I was not happy today when I saw that John Edwards is going to drop out of the race. I felt, maybe mistakenly, that if there was no majority at the convention, the entire process opens up. However, if it looks like John Edwards has a minuscule chance to get the nomination, which is almost impossible for me to believe given how flawed the other two candidates are, then maybe he's better off with his family.
So, that brings us to what's left. If I knew that Hillary was going to tell Bill to go away if she wins, I'd have no problem supporting Hillary. I think putting her on top would give her the room to rise up above politics and fight the evil Republicans. However, that's what I thought about Nancy Pelosi.
I do not like Barack Obama. I do not trust Barack Obama. I love the idea that we have the possibility of our first Black president but not him. I am repulsed by the postings on http://clintonattacksobama.pbwiki.co... However, I am repulsed at what Obama and his crew have done to sit on every word that anyone supporting the Clintons have said and when they find something, even if taken out of context and even if said in jest, they pounced on it.
There is nothing wrong with saying in South Carolina that Hillary is now at a disadvantage there because she is not Black, especially after the Obama dirtmeisters portray the Clintons all of a sudden as racists.
To go after what Andrew Young and Bob Kerrey says, as if it was out of the Clinton's mouths, is DISGUSTING and lying. Andrew Cuomo used the wrong words for god's sake. He probably meant to say bob and weave instead of shuck and jive.
Let's be honest, Obama talks about the amorphous concept of change to some very gullible children and Black voters who want desperately to vote for a black president and I don't blame them.
The Martin Luther King comment was an example of how low these people will stoop. Hillary was running for president and as someone who has always been sensitive to issues affecting African Americans she felt if she were president she'd make those morally right decisions that Johnson needed to make for real change to happen and happen it did, thank god.
They went after Bob Johnson, who is Black and the founder of BET, when they quoted him saying:
"As an African American, I am frankly insulted that the Obama campaign would imply that we are so stupid that we would think Hillary and Bill Clinton, who have been deeply and emotionally involved in black issues -- Barack Obama was doing something in the neighborhood; I won't say what he was doing, but he said it in his book -- when they have been involved."
In that CNN online article at, http://blogs.usatoday.com/... CNN clarifies what Johnson was referring to:
As CNN's Political Ticker blog wrote Monday, "In Obama's 1995 book Dreams of My Father -- a book that was little read at the time, but recently reprinted -- the future presidential candidate writes he was once headed in the direction of a 'junkie' and a 'pothead.' Referring to his emotional struggles as a young man, Obama writes, 'Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though.' "
If you try to spread it around that the Clintons are bringing race into the primary elections, I have no problem with Johnson's quote because what Johnson said was true. That was not racial, it was factual and it is also 100% dfactual that the Clintons are not racists. When you play in the mud, you get dirty. It is no question that we’ll hear a lot more of that from the Republican nominee. If I was African-American, I’d probably be furious with Johnson for trying to derail our "first ever" even if it was true and true out of Obama’s own hand.
I have regretted and argued for at least a year that Obama voted to confirm Condoleezza Rice because she was Black. Is that Ok for me to say or is that racists? When Bill Richardson said he was in favor of letting Alberto Gonzales stay because he was Hispanic, Richardson was toast for me. Change doesn’t embrace racial patronage, especially with those so disgusting and inept as Condoleezza Rice or Alberto Gonzales.
However, I was completely finished with Obama when he praised Reagan, praised the entrepreneurship of the 80s, trashed the 60s and 70s and called Viet Nam just another war. Those thoughts were a blueprint to the Obama plan. Get the kids who have no sense of history and no political knowledge and lie to them just like Ralph Nader did. It certainly worked for him but look what happened, the Republicans won enough votes to steal the election. Obama pretends he is an agent of change when in fact he has exhibited nothing but being a fool in front of the Republican Party. What has he changed, what has he done, who has he inspired to change their Democratic/Republican vote> One thing he did change was his own deceptive and hypocritical defiance against the Iraq war that he continually voted to fund?
I will still be hoping someone else steps in to help us get rid of these awful candidates. Maybe Edwards will come back. Maybe Al Gore will get in, as only a little over 10% of the votes have been cast. I think Howard Dean needs to be ejected for the DNC because his hatred for the Clintons negated the delegates from Michigan and Florida. I guess you can’t trust anyone, huh. I do know that Florida Democrats are pissed off that their votes will not count in the nominating process and I wouldn’t be surprised if they don’t show up if Obama gets the nomination.
I feel like starting a movement, Baby-Boomers Against Obama. Many of us have nothing but negative feelings about Barack Obama because he pretends he has so much political courage and he has shown none of it to anyone. He claims to have been against the war when it really didn't count and when it did count he voted to keep the war going and killing and maiming and bankrupting. He wants you to feel that he will change the tax system but he plans no real change at all because he will wait until April 15, 2012 before the expired Bush tax cuts take affect. If you are the agent of change, change those taxes now, talk about how bad and unfair those taxes are now and be prepared to abort them right after the inauguration. However, from Obama all we get is talk and no action. It's an abomination!
Therefore, I will be voting for Hillary and supporting Hillary. I do not want Obama as our nominee and if he gets the nomination, right now I can’t vote for him. I just won’t vote and won’t work for him. I wish I could have stopped his snake oil show but too many who wanted to believe, did believe.