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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
The saddest thing I have seen to date is the postings on this site. I expect right wing loyalists to take shots, honestly, I do. It is what we have dealt with for over 20 years and it is not going to change anytime soon. What takes me aback is the Clinton supporters. I have seen the sexism and been offended and angered by it. Please, one more time show the weary and ragged Clinton in a shot next to a beaming, youthful Obama. I get that. I really do.
What upsets me the most is the boiling down of Obama supporters. You know, the koolaid drinkers, worshippers, sexist, haters. I am a white, middle aged, suburban working mom who supports Obama. The false "last chance for a woman in the White House" tactic didn't pull me in, I don't buy that this is the best we can do. There are many, many women out there that are absolute rock stars that will run when it's their time. No, you see, what turned me against Hillary is her years of supporting the existing Bush regime. She backed the war. She stood with the neocons when we desperately needed her to do the right thing. She did not. I have followed Obama for a long time, even going so far as to write a letter to him in, gosh 05? I think, asking him to run for president. Is he perfect? Hopefully not, who needs that? Is he void of skeletons in the closet? Doubtful. But he is inspiring, and isn't that what we've been missing? Someone who can get us to say - where do I sign up?
It saddens me to no end to see the anger and bitterness from the Hillary supporters. But that is what you get when you buy into inevitability. You so believed that this would happen, that you would see your candidate as president that disappointment is literally too much to bear. But does this mean you turn around and vote in McBush out of spite? Is that what we have come to? I understand venting frustration but will that frustration carry over to November? Will we democrats need to expect a parallel "Operation Chaos" from inside our own party? Will that bring some sort of satisfaction? I can't imagine that it will, for when January 2009 rolls around and you have succeeded in defeating a democratic candidate, you will have to live with the choice of 4 more years. Can we survive it? Can our country? Can our troops?
Katetex
You mention that the Texas votes that Hillary won, needed to be reduced by the caucus votes that she lost. How can this be true. I was under the impression, that you "had" to vote in the primaries, and could only vote in the caucuses if you had already voted in the primaries. Doesn't that mean, that caucus votes are merely a duplication of the votes already taken in the primaries? Many people didn't make it to the caucuses, that did make it to the primaries, but there were not "any additional votes for Obama" in the caucuses. Obama got the same votes in the caucuses, that he had already gotten in the primaries.
It makes me sick that there is such rampant misogyny in this country, and that so much of it is in media, and so much anti-women sentiment is felt by self-loathing or self-deprecating women.
Mike Madden is one more writer that feels it necessary to emphasize that Hillary has lost this nomination, as if no one knows it. He feels compelled to repeat the obvious; as if he's overjoyed at the outcome. What a pig; what a loathsome fool.
I strongly feel, that Hillary should exhaust every possible remaining avenue that she can find, to prolong this contest until the very end. She has been treated so unfairly, by women-haters, by irrational Hillary-haters, by woefully ignorant and uninformed Obama stooges, but mostly, by far, by media, that she should push every possible way of staying in this race. Let these bastards sweat for every vote. Obama is unworthy of the nomination, and it makes perfect sense to me, that women and men that support Hillary, should refuse to vote for a candidate that has been forced on us, by media that has savaged, humiliated and attacked Hillary, non stop, at every turn, and coddled, defended and supported Obama, while refusing to give him the vetting voers needed to make an intelligent choice, until he had the nomination sewed up, and even now, refuse to reveal everything we need to know about this clown. Now, after months of vicious attacks against Hillary, by Obama goons, after media's ugly unfairness, they come to us asking for our support!!! I say hell no. Women's reproductive rights are all important, and only one issue can subordinate them, the denial of the most fundamental right of all: that of being treated with respect by your fellow citizes. If they curse, call you foul names, and treat you like shit, what right have they to come to you later, asking for your votes? It astonishes me that the same men (and sadly, women) that cursed, and sought to abuse, insult and humiliate Hillary, now come to us trying to bribe us with the fear of McCain's possible anti-reproductive rights nominations for the Supreme
Court, to get our votes. Obama and his supporters, are no better than McCain and his followers.
Pantanal wrote: PR residents don't even vote in the general. Why PR or Guam are included in the primaries is one of those really idiotic facts no one can give and an intelligent answer to because none exists. Obama didn't even bother to show up in PR.--Pantanal"
(1) The United States of America controls Puerto Rico and Guam in a "commonwealth". We control nearly every important aspect of their lives daily. Ever lived in either place? I lived in San Juan for nearly four years and speak Spanish well. I can tell you that the people of Borinquen...the actual name of Puerto Rico...are proud people who feel a kinship with the States. Add to that kinship the sacrifice of thousands or Borinquenos who have fought and died for America in wars around the world, the fact that Borinquen is the homeland for millions of our citizens here and is an important manufacturing base in the Caribbean.
Guam is home to a huge forward base of our military, are proud people who have contributed much to America and are impacted directly by Washington's political decisions.
With all that in mind, why should either group NOT participate?
(2) Perhaps you missed the picture of Senor Obama doing a pretty mean salsa at the head of a parade in Puerto Rico a week or so ago. Or, maybe it was his evil twin.
Panatal, you really need to stop disenfranchising peoples from Puerto Rico and Guam from participating in the democratic process with your xenophobic rants; they might get the idea that they don't matter.
They do!
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