I’ve been saying no for some time (’No, I can’t vote for someone who has been so nasty and has lied to us so blatently as Senator Clinton has’), but as the race wears on, and the Supreme Court makes decisions against civil rights, I am coming to terms with the idea that I might just have to hold my nose.

Will I donate money to her campaign? No. Will I work for her like I’ve worked for Obama? Probably not. But I’m still leaving my options open as far as holding my nose and casting a vote for her. Senator Clinton’s actions have been appalling, and I don’t want her (or the world) to think that we approve of HER and her campaign. If faced with the choice of her and McCain, I will either vote 3rd party, stay home, or vote for her.

I’ll hold my nose and vote for clinton

The bottom line is Obama will not win the nomination..Any one that votes for him is just voting for 4 years of McCain/Bush..We do not know who Obama is. He will not even post his original birth certificate..Fly in the ointment somewhere. Somewhere other than Rev. Wright, Rezko, Ayers and the other suspicious associates…..HRC is the only answer to bring our soldiers home and keep America safe…

Obama has already won, it’s been over for some time now. But if it were the case that Hillary got the nomination (notice how I didn’t say “win”) I will do the right thing and write in Obama.

Joe Andrew, The Super Delegate who switched sides to support Obama this morning wrote this in his letter — it pretty much sums up the choice for me:

“In 1992, I was inspired by Bill Clinton because he promised, and delivered, a framework for addressing America’s problems. President Clinton ended a long-running left-right debate in our Party, and inspired millions. He drew giant crowds and spoke passionately for a generation of Americans who often disenfranchised and rarely participated in governing. Today, Barack Obama does the same thing. Winners redefine the game. Winners connect with the American people and not only feel their pain, but inspire them to take action to heal the underlying cause. Barack Obama is that kind of candidate and that kind of leader, which is why he will win in November.”

I hope the rest of the Supers will recognize this and give us the chance to vote for Obama.

I used to think that if Hillary Clinton should lose the nomination (and for all our sakes I hope that she does) then she and her followers should break off and form their own party. They could call themeselves Splintercrats, Clintoncrats or maybe the Bite Backs. All that anger, all that energy, all that EGO is going to need a creative outlet. My message to the Clintons and the Clinton supporters was if you can not truly get behind the person who is likely to be one of this nation’s most incredible Presidents then build a new party and take Gollum, I mean, James Carville with you. Seriously.

However, now I am beginning to wonder more what to do if she and Bill steal the nomination. What a grave error that would be. Do I take my own advice and say Obama supporters should form our own party? Goddamn right. If the DNC doesn’t feel the financial muscle and voter power generated by Obama’s grassroots backbone is worth co-opting than we should walk and sure as hell contest the results. The one thing I have say about this primary season is that it has me fired up like I have never experienced. This is a hell of a lot better than television (which I don’t own anyway) and it’s the nearest thing to a three party race that I’ve ever seen.

Obama is head and shoulders above his opponents and his style of politics is what sets him apart from his rivals. He may not be sweeping the nation off its feet the way he was before Hillary got her teeth into him but he has clearly arrived on the scene with such a strong sense of purpose that it’s obvious Barack Obama has a mission to fulfill. If it is not as the President to bring us out of Iraq, the President to redefine our nation’s politics or to be America’s first black President then he is bound to make his mark by another means. Two families, the Bushes and the Clintons, have run this country for almost twenty years. Now these ego maniacs want to extend their reign? What nonsense. It’s time we stopped being strangled by the Bush and Clinton oligarchy. That’s one of the changes I’m looking forward to.

I’m trying to convince myself that whatever the outcome the Democratic Party needs our support. The only problem is I’d have a difficult time belonging to a Democratic Party that underhandedly gave the Clintons the nomination.

Democrats a party of compassion

As a party we share compassion for those that need support and attention for their survival.

We are the party that cares for the suffering and abused.

We do not ignore but embrace the poor, ill, weak, old, disabled, young, envirnoment and fractured families.

We as a country are only as strong as our weakest link and by uniting together to shore up that which is in need we remain strong.

The Democrats care….. we share our wealth with the poor and we are a watchdog to protect these values.

Hillary Clinton is a champion for all these values. Her years of service to the public has documented her passion.
She and Bill Clinton have wealth. They could make good Republicans but they need to give back in service to us, to our country.
What do they have to gain otherwise.
Where is the value of life, if not to make a difference in the lives of the poor and try to meet the needs of those that find it hard to do battle alone.

Democrats…. we are the party of compassion.

I am a proud supported of Hillary Clinton.

No matter who the candidate in November, I will vote DEMOCRAT. A vote otherwise would be to prolong the mess in Iraq and cause further deaths of our military. TRUE we cannot pull out the troops at one time, but at least we would start to turn the country back over to the Iraqis. That country took the brunt of what should have been aimed at tracking down al qaeda. If the money spent had been used to train special ops, educate Iraqis children, and bribe those in the country who had information, this would all be over now. Instead we had to blow up a country and now have to rebuild it. We have no defense here at home and are wide open when natural disasters occur. To vote Republican is to continue a never ending story.

I really don’t know what I’d do if Clinton were to win the nomination because although I have always been a strong democrat, I think having Clinton in office may be more dangerous than what we’ve experienced with Bush. What I’ve seen from Clinton with her tactics really concerns me about how she would govern. I really firmly believe we need to gain some diplomatic order in the middle east and need a president that can begin to build that. I also don’t believe anything the Clinton camp says,to me it’s the same old same old anything for your vote. For me, it wouldn’t be sour grapes, but trust issues that would sway my vote.

I really don’t know…if somehow Obama was screwed out of the nomination after playing by all the rules and winning fairly and squarely, I’d be really hard-pressed to go for Hillary after the way she’s been playing the system.

After all, I’m a mid-fifties white man and one of the reasons I contributed money and time to a politician for the first time in my life was a sense that Obama was different and maybe even capable of changing the Washington way of doing business.

And putting my vote for her kind of goes against that. McCain isn’t all that bad but frankly I think he’s too weak and set in his ways to resist the lobbyists, in fact I think he’s in bed with them. But I know Hillary is too, albeit a different side of the bed.

No, I prefer to think we’ll do whats’ right as Americans and this won’t be an issue.

The one thing I can’t understand about those states that Hillary’s winning where they are depressed financially, like West Virginia coming up, is why for someone who is a established member of the Washington Insiders?

I would have really thought that Obama’s American Up from Nowhere and Nothing story would have been inspirational and at a minimum would resonate with them. And yet someone has the nerve to throw the “Elitest” name at him? Kind of illustrates how accliminated we’ve all come to low expectations in our range of political choices.