I just get the feeling

I am going to feel the same way 4 years from now, that my Republican friends do now. Dismayed, betrayed, completely disenchanted with my party. We have one candidate who has a chance of actually being progressive, and another who clearly is not. The only true progressive, or at least the one with the progressive platform, has been driven from the race. And it looks like the least progressive of the bunch really could win our parties nomination.

There is no doubt in my mind the Dems will win this year. Repubs are crossing over and independents are voting democrat in the states they can. Not to mention the fact that the repub pundits are doing everything the can to hurt McCain and it ain't working. The Republican party has blown it and they know it.
Have we? Yeah I supported Edwards and I am still disappointed he is out. I am going to vote for Obama, but it's not with any excitement and with little HOPE. I think he could turn out okay, so I am going with that. However, I still see the local party leaders backing a candidate who does not represent their positions. Union officials backing a candidate who says she is backing an extension of NAFTA, and unabashedly accepting money and support from corporations hoping she won't undue the gains they have made under Bush.
I realized the party machine was broken and largely misguided in 2006. Until this year, I did not realize how completely misguided and insincere they were. It is really no longer a populist or grassroots organization. Winning is important, but so is the principle and that is completely lost by the leaders in this party. Clinton will not make the changes we are looking for. She is basically saying that now and people are not listening. Anything is better than Bush, and that is going to happen regardless. Real change means an end to corporate america running Washington. She has said she is not going to do that. In her words, "I represent them to."
The Democrats are going to be handed a victory, through nothing that they have done. It's a complete failure and abuse of power by the Repubs that will put a Dem in the White House. We have an opportunity for real change and so many people think putting a woman in the White House is real change. It would be a change in form, but not in substance. Edwards out was the missed opportunity. Obama out would complete our failure as a party supposedly representing the lower and middle class.