| # | Name | Comments |
|---|
| 51 | d | no to obama |
| 52 | Paulette F. DiMaggio | I have been a registered Democrat since I was able to vote. If my choices do not include Hillary Rodham Clinton in November, I will vote Republican the first time in my adult life. I will not stay home. I will vote and let my small voice be heard by not backing Obama. |
| 53 | Muriel | I will Not stay home but VOTE McCain over Obama, and so will the rest of my clan! He is truly UNFIT to be President of this great country!!!! |
| 54 | Aileen | I have absolutely no problem voting for a AA candidate or any race if I believe in that candidate. However, I cannot vote for someone who I believe to be actually dangerous,not only to this country, but the world. His entire contrived background is contrived - he has, in fact, risen up through politics through corruption and contacts with nefarious characters - all of whom have a connection to the MIDDLE EAST. That is not some conspiracy theory I have read somewhere - that is fact - every one, has some connection to the MIDDLE EAST. Obama has run a campaign of smoke and mirrors - using and blaming others for his "dirty work" such has his OVERWHELMING race baiting and the use of his corrupt "National African American Religious Leaders Assn." - this organization deliberately spread lies about the Clintons t/o SC (as well as Obama's own campaign committee members which was verified by TIM RUSSERT) and used RACE as a means of pushing their candidate (refer to Obama's Press Release of Dec. 4, 2007 abt. this committee: "The South Carolina campaign has held Obama Faith Forums across the satte, launched the "40 Days of Faith & Family" effort, and reached out to people of aith to help the organize within their own networks to spread the word about Obama. So far, the Obama campaign has recruited more than 200 FaithCommunity Contacts - grassroots church leaders who are identifying and educating voters in advance of the primary elections in 27 counties."
If one doesn't see the world in terms of race or color - explain to me how one goes about "identifying" voters? - If a white person said that it would be considered racial profiling. Obama's entire campaign has been CORRUPT. I cannot in good conscience vote for a candidate who I believe to be dangerous to America |
| 55 | Anonymous | The DNC has some nerve to offer a flawed and inexperienced candidate to the Democrats of this nation. Obama has, through his melicious racist twisting of Hillary's words set the black/white cause back 200 years...he needs to get out of this race right now!!!! |
| 56 | Richard Stauring | |
| 57 | Alice Przywara | My support has always been for Hillary Clinton, never for Barack Hussein Obama
I believe him to be a fraud and would not make a good president at this critical time in our country.
The blind cannot see beyond his appeasing speeches of "If you elect me as your president, I will do this and that."
Saying is one thing, doing is another.
Action speaks louder than words.
No action, words get lost.
Thank You, Hillary 08 |
| 58 | Diane McSwan | Howard Dean, you are a joke, along with the entire DNC, Nancy Pelosi, Donna Brazile, the media and the superdelegates who have deserted their constituents/supporters by accepting bribes from Obama and caving to pressure from the DNC. You insist on pushing a shady, classless, inexperienced and naive candidate on the Dems despite the fact that he can't win a single state that the Dems need to win in the general election. The punch line will be loud and clear when Obama and the Democratic Party lose in November if he gets the Dem nomination. I will NEVER vote for Obama. If Hillary, the best and only viable Dem candidate, does not get the Dem nomination for President, I will proudly change my political affiliation to Republican and support John McCain 100%. Your plot to scam the Dems has become crystal clear. We, the millions of REAL Democrats, are on to you, Howard. |
| 59 | Anonymous | |
| 60 | Natalie | America has spoken yet again.
Hillary has recieved more American votes than any Democrate in history.
Contact the DNC at democraticparty@deomocrates.org
Obama must have people watching the blogs because for the first time he thanked Hillary for breaking the glass ceiling. He used the Sexism in this campaign to his advantage and now, Now he speaks out so that voters will come to his side. I am from Tennessee and we have a saying, sly like a Fox.....
