People who support Barack Obama have over and over proven themselves to be like cultists. Cult leaders deploy paranoia to bond their followers to them. Paranoia creates a sense of dependency and a distrust and visceral hatred for anyone who dares to question their Dear Leader. You accuse anyone who does not bow down and kiss Obama's feet as a racist, an elitist, mean, or whatever. Fend off blatantly false accusations, but try to understand that the rest of us are not ready to beatify your beloved Saint Obama.

I support Senator Clinton because I think she is the best person for the job. Guess what? I am a black woman! I can see you guys who stan hard for Obama hunching over your keyboards to decry me as a troll who could not possibly be a black woman because all we blacks are swept in the herd mentality. I am embarrassed by how black people are rushing to Obama's side simply because he is black. It reminds me of the "OJ is innocent" mentality. We all say things in intra-racial conversations that we would not say in front of a racially diverse audience. Every black person I know unashamedly tell me that I should vote for Senator Obama because he is black. I am cast as racially disloyal by blacks and whites who have the audacity to tell me where my racial loyalties should lie.

I think that like Bush, Obama has a lack of understanding for the institutional strength that Congress has, that he is swept up in the enticing power of the Executive Branch to the point that he does not acknowledge that the other two branches of out government could easily disrupt his agenda. Not working with lobbyists directly is nice, but Congressmen do work with them, so his moralizing will get him no where fast. I am suspicious of his speeches that seem to revolve around "Change We Can Believe In" and "Hope." I am a policy wonk and want details. Clinton gives me those details. They seem to be rooted in reality, not pie in the sky amorphous hopeful declarations.

Obama fanatics brace yourselves...Barack Obama is not a black American. This is not about being black enough because he is educated or well spoken or not ghetto. By that metric, I am not black enough. I went to Columbia as an undergrad and Yale for law school, so do not even go there. My grandmother recently told me something that broke my heart. She said that when she was very young she was called nigger so much that she began to think it was her name and that her real name was a sobriquet. Mine is a family unwillingly in diaspora and worked on this soil as slaves. Senator Obama callously tries to manipulate my painful legacy by casting himself and his family history as being the same as mine. Well it is not. Senator Obama is a biracial man whose father was a man from Kenya who came here of his own volition. He does not have to bear the psychic wounds of having loved ones or people whom we would have loved being mistreated and having to hear about it. It hurts and I am glad that Senator Obama has never felt that hurt. Senator Obama has profited off of that so that he as seen as someone for whom blacks and liberal whites can feel good about electing. His behavior is reprehensible and unforgivable.

It is Senator Obama's toying with race that got him into the Wright scandal. Back when it was convenient for Senator Obama to pass himself off as a white guy who just happened to have a black father, he went by the name Barry. When he wanted to establish his black bona fides, he became the Candidate Formerly Known As Barry and switched to Barack and was suddenly black. Not biracial, black. Then he joined Wright's church. It is well established that joining Wright's church was Obama's gateway into a black community of which is neither a native nor shares the experience of those who live there. As sad as it is, I think that Obama just might have been dismissed by some black voters for not being black enough had he not joined that church. He made the cynical move and 20 years later, he is being held to account. Now that he has firmly got the brainwashed black masses (and yes they are masses, he gets 90% of the black vote) who love him because we have the same phenotype, he now has to revert back to being the white guy who happens to have a black dad. Hey, it seems to be working for him in these primaries, but he may need some Clintonesque pivoting to pull it off with some white voters.

I respect Obama supporters' right to like the guy and think he is the best man for the job. But, the way many of you have treated Clinton supporters has embittered me. I do not like condescending attitude, the patronizing, and the belittling. Therefore, I will not support Senator Obama for president, I might donate money to Senator McCain because whereas I may have been able to put aside my differences with Obama, now I cannot. I find the prospect of a McCain Administration frightening; it would be catastrophic for the world and for the country. As much as I fear a President McCain, I am equally tantalized by the prospect of Obama and his maniacal supporters to be brought low. There are many like me and that is bad.

I have been dragged to an area that is the flip side of Obamamania: Obamadysphoria. I think behavior on both sides have made the Democratic party bipolar: hyomania or major depression.