Letters to the Editor
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Dems cannot win?
Dems are turning out for the primaries in far greater numbers than the GOP, the opposite of the usual. Normal electoral equations do not take into account the number of young voters Obama is drawing into play. The Dems are taking in donations at a rate many times that of the GOP, also the opposite of usual. Not to mention that GOP state operations are in complete disarray, and big chunks of the GOP coalition do not like McCain and may not turn out to vote for him. On top of it all, the Anyone-But-the-Republican vote is going to be huge from White House to school board. The GOP brand is in worse shape than the USA brand.
Colin Powell? He can't even seem to defend his disastrously poor judgment to himself. Powell has said that Iraq is in a civil war, that we are losing, and that the war is overstretching the military -- and that was before the surge, which he did not support. Yeah, he's just the guy to bring the GOP together.
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Just like magic
"Obama has consistantly demonstrate that he can close gaps just by focusing more attention on the areas of most concern. Look at what's happening in Penn. right now. He's still behind, but Clinton is slipping and he is gaining."
"Focusing more attention", huh? lol. Yeah, it's amazing what you can do with millions of dollars in ads and non-stop campaigning. Obama's spike was predictable as the primary date gets closer but Clinton is still in pretty good shape in PA.
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lolcait off today...
Teach us a lesson? Are you effing kidding me? A lesson? What, that we should "stay the course" and nominate old-guard loser Democrats every single time so that whatever half-dim homonculus comes out of the jesusfreak primary is automatically given the nomination? Do you really not see the straight line from Walter Mondale to Dukakis to Al Gore to John Kerry to Hillary Clinton as establishment loser Democrats? Sure, her husband won two 3-way elections, but that isn't going to happen again, now, is it?
Mind you, I'm only addressing the rest of Salon's readership, not lolcait, who does very well see the striaght line, and would like nothing more than to extend that line by one more name.
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"Obama has only a 10% chance"
The general is a long ways away, folks. This "Obama has only a 10% chance of winning" business is bullshit.
You're right. Obama has NO chance of winning the general election. Are all Obama supporters this deluded by vague promises of "hope"? (Don't ask an Obama supporter what he's "hoping" for unless you like listening to incessant meaningless rambling.)
Reality: The choices this year are Clinton and McCain.
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Clinton not credible
Why would anyone believe anything coming from the Clinton people? They are probably still dodging sniper fire
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you're disappointing me lolcait
I second dkmoorhead...there's something off with you today. I can usually expect a healthy dose of bile and hilarity spewing forth from your venomous fingertips...today? well you just don't seem to have your heart in it.
best call it a day, don't worry...you'll get 'em next time champ, next time.
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What no one is mentioning
Why no mention on this thread of Richardson's very public judgment that superdelegate votes must bend to the popular vote? This judgment, pronounced just days before Richardson's endorsement of Obama, was in direct contradiction to Richardson's subsequent course of action. Clinton did win the New Mexico popular vote, by however small a margin, so at the very least Richardson has proven to be a hypocrite. Hypocrites have been known to play fast and loose with the truth, so the door is definitely open to charges that Richardson failed to keep his word to the Clintons.
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Lying or stupid?
The general is a long ways away, folks. This "Obama has only a 10% chance of winning" business is bullshit. Either you are lying or stupid or both. Which is it? It will be a fight for him to win, especially since Hillary will be working against him every step of the way, but I am confident that it can be done.
Lying or stupid, and not even a reason as too why it must be one or the other.
It's simple, Obama can't win the general election because he foolishly threw away key demographics that are required to win .
Even now, Clinton could run the board by simply exploiting this weakness, but doing so would require destroying Obama and alienating a large voting block, a voting block that is needed in order to win in the fall.
The Republicans don't care about the Black vote, because they only get 10% of it. They'll happily write it off as they have in every election since 1972.
It seems silly to left wing Democrats that something like not saluting the American flag during the National Anthem would be a serious issue. That's because people usually inhabit a World of people with similar beliefs.
There are vast segements of the US that won't vote for Obama on this alone.
Then you factor in the numerous and readily exploitable Anti-American statements made by many people surronding Obama, and you have an unelectable candidate.
Look at how Kerry's simple mistake of saying "I voted for it before I voted against it" statement was presented to the general public. He voted for it when it required funding, and against the resolution when funding was removed. He wanted it payed for by the current generation, not passing the bill to today's children. You'd think an easily recoverable gaffe.
While I will grant that Obama has been good at recovering from his mistakes, he has NEVER been really challenged. Not like it will be in the fall.
Think of one good answer for the question, "Senator Obama, why in that video did you not have your hand over your heart during the National Anthem?" There isn't one.
Words of, "I believe overt displays of patroitism such as that have no place in public dialogue" will not suffice in the fall.
How do you answer, "Senator Obama, you have two Black Pastor's in your life who have made statements that many consider an attack on Whites and on American, why do you surround youself with such people?"
How do you answer, "You wife was never proud of America as an adult, till your Wisconsin primary win, do you share those sentiments?"
Those are the neutral ways of asking the question.
The Republican's were on the brink of political destruction, and now they are salivating at the thought of running against Obama.
By late October, Democrats running for lesser office will be doing everything possible to distance themselves from the top of an Obama ticket.
Even a Obama/Richardson ticket can't win, because it can't produce improved results outside of demographics it already carries. The best that ticket can hope for is stellar turnout among Blacks and Hispanics, but that simply doesn't outweigh the loss of women, military, white males, elderly, and indendents that Obama will lose.
In the fall, Obama's negative ratings will reach into the upper 50%, and you can't win an election with those numbers unless you are the incumbent. He's not.