The Editor, Sir:

I would be furious about Dawn Ritch's column 'Obama, imposter; Hillary, victim' if it wasn't so poorly researched and written. I wonder if the author had bothered to do anything other than watch CNN before penning this stunning piece of reportage.

Well, I take that back, it is an opinion column. But then I suppose I need look no further than the title as an indicator of the inanity to follow.

It is perhaps a task greater than the writer's skill to attempt to cast Hillary Clinton as the victim. I laughed audibly when the author asserted the Democratic Party is trying to 'stab her in the back'. The joke, of course, is that Hillary Clinton IS the Democratic party establishment. That she is now losing its support is due more to her own unsavoury campaign tactics and Obama's stronger electability than some vast left wing misogynistic conspiracy (I hope your writer gets that joke).

Let's remember that Barack Obama garnered 140,000 more votes than John McCain and Mike Huckabee combined - in Virginia. Further, it was Barack Obama, not Hillary Clinton who after graduating from a prestigious university chose to work on the streets of Chicago's South Side as a community organiser. Clinton, for her part, became a corporate lawyer for Wal-Mart.

If you want to talk about impostors, let's take a look at voting records. Senator Clinton claims she is a liberal and yet it was she who voted to allow the US to continue to the use and sale of cluster bombs while Obama voted to support the ban. Senator Clinton voted against the DeMint amendment to strengthen ethics laws. Obama not only voted for the amendment, he championed it.

And just last week, Clinton did not even show up to vote on the FISA act. Obama showed up and voted for the amendment to strip telecoms companies of their immunity for illegally cooperating with the Bush administration to spy on American citizens.

I am, etc.,

IAN CHRISTIE

irchristie@gmail.com

New York, NY

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