E. B. White: Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.
George Orwell: In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
George Washington: As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
Jesse Jackson: In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.
John Bright: Demand the ballot as the undeniable right of every man who is called to the poll, and take special care that the old constitutional rule and principle, by which majorities alone shall decide in Parliamentary elections, shall not be violated. (more…)
And it was yummy too! Like my my previous post when an SEIU Canvasser dropped by, I’ll write out the exchange in a MadamaB style playlet post except that it’s actually happened to me. It’s a phone rant, so please bear with me:
[The Scene: I am in my humble bungalow abode in Tampa, FL, coming back from picking up Abuela from a medical lab test appointment. While making a "greca de café", the phone rings. On the Caller ID I see "Democratic Party" with a local number. Suddenly, I maliciously smiled as my inner PUMA growled and I answer the phone. A polite caller introduces himself en español. For the sake of this post, I will write out the exchange in English.]
ME: Hello?
DNC Phone Guy: Hi, my name is Mauricio and I am calling on behalf of the Democratic Party. We would like to remind you that you can early vote today at the West Tampa Library located on Howard and Union streets.
ME: Hello Mauricio, I plan to vote in my district, 205, at the West Tampa Convention Center on Election Day. I want to vote where I always vote.
DNC Phone Guy: Well, that’s good then, ok, well we’d also like to remind you to please vote for Barack Obama as well as other Democratic ticket runners…
ME: Hold up, stop right there. Mauricio, with due and proper respect that you deserve, I know that you are only doing your job. Whatever I have to say, please don’t take offense. Get this straight, write this down and tell anybody and everybody in the FL Democratic office there. There is no way I’m not voting for Barack Obama after he and the DNC stole my vote in the primaries and did not allow my vote to be cast the way I intended it at the convention. I will be voting for McCain because he co-wrote the bill for Comprehensive Immigration Reform together with Ted Kennedy and endorsed by Hillary Clinton. I marched in the LULAC protest and McCain stood by us Latinos – but what has Obama done? His own aunt in Boston is an illegal immigrant and he hasn’t even had the nerve to help her, not even to help her get an immigration attorney to help her out. If he ignored his own aunt, what makes you think he’s going to help pass this Reform we so desperately need, especially in the Latino community? I was going to vote for McKinney but with the race so close as it is in Florida and in other states, I want him and the Democratic Party to lose so they know not to steal votes like they did on May 31st at the RBC meeting in Washington.
DNC Phone Guy: I, I, I understand and I’m happy to know that you are an informed voter and…
ME: And another thing – the Democratic Party I knew, the one defended Democracy, one person=one vote, Liberty, Freedom of Speech, Women’s rights, is DEAD thanks to Obama, Pelosi, Dean and Harry Reid. They trashed everything that I identified with as a Democrat. If Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. were alive today, he’d be hanging his head in shame at the fact that the first African-American presidential candidate stole votes in order to win. This is a disgrace and a cancer to Democracy. Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina’s votes counted, but not Florida and Michigan’s? The only thing that makes everyone equal in this country is the right to vote. And the Democratic Party did not count my vote because they felt like putting Obama as the leader and how are they going to do that when Hillary won the popular vote and she won the electoral map across the board? He only won little pockets of the population but the DNC assigned more delegates to that particular population and ignored the rest. Well guess what, my vote will count this November 4th and when Democracy comes back to the Democratic Party, so will, I. Until then, I am a PUMA – have you heard of PUMAs before?
DNC Phone guy: Well, I have heard yes, but I urge you to please at least vote downticket…
DNC Phone Guy: I hope that you have a good day and I understand that you feel this way, but I am happy to know that you are an informed voter and you’ll be voting this election.
ME: Without a doubt I’ll be voting and yes, I do look forward to Hillary Clinton running for 2012 – but this time, let the process play out. Tell them to send Obama back to Democracy School so he can learn what a Democracy is. You can’t steal votes in the primary and expect the same people you stole from to support you in the general election. There is no Party Unity worth enough to trade the only thing that makes me a free person in this country, which is MY VOTE. Remember that and have a good day.
DNC Phone Guy: Thank (click)
And that was it – I leave you with Eddie Palmieri’s “Revolt/La Libertad Logico” with the Fania All Stars sound that invokes the spirit of rebelión and demands freedom for all people.
A vote for Obama is a vote against the poor. A vote for Obama is a vote against workers. A vote for Obama is a vote against good government. A vote for Obama is a vote against the future of the Democratic Party.
SUNRISE, Florida (Reuters) – U.S. presidential candidateBarack Obama said on Wednesday he would include Republicans in his Cabinet if he wins the election.
Obama, a Democratic senator from Illinois, also said he had “some pretty good ideas” about people he might tap for senior government jobs, though he emphasized he is focused for now on the final days of the campaign and takes nothing for granted.
“There is a transition process — that I’m not paying attention to on a day-to-day basis — but that has been set up,” Obama told ABC News in an interview.
Obama said he “absolutely” considered it important to have Republicans in the Cabinet but he sidestepped a question on whether he would ask Defense Secretary Robert Gates to remain in his job. There has been speculation that either Obama or his Republican rival, John McCain