Letters to the Editor
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Told ya
Other than Chapel Hill and part of Charlotte and perhaps Asheville/Boone, Obama will lose in NC badly.
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Told who what?
The NC primary is 8 days away. Save your gloating til it's over, you just might be wrong.
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Koppleman kisses Obama's behind.
Koppleman is in some kind of bind. He's so anxious to kiss Obama's ass, that he starts his piece with a glowingly favorable tone, in talking about the fact that Obama has apparently edged out Hillary in Governor's and Senator's endorsements, but then, when he has to recognize another Governor's endorsement for Hillary, suddenly his tone changes, IN THE SAME PIECE, and he's complaining that these endorsements don't mean much. Obama may win this nomination, but he's managed to make simpletons and fools out of some of his brainier supporters.
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Headline should be: Endorsements don't mean much if they're for Hillary. If they're for Obama its proof everyone supports him
I am getting so tired of this.
Obama the man I could support.
What has made this impossible is the legion of blind, blathering, insulting, patronizing, commentators like this buttmonkey.
I cannot support a man who inspires this kind of double-talking, trash-talking Etc in his supporters, and yes it's exactly that when his sales pitch is all about hope and change, yet his supporters keep recycling the big lies written and used by the Republican hate and smear machine.
True to form however, the hard left is dead set against success on any level, so now Wright is set on destroying Obama's candidacy.
Everyone thought HRC was waiting, hoping for another campaign ending mistake from Obama or a series of them. I think she was waiting for Hard Left to self destruct as they always do, and steal defeat from the jaws of victory.
She's from Chicago area. She's quite familiar with the Hard Left's "we can never win, we will never win in order to foment the coming revolution" mentality.
Of course the elitists who support them are saying this won't matter. People understand.
Ummm what people.
People only pay Attn. to the news about local primaries when their turn to vote is nigh.
Otherwise they're mostly oblivious. So for a good portion of the Democratic voters all the Wright stuff is as fresh to them as it is stale to the Obamaniacs.
Add inObama's MAJOR MISTAKE of not going up against HRC sans moderators and you can see he has taken his own campaign pronouncements that the race is over as absolute truth.
You can be sure of one thing most voters in Indiana and N.C. did NOT see more than a minute here or a minute there of the previous 21 debates, because it was not their turn to vote.
Only in national campaigns can you count on people everywhere tuning in.
By NOT debating her, many Indianans and N.C. citizens will conclude he's afraid, and he'll lose many critical non-black votes for this reason alone.
Add in the above, and it's clear instead of his crowning victories, these two states could be the extra fuel needed to get the funeral pyre going burning hot for the once mighty Obama campaign.
I'm just glad this is happening prior to the Democratic convention and not 2wks prior to November 2nd.
GO HRC and may I suggest you choose Harold Ford of Tennessee for VP. He has all the charms of Obama, but comes from the conservative tradition within the African American community that mainstream Americans will accept far more readily than the revolutionary Hard Left extremism behind Team Obama.
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Endorsements do matter
People are busy. I use endorsements as a short-hand for policy statements that are often opaque at best. Endorsements at least indicate that somebody I know is willing to associate with what to me is an unknown candidate or measure. I actually quite specifically tend to support candidates, particularly in primaries that are endorsed by a select group of former politicians that I admire based on their actions.
In Oregon, the magic endorsement would be former Gov. John Kitzhaber. He is a frequent endorser, and his endorsement frequently brings my vote with it. Ironically the present governor of Oregon (Ted Kulongoski) was endorsed by Kitzhaber, but they pretty much have never endorsed the same person since. I tend to ignore endorsements coming from active politicians however.
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Easley's a joke
Of course he endorsed Hillary. They're like the same joke, told over and over again. Easley is perfect for NC. He's a democrat in name, but actual progressives here in NC don't see him as much more than a place holder.
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That's Right
...the typical politician's support simply doesn't mean that much in moving voters.
That's right. The related opinions of professional colleagues is irrelevant to Americans: all they care about is what a (formerly obscure) black preacher says. Voters also don't care about, or don't understand, issues like the economy, national security, health care, unemployment, or any of the other things they consistently rank among their top concerns. Americans, when they say they care about something, are only lying to make the poor pollsters feel better.
Or so that's what hack "journalists" like Alex Koppelman would have you believe. If only to justify their own juvenile, racist obsessions.
In reality, it depends on who is giving the endorsement. Of course most Americans don't care about whom the Senator of Kentucky chooses to endorse. But Kentuckians care. Folks in Tennessee might as well, if the pol has name-recognition there.
And of course if the pol in question has national name recognition, people might care about those opinions. It's no guess who former President Clinton would endorse in this race, but were his wife not in the running, people would care to know who he supports. (Which is why folks clamor after Gore, Edwards, and other to reveal favorite.)
Note that this isn't a story: it's really just a post which justifies Alex's obsession with Reverend Wright. When asked why there are few, if any, substantive items in the War Room, Koppelman will lean on his unsupported, unsubstantiated claim that "people don't care about those sort of things."
Read Glenn Greenwald. The same childish, devious machinations which appear to motivate editors at TIME and other publications are apparently the same tactics promoted by Joan Walsh and her stillborn spawn, Alex Koppelman: racism disguised as reporting, bad reporting excused by apathy.