Letters to the Editor
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Celebrate The Democralypse
I think another interesting statistic is what's going on at DonorsChoose.org:
http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/leadershipboard.html?category=25
Stephen Colbert has been encouraging supporters of Barak Obama and Hillary Clinton to donate there to help out a Pennsylvania school in honor of their preferred candidate. Right now, Obama supporters are outspending Clinton supporters 5 to 1. This isn't purely an online measure as it's also a measure of who watches The Colbert Report, but I find the difference striking nonetheless.
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Can we stop people who are computer illterate from voting?
Let's call it "Jim Code" laws! Half of HRC's base would be gone..
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A gerational shift?
Interesting numbers. What is interesting to me is that the numbers suggest a generational shift. Gen Xers and leading edge Millennials are certainly a core constituency of the Obama campaign, and (generally speaking) are much more comfortable using the internet.
Extrapolating this further, I wonder if some of the animosity and hostility exhibited by both Obama and Clinton supporters has less to do with race and gender and much more to do with generational animosity.
I believe that there is a big generational shift underway in politics (in the broader culture it has been going on for at least 10-15 years). It would be interesting to read an article that more fully explored the generational differences between Obama and Clinton as well as those of their respective supporters. After all Obama would be the first Gen X president.
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@mjwycha
Hmmmm.....
I like where you're going with this. The first Gen X candidate...
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Obama’s Dubious Affiliations
There is no way a white man with the same background and credentials as Obama could ever be elected to any office in this country.
Look at Obama’s affiliations:
- Mr. Rezko is Obama’s long time friend and is a major mob figure.
- Mr. Auchi is a billionaire and major financial sponsor for Obama’s rise to power throughout the past years.
While working with Saddam Hussein, Auchi made his money through the sell of arms in Iraq and by stealing money from the Oil for Food program (no wonder Obama voted against invading Iraq)
- Senator Meeks who openly hates whites and gays and is listed on Obama’s campaign website as a major Obama supporter and backer and is one of Obama;s super-delegate. Mr. Meeks has been integral in helping Mr. Obama succeed in politics.
- Mr. Wright is a racist who hates America and whites with a Hitleresque approach to change. Mr. Wright has been Mr. Obama’s spiritual mentor for over 20 years. Before the media exposed Mr. Wright, Mr. Wright was on Obama’s campaign staff as Obama's chief religious advisor. Mr. Wright and Mr. Meeks are ideologically closer to Karl Marx and Black Nationalism, than to Christianity.
- Mr. Ayers of the Weather Underground, a group that killed police and tried to bomb the US Capitol, served with Obama on the board of the leftist foundation called the Woods Fund.
- Mr. McPeaks is Obama’s military adviser and national campaign co-chairman who claims that American Jews are the "problem." and “Christian Zionists were driving America's policy in Iraq to benefit Israel.”
- Michelle Obama trumpets Obama as “the second coming of the messiah,” and also states that she “has never been proud to be an AMERICAN in her adult life".
The list goes on…
How can Obama’s bad judgment to choose to affiliate with criminals and fanatics be justified?
Had Hillary Clinton had any of the above ghosts in her closet, she would have been thrown out of the election long ago.
Hey everybody - am I missing something here?
It seems to me that perhaps instead of electing Obama president, it would be easier if we just shot ourselves in our collective foot.
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olandug
Get fucked. Smear the fear.
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@ olandug
Oh please. If you were to play that sort of grossly-exaggerated -- and partly simply dishonest -- guilt-by-association game with any white male candidate for President in the last hundred years or so, you'd have a list several times as long.
The fact that Obama's opponents have to try so hard to get even this little so-called "dirt" on him amuses me. If this is all oppo research can get on him, I'm even more impressed with Obama than I was before.
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Obama looks like he'll be every bit as successful a 21st century candidate as... Howard Dean!
Yeeeeeeeeaaaahh!
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MEMO TO FARHAD: More Shilling, Guy!!!
Joan must be on vacation. Farhad, you're falling down in the shilling for Hillary department.
The headline SHOULD have read:
Hillary Surging Ahead With Luddite Vote
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Let's check our facts
Contrary to the popular missinformation that people blindly assume true and the media love sheep to believe, Ron Paul is not out of the race. Check facts and research the Republican delegate process...maybe even history if you have time to see how Lincoln won the election of 1860 without any pledged delegates to the convention.
With the invention of the thing called the "internet", you can even look up newspaper articles for many state canventions which Ron Paul seems to be "stealing delegates". With that information in hand, you can become a solution to the big problem of disinformation.
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Generational shift?
mjwycha, makes a good point that I have also observed. Some of the older people who support Clinton are very hung up on the fact that Obama provides scant details of his policies in his speeches. This doesn't seem to bother the younger gen since we all know where to find that information online.
What we are more interested is the inclusive nature of Obama's campaign and his ability to substantive communicate his policies from the ground up. I think this runs parallel to what the internet provides, a democratic, inclusive voice where anyone can be heard.
I think there is this perception about Gen X/Y from older generations who see us as easily distracted, highly materialistic, and self-involved. They, however, forget that we've also experience or observed some of the most horrific events, 9/11 and Katrina, in American history that have shaped our understanding of what a disaster an inept president can be.
The fact is, Obama understands Gen X/Y and this is reflected in his very savvy use of the internet to reach us. I am curious to know how the internet will be used to communicate to the public should he become President.