Letters to the Editor
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Look whatever drags the slackers to the polls is a good thing
I'm of the anyone but the GOP ilk so I really don't care if you claim that Obama invented electricity. As long as it gets the sub second attention span slackers to vote for him or any Democrat I have no qualm.
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No doubt.
He's got nutroots and black biggots crawling like maggots everywhere.
Unfortunately as we saw in 2004 they haven't figured out how to turn it into a win outside of nutroot districts like Berkeley and Burlington Vermont no matter how much diskspace they waste and how much money they raise and waste.
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@ElectoRobot
I can tell you from the heartland that like Dean, even worse, the only thing Obama and his vulgar, nutty supporters are doing is ensuring high turnout to vote AGAINST him.
The net result is not only going to be that Obama rides back to Lakeshore with Oprah in November, but that the Dems lose Congress for another 16 years.
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OR....
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.
-- olandug
OR....maybe we could all become more open minded about who our presidents associate with. This "negative" can also be a positive, depending on whether you are really bothered by how "closed" the Bush circle was in the white house. Closed and radical.
Obama's radicalism, on the other hand, or associations with radicalism (from a small connection with the Weather Underground...please...or a stronger connection with Wright who also seems to be hypocritically roundly denounced by white people...have you ever read Jonathon Kozol "Savage Inequalities" where he describes the horrible racism in our national school system that still exists...it's enough to make me want to sit in Wright's church a few Sundays for a breath of fresh air...) does not taint him to me. Maybe it is the fact that I didn't grow up in the sixties, and I don't "know" who cannot be elected. But I like the fact that Obama's associates aren't all cookie cutter white Repub--I mean Democrats. And parsing your list a little more, I don't see his wife as anything so negative as you suggest. Are Democrats also going to damn Michelle forever for a comment she made weeks ago about being proud of her country for the first time when she saw people getting involved in politics at the rallies etc. she was a part of. You can reduce it to anti-patriotism, but with all of this closed-mindedness, why not just reintroduce the McCarthy era and start our own Un-American committe...I mean.
Frankly, I prefer a dollop of radicalism in my presidential candidate. (I'm not so thrilled with Rezko et al...but I also think the Clintons....McCain...Rezkos exist in the background of most candidates one place or another...I think of Penn as Hillary's "Rezko" except of course that Penn's sleaze as far as we know...legal...) And I'm thrilled to see that the truisms about who cannot get elected don't seem to be holding water this time around.
The "movement" for ending the Iraq war, creating better government for ordinary people, and a field of great candidates this time around has made me prouder of my country than I've been in a long, long, long time.
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Another thought
All these measures may be correct, but Hillary still outpolled both Obama and McCain in the AP Poll released yesterday.
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Obama=Ron Paul
Ron Paul was an internet sensation and a net fundraising phenomena. Some would say that internet hits are all sizzle and no steak. But it could be people trying to get to know this guy who might be our president. We know Hillary all too well or thought we did. Many of us who supported Bill and then Hill are genuinely shocked by her self-serving and destructive campaign.
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@sesander Polling thoughts
Many polls to choose from. Pick a Poll:
Hillary Trails Obama:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/106480/Gallup-Daily-Obamas-Lead-Over-Clinton-Persists.aspxObama and Hillary trailing McCain:
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/daily_presidential_tracking_pollElectoral Maps for Obama v McCain and Hillary v McCain
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/Also, Real Clear Politics have their composite polls
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/us/democratic_presidential_nomination-191.htmlFinally, given the Obama/Hillary demographic split, the online numbers are a bit of a duh, as far as I can tell. Obviously, his use of the internet for fundraising, communication and organization is a huge advantage in general, but more so for his demographic.
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i'm not really everybody, though, mathematically, an *instance* of it
so i'll answer, olandug, "Hey everybody - am I missing something here?" - yes, you are missing Obama. however, i'll grant you, Ayers sure is creepy. he might have been one strange bedfellow, but you surely won't find him in the cabinet.
girlinflux, you pose one INTERESTING question: "I am curious to know how the internet will be used to communicate to the public should he become President." - me too, now that you brought it to mind. me?, i'm looking forward to donating my supersenile boomerite opinions. -
No white man?
I think GW did manage to get elected, with far more going against him. He just didn't have so many people afraid of him - then.
I'm interested to see what Obama does with the internet, if he gets elected, as well. Most of the candidates are making half efforts. McCain posted a question on LinkedIn, which got a huge response, but I wonder if anyone will actually read the answers. Obama is doing better than anyone besides Paul, but most of them obviously don't know what they are doing (Obama included). That puts them in the same boat as probably 95% of the enterprises on the Internet, so it's not really a shot.
If Obama wins, there is the possibility that we will see a compelling, engaging, participatory use of the internet that helps us define our nation and the way we are governed. That would be something. Paul, sadly, can't win at this point unless he puts together a grass roots campaign twice the size of Perot's in the next month. If HRC or McCain wins, whatever they do (and they will do something) will amount to nothing more than more ineffective advertising that makes them look forward thinking to the mass of voters who don't know any better.