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I repeat, it is the spineless weasles who call themselves independents who since 2000 are more interested in the frivolous, "a president you can have beer with" or "Al Gore invented the internet" or "swiftboat attack" that according to the exit polls and the media delivered the presidency to Bush. You can now conveniently say you voted for the Democrats even though you claim otherwise. You could have voted for Nader or anybody for all I care stop this inflammatory attack on Hillary to polarize the Democratic party.
While it's nice to see such a broad brushing of independent voters, the fact is that what you listed could have come from someone with an R or D affiliation. The thing I find so amusing about partisans is that they become so wrapped up in the party line that nothing else matters.
I've voted for a variety of candidates in my lifetime, however what letter they had next to their name wasn't the reason I voted for them and partisan hackery is what has gotten us in the mess we're in today.
Continuously litigating the primary on why she lost and how awful and untrustworthy (as if any politician is)she is, in my opinion is counterproductive to the party and I am not going to allow a self-described independent to do that.
Oh it won't be little old me on a message board who is going to "tear apart" the Democratic Party. You need to look no further than the militant Clinton supporters who are threatening to sit out this election or vote for McCain. Some of them are here posting on this very forum yet I'm the bad guy?
Priorities I guess.
Go and support your so-called "maverick" who is a flip-flopper extraordinnaire and who is going to continue Bush's disastrous 8 year policies and let us Democrats heal and unite to defeat him.
Perhaps you missed something. I don't like McCain and don't want him to win. I would have preferred Richardson but he ran a weak campaign and washed out. I have never liked Hillary as a politician nor did I think she could win given the baggage she carries that gets overlooked by the hardcore partisans. Obama is hardly perfect either but I think he's far more palatable given the current field.
