Letters to the Editor
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Baseball Analogy
Excellent letter, Frederick Bernanke. Lately, media coverage of the Democratic Primary reminds me of FOX World Series coverage. The Red Sox (Barack Obama) are up three games to none in a best-of-seven and dominating all aspects of the game, but the Rockies (Clinton) could still force a deciding Game 7, so stay tuned! Just because Senator Clinton hasn't been mathematically eliminated doesn't mean it's close.
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Doing McCain's Dirty Work
the ridiculous thing about the clinton campaign is that they cite these polls without acknowledging that they are deliberately tearing obama down through ridiculous measures. then they act coy about their involvement and imply that mccain is a better candidate.
way to go tracy flick...er...i mean hillary.
the simple fact of the matter is that SHE CAN'T WIN! PEOPLE CAN PLAY WITH ALL THE NUMBERS AND THE HYPOTHETICALS THEY WANT, BUT IT DOESN'T CHANGE THE FACTS THAT SHE WON'T WIN THE POPULAR VOTE OR THE DELEGATE COUNT GOING INTO THE CONVENTION.
IF THE DEMS LOSE IN NOVEMBER SHE WILL HAVE MORE BLOOD ON HER HANDS THAN NADER EVER DID.
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Slightly off the main topic
Just To Throw This Out To You Obama Fans
Today Obama had this to say about his grandmother on Philly sports radio (don't know why he's still even campaigning in PA, he'll lose by a landslide):
The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. [I thought she uttered racial stereotypes that made you cringe.] But she's a typical white person [!!!] who — if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know — there's a reaction that's been bred into our experiences that don't go away, and that sometimes come out in the wrong way, and that's just the nature of race in our society. We have to break through it.
Yeah, we typical white people. We run from people on the street we don't know and utter stereotypes that make Obama cringe. I'm just grateful he hasn't disowned us all.
-- Asher Steinberg
Just because Obama doesn't believe his grandmother to hold feelings of 'racial animosity' doesn't exclude the possiblity that she's developed biases in her perceptions of people of different races.
And I think it is very common for white Americans to have the kind of instinctual reaction he described. It's become a part, granted an unfortunate one, of our country's culture that he clearly said we need to openly address.
I will honestly and openly admit to a prejudiced perception which I am still at times trying to overcome. Years ago, I lived in Detroit. Not the suburbs in which I was raised as a white kid. I moved into the city. I was wary of some of my neighbors, and I questioned the motives of people I passed at night on the street. I knew it was wrong. I realized I was being affected by prejudices, American prejudices of race, that had been ingrained in me by our society. Eventually, and thankfully, I was able to flush a lot of that out of my system, but it took time and being submerged in an environment that forced me to face those prejudices on a daily basis.
Sometimes we need to be challenged to face what is inside of us. Obama's recent speach was all about that. Not being able to admit that a 'typical white person' is more likely than not harboring some prejudices and might occasionally say something stupid is naive, willfully blind to reality, or purposefully disengenuous. Sort of like how Mark Penn comes off.
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So Republicans Are MORE LIKELY To Vote For Hillary Clinton Than McCain? Huh?
In order to win a general election you basically have to get a significant number of independents and Republicans to vote for you. Hillary has pissed too many people off over the last decade.
Obama is a question mark to some people -- and that's a good thing!
Hillary is not a question mark. People know exactly who she is and they hate her. Sorry, but she is one of the hated Clinton clan. The pro-Hillary people seem to be glossing over this inconvenient truth. There are a surprisingly large number of voters out there (for better or worse) who still turn red in the face and tremble with rage at the name "Clinton."
Obama is a brilliant orator and a shrewd politican who unlike Hillary has mastered the art of not pissing everyone off.
In his most recent speech he even praised (and identified by name) the conversative value of self-reliance and even went so far as to suggest that welfare programs may have inadvertently kept poor people locked in a cycle of poverty and dependence on the government.
This is core, bedrock conversative ideology!
Exactly how much Senator Obama truly believes that remains in question. Did he just say it to win over Conservative voters and small government independents?
Either way it was a brilliant play.
A play the ham-fisted utterly tone deaf Clinton campaign is incapable of.
Which is why Hillary is a sure loser in a general election.
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wright5579
I won't disagree with you there.
I think Mark Twain said "I didn't have time to write you a short letter, so I wrote you a long one".
I find myself looking for more and less "analysis" of these stories in the WarRoom. A no-win situation perhaps.
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@wright
Actually, he uses Jake Tapper's report (who is only mentioned after a few paragraphs written by Koppelman) as confirmation of his biased view.
I disagree that any bias is as insidious as you are claiming. Yes, the posting starts with mention of Penn's reputation for "outlandish claims", but that's actually based in fact. He HAS made claims that stretch credibility. Tapper's report gives good evidence to back that up.
It's possible for you to lend your support Clinton as a nominee without swallowing everything that poll spinners like Penn dish out to you, you know?
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Spokesperson offers unsupported support for his candidate--yawn
"Just because Senator Clinton hasn't been mathematically eliminated doesn't mean it's close"
Of course, even more importantly, just because Obama has a mathematical delegate lead doesn't mean support among democrats for the two isn't close, though too many Obama supporters talk as if it were. The simple fact remains that the votes have been roughly split between the two--Obama taking somewhat more if you count non-dems and Clinton taking somewhat more of actual dems. Neither has run away from the other, though only one side constantly seems to need reminding of that.
As for this piece of non-news, yawn. A candidate spokesperson spun some air to the benefit of his candidate. Quick, someone get something soft for us all to land on as we collapse in shock. Just because things are released to the press doesn't mean the press needs to release them. Nobody should take seriously 98 percent of what any of these people say on either side, especially with regard to horse race stuff, which isn't substantive to begin with and only becomes less so in the mouths/hands of candidate supporters. Feel free to mock Penn; he's the biggest fish in the barrel--just don't be too proud of your markmanship.
As for Lanny Davis, what is his role in the campaign again? I forget his official title. "Surrogate" is a word that should be banned from the campaign discourse.