Letters to the Editor
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Hillary has adopted the Tonya Harding option
She can win if she breaks Obama's knee. Hillary will stop at nothing in her demonic lust for power.
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To Marjorajam:
I believe there are many thinking Clinton supporters, but many of them have been driven away. It is their silence that people who really want Obama to be president should think about.
As a thinking Clinton supporter, I wonder if you wouldn't mind answering a question. If it were indeed the case that Reverend Wright was representative of the mainstream, if strident, version of black ministers, (that we as a society haven't given two figs about until now), would you support the Clinton camps using this issue to score political points?
Lot of presuppositions there. For all I know there may be many churches like Obama's. However, it is only Wright's sermons that are the problem -- although some of Otis Moss's may become a problem for Obama. As someone who wants to see Obama win should he be the nominee, I think Obama should distance himself from Trinity in order to win. I am disturbed that he doesn't find Wright more disturbing.
Of course, the Clinton campaign is trying to score points. That's what campaigns do. Using Obama's pastor to score points is fair game in my opinion, but I am aware of how it could backfire.
Anyway, Hillary only answered the question that was put to her. I cannot see her as a member of Trinity. Hillary Clinton is a lifelong Methodist.
Would you endorse Clinton's finance chair who apparently likened Wright to David Duke?
A dumb and tasteless move in my opinion. I think the Clinton campaign's greatest weakness this campaign has been message control. Obama is very nuanced. He is able to whistle silently. Too bad the Clinton campaign never learned this art.
However, the finance chair's comment suggests to me that the Clinton campaign realizes that they are going to be labeled racist no matter what they do, so they are pulling out the stops.
Would you do all that even though it repudiates the entirety of this constituency of Americans?
Well, if by "this constituency" mean Trinity church, sure why not? However, if by "this constituency" you mean all black people, that could be a problem. Please understand that I have nothing to do officially with the Clinton campaign, even here in my small town in Texas. I like to write, but I don't like phone banks and get out the vote drives. I am a rather shy and private person.
If Clinton should win the nomination and black people stay home or vote for McCain or one of the third party candidates, how will this help black people? Of what service will this be to black children who need better schools? How will this help end the war, improve the economy, and lessen the burdens of poverty?
That is why I will vote for Obama if he is the nominee, despite my disapproval of his remaining a member of Trinity for twenty years. I will do it for the good of my country. My doubts about him are outweighed by the fact that I have no doubts about John McCain. He would do too much damage to principles I hold dear.
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Another Bosnia lie exposed by CBS tonight
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/25/politics/main3967223.shtml
Do I want another president in the White House suffering from memory problems? Folks, she has been lying up until last week. So her best defense is to go after Obama and try to break his knees. Bill Clinton is the one trying to whack his knees so Hillary can skate to victory. This is beyond evil.
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"she possesses the audacity of hopelessness"
"she possesses the audacity of hopelessness"
David Brooks has joined the attack machine:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/25/opinion/25brooks.html
Bang a gong ...
-- pressF1
You make that sound like it's unsound. What I want Hillary to do is make an impassioned speech about the glass ceiling and why she is the most qualified woman to break it, a speech about how women have suffered under the war hunger of angry men and how Indira Ghandi, Margaret Thatcher and Angela Merkel have made great strides in political leadership, and lastly I want her to not only mean it but convince me that she means it. Outdo Obama's speech about race wherein I was floored after the second sentence. Outshine the humility factor of an even half-black, black American as compared to a "white women". If experience is the automatic gain saying of the day I think Barack Obama holds a higher humility standard than the former first lady, but maybe I don't know anything about discrimination having discovered in my early adolescence that I was gay in Ohio in the early 70's. As a totally off topic canticle; You might get to choose your church but you don't choose your sexuality.
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Dear god
Where is the edit button? A white women....
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to AKASmith and other Clinton supporters....
I hope you aren't suggesting that only Obama supporters are engaging in the nastiness? Because in my own experience, Clinton supporters are just as nasty, but they perpetually whine about being victims, which they use as an excuse to engage in even more nastiness. That very much reminds me of how Right Wingers operate, that self-righteousness that gives them the RIGHT to be condescending.
I have a serious of what I thought were nice posts to Clinton supporters that were answered by some really nasty posts. Maybe nasty isn't even the word, unhinged is a better description.
I wish to make a point............
"A dumb and tasteless move in my opinion. I think the Clinton campaign's greatest weakness this campaign has been message control. Obama is very nuanced. He is able to whistle silently. Too bad the Clinton campaign never learned this art.
However, the finance chair's comment suggests to me that the Clinton campaign realizes that they are going to be labeled racist no matter what they do, so they are pulling out the stops."
Isn't that a convinent excuse and a self fullfilling prophecy? "Well, they will call me a racist anyway, so I might as well be one and take advantage of all the good racism will give me...."
I also have a problem with the "silent whistle" concept. We aren't dogs.