Letters to the Editor
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Random Musings (& reactions)
That's precisely what bothers me. That Joan Walsh and her cohorts are using that need to know as an attempt to both -
1) Inject their bias (conscious or otherwise)
2) Use our need to know by being deliberately controversial in order to spike readership and web traffic.
-- MVPOnline
As I have stated before, I am moderate democrat, not a liberal, and the utter outrage at Salon for having the unmitigated gall to actually want to stay in business is one of the reasons why.
Speaking of Fear and Loathing '72 . . . I just reread it recently, and I must say that the parallels are disturbing. If you read about McGovern's road to the nomination, the weird semi-brokered convention and then the inexplicable collapse against a Nixon campaign that simply managed not to fuck up too monumentally (or at least didn't get caught in time), you will see a lot that McGovern had in common with Obama.
-- EMStoveken
I worked on the McGovern campaign and you are right, the parallels are disturbing. The grass root (no netroots back then) organizing, the highly motivated youth vote (1972 was the first presidential election in which 18 year olds could vote), the wresting of the nomination from the party regulars, the idealism and excitement over "something new", I see it playing out all over again. And, if Obama is in fact the nominee, I unfortunately see a similar result. Inexplicable collapse? I don't think so. America has a center-right majority. It was true then and it is still true. The best that democrats can ever hope for in a national election is to move them center-left, and even that is not easy.
It's Republicans who will get all upset about Barack's pastor, for chrissakes, not rank and file Dems. The uptight types, who never did trust those black folks too much anyway, will continue to vote their distrust. We don't need them this time. You'll see.
-- Renegade Iconoclast
And it is this type of cogent analysis that hands the presidency to republicans election after election.
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On a somewhat lighter note, in concert with the Astrology prediction:
Michelle Whitedove, the winner of Lifetime Television Top Psychic Contest, predicted that John McCain would be the republican nominee. She made that prediction Dec. 14, 2007 when most pundits were considering McCain roadkill. The rest of her bizarre predictions?
Republican ticket : McCain/Giulianni (or Rice)
Democrat ticket: Clinton/Edwards
Winner: Democrat
I'm not particularly a psychic believer, but.....