Dear 28% of Clinton’s supporters and 19% of Obama’s supporters,
It would seem that the lesson you’ve learned over the last seven plus years is that your allegiance to a generally innocuous politician, whose policy prescriptions are mostly harmless, though fundamentally uninspired and woefully inadequate in addressing the very serious needs they pretend to, is more important then putting an end to the disastrous policies of the current administration. You would vote for a man, John McCain, whose only qualm with our current policy of war and entanglement in the Middle East is that it is doesn’t involve more war and isn’t tangled enough, rather than swallow your pride and vote for the person who winds up winning the Democratic nomination. Though this person will indeed be different from the one you backed, they will still be an innocuous politician, whose policy prescriptions are mostly harmless, though fundamentally uninspired and woefully inadequate in addressing the very serious needs they pretend to. You really ought to feel right at home.
My message to you is this: you suck. Knock it off. Enough with the sucking already.
Hugs and kisses,
Chris
Not a chance that I would vote for McCain…I will vote for whichever candidate emerges with the nomination, regardless of how it shakes down.
Everybody is going to have to answer this question for themselves.
One explanation might very well be the negative campaign by both sides.
Another explanation is that this notion of historic campaign between a black man and a woman will ultimately have to account for the fact that there are at least some who will never vote for a woman and some who will never vote for a black. It’s the price the democrats will pay by having their white guys eliminated.
I’m convinced that Obama will lose to McCain in the general election and that Hillary has a chance but is clearly not a sure thing.
The left blogs have been characteristically judgmental, harsh, divisive but I guess I couldn’t expect better from blogosphere. The main stream media has likewise been unfair, singularly focused on the petty crap that both campaigns spill out on the other.
There are no angels in this race
If Ms Clinton runs as McCain’s VP, who would you vote for?
Um, well….um? If Clinton runs as McCain’s VP, who would I vote for?
Huh?
Wha…?
The fuck?
um….I’m just going to hope that I just wrote this post so very badly that its intent was completely obscured by grammatical errors and inane babbling and that you aren’t sitting in front of your computer huffing White Out from a plastic baggy.
“If Ms Clinton runs as McCain’s VP, who would you vote for?”
Are you stupid?
Ummm… getting back to your original post, Chris: Well said says I. Preventing the McCain 100-years-war is paramount in November.
Neither democratic candidate will be able to right all the wrongs of the Bush administration. De-tangling the signing statements alone will take years, and can only be accomplished after the sleeper cells are rooted out of the DoJ.
And don’t forget the huge tax increases that will have to be forced through in order to pay the Bush-bill. He’s run a horribly inept occupation on an open ended credit card. He charged up $50 billion a month for ‘Security Forces’ and ‘Supply Lines’; those things the US Army used to do for themselves. Now Haliburton has the money, the oil, and the private army to control it, and we (the American peolpe) are left holding the bag.
Read this commentary from MarketWatch; there is no way to avoid raising taxes, (unless we are willing to stiff China, or continue Bush’s folly and steal oil from Iraq). Neither of which will play well on the world stage.
Same old shit, different decade: “It’s the ecomomy, stupid”.
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/ten-reasons-your-taxes-going/story.aspx?guid=2DA65225-C2F9-48C9-A828-D52C52621C6C&dist=SecMostMailed
ten bears, if luke skywalker runs as mccain’s VP, who would you vote for?
uh wait, i got another good one… what if santa claus clinches the constitution party nomination and has john edwards as his running mate?
i think all of those scenarios are about as plausible as a mccain-clinton ticket.
Actually, I am part of that 28% because I do NOT appreciate a candidate taking my vote for granted. It is Obama that said several times that he will get most of Hillarys supporters and he is not sure that she will get any of his. So I say to him - I am one of her supporters you will NOT get. I took your wife’s advice and this white person has woken up. MCCain ‘08.
Elaine,
You suck. Stop it.
Chris
P.S. What sort of advise has my wife been giving you? This is all a little confusing.
