Not the Party She Planned

WELL THIS HAS TO BE ONLY BLOG LEFT FOR ME TO LIFT MY LEG TO.

AFTER ALL IS SAID AND DONE.

AND MY MAN OBAMA HAS ONE.

WE WILL SEE IF HILLARY.

GETS INTERVENTION FOR HER BIG BUBBA.

THEN WE WILL KNOW.

WHY HE LIKES BLOW.

AND NOT HIS OWN WIFE.

I AM A VERY BAD SINGER, I KNOW.

BUT, NOW I MUST GO.

OBAMA RIDES FOR FUN WITH HIS NEIGHBORS; WHILE, I RIDE ALONE TO BEAUTY UP THE LAWN.

II was hoping she'd run as a independent.......but since I guess she could not--there is no other choice but to back Obama.

The T.V. news has become disgusting in its reporting style--with their questions of "when will she get out "..and constantly picking favorites to give all the time to. I also noticed this issue when all the candidates were still active--some got T.V. time and others were obviously left out.

I will be voting for John McCain.




I will not be voting for Obama.

Concerned Ctzn, are you OUT OF YOUR MIND saying that "W" did nothing to defeat Roe vs. Wade? It has been the stated goal of the religious right to appoint conservative judges to overturn Roe vs. Wade for years. Bush is on board with this plan. Every single judge that Bush appointed to every single Federal bench that came open during his tenure was a right wing Christian conservative. The Democrats were stymied when the GOP controlled congress, and Bush got to appoint two right wing Supreme Court Justices.

First Bush appointed John Roberts to replace Sandra Day O'Connor when she stepped down. When Chief Justice Wm. Rehnquist died in 2005, Bush appointed Roberts as Chief Justice, and then filled O'Connor's empty chair with Samuel Alito. Both Roberts and Alito are Catholic, and both are outspoken against abortion.

Bush has appointed two of the nine Justices, including the Chief Justice. The current Supreme Court has been sharply divided on a number of high profile issues, including abortion rights, affirmative action, eminent domain, gay rights, the separation of church and state, sovereign immunity, and states' rights. The number of close votes in cases involving these areas suggests that a change of one or two key justices could completely shift the thinking of the Court on such issues.

Right now there are four Justices who are elderly and will soon either retire or die. The next President will get to appoint at least two new Justices. If the next President is McCain, those two will both be conservative right wing Christians. McCain has publicly PROMISED to do this, and explicitly said that his goal is to overturn Roe vs. Wade.

Most Americans, even most Republicans, value the separation of church and state. That clause is in our Constitution to protect us from exactly what is going on in America today! Allowing any religious group (especially a radical one) to control the interpretation and application of our laws in the highest court in the land is NOT democratic. Nor is it wise.


Ladies, prick up your ears! We need to band together and fight John McCain.

HRC supporters - while I haven't been as successful as I hoped on this site, I have found many allies on other sites including noquarterusa.net and CNN. I'd like to rename our project: Operation Respect. The goal is to go after those who have used vile and malicious comments against Hillary and make sure there are consequences for them - in particular, the folks at Newsweek, MSNBC and their advertisers.

Initially, we just need to ensure we are not boosting rates at MSNBC and Newsweek sees their subscriptions drop (which will lower advertising revenue). Thereafter, we will go after the advertisers (just like the right wing has done successfully in some of their campaigns).. I will be back in touch with boycott details. Thanks to those of you who have added ideas and better tactics than I initially proposed.

Obama supporters - I don't think Barack is behind any of this nor is my anger directed at him (although some of you are really pissing me off calling HRC supporters, dumb, ignorant, stupid, etc.). Please stay out of this and let HRC supports redress our grievances with the people that are really behind our anger.

HRC supporters - I know many of you are angry at Obama. CNN polls show that 17% of HRC supporters will vote for McCain and 22% plan to stay home. I understand. The GE is 5 months away. In the meantime, let's see if we can bring down Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, Howard Fineman, Jonathan Alter, etc., to at least take the edge off. Women will never be disrespected again (at least by these as*hol*es) if we can effectively hit them where it hurts.

If Senator Obama loses (and I don't think he will), I don't think Hillary will run again. Her voters are older. And by 2016, there will be fewer to vote for her and she herself will be almost 70. I think this was it for her.

The Democrats are messed up. They're a bad soap opera that will be canceled in November. Clintons don't like Obama and vice versa. The 18 million voters for Hillary won't forget how they were ignored by the DNC.
They want revenge. If Hillary's voters don't send a strong message to the Dems in November , they know the party will be managed by the same rotten bunch in the DNC. There has to be a house cleaning. Hillary's supporters are focusing on that. They realize Hillary's endorsement for Obama is superficial. Her supporters won't be led like sheep in November.

