaigns talking points about Sinbad and Chelsea as "news", then out of fairness you should at least include Clinton's response and the CNN article reporting the event at the time. I doubt that Sinbad was made aware of all of the First Ladys stops on that trip.
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It's gonna be ugly . . .
Hillary is once again passing around the ammunition, and you can bet that the Republicans will recycle this bit ad nauseum should she make it to the general election. Just as they will be spinning the McCain is more qualified than Obama quote should Obama be in the general.
A good point was raised about how this remark was relatively early in a long speech on foreign policy. Here's the thing: Someone in this campaign needs to be responsible for pre-screening speeches and looking out for shit like this.
The anecdote here lends NOTHING to Hillary's credentials. It's the worst kind of pandering nonsense and clearly smacks of hyperbole. Yet this ridiculous multi-million dollar machine of a campaign let it slip though the system and out of the mouth of their candidate.
Likewise, Obama's people should have been examining Wright's propensity for inflamatory rhetoric and figuring out what to do when it inevitably came up.
I just hope they have the ability to go for the jugular in the general election. No quarter can be given this year. I hate to say it, but when McCain starts leveraging the military record/POW bit, the Dems need to be ready to swiftboat the holy hell out of the man.
Let us not forget that he violated the Code of Conduct for American Prisoners of War. There are varying accounts of the extent to which he did so. Accusations are floating around out there that he invoked his father's position as a high-ranking Navy Admiral to elicit special treatment. Such accusations are at least as valid as those leveled against Senator Kerry.
Then there's the whole Keating scandal. At a time when the U.S. economy has been pushed to the brink of collapse by a government intent on treating money like an imaginary concept which can be invoked by shear force of will, we cannot afford to have someone so intimately connected to the blocking of government oversight officials.
The general has to be a knockdown drag out winner take all brawl for the ages. I would love to have this be a campaign of ideas. I would love to see all candidates address issues, present well thought out plans with contingency accomodation built in to prevent further entanglements in matter foreign and domestic.
Ain't gonna happen! Hate to say it, but the time for good ideas will be AFTER someone gets in the White House, because it has simply been proven over the last couple of decades that being the smartest guy in the room does not get you elected. Being right is meaningless.
The campaign will be a war of perception and Hillary and Obama are both going to be walking wounded come the general election. A choice VP selection will be needed.
For Obama, I'm liking Joe Biden or Chris Dodd.
Counteract the "experience" argument while adding considerably to the administration's brain trust. I like Dodd more, if only for his concern for the Constitution. But I think Biden would be better as the ideological pitbull a VP should be on the campaign trail.
For Hillary, I'm thinking Jim Webb.
Shake up that Clinton="Old Politics" view. He plays well with the "who would you rather have a beer with" crowd. He is anti-war while being pro-military.
Whatever the case, both candidates need to pre-screen their rhetoric and keep sound bites like this out of the hands of the enemy.
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@ WES
Which do you believe is more of a threat to Americans?
A Obama's minister saying "God damn America" in the context of a black man who went through the civil rights struggles,
or a U.S. Senator who wants to ban American protestors from burning the flag?
I'll defer to Sen. Feingold's remarks as he was rejecting Sen. Clinton's attempt to alter the Bill of Rights:
Mr. President, I strongly oppose S.J. Res. 12. Make no mistake, we are talking here today about modifying the Constitution of the United States to permit the government to criminalize conduct that all of us find offensive and wrong, but that is protected by the First Amendment. This amendment would, for the first time, amend the Bill of Rights. I cannot support this course......But we must also defend the right of all Americans to express their views about their government, however hateful or spiteful or disrespectful those views may be, without fear of their government putting them in jail for those views. America is not simply a nation of symbols, it is a nation of principles. And the most important principle of all, the principle that has made this country a beacon of hope and inspiration for oppressed peoples throughout the world, is the right of free expression. This amendment threatens that right, so I must oppose it.