I would vote for Clinton & McCain . Simple - the democratic party that I have been a member of since I could vote - is gone . These days this strange party is abusive towards women has taken up rovian/freeper tactics to use against a fellow democrat. This strange party wants to deny counting the votes of over 2 million people. It’s really no contest, when your party betrays its principles you just find another party .
So the corporate media pre-selects my 4th and 5th choice, (behind Edwards, Kucinich, and Richardson), and these remaining candidates are now sniping at each other, so I should vote for 100-years-war-McCain? Not bloody likely.
Investment in education, infrastructure, and alternate energy sources will be the driving force for economic recovery in the US. These issues are not even on the radar for the right-wingnut noise machine. A vote for McCain is an admission that Bush was right; that we need to finish the Crusade and take the oil. I call bullshit. There must be a better way, or we leave our kids to fight WW3.
We cannot survive another four years with a cowboy at the helm. It may already be too late, even if we install an adult in the white house.
I will not vote for anyone who has nothing in their background to qualify them to be the leader of my country . I watched repubs do this twice . No . I will not be a part of hoping for substance from a blank application. No. I will not be a part of an encouraging misognistic candidate and a race baiter .
When I have to go to faux news to get somewhat ‘fair’ coverage of a democratic candidate that is the end for me . I will Not be voting for someone just because of a speech . I will not vote for someone whose favorite vote is not present .
I wonder how much coverage this will get on the Obama abuse Clinton teevee networks ? none. heh.
Judicial Watch: Obama ‘intended to leave no paper trail’
http://thehill.com/campaign-2008/judicial-watch-obama-intended-to-leave-no-paper-trail-2008-03-26.html
Well, then…..hmm. Clearly I picked the wrong week to quit huffing glue.
It’s gonna have to be a unity ticket; HRC & BO are just fighting about who gets top billing.
And now there are rumors of Condi perhaps being McCain’s VP choice. Just for that extra added dose of identity politics, I suppose.
Or perhaps it’s extra looney warmonger incompetance; hard to say.
Imo Condi would not take it . I have read that she is so sick of this mess that she is counting the days until she can get back to the academia .. that is .. if the students will accept her .
Elaine: I’m reasonably certain if I were to intimate racism on your part you’d be offended. So please tell me how I should interpret your remark “this white person has woken up. MCCain ‘08.”? I know, it’s all evil Michelle’s fault.
Briana: Please spare me the lame excuses and go vote Republican. Who else said “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party; the party left me”? Two million people are NOT being disenfranchised. But for the sake of argument, we’ll say they are. Your preferred president, Sen. Clinton, signed an agreement that the two states’ delegations wouldn’t be seated. Now that she needs their votes she’s reneged on her signed vow. Now that’s ethical behavior worth voting for!
As for your statement about the Republicans twice electing someone unqualified to be president I can only assume you mean Bush, Jr. and Reagan. Look, I have no use for the Reagan years – I think he was a disaster. But unlike Bush who is a disaster because he’s incompetent, Reagan was a disaster because he was a masterful politician – and an honest one to boot. He said “vote for me and I’ll cut the top tax rates a lot, the rest a little (and before anyone disagrees I will tell you to go back and read his campaign speeches – he was quite clear the highest had to be slashed, the rest cut a little), increase military spending a lot, take on communism, and cut social programs.” He won and he did all those things – with a hostile Tip O’Neil (also a great politician) fighting him every step of the way. Reagan was eminently competent and capable. The problem was what he did, not incompetence. Christ, he was the most effective (in terms of getting his programs enacted) president since LBJ.
Mad Martigan – thank you. Couldn’t agree with you more.
Snuzy – no, I wouldn’t go for McCain and Luke Skywalker, but then I never was much of a Star Wars fan. But McCain and Santa Claus…they’d get my vote!!!!!!!!!!!
I have wondered if I could hold my nose tightly enough to vote for Hillary. I am pretty relieved I will not have to do that afterall, though if she gains the nomination unfairly would I reward her with my vote? To keep the Rethugs from a 3rd Bush term I would regretfully have to.
Damn the DNC!
However, though he was not my 1st choice, I now support Sen. Obama wholeheartedly.