| # | Name | Comments |
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| 201 | Linda Orr | |
| 202 | veronica moran scoulios | |
| 203 | Steve Zegar | |
| 204 | Anonymous | I will vote for McCain (yes holding my nose) because I need to send my party (the Democratic Party) a *message*. Super delegates that have accepted money from Obama and are now voting for him are seriously damaging the party's chances in November. His race-baiting, divisive campaign has been too much for me to bear. I have read enough about his supporters' behavior in the caucus processes -- and heard personally from a number of them, that it makes me sick. Nominate Obama at your peril. You have been warned.
On the other hand, Senator Clinton -- who did not inspire me initially has won me over with her detailed policy proposals and care and compassion she has demonstrated on the campaign trail for working class Americans. She has withstood an enormous onslaught from the mainstream media, and is still standing -- with a lead in the Popular Vote . She won significant votes in TX, OH, PA, WV, KY, and even in large states that she carrierd such as CA, NY, and NJ. But her delegate count -- is lower than Obama's -- that to me indicates the flaws in our caucus and delegate allocation processes, which MUST be reformed. |
| 205 | Marsha Andrews | |
| 206 | Janine Fennick | |
| 207 | Anonymous | |
| 208 | Joshua Bradshaw | I am signing the petition to express my outrage at the democratic part. I find it appalling that in 2008 that it would be the Democratic party the supposed party of the people who would want to disenfranchise 2.3 million voters, and on top of that it is in the state of Florida where we cried outrage in 2000 and Michigan that has been a steadfast supporter of democratic candidates. I find it ironic that in delegate apportionment certain districts get more delegates for stronger support, but we are willing to disenfranchise and entire state that has been such a staunch supporter. For this reason I will not support Senator Obama in the General election, and I will remain loyal to Senator Clinton, but even if she personally asked me to vote for Senator Obama I will not vote for him. Through out his campaign I have been repeatedly told that my vote does not matter to the obama campaign, because democrats do not win the white male vote anyways. Also I find it interesting that they do not apply this same standard to red states. Even though democrats do not win them in the GE they matter, but whole blocks of voters do not matter. I feel as though I am unneeded and Donna Brazil confirmed as much when she state on cnn that her party does not need white working class voters, or Hispanics for that matter to win. It is truly upsetting that the supposed party of the people would turn their back on the people. Also as a side note isn't William Jefferson Clinton the only 2 term democratic president since FDR. |
| 209 | Chris Loosley | Don't you read the polls? Obama can't defeat McCain in November because he cannot capture the center. Clinton will do that. |
| 210 | Kyle Gray | |
| 211 | Ann MacGibbon | |
| 212 | Anonymous | I am a thirty year, party loyal democrat. I have voted in every single primary or general election held over the last thirty years, and my vote was always cast for a democrat, even when I did not necessarily believe that the democratic candidate was the strongest one. I can count on one hand, the number of mid-term or special elections in which I did not vote over the past thirty years.
I do not believe I will still be a Democrat in November. This party has shown me exactly what its position on women is through the DNC's tolerance of rabid misogyny, bigotry, and diviseness both from the main stream media and from Senator Obama's campaign.
Under no circumstances will I vote for Senator Obama. I will also rethink very carefully my votes for all candidates. No longer will I vote for the candidate with a "D" after his/her name.
Enjoy your new Democratic coalition. Sounds like a lot of us will be MIA. |
| 213 | Ed Condry | |
| 214 | Emilia Falkowska | |
| 215 | Dorothy Montgomery | I will never vote for Obama.
And save your insults. |
| 216 | Lynette Nickel | If Sen. Hillary Clinton is not the nominee, this Democratic sweetie will enjoy casting her vote for John McCain to defeat The Chosen One! And I mailed my voter registration form today to change it from Democratic Party to not a member of a party. |
| 217 | Gina Herndon | |
| 218 | Lisa Badanes | |
| 219 | Robin Smith | Choose carefully. We will
Hillary OR McCain |
| 220 | Susan Kraemer | This fraudulent gaming of the primary system has Obama winning 95% of his delegate lead in caucus states and little red states we have ZERO chance to win.
If you usher this weakened candidate into the nomination we will lose. And it is wrong. It is morally wrong. This has been an unfair primary. You have had the thumb on the scale to make him 'win'.
If you can disenfranchise FL and MI for predating SuperTuesday, why not NV and SC? All 4 were early.
Please take your thumb off the scale. Democrats MUST win this election. Obama will lose it big.
Clinton is winning the electoral vote states we need to win the WH. Superdelegates MUST take into consideration that Clinton is the strong candidate while Obama is alienating the vast majority of the Democratic Party in his foolish quest to get Republicans.
Clinton gets 327 electoral votes to McCains 194
She picks up MORE new states than Obama !!!!
AR FL KY MO NV NM NC OH WV
http://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2008/Clinton/Maps/May27.html
This polling showing her getting stronger/Obama getting weaker will only get WORSE, the longer this unfair treatment by the Party and the media and the Obama campaign to her goes on: the more shrilly you all demanded that she get out of his way, the weaker Obama got. We know a real Democrat.
