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Hillary's Hell Cats

6.3.08 @ 12:01AM

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There is not a snowball's chance in hell that I will feel obliged, nor will I have any inclination to vote for Obama. PERIOD!

I live in Florida and am still bitter over 2000. Why would anyone believe that the wounds of this primary will heal by then when 2000 is still festering in my soul. At this point I hold the DNC and the Obama campaign in the same reverence as Bush and the gang-of-five. There is no difference.
-- T. Monack
N. Lauderdale, Florida

I am a 58-year-old male who was a Republican for 35 years. I came over to the Dems because of Obama. I feel like everyone is tiptoeing around the Clintons and I don't want to offend them. As a white man from Alabama I can smell racism a mile away with the Clinton people. Her win-at-all-cost attitude sacrificing her own principles and using race to advance her cause is a terrible thing. She has lost the race and I know it's difficult but there is a higher cause to pursue. I don't trust the Clintons as I told my brother who happens to be a friend of theirs. There is a reason for her low integrity ratings. I hope the Clinton people will help us defeat the Republicans and prove those integrity polls to be false. I don't know their hearts but at this point they have reinforced my mistrust.
-- Patrick House

I read your article on Hillary Clinton and I will not vote for Obama. I have been a Democrat for all of my adult life and I have never seen anyone treated like Hillary has. Everyone has gone crazy over someone that has done nothing on his own. In Chicago his friend put his name on things that he didn't even write. He goes to a church where a crazy person preaches, has friends that blow things and people up. For the first time I will hold my nose and I will vote for McCain. Unless we can get Hillary to run as an Independent.
-- Inez Watson
Marietta, Georgia
P.S. I am also going to get others to do the same.

I just read the opinion piece by Robert McCain. Did he use the word "crone" on purpose, perhaps to enflame or demean "women of a certain age," or is he really that stupid? Just asking.

By the way, we are not all "post-menopausal," but many of us are of an age where we are more certain of ourselves and our opinions than women -- and men -- of an uncertain age.
-- J. Malone

Robert Stacy McCain replies:
My 1967 Thorndike-Barnhart dictionary defines "crone" as "a withered old woman." I refer you to this video, and ask if I have applied the term unjustly:

Would you also object if I referred to John McCain as a geezer, or suggested that he gets much of his support from geriatric wards? Sensitivity about age is so silly -- we've become too accustomed to hearing 55-year-olds called "middle-aged," even though it's quite unlikely they'll live to see 110. In fact, at 48, I could with some justice be called old, though I'm more careful in applying such language to my 44-year-old wife.

My apologies if I have offended you by my use of a term that (again, according to Thorndike-Barnhart) derives from a Middle Dutch word meaning "old ewe."

P.S.: I didn't think of that article as an "opinion piece" so much as an analysis, making the point that while older women may not be a trendy constituency, their wrath should not be taken lightly. That's not an opinion, it's a fact. Just ask my mother-in-law.

CUT AND RUN
Re: Jeffrey Lord's The Backbone of a Chocolate Eclair:

Mr. Lord is to be commended for his insightful comments that should be a clarion call for those who think that Senator Obama is not what he claims to be.

Mr. Lord points out that Senator Obama had the oppurtunity to take a stand for change in his own church which, at best, is on the fringe of Christianity but actually exhibted intolerance and racism that the world was able to witness. Instead of accepting the challenge, the senator decided to cut and run. Mr. Lord points to that as an example of what Senator Obama will do when matters of state become difficult.

Now don't get me wrong. I think that the senator should have left the church and Rev. Wright a long time ago. But had he done so earlier it would have been a statement of conscience and honor. Instead, the senator continues to show that he is simply another self-serving politician acting on what is expedient for his ambitions.

Unwrapping the present that is Barack Obama is a real tragedy because America really needs genuine leadership in the White House. The senator has shown to be more of a snake oil salesman than the next great hero of American history.

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