I do not buy into Obama. I have very closely followed this historic campaign and I wish I had a dollar for every time Obama has changed direction. The latest being the back and forth mud slinging between Obama and McCain. First Obama in a town meeting states "Iran, Cuba ect... are just little countrys they are not a big threat" Then yesterday Obama said " Iran is a huge threat" He changes his stance like he changes his pant's. One news commentator made since last night, (God bless him) when he said " If I am holding a sawed off shot gun to one side of your head and a 22 pistol to the other side , one is smaller but they can both kill you" I guess I am Clinging to my guns and my religion by repeating that....God Bless America..... Well let me take a minute to go open my chicken house door so my chickens can come home to rooooooooooost.
All Hillary supportes keep up the good work and remember
www.myspace.com/millionwomenmarchhcfp
One Million Woman March ,Denver Co at the Democratic convention August 25, 2008 GO Hillary |
| 61 | Michelle Hall | There is no way I am voting for Obama!! He lacks experience and says he will sit down with our enemies. NO WAY!! |
| 62 | Anonymous | Let's not forget; Hillary Clinton LEADS in the popular vote and should be the nominee. Now the Dems are screwing the Dems like the republicans did when Gore lost the general election despite having the popular vote.
I will NOT elect another intern to further damage this country. And, I will NOT elect a racist and misogynist. Barry Hussein Obama is not Presidential material.
This is a free country; I stand in support of Hillary Clinton as the 44th President ONLY. I will vote against Obama if he is the nominee, period. And nothing the DNC, Obama and his disgusting supporters, nor Hillary, despite my respect for her, could say will EVER change my mind.
Speaking of change...I've changed my party affiliation from Democrat to Independent, NEVER to return to the DNC. That's the kind of change I believe in! |
| 63 | Anonymous | Experience counts! |
| 64 | Theresa Kruse | |
| 65 | Elizabeth Lora | Iwill definitely NOT VOTE for Obama, I will be voting for John McCain |
| 66 | Pamala Thomas | I am quite concerned about Barack Obama's background. We do not know that much about him and his long-term connections. This article makes some very valid points about his agenda.
http://savagepolitics.com/
"Follow the Mecca Road"
I cannot vote for someone who has lied so much about his life---it reminds me too much of George W. Bush. I won't vote for Obama if he is the nominee and am considering voting for McCain, the first time I would ever voter Republican. I will vote for Democrats down-ticket, however. |
| 67 | chris | i will not vote ob ill write in hillarys namet |
| 68 | Tamara caithamer | If you don't acknowledge the pledge votes for Hillary, I will cross over the democratic party in november and vote for McCain. |
| 69 | Anonymous | |
| 70 | Lillian Pauley | |
| 71 | Harriet Fellner | NOMINATE CLINTON: TAKE BACK THE WHITE HOUSE.
NOMINATE OBAMA: ELECT MCCAIN |
| 72 | Doreen McGettigan | I am not just angry that my candidate is losing. I will not come "Home" in November and vote for Obama. NEVER. He is a weak candidate and will lose to McCain. I will not jeapordize my family and my country because of his weakness. |
| 73 | Isabel Casimiro | |
| 74 | Norma | I will never support Obama. Until a few months ago, I'd been a proud, lifelong Democrat. Now I'm ashamed of the Democratic Party. You have betrayed your core principles: the right to vote (and have it count); equal representation; equality and respect for all, regardless of their race, gender, education, or socioeconomic status; and fairness. This election has exposed the Democratic Party for what it really is: craven, hypocritical, unprincipled, corrupt, money-hungry elites who despise women and the working and middle classes. It is rotten at the top and if those of us who had loved the party until this election don't demand that its leaders follow the principles they espouse, it will be rotten at its core as well. I - and millions of others - will hold you to your principles or we will leave.
We want change that we truly can believe in. Not the change you're apparently marketing: abandoning our ideals and ignoring the most fundamental, bedrock principle of democracy - one person, one vote. Give us real change: uphold our most deeply held values and count the votes. |
| 75 | Casey | I will not vote for Obama. I'm for a party that supports all of us, not just the rich and powerful. The sexism in this campaign - some of it from Obama himself - has been unbelievable. |
| 76 | Anonymous | Hillary Yes, Obama Never, McCain Ever.
