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• Wednesday, June 25, 2008 11:50 AM

  Hillary Clinton supporters?

  I keep making this point but I despair of the prospects that it might be understood by writers, bloggers and pundits everywhere:

  I am not now nor ever was a big supporter of Hillary Clinton. Of the major Dems running for the nomination, she was next to dead last on my list of candidates I wanted or was willing to support. Dead last on the list? Barack Obama.

  Even not being a Clinton supporter, I found his campaign tactics Rovian. (And why wouldn't they be? Rovian tactics worked for an opportunist like Bush and an opportunist like Obama wants to win above all else.)

  PUMA's are not merely to be found among disaffected Clinton supporters. Many are just like me. They can't and won't support a lightweight who has neither the experience or the grasp of the issues to make a good president in these trying times. From where I sit, Obama is like Dubya without the verbal tics.

  Where is Obama on FISA? Where is he on the Iraq War? Where is he on the mandates that are necessary for anything approaching true universal healthcare? Where is Obama on Social Security? Where is he on NAFTA?

  Obama is a cypher. He will not have my support. He used whatever tools and influence he had at his disposal to subvert the democratic process in the primaries and to get the DNC's RBC to award him votes and delegates he did not earn.

  Angry? You betcha I'm angry. I want a Democrat who understands what being a Democrat means. Obama? He is a lot of things, but an agent of change and "the one I have been waiting for" is not on that list.

  My goal this year is to see strong gains by Democrats in the House and the Senate...and to see a divided government with an opposition party president in the White House so that the congress and the chief executive spend the next four years moderating each other by being at each others throats. In short, I'm for splitting the vote.

  This lifelong Dem will not vote for Barack Obama. Period. And Hillary has nothing to do with it.

  —Roman Berry Read Roman Berry's other letters
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