Letters to the Editor
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@debaser
Are you actually suggesting that there is no possible way for Clinton to beat Obama because he is black and it would be perceived as discrimination?
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@W.E.S.
Man, you're silly! That's almost as good as Hillary offering Obama the veep slot from second place.
Your whole ridiculous line stops being cute after awhile, and just becomes shallow and ignorant. Given HRC's position in the race, it is not unreasonable to suggest she start winding things down, yet I don't begrudge her the right to run hard after those who haven't voted yet to have their say until the primarys end. Suggesting Obama step down when he's ahead by every measure is patently absurd. Your comments go beyond honest disagreement and support, and border on fantasy... given the comments to which you were responding above, they even sound racist.
Suggesting the leader step down to let an incompetent lying thug take the nomination is offensive on many levels. Given how poorly Hillary has run her campaign, there's no rational reason to believe she'd have a chance in the general without firing most of her staff and retooling the whole operation. She's proven her incompetence in this campaign, and now she's forced to making up fairy tales about her "experience" to sell her losing product.
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@WES
"Honorable" isn't a word frequently found adjacent to "Clinton."
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Driving Through the Neighborhod -- Lawn Sign After Lawn Sign -- OBAMA '08
The neighborhood I was just driving through is a lovely, not necessarily liberal neighborhood in suburban Washington DC, where lawn signs are not a common view, even during heated election seasons.
Our primary is long past, so that's not even an issue.
And yet I was surprised, shocked even, and slowly delighted, by many Obama '08 signs there were. House after house:
OBAMA '08
OBAMA '08
OBAMA '08
Something is happening in America, and not even crazy reverends, Clintonian megalomania, Chris Matthews, Joan Walsh, the neocons, or even old John McCan't will or can stop it!
It's easy to get bogged down in the he said/she said, surrogate war, pundit battles, and media frenzy of the election, but in the end, it does come down to people.
It comes down to my 3 1/2 year old who goes around exuberantly saying "ROCK OBAMA!" everytime he sees him on TV. (That's how he says his name!)
And the people who feel so strongly, in the middle of March, months before a nomination, much less an election, that they want to express their hope by putting up a lawn sign.
It's about leadership, and it's about a hope where America is going -- and it's about leaving behind a fear of where America has been...
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suggestions
EMStoveken wrote: "Just as votes in the general election are little more than requests made to the electoral college, so now are Democratic primary votes suggestions to this group of professional politicians."
I invite you to explain that to the primary voters, especially all the ones for whom this is their first time participating in decades (or ever). Explain it in such a way that they will still support Dem candidates in November, and continue to participate as Dems in the future.
Good luck with that.
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Best-Case Scenario for HR Clinton
Obama and McCain both drop out of the race, and Clinton wins because nobody's running against her. That's really the dream situation she'd need to make it to the White House, what she needs to bank on.
WES's "honorable" nonsense reminds me of how "honorable" it was seen by the gliberal media and the GOP when Al Gore gave up the fight to actually win the election he won in 2000 -- they loved when he took that dive, said how presidential he was. The rest, as they say, is history. That kind of "honor" we don't need. Not in the Democratic Party.
The one who should demonstrate honor and grace would be HR Clinton, but I've long thought she'd going to take the fight to the bitter end, regardless. If she stepped down before the end, I'd be very surprised.
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Well If The 3 And a Half Year Olds
Are for Obama I stand corrected. That means he must be the best candidate for the general.
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@Debaser
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.
If I were working for either of the remaining campaigns, I would spend a night reading that book. It may prove quite instructional.
Mind you, this is not a defence of WES. Just an observation.
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The children are for Obama, WES...
...and the adults who act like children are for Clinton.
After all, they seem to have lost the ability to count...
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@EMStoveken
"Mind you, this is not a defence of WES. Just an observation." I might have to borrow that disclaimer some time.
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okay, wes, we get it
You're not voting for Obama. The whole manufactured Rev. Wright flap was a deal breaker for the faux-patriot-wannabes out there such as yourself. "Drop out of the race or leave his church" -- how so very noble of you.
As much as the reasonable/sane folks out here in Realityland wish that the rabid Clinton-or-we're-taking-our-ball-and-going-home crowd (of course, I'm just speaking of those that aren't FAKE) would come to your senses, we're resigned to the fact that many of y'all will probably do no such thing. And guess what: when push comes to shove, we'll be deeply disappointed, we'll leave the door open for you to join us when you're ready to stop with the crazy tantrums, but ultimately we're fine with it. Who's got time for dead-enders when there's a country to re-build?
And with that, I bid you good day, sir.
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Hillary's Family
Hillary Clinton's right-wing nutcase extremist cult is something nobody talks about, but it is once again exposed here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/barbara-ehrenreich/hillarys-nasty-pastorate_b_92361.html
It's so embarrassing to witness purportedly progressive people support this woman when they clearly have no idea who she is. And yet none of it's a secret. There's no difference I can see between Hillary supporters and the fools who always thought Bush was just fine, too.
If she's the nominee, I'll write in Obama, just like most other Democrats will.