Obama is just not acceptable. I will leave the DNC if Hillary is not the nominee, that is for sure. |
| 77 | Anonymous | Please do your due diligence and nominate the best candidate who can win in November: Hillary Clinton. As a lifelong democrat, I will not vote for Barack Obama with his lack of experience and his not having been vetted properly. |
| 78 | Anonymous | I WILL NOT VOTE FOR OBAMA UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. |
| 79 | Margaret Boudin | We need a Presidential candidate with experience like Hillary Clinton. I will never vote for Obama. McCain is the safer choice for America if Senator Clinton is denied the nomination. |
| 80 | Anonymous | I am a Hillary supporter. If the DNC unfairly pushes our best candidate for president aside in favor of the junior rookie from Illinois, I will vote for McCain in November. Its Hillary or McCain. No Obama. |
| 81 | Leonard Stankewitsch | |
| 82 | Marianne Carlson | I will gladly work and vote for McCain if she is not on top of the ticket.
Tell the sweetee - hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. |
| 83 | Anonymous | How can you deny the most prepared candidate and most popular one the nomination? |
| 84 | Elaine Medina | This election is not about skin color gender, liberal or conservative ...its about BIG MONEY... & 29 new nuclear power plants.
(your copy of an email I am sending to all our Congress People.)
NO Obama = NO NUKES!
NO to Dick Cheney! & GE(MSNBC)
****EXTREME WARNING****
** to ALL DEMOCRAT Senators & Representatives**
DEMOCRATS Voting in the PRIMARY States CHOSE CLINTON.
Do NOT Allow REPUBLICANS in the CAUCUS states to "choose" our Candidate.
IF YOU Throw this Election to the Republicans--The Democratic Party
IS HISTORY--and YOU will be OUT.
TABOO words the MEDIA doesn't Mention:
Cheney Energy Bill
Rezko Trial
Quoting Obama: "The American people deserve honest answers."
QUESTIONS All of US should be ASKING The MEDIA: Phone, Fax, email, post, blog & Asking ALL your Congress people/SuperDelegates.
QUESTIONS:
1. WHY isn't THE MEDIA providing NEWS Coverage of The BIGGEST---ENERGY ISSUE? i.e. Are WE going to LET Cheney, GE, Westinghouse et al, Build 29 New nuclear power plants, or Not?
ANSWER: The TV MEDIA isn't providing NEWS coverage of one of the BIGGEST ISSUES of our time --BECAUSE: the BUILDERS of those nuke power plants will be GE, Westinghouse, Excelon Corp. of Illinois, Entergy; 3Consortiums of nuke industy companies...
... and ... GE owns NBC/MSNBC, Westinghouse owns CBS...PLUS-(GE, 2nd largest corp. on the planet) & Westinghouse have $BILLIONS of Adverising $$$ to spend in EVERY FORM OF MEDIA they don't own.)
i.e. The NEWS you GET to SEE & HEAR on TV is the "news" GE/Westinghouse et al...WANT You to SEE and Hear. THEY do NOT want YOU to KNOW Anything about The Cheney Energy Bill.
2. What's the Cheney Energy Bill about?
ANSWER: The Cheney Energy Bill passed in 2005 (H.R. 6). McCain Voted FOR it. Obama Voted FOR it. Clinton Voted AGAINST it. (i.e. McCain & Obama already SOLD OUT to the nuke industry in 2005. Clinton did not: will not.)
The Cheney Energy Bill decreed that US Taxpayers would REPAY the Nuke Building LOANS that DEFAULT. (The Congressional Budget Office rated the risk of default at 50% or greater.) No new nukes were built for 30 years because the banks wouldn't loan the money--too risky.
Why Should we build nukes?
ANSWER: There is NO Good Reason for US to build nukes. We NEED De-Centralized, Clean, Renewable, INEXPENSIVE ENERGY Technology. Nukes are NONE OF THE ABOVE. There's PLENTY of excellent NEW Technology that will fill the bill...given greater INVESTMENT.
Why Shouldn't we build nukes?