I will never forgive my party for this. |
| 221 | Anonymous | Please consider that Hillary will win the White House back for us. I just can't vote for Obama because I don't think he's ready to be President.
Thank you for your consideration. |
| 222 | Norma | I am angry and dismayed over the behavior of the DNC, the Obama campaign, and others in the Democratic Party. I am a lifelong Democrat; I have contributed to and worked for many Democrats. I have never voted for a Republican for president. But, until this primary season, neither the candidate I supported nor large segments of the Democratic Party base have ever been treated with such open disrespect and hostility by the Democratic Party. We've never been told that our votes (and by, extension, our concerns and interests) don't matter.
Even worse, the Democratic Party has betrayed its 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, the elderly, 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.
Barak Obama has lost my respect by his dismissive, misogynistic attacks against Hillary Clinton (and, by extension, all women). He has lost my respect by putting expediency over principle (and our most cherished, fundamental values) by blocking revotes in MI and FL. He has lost my respect by his hypocrisy in repeatedly attacking Bill Clinton for things he said on the campaign trail then saying “lay off my wife” when people criticized his spouse for things she said on the campaign trail. He lost my respect by his hypocrisy in belittling Hillary’s role in the White House by saying that her foreign policy experience was limited to drinking tea in ambassadors’ homes and claiming that she had no real experience before becoming a Senator while simultaneously holding her responsible for all of Bill’s mistakes. He lost my respect by claiming to be the uniter while dismissing uneducated voters and women (yet claiming that Hillary was the divisive one). I will never vote for Barak Obama. |
| 223 | Tricia Morris | I will never vote for Obama. If he is the nominee, I will not only vote for McCain but I will canvass and make calls, etc for him. Obama and his radical views and associations terrify me. |
| 224 | Peggy Panda | |
| 225 | Yolanda Heitman | It's either Hillary or McCain. Can I say it any clearer? |
| 226 | E Fabian | This primary season exposed the Democratic Party as a joke and I, along with me family, will be voting AGAINST Obama come the General election. But then again, Dean, Pelosi, Brazile and the Obama camp have bluntly told us that they do not need us to win in the General election since I, being a Latino, do not fall under the "new Democratic" coalition that consists of African Americans, young voters and college educated whites.
Hillarys base, which consists of the very important middle-class, blue collar workers, Latinos, Asians, women doesn't count for anything. LOL.
I was told by my Canadian friends, who have watched this from the outside looking in, that this primary season was rigged from the beginning to make sure Sen Clinton DOES NOT win and that Barrack Obama wins the nomination and the evidence cited proves them right.
The blatant media biased against Sen Clinton (anyone who denies this is living in "LaLaLand") and the vicious, sexist attacks geared towards her is something I will never forgive. Even the pro-Obama CNN did an editorial several months ago that stated sexism is far more acceptable in American society than racism. It is a sad reality BUT IT DOESN'T MAKE IT RIGHT.
Whenever someone mentioned anything related to race, it made national headlines and Obama was portrayed as the innocent victim against a racist society and media. The Clinton's themselves who have spent an entire lifetime helping those who were disenfranchised and visible minorities, were called racists (and the DNC and members of that party DID absolutely NOTHING to discourage this smear campaign). Howard Dean stated that using Rev Wright as an attack against Obama was "race baiting" yet these same people have let the media continue with their "witch" lynching of Sen Clinton and have stood, quietly in the sidelines as an influential member of their party received daily personal, physical and downright hateful attacks.
T-shirts comparing Sen Obama to Curious George made headlines and the media crucified the makers of those T-shirts and rightfully so. Yet no one cried "outrage" of the T-shirts showing a picture of Hillary referring to her as a (C WORD) or the T-shirt showing Obama and Hillary with the line "Bros before Hos" and no members of the DNC protested the "Hillary Nut-cracker" that you can purchase almost anywhere.
And the Obama campaign with their constant remarks "claws coming out", "she will do anything to win", "she will say anything to win" is just as insulting. Why didn’t Obama just state that Hillary is on PMS and he would have received an applause and several chuckles from the media outlets. And lets not forget that Obama’s campaign was one of the first to use racism as an instrument this primary season and they were never called out on it.
Sen Obama has gotten away with far too much and his use of race, sexist, condescending comments and his ludicrous attacks on Sen Clinton and her husband (the final straw was Obama comparing Bill Clinton's presidency to George Bush's) I will NEVER forgive and I will also never forgive the DNC's silence with regards to the outrageous sexism geared towards Hillary Clinton. Voting for Obama will be condoning that behavior which I will never do.
If racism is not acceptable in our society, the same should apply to sexism. It is a shame that this primary season only reinstated the sad reality that any other woman who wants to follow in Sen Hillary Clinton’s footsteps has an uphill battle.
And in closing, I want to bluntly state that I have not left the Democratic party, the Democratic party has not only left me but has slammed the door in the faces of millions of women, like my mother, who for years have tried to rise above the depths of exploitation and degradation by telling them "you are not worth our time".
