First of all I dig your name because it is the name of one of my favorite bands (I am only in my 20s though).

I am a Clinton supporter and I hate the Republican party. I do not even have Republican friends because their values run so contrary to mine that I would not smile in their faces and pretend that they did not bother me.

I will not vote for Senator Obama. My vote is pretty inconsequential because I live in New York which is always a guaranteed Democratic state. I have to disagree with you when you say that people who are saying that they would vote for McCain over Obama were probably going to vote for him anyway.

I dislike McCain so much that I have sense stopped donating money to my Alma Mater, Columbia, for having him speak at Commencement. Columbia was now in the illustrious league as Bob Jones University as McCain spoke at their graduation. I hope you can agree that if I am cutting all ties with a place where I spent some of the best years of my life, the place where I found the love of my life partner, learned enough to go to Yale law school and got the support from the institution to get me into law school, because of Senator McCain (who would seek to deny me full protection for my relationship as is my right), I had no intentions of voting for him. He's a bum, he is a dummy (I honestly think that graduating fifth from the bottom of one's class is more difficult than graduating fifth from the top), he's a petulant warmonger who is still under the delusion that invading Iraq was a good idea. And, I am very concerned about his age.

I feel there is not place for me in the Democratic party because I do not think Senator Obama would be a good president. I feel alienated enough from the party that I feel that supporting McCain would be the ultimate act of defiance and maybe show some of you Obama supporters that maybe the Democratic party needs people like me and that I should not just be somebody who is a shill for your candidate.

The Obama/Clinton situation has been so divisive that my partner and I have gone from a friendly, even playful, disagreement about our rival candidates to having some pretty big blow outs. She wants to host an Obama event at our brownstone. That would cause me difficulties at work (my firm is filled with and run by Clinton supporters) and would destroy my relationship with Harold Ikies, a relationship I have cultivated and nurtured since my junior year of college (he is about the meanest man I have ever met). I think that is dismissive and inconsiderate. She says it is time to move on. It is my house too, just as I used to feel the Democratic party was my party too. She is like some Obama groupies who do not have any concern for Clinton supporters who do not want Obama to be the head of our party. This dispute over the way my home will be used is emblematic of how bad relations have gotten in the party.

Before Obama supporters started denigrating me and people who supported Clinton, I would have held my nose and voted for him. As much as I would detest a McCain presidency, I would detest an Obama Administration just as much. I expect Obama supporters would feel the same about another Clinton Administration.

Now, do you think that I have no business in the Democratic party because I hate the idea of an Obama Administration? I cannot stand Joe Lieberman so I could not be in his "Independent" party (I don't know how being a puppet of neocons can be Independent, but whatever).

I support gay marriage, I am pro-choice, I do not believe in a for profit prison system, I am against the death penalty, I think the Patriot Act is the most unpatriotic piece of legislation ever, I think that with the strict exception of some hunting rifles, that guns have no place in a civilized society, I am not a Zionist, I believe in a foreign policy of engagement, I think our policy of dealing with oil companies is abominable, and a host of other things that make me pretty far to the left of even most Democrats. My question, to Obama supporters, is "where should I go?"