ANSWER: Nukes are OBSOLETE 70-Year OLD Technology. WE already have a 50 YEAR NIGHTMARE Legacy of MILLIONS of TONS and BILLIONS of Gallons of NUKE WASTE all over the USA in leaking tanks, crumbling buildings, contaminated rivers...GOOGLE: Rocky Flats Denver Plutonium & Hanford WA nuclear waste...and READ about the NIGHTMARE that = nuke waste.
ALL the Nuke waste dumps are CLOSED. The nuke waste at the 100-Plus existing reactors has been stored ON-SITE for DECADES. All of them represent Terrorist TARGETS of opportunity & potentially catastrophic accidents.
3. Why isn't the TV MEDIA providing NEWS coverage of the Rezko trial? Why did NONE of the TV MEDIA even mention last week's SENSATIONAL Court Testimony that:
Two Witnesses testified that Rezko told them the prosecutor in the Rezko case (Patrick Fitzgerald) was going to be fired to stop the criminal prosecution of Rezko.
ANSWER: GE, Westinghouse, et al = the Corporate Controllers of the Corporate-Controlled MEDIA. They will not be covering NEWS from the Rezko Trial--UNTIL--AFTER Obama gets the Nomination.
The so-called "left wing" & "right wing" MEDIA have ALL been PROMOTING Obama on TV everyday since last November. Their GOAL is to get Obama nominated, THEN Start reporting the REAL News/REAL DIRT the FBI has been gathering on Obama, Rezko, Auichi, Alsammarae for more than 4 years.
5. Here's some Words the MEDIA says A LOT: Obama hasn't been VETTED.
QUESTION: WHY Not?? HOW can the "news" MEDIA keep repeating that FACT.. without it ever occurring to them it's THEIR JOB to VET HIM?
ANSWER: The NEWS MEDIA'S--JOB--isn't to Report the News; not anymore. Their JOB is to Put out WHATEVER Propaganda their Corporation wants to SELL to the American people...to make themselves MORE MONEY.
ALL the "faux" "journalists" on MSNBC, et al are now Media "Stars" making $$$Millions per year to Convince YOU of anything their Corporate Masters WANT you to Believe.
QUESTION: Why hasn't he been VETTED by the Democrat Party Leaders?
ANSWER: MONEY. The Democrat party leaders already KNOW most of the Real News/REAL DIRT the Republican Party will Spring on Obama as soon as he's nominated, but, a whole lot of them are SELL-OUTS to the same Big Corporations that are running McCain&/Obama for President.
Many of the smaller fry...a whole LOT of the Congress People/SuperDelegates are already bought and paid for.
Obama Formed HIS Own PAC. The military-industrial complex, insurance companies, drug companies etc. already put their cash into his PAC---before he started running. THEN Obama's PAC made "campaign contributions" to a WHOLE LOT of his fellow Congressmen & Senators/ SUPERDELEGATES.
i.e. THE FIX was IN -- BEFORE he even started running.
[You have to greatly admire the extreme fortitude,
Honesty, and GUTS of ALL the DEMOCRATIC CongressPeople/ SUPERDELEGATES who are STILL Standing AGAINST CHENEY/ GE/Westinghouse/their MEDIA].
MOST Americans RECOGNIZE the Republican Party as their ENEMY.
WE the People Threw a WHOLE LOT of those bums OUT in 2006.
WE must now RECOGNIZE the TV MEDIA & Most of the 'Mainstream MEDIA" as our ENEMIES -operating as the PROPAGANDA TOOLS of their REPUBLICAN Owners.
Millions of us also yelled, phoned, wrote, and emailed Congress & WE succeeded in STOPPING the Dubai Ports Deal.
What YOU can do to STOP The MEDIA SELL-OUTS and the Democrat Party SELL-OUTS from giving Obama the nomination and throwing this election to the Republicans: Phone, fax, email, write, to your Representatives/Senators & SUPERDELEGATES:
*DEMAND they VOTE to Nominate CLINTON*
INFORM them that those who SELL OUT the Democratic Party and the Majority of the population of the United States---by Voting to nominate the FAKE Obama candidate--will be duly noted and thrown out of office at the earliest opportunity.