I am an AMERICAN FIRST and a Democrat second. And that is true today and always. |
| 227 | kaaren Gaitenby Smith | Obama is a black racist and I will never vote for him |
| 228 | Lili Ann Motta | Hillary HAS won the popular vote. If the DNC shoves the illegitimate Bama down our throats, there will be a massive revolt. I'll never vote Bama. Never! |
| 229 | Roberta Mueller | |
| 230 | theodore roth | |
| 231 | Jen DiFeo | I am not leaving the Democratic Party -- the Democratic Party is leaving me. And my 81 year old life-long Democratic pa, who will, for the first time in his life, not vote for president if the dirty, corrupt Obama is the nominee. |
| 232 | Barbara Stewart | BHO is in no way qualified for POTUS and will loss in a landslide to McCain, a true American. I no longer recognize the Democratic Party. I've registered Independent after 40 years a democrat. I didn't leave the Party, the Party left me. |
| 233 | Mary Pat Kunert | |
| 234 | Anonymous | Senator Clinton will win in the campaign against McCain. Obama will not. Period. You must nominate Clinton. Many of us "old, poor, white, women" have had more than enough of Obama's campaign tactics to support him, now or ever. The caucus system in Texas was a joke. |
| 235 | Eula Dykes | I truly agree with this petition.NO HILLARY MEANS MCCAIN IN THE WHITE HOUSE |
| 236 | Anonymous | I will write in Hillary in November if she is not the democratic nominee...... |
| 237 | Anonymous | |
| 238 | Anonymous | Howard Dean,
I wrote you in 2007 warning you that this family of lifelong Democrat s would not vote for Obama. That was before all the despicable happenings of 2008 occured!
If Hillary Clinton is not nominated for the Presidency, this family will follow through with what we said we would do. Senator McCain will get our votesin November. Not only our votes but we will leave the Democratic Party as well. I can no longer trust or vote for a Party who doesn't care for this country! A vote for Obama is a vote against what this country was founded on. Rest assured I have been a loyal Democrat for almost 50 years but no longer. I will also do everything in my power to discourage others to vote for Obama. I also intend to keep my eyes on the traitors in my state who didn't follow the voters wishes. If you are curious, I am a white female, over 60 and Catholic. I also managed my own business for over 20 years and worked with major coroporations across the country. In addition furthered my education on a consistent basis and managed to raise seven children in the process!
Next time you might want to stop and think before you leap. You just lost this election again! |
| 239 | Gail | I WILL NOT VOTE FOR BO!!!!!!! I WILL VOTE FOR MY DOG FIRST.YOU WHANT A DEM.IN THE WIGHT HOUSE IN 09 THEN YOU BETTER PICK HILLARY CLINTON OR WE WILL PICK JOHN McCAIN........................................................GET IT!!!!!!! |
| 240 | Christina Wood | |
| 241 | Sue Ward | If BO gets the Dem nomination, I will write in Hillary Clinton and become an Independent after being a life-long member of the Democratic party (since 1963), |
| 242 | Sonya | Well said and DITTO that.
Only Hillary, or a large majority of Democratic voters will turn to McCain in November. Please do not make us do that. But you will if you tell us to just fall in line. You should know your fellow democrats are much more independant and willful than that. |
| 243 | Narra Pierce | |
| 244 | Claudia Logan | Add my name to the growing roster of lifelong Democrats who have witnessed the disintegration of democracy at the hands of the DNC and the party elite and will therefore be leaving the party if Hillary Clinton is not nominated.
I will vote for McCain in November. I have reconciled my choice as the lesser of two evils. At least we know that McCain loves this country.
You and the MSM have used up all your political capital.
What part of the Map v. the Math don't you get?
One would think that the facts on the ground - that is, the fact that Clinton has won more popular votes in Blue States/Swing States - indeed won the very states other Dem candidates could not win in the GE - would be proof enough.
We will not tolerate more of your shameful propaganda that favors nominating Barack Obama over a candidate whose qualifications for the job stand head and shoulders above him.
Your silence about the misogynist bias of the MSM towards Sen. Clinton and by extension a former president (her husband) who did so much good for this country is unspeakably cruel.
We are not as easily manipulated into believing what you want us to believe about Mr. Unity.
Some of us have followed politics - and supported the Democrats longer than His supporters have been alive. (Please don't discount 'experience' here.)
You are trying to con the American people. This is an even bigger affront to my values as a citizen of this country than Bush & Co.
In summary, I agree with the statements put forth in this petitition. |
| 245 | Mary Lou King | Obama will not win the presidency. There's too much we don't know about him yet and what we already know is enough to say no. Let all the voters of America speak and let's get back to the democracy thing treasure in the USA. Don't let the rules of a few silence the votes of the many. |
| 246 | Carolyn Paetow | If Obama is the nominee, I will vote for McCain. |
| 247 | Kathy Erb | I have been a Democrat for 30 years but if Obama is the nominee, I will be voting Republican for the first time in my life. |
| 248 | Charmian Neary | |
| 249 | Mary Ferrari | |
| 250 | Susan Bernstein | The DNC is so filled with fear they cannot see the forest for the trees. If you continue to offend Hillary supporters with your messed up primary and unfair delegate count, we will leave the DNC in large numbers and will not vote for Obama, will vote for McCain or just sit this one out! |