Letters to the Editor
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Short answer: YES
Any more inane questions/insinuations/political ads masquerading as journalism?
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Unappealing Tactics
The Clinton "kitchen sink" strategy of negativity is something many Americans (including myself) are sick of in politics.
This tactic is just a re-hash of the same crap that's been infecting Washington politics for far too long. I admire that Obama has led a very positive campaign so far, the Clinton camp has been fighting dirty for a while now.
I understand that politics can be nasty, but what can be said about a politician who acts in such damaging ways to party unity, perhaps giving the Republicans more ammunition?
Hillary- at what price victory?
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The one reason to vote Hillary
is that she is shameless enough to do just about anything to get elected or get legislation passed. Politics and democracy are messy, right?
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@DQuintanaNY - Kitchen Sink Think
And where did you formulate that brilliant thesis? Never mind, I know the answer, you heard from every MSM reporter for the last week! Are you serious?
If you want better talking points, you could just head over to Huffington Post or Daily Kos for a bunch. Just a tip.
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NAFTA. GET RID OF IT
As a Canadian, I am all for getting rid of NAFTA. We are bound to give you our oil (we're paying, today, let's see, 1.18 a litre for gasolie, and soon, according to an article in the Globe and Mail, it will be our water.
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As always, the Clintons sacrifice principle for power...
...and it's getting to the point where good Democrats may need to make an Obama candidacy a secondary consideration, and work first to keep this rolling psychodrama out of the White House.
I've been trying hard to forget how the Clintons sacrificed the interests of the people and the party during their first term, pissing away (partial) Democratic control of Congress, state governorships, mayoral seats, state legislatures, cabinet members, old friends, old business partners, and even the viability of Al Gore's candidacy. Concerned that their, ahem, "legacy" isn't quite secure, who else are they willing to throw overboard? Answer: anyone. Nothing is more important than power. Certainly not principle. Not the party. Not even basic decency.
We're seeing it all play out again in this campaign. The internecine ugliness, the backbiting, the blame-shifting. This is the environment they create; the one they thrive in. They are utterly corrupted and they corrupt all they touch.
I promised I'd never again vote *against* a candidate. Any vote I cast would be for someone. But if Senator Clinton is the nominee, I don't believe I can maintain this promise. Should she win the nomination, a cold hard look at McCain will be in order. Thankfully, he's at least among that small handful of repectable Republicans, though the last four years have been far less than admirable. Still, in the end, the calculus may well favor his candidacy.
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The Obama Crowd
Has not been arguing that the super delegates base their decision on their state results........Therefore if Hillary takes the popular vote lead, supers should go to her and the will of the people.
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Good grief...
Gee, Alex, if you really think that this memo was put out to "complain" about Obama because the Clinton campaign can't "take the heat", you need to get off the political beat and on to, oh I don't know, celebrity STD's maybe. I (erroneously) assumed Salon had more sophistication.
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Alex, You Read Too Much Into These Memos
Granted I've never covered a campaign, but I tend to think that all campaigns' memos are going to be full of it. The truth is, neither campaign has any problem with going mildly negative, unless it's their opponents doing the negative campaigning, in which case they scream dirty politics. They're like lawyers. If it's to their advantage to say x, they'll say x. If it's their advantage to say the opposite of x, they'll say the opposite of x. It's your job to read all these useless memos and report on the important parts (for ex., Obama saying he's going to make a fuss of HC's tax returns is news), not to regurgitate every one and tell us how they contradict each other.
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Obama can't take the heat of the media shining a bright light on his political record
The Clinton campaign can definitely take the heat but it looks like the Obama campaign can not. The media is starting to look at Obama's history and how he has gotten to where he is at and this is obviously making the Obama team very uncomfortable. They would much prefer that everyone just listen to him talk and play the game of "Trust Me, that I can and will do what I say". Never mind, that Obama has absolutely a zero track record .
Alex Koppelman wrote:
"The reality is that after spending $16.6 million on television and radio in the four states that voted on Tuesday and $47 million overall, Senator Obama has still not passed the commander in chief and steward of the economy tests. And no amount of false attacks on Senator Clinton is going to change that fact."
When issues are raised about Obama's background, experience, or his qualifications to be president, Obama NEVER answers the questions. He always responds with an attack.
Here in Texas, we call that all hat and no cattle. Obama can deliver good speeches but that seems to be the extent of his experience.
The Dallas Observer ran this article on Obama last week and it fills in a lot of the blanks as to how Obama performed in the Illinois legislature. This article is written by a reporter, who has known Obama from the very beginning of his work as a "community organizer" in Chicago.
http://dallasobserver.com/2008-02-28/news/obama-and-me/
Here is a short excerpt.
"Obama and Me
"It was the year 2000, and I was a young, hungry reporter in Chicago with a young, hungry state legislator on my speed dial
By Todd SpivaK
Published: February 28, 2008
"It's not quite eight in the morning, and Barack Obama is on the phone screaming at me. He liked the story I wrote about him a couple weeks ago, but not this garbage.
"Months earlier, a reporter friend told me she had overheard Obama call me an asshole at a political fund-raiser. Now here he is blasting me from hundreds of miles away for a story that just went online but hasn't yet hit local newsstands.
"It's the first time I've ever heard him yell, and I'm trembling as I set down the phone. I sit frozen at my desk for several minutes, stunned.
"This is before Obama Girl, before the Secret Service detail, before he becomes a best-selling author. His book, Dreams From My Father, has been out of print for years."