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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
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Where race comes into play is in who Obama chose to associate with for some 20 odd years in Chicago. Black and White, they aren't the people most voters want their potential president hanging out with. This wasn't wild youth but the most recent work this man has done. Black Liberation Theology is very leftist and related to Liberation Theology which has inspired communist insurgencies in Latin America. The Pope has excommunicated priests who peddle the theology. It uses truth with spin and dubious conclusions. Obama has little background with work so his education level is the biggest selling point. His penchant for leftists in the extreme sense is a good indication of his true feelings and beliefs. I am a liberal democrat but will not go that far left and find it just as distasteful as the right. So I am out of the election and out of choices. This is the first election I will not participate in but I can't pull the lever for candidates I don't want to be president and I'm not going to help them.
The Hillary supporters are not just women, but many concerned Americans. Obama is far left and not for the center of the party. Hillary was the only centrist left in the race. That's one reason it's been a 3 way race for the last few months. McCain in general is centrist but is running in the steps of Bush and his rightist friends. There are many loyal Democrat voters who have been in the center and in the party for many years whom the party has literally chosen to dump. The young college/ high school voters have come at the expense of the people who have devoted their high school/ college/ young working lives, older working lives and retirement to the party. We are supposed to put up and shut up because... what are we going to do about it.... vote for McCain? The abuse of the party equals the way the Republican Party treated Christine Todd Whitman and others who were more centrist then right-wing. Maybe a new centrist party needs to be created?
I don't know if the author cares or not, but I'm not coming back to the fold. Not unless the Democratic Party changes considerably in the next few years. I am not only not voting for Barack Obama, but am not supporting financially his campaign, the national DNC nor any organization that might provide money to their campaigns. The way the the primary was conducted was disgraceful and I was horrified at the way Hillary was treated by the Democrats in general. I am also concerned with the lack of experience and agenda that Barack Obama has for the country. If he becomes president, the country will be mired in incompetence and an extreme leftist agenda. The party leaders of the Democratic party is pathetic. Howard Dean, Nancy Pelosi and Clyburn among others has provided no leadership or guidance in the House or Senate since the Democrats became the majority.
The Republicans are no better and I probably will support Nader. I believe that Mc Cain is still the better person in the race but his pandering to Bush's agenda isn't great either.
I think there may be other Hillary supporters who may just vote for Barack but I doubt they know there are other options or they still believe that Obama's policies will be similar to Hillary's. (If they were, then why did he run?)
I know I can't and won't. This wasn't just another primary election as we all know and history tells us nothing about what people will actually do. I do know that Democrats are not getting my vote in November.
This story is written by a woman who definitely doesn't agree with the people she writes about and her manner is one of condescension. She lists what she believes are reasons, mostly that women (not just voters of either sex) are angry and refusing to vote for Barack Obama out of spite. We are supposed to believe that the Democratic Party is our true home are we have left it in hurt and anger. This is like an abusive husband who believes that the last punch wasn't the last and that the wife will soon come home. In this scenario, I can tell you, the wife is off doing some other things now and is final in her decision not to come back.
I was a member of the Democratic Party and technically still am. I just won't be supporting or voting for the presumptive presidential nominee. The party has been fundamentally changed in this election and things aren't going back to where they were before. I'm moving on just as the Democratic Party wants to and seems to be angry at me for not buying into their brand. They can't nominate a guy who runs as a different politician then try to punish people who don't agree with the supposed difference or buy into the idea. I see an nominee who is grossly unqualified and basically barnstormed into the nomination by bullying people and banking on animosity of the Clintons. Obama supporters claim he bring "a new kind of politics". He is not just another Democratic nominee, he is a fake in all sense of the word and shouldn't have been given the support he had. This is not a choice between Gore or Clinton, or Clinton or Kerry, this is a choice of a candidate who was suitable for the job and one who is wholly unsuitable. It is a disgrace that the Democratic Party chose him and why the party is so discredited in many people's eyes. I am a member of PUMA by the way and will be around for awhile as I love politics. I will make sure that Barack Obama isn't supported by me financially in this election and will not support an organization that will provide him with funds. It is my personal statement about this mess.
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