**DEMAND that they FAIL to nominate
THE Candidate who HAS NOT BEEN VETTED**
*Tell them "The MATH" does NOT Add Up*
WITH two to five times more MONEY than Clinton, and the FULL SUPPORT of--ALL---the TV MEDIA--Obama is less than 1% ahead in the pledged delegate count and the popular vote count--Proving beyond any question that CLINTON is BY FAR the Strongest CANDIDATE: BEST FOR PRESIDENT.
Tell them: The ACTUAL number of VOTES cast by INDIVIDUALS - does NOT correspond to the Pledged Delegate TOTALS, or the popular vote TOTALS given that; the Caucus states do not even have to report ACTUAL Vote Totals; & given the EXTRA Delegates AWARDED in some precincts.
i.e. The "Criteria" by which Obma (Falsely) Claims that Superdelegates voting Clinton in as the nominee...goes against "the will of the people" and "TAKES the Nomination Away" from him is SPECIOUS and FALSE on its Face, and the SuperDelegates know it.
A. The ACTUAL Real PRIMARY Vote Totals ARE a true reflection of the will of the people, and that WILL = Clinton for President.
B. Obama Does Not HAVE the Nomination;
The SuperDelegates can't TAKE AWAY something Obama does not possess.
Obama has not EARNED or DESERVED the nomination. Clinton EARNED IT: Clinton DESERVES IT. Clinton WILL WIN.
... cut, copy, paste--use any or all of this message, or write your own...AND Send to everyone on your email list & ask THEM to email it to everyone on their email list.
IF Most of the people on your email list...& their email list...WILL do that AND Phone, fax, write, email their Congresspeople & Senators... POST on blogs: Local, State, National--TV "news", newspapers, radio, colleges--& (posting as much as possible in all the Upcoming PRIMARY States)...
...WE THE PEOPLE can CHANGE the dastardly direction this election is headed:
WE WILL GET the Clintons back in the White House:
RE-GAIN Good Government:
RE-GAIN a better future for our children and grandchildren:
RE-GAIN the Trust and Respect of the rest of the nations and peoples of OUR WORLD...just like WE THE PEOPLE-STOPPED-the Dubai Ports deal.
Post this REAL News everywhere you can:
Obama's campaign is based on ONE BIG LIE:
*Working across the Aisles to bring
*CHANGE*
OBAMA = NO Experience/NO CHANGE
Obama claims 7 years experience in the Illinois legislature -Working Across the Aisles, Bringing people together to get good CHANGES passed-as exemplified by 26 good bills with his name on them.
A Chicago newspaper reporter says all 26 bills were passed in ONE Year and they were NOT Obama's.
http://wweek.com/editorial/3418/10516/
EXCERPTS:
But what’s interesting, and almost never discussed, is that he built his entire legislative record in Illinois in a single year.
Republicans controlled the Illinois General Assembly for six years of Obama’s seven-year tenure.
Then Emil Jones Jr. (became the Senate Majority leader), He became Obama’s kingmaker.
Jones appointed Obama sponsor of virtually every high-profile piece of legislation, angering many rank-and-file state legislators who had more seniority than Obama and had spent years championing the bills.
During his seventh year in the state Senate, Obama...sponsored a whopping 26 bills including many he now cites in his presidential campaign when attacked as inexperienced.
Making CHANGES = ZILCH
INTEGRITY = ZERO
(His book "Audacity ..." confirms:
Democrats had Majority Control of the Illinois Senate when those bills were passed. They were passed during his last year in the state Senate.)
Dick Cheney has Pulled Off,
& made US PAY for:
Energy Ripoff # 1: ENRON: Electricity Rates
Energy Ripoff # 2: Oil & Gas: Market Manipulation
Ripoff #3: Iraq War
Let's ALL Get Together and STOP Cheney's NEXT Big
Energy Ripoff #4: Nuclear power plants
SOUND THE ALARM!
p.s. Last week's NEWS: The governor of South Carolina is refusing to allow the Federal govt. to ship 30 tons of plutonium into South Carolina---until the Feds provide him with a written agreement that the Feds will --REMOVE-- the plutonium from South Carolina-in the event their plans to produce FUEL are unsuccessful.
