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She did what she had to do. Her delivery was strong and sincere, she looked powerful and confident. Her support of Barack is unequivocal. To vote for McCain would be a true mark of disrespect for her ideals and values and she made that abundantly clear. No, it isn't about her or Obama. It is about the people who stand to suffer if the Republican party wins. She hit the nail right on the head when she intimated that it is time to take this debate out of the realm of personality and into the realm of issues and the real world impact of Democratic vs. Republican policy. The only ones who are seriously criticizing her are right wingers and nutty Hillary haters. Even Keith Olberman gave her credit for God's sake!
Last night on Larry King was one of these self professed "lifelong" Democrats who said she may not vote for Obama. Why? Because some of his supporters were mean. The media was mean. The people at the convention were mean to her and did run up to her to embrace her when she's wearing her Hillary button. Obama, she said, has to "earn" her vote.
As a lifelong Democrat, I can tell you, that no Democrat has to "earn" my vote. Being the Democratic nominee is pretty much sufficient to get my vote. Now, if a progressive, intelligent, thoughtful, articulate, Republican who agreed with 90 percent of the Democratic Platform was running against a right wing, unnuanced, jingoistic, bellicose, gaffe ridden Democrat who agreed with 90 percent of the Republican Platform, yeah, then I'd consider changing teams. So, what is this really about? What "principles" really matter?
So I just don't buy into this whole Puma phenomenon. I mean, Hillary got 18 million votes, and now there are what, a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand still harping on this? There are also Larouchites saying that Gore is the antiChrist. Who pays attention to them? It's all media driven. Nobody should be giving these people the time of day. Seriously, take a look at that woman who told Chris Matthews she has a congressional investigator's report that proves Obama is a Muslim...That's got nothing to do with support for Hillary. Of course when Chris Matthews pressed her for details she said, "I'm not gonna tell you." That's just either batshit crazy, ignorant or pot stirring.
By attacking the Democratic nominee Pumas align themselves with the likes of Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Bill Kristol, Micheal Reagan, Micheal Savage, Joe Scarbourough, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Glenn Beck, Laura Ingraham, Britt Hume, Michelle Malkin and all the other nasty right wingers...Not very good company for "lifelong" Democrats I'd say. That's why I'd say its more of a manufactured conflict than a real one.
