Read it, print it out, tape it to the inside of your hat.
January 26, 2008
Howard Wolfson writes…
January 26, 2008OH wait, hold on. Are we sure? I could have sworn… Sorry, ok, what I obviously meant to say was — “Randall K. Jewell of Springboro, Ohio”? That’s not a very good name. Don’t you think? Maybe it’s just me.
So the letters page in todays Times is kind of funny. The first three or four letters tell the editorial board how and why the editorial board sucks — which was to be expected, as they no doubt received a truckload of letters to that effect. It might be the EB’s way of letting the world know how they feel about the really lame HRC endorsement they were assigned to write — or it might not be that at all, but surely it’s revealing in some way that the anti letters they chose to print are on the whole very very good. The first one, from Dayton, Ohio, starts out thus:
“You endorsed the wrong candidate.”
We have to wait until letter #5, but someone does appear to like the endorsement almost as much as he likes Senator Clinton — which is to say, a lot! Sort of! Actually, I don’t know what to think of this. At first I thought: they’ve picked a really embarrassingly bad — and near the end, vaguely pathological — pro-HRC letter. Why, I wondered, did they do this? Surely there was an intelligent and earnest argument to be found, someplace, that might represent the pro-HRC side, but then I remembered that I have yet to see or hear such an argument, anywhere, by anyone. It can’t be written, because it doesn’t exist yet. So, this then. (Can we deal with this “she’s a mom” crap? What does it mean? To me it just sounds low-class.)
To the Editor:
Thank you for spelling it out with such crystalline clarity. I’m a liberal Democrat, surrounded by similar others who’ve been enthusiastic about Senator Barack Obama. I’ve said repeatedly that he’s not ready to be president and leader of the free world. Probably in 10 years, but not now.
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is tough, strong, smart and a mom. She’s been called just about everything, but over time, who a person really is, inside, becomes transparent, no matter what she says or is said about her.
[...]
Randall K. Jewell
Springboro, Ohio, Jan. 25, 2008
The thing in bold — it’s not a “sentence,” so let’s not call it that. But is this person trying to say that the advantage we have with Hillary is that… we’ve been exposed to her for a very, very long time already, and… that many lies have been told about her, but not to worry, Fraudbot is so “tranparent” by now… that… we can sort out the truth… ourselves? or something, “no matter what she says [...] about her[self].”
I’m going to bed.
-max mason