Which part of ---NO EXPERIENCE is not going to get people to vote for you ---are you not seeing.

Maybe for you it's not wartime or time of financial stress or a feeling that your country has managed to be about to go from corporate looting in the White House to incomprehensible in the Oval Office.

It's not that voters are going for McCain, especially. It's that they can't understand why with Obama they should want to vote for a self-promoter who has shown them nothing tangible to back him up. This isn't the Grammies, it's an election.

It's that the democrats have caved to some shallow partisan agenda and think that with all our problems the way to solve things is to make leadership a matter of pigmentation. Instead of giving the voters a balanced ticket.

I could care less who the first black president might turn out to be. But if it needs to be politician, and it does, wouldn't Charlie Rangel, brilliant, resourceful and a real grown-up be better than some MTV Muppet?

What are the Obamabots going do next, offer a free tank of oil with every vote? And then have the press fawn over how visionary a tactic that is?

People, regardless of party are going to vote for McCain because he fits the job description in the way we want it to.

How delusional do you hav not be to actually believe that the same people who distrust the unfamiliar enough to reject Dean and Kerry and rather than that stunningly voted for Bush a second time, are now going go against every bit of their own logic and vote for Obama.

Oh, sure they are.

On Day One the objection to Obama was that he was inexperienced.

Today he appears even less so, showing us nothing but sulky entitlement issues and worse judgement.

You can foist someone so unsuitable -- a two year junior senator up against a lifetime Congressional mover and shaker --but you cannot make sentient adults vote for him..

WHY WOULD THEY?

That would be the bottom line-question even in the best of times, and if you are living in this country today the only other question is how much worse can these times get?

I am writing in Hillary Clinton. She is the best of the three choices and I now realize that what this election has really made me see is that I am not about to pick party over patriotism.
I If she and McCain both have a shred fo wisdom, they'll run on a Bi-partisan ticket and make four years , at least, of history..

After being a life-long Democrat, I'll now define myself as an Independent til the day I die.

Obama's only lasting legacy will be to have hoisted the petard of the Democratic Party.

-gala1

For the past year we've listened to debates; discussed with friends, and family; lived with foreclosures, higher and higher gas and food prices. So, we've decided that McCain may be the better choice because of experience, he isn't trying to CHANGE everything and everyone (its impossible) ; but with political experience, Senator McCain can change (Bush's war, job training and education for displaced workers, trade agreements, mandatory caps on carbon emissions).

Here's some change you can believe in: the amount of times McCain has changed his values and positions on the issues.

The reason half of the conservative Christian right hates McCain is because they think that they can't trust him. McCain started his career as part of the Christian right (there's a little-known fact). Once he landed in the soup as part of the Keating Five (which almost derailed his career) he positioned himself as a liberal and became a reformer for campaign finance in an effort to resurrect himself. For those of you who don't remember, the Keating scandal had to do with some shim sham corporations pumping money into McCain's coffers. So McCain became a reformer to shine up his tarnished image, and that was his first departure from the right.

Other, more serious betrayals of the right came later, after McCain got swift boated by Bush in 1999. The great Texas Republican political machine laid McCain to waste, and McCain was mad as hell. He started voting against the party line and against Bush. He suddenly supported abortion rights, opposed the Bush tax cuts, co-sponsored a patient's bill of rights with Kennedy and Edwards, and got on the environmental bandwagon with John Kerry. My gosh, he even tried to crack down on gun shows in legislation he put forth with then-Democrat Joe Lieberman. And in 2001, when Senator Jeffords of Vermont switched from Republican to Independent in an effort to counteract Bush's stranglehold on the Senate, McCain announced that he was considering becoming a Democrat, and went into a pow-wow with Senator Tom Daschle at his Sedona ranch. And did you know that John Kerry floated the idea of having McCain as his VP in '04? That was to have cemented his status as a newly-minted Democrat.

But instead of joining Kerry, McCain suddenly switched his affiliation, came out in support of Bush in '04, and jettisoned his liberal image. Suddenly, it was the "old" McCain from the 1980s back in the saddle, the neo-conservative, take no prisoners Creationist. Against abortion. For the war. The SAME man who opposed a Federal amendment banning gay marriage and openly met with gay groups now was pushing a gay marriage ban in Arizona. The SAME man who said in 1999 that he was opposed to overturning Roe vs. Wade, now suddenly in 2007 is promising that he will stack the deck in the Supreme Court with religious right judges and overturn Roe vs. Wade.

But the religious right isn't so sure about him. He's supported so many different opposing positions at so many times, that they are afraid that they are getting played in the name of McCain's political expediency.

Here are videos that show clips of McCain reversing himself on the same issues at different times, to give you an idea of what I am talking about. Don't believe me -- get it straight from the horse's mouth:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEtZlR3zp4c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ajm5JTf7jZs&feature=related