Letters to the Editor
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Bod-a-getta
Thanks for the speech pops. Last I checked I was who I was. And by the way, I'm an independent, and if you want Clinton to drag your party through the crapper, well pal, that's your perogative.
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@ (The Spirit Of) George Coryell re: The List Of 20 Donors
WE THE PEOPLE will not allow them to subvert This Democracy.
Does that mean we will insist that they give us their money or insist that they don't give us their money?
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I'll go ahead and be an a$$hole
Voting in a party primary is not a constitutional right. Hate to break it to you folks, but we are only legally entitled to vote in the Presidential Election.
Party Primaries are a courtesy to party members. Or, to take a more marketing-oriented approach, a Beta-release of potential candidates.
So really, if I hear anyone else whining about the "constitutinal" rights of primary voters, I'm going to retch.
Sure, you can talk about the rules and bi-laws of the Democratic party, but when you look at those, the party has acted within their rights (if not in their own best interests).
FL and MI were warned in advance that there delgates would not be seated. And while the Republican administration in FL did kind of force the Dems' hand, the private entity known as the Democratic Party has the right to act in the loony manner which it has.
MI has no excuse.
All that said, I'm thinking that what needs to happen at this point is something pretty radical.
Clearly one of our two American Candidate Finalists need to be on the ticket. I just don't think it needs to be as President. Edwards still has delegates seated at the convention. His foot is still in the door. I think that if Obama were to throw his delegates to the compartively unmarred Edwards, in exchange for the Vice Presidency, the Dems would have a chance to properly steamroll McCain and Co. in November.
Now I am not saying this because I have anything against Obama as a potential president. I have a problem with him as a potential candidate. We can not have a referendum on America's comfort level with a black president be what decides whether or not we have a war-mongering dementia case in the White House only one stroke away from putting an even scarier fundamentalist nutjob in the office. My faith in humanity is nowhere near there yet.
We need to trounce McCain, and I don't think Obama can do it.
I think Hillary has an even slimmer chance. Where Obama has the cool countenance that would allow him to attack McCain's myriad weakness and flaws, Hillary's demeanor would have her immediately framed as a shrill harpy picking on the decorated war hero.
And these are the two options that are nonsensical primary process has given us. I'm not saying that the smoky back room deals of old are the way to go, but our current process is going to leave us in an even fight (at best) when we should be gearing up for a Democratic landslide.
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Hillary, I see through you.
It's pretty obvious by now that you are still in it to spoil Obama's chances in the general election so that you can step in in 4 years for another run.
My question is, who will be left to vote for you in 2012 after you've wrecked left the Democratic Party in ruins and pissed all the independepents? Prior to seeing how low you are willing to go, I was ready to vote for any Democrat who got the nomination. Now if it's you, I will stay home from the polls, which I suppose is better than voting for McCain, as you have pretty much urged your supporters to do. Thank God you don't actually have a chance of winning the Dem nomination so I won't be put in that situation.
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Jeez. I really need an editor.
Y'all get my point though. I hope.
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@EM
Now I am not saying this because I have anything against Obama as a potential president. I have a problem with him as a potential candidate. We can not have a referendum on America's comfort level with a black president be what decides whether or not we have a war-mongering dementia case in the White House only one stroke away from putting an even scarier fundamentalist nutjob in the office. My faith in humanity is nowhere near there yet.
I hear you, but that referendum is coming whether we are ready for it or not. I agree with your assessment of humanity, but they will never change until some pioneer kicks open the door and forces them to start considering it seriously.
History isn't kind to pioneers.
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And speaking of Pelosi . . .
Does the woman who took impeachment off the table and, in so doing, guaranteed W's ability to lock up the most incriminating evidence of his twisted legacy for decades have any credibility within the Democratic party?
Reid and Pelosi's spinelessness in the face of this administration have left the Democratic party in a far weaker position than it should be.
I understand that the 2006 elections did not give the Dems a bulletproof majority, but when you look at how little was accomplished for the Dems and how much was rubber stamped for the administration; I can't help but thing that it would have been better to be completely deadlocked for the last year and a half.
The saying goes, you give an inch, they take a mile. Pelosi and Reid have been giving the miles and who knows how much Bush/Cheney and company have taken as a result of their weakness?
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@Gazellig
Point well taken.
And if the stakes were any lower, I would slap an Obama sticker on my car and say "Let's give it a shot!"
Unfortunately, my nigh on apocalyptic worldview has me thinking that if McCain gets the presidency the 2008 election could be the last one for a long time.
I know I've lamented the falling of the electorial sky before. Frankly, I still think the elections could be derailed "temporarily" should it look like Obama is winning come late October (I don't think the Powers That Be would be at all concerned with a Hillary surge), but that is neither here nor there.
A McCain presidency will more deeply entrench us in Iraq; heighten tensions with Iran, Russia and China; prompt additional wars; devastate the economy; and further radicalize islamic jihadism.
I look at McCain's platform, the creepy preachers he embraces, his erratic behavior and I cannot imagine our nation surviving 4 years with him (and his various handlers/enablers) at the helm.
The stakes are too high for a grand experiment this time around.