(The govt. wants to move 30 TONS of plutonium from the western states to South Carolina to locate it closer to the 29 nukes to be built in many of the Eastern a& Southern states.
(See Map at NY Times LINK showing locations where the first 17 reactors are to be built): "Energy Bill aids Expansion of Atomic Power"
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/31/washington/31nuclear.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1211360505THF+hgbTrxetSkzjIgoiAw
(BTW a microscopic particle of plutonium, once inhaled, will kill you from lung cancer in about a week.)
Plans to build those nuclear power plants are well advanced -with licensing hearings already scheduled for the first few. |
| 85 | Elizabeth | |
| 86 | Dorothy Herman | I just can't bring myself to vote for someone with such a thin resume as Barak Obama. Maybe it was destined that someday the Democrats would shoot themselves in the foot and the women responsible for Roe v Wade would dump the Democrats. We are old enough maybe it just doesn't matter anymore. |
| 87 | Sandy | Obama threw the first punch in the first debate when he slammed Hillary about Wal-Mart, but of course the media put a spin on it to say Hillary threw the first punch when she countered with the remark about Obama and the warlords. Once Obama played the "race" card that did it for me!!!
I WILL NOT VOTE FOR OBAMA REGARDLESS. I campaigned for Hillary and if she does not make the nomination I will add her name as a write-in.
And for your polls--I am catholic, white, and a highly educated woman from PA. The DNC has noone
to blame for this mess but themselves (especially
Dean, he's far from a leader). |
| 88 | Anonymous | I agree wholeheartedly with the comments of Bob and others regarding the role of Howard Dean and the DNC in creating this outrage to our American democracy. I am a FL resident and just get so angry at pople outside the state that just cast us aside as though we didn't participate. We went to the polls in good faith to express our preference. It was a legitimate election and to not have it counted is just outrageous; unbelieveable to me as an American. I still have hope!
RS |
| 89 | Chris Boswell | We will end up with McCain if the nominee is Obama.i |
| 90 | Robert Craycraft | |
| 91 | BILLIE J MINK | we have way too many problems to solve for the young Chicago Senator plus he would add to the problems |
| 92 | Nannie Turner | I am a lifetime Democrat,however if the party ignores the fact that Senator Clinton is by far the strongest and best qualified candidate,I will not vote for Obama.The majority of his supporters are just the very young and the blacks.The blacks are voting for him for the single reason that he is black,the very young do not care for nor support the party.They are only interested in electing Obama.They probably dont even know who is running in the congressional elections.They have never paid dues nor support the party in any way.If Hillary is not nominated and she wishes to support Obama that is her choice but I for one will not vote for him in November.McCain,in my veiw is by far the better candidate.I love and suppport my party,but I will not support this candidate under any circumstances. |
| 93 | Anonymous | It is wishful thinking and totally delusional if you think this fractured Democratic party will be unified if Hillary is not on the ticket. Do you really think this life-long Democratic supporter could join forces with the absolutely obnoxious BO supporters whose favorite game is insulting Hillary with ad hominem attacks (real unifiers they) and irrelevant sexist comments--that is, after yelling their adolescent hearts out for their rock star. You think they will stay with the party? Fads come and go and meanwhile you will have lost a large portion of the women supporters for Hillary who have decided that the party can't take us for granted any more so we will go elsewhere--right into McCain's pocket. Many of us have studied our history--women were sold out once before when black men got the vote several decades before women did. Hillary has proved herself by working tirelessly in the Senate and campaigning with an energy that her younger competitor can't seem to muster. He is the one who whines and makes hypocritical comments behind closed doors. Yet the experienced qualified woman was supposed to give in to the hip freshman senator who knows the rap gestures and can revive fainting girls.
I and my friends will soon be investigating how to start "Democrats for McCain" committees as lobbying groups for him in the fall. I suppose you could be gratified by these facts: Most of us can't stand McCain's policies but maybe, given his age, his will be a one-term presidency. At this point I don't know if I will vote a straight Republican ticket. For more than four decades I usually have voted straight Democratic. I have worked for the Democratic party, driven poor folks to the polls, and been loyal in every way. I am an informed voter, reading numerous newspapers and periodicals on politics. I have voted against my economic interests since I thought it was more ethical to be a Democrat--yet we have always done better under Republicans. Yet all I hear about is the African American base or the new voters the party dare not lose. It infuriates me that my years of loyalty mean so little. I don't know if I am leaving the party yet. Maybe four years from now there will be a candidate I can vote for; I have certainly voted for some losers before!
I am incredulous that so many big-name Democrats have joined forces with BO. Do you really hate the Clintons that much? It sure looks as if the DNC has ganged up on her. She did win Michigan and Florida after all--and almost all the other big states. She has won in states with real votes--not red states and not in states with those undemocratic caucuses. I live in Ohio and I will work my buns off trying to make sure that BO is defeated here. (I'm retired so I have the time--and money.) That money is going to Emily's List, not the DNC and certainly not to MoveOn, that childish moronic group whose best shot is to name call Petraeus (I am very much opposed to this war) or muster up signatures protesting ABC's debate since they can't stand it that their saint has wobbly feet.
BO can't win. Effete Mr. Heinz was ruined by much less than what is in store for BO. The Teflon is finally getting scratched. If anyone had cared to vet him earlier, we wouldn't be in this fix. How many people are now saying they have buyers' remorse; had they known then what they know now, they wouldn't have voted for him. And he will never be able to sweet-talk the Reagan Democrats. Now the Republicans will be able to penetrate his passive-aggressive armor and transparent changing of the subject when he is pressed. He can't take criticism at all--as the last debate showed in full measure. His arrogance and vanity are obvious; the idea that a 3-week visit to Pakistan when he was in college gives him foreign policy judgment is ludicrous. By that measure I should be Secretary of State. He's not ready for prime-time with gaffes and stumblings over policy--where is he without a teleprompter? His so-called great judgment is seriously questioned now with the Wright affair, and video clips can illustrate his various lies and misrepresentations about that relationship. Regardless of whether he accepts Wright's ideas, he clearly stayed in that church because it was an important political connection with south Chicago. It only became a liability when he wanted to claim he transcends race and is a uniter. It has taken a while but people are getting to know him. And his brand will get rebranded by the Republican attack machine. He has many in the media, on the public stage, and in the party cowed for fear of being called racists. Republicans have rarely worried about that.
And meanwhile, sexism is alive and well. It's very offensive to be called racist if one isn't for him--as he did implicitly at the private fund-raiser in CA. Maybe some of those rural PA voters prefer Hillary for her experience and toughness; it's not always racism. (I voted for Jesse Jackson years ago in a primary--and he really was a great speaker.) I don't accuse folks of being sexist if they don't vote for Hillary. We can have honest differences--something many of the Obama folks don't know. But of course I haven't seen anything in the way of uniting from their hypocritical leader either. No record in the Senate of that. His self-promotion has been evident for a long time. Many have seen this: his Harvard Law classmates who saw him as a brownnose; others in the Illinois Senate, who saw him take credit for bills he barely worked on; and those in the Senate where he missed meetings but wanted top billing.
I just think you guys should get your heads out of the sand. The party will NOT be united. It looks like the big wigs are more interested in pacifying the young and the black base than caring about who can win. Hello President McCain.
Mary Ann Sullivan
66 years old, Ph.D., Professor Emerita (that is, full professor, not an adjunct lecturer), latte-drinking liberal Democrat |
| 94 | lola koch | I intend to vote republican if obma wins. Ialao plan to have my large family to do the same. |
| 95 | Polly Ho | |
| 96 | Sandra Schili | |
| 97 | Linda Taylor | I will never vote for this communist candidate as long as I live. |
| 98 | Anonymous | |
| 99 | ronne rich | |
| 100 | anthony martino | i will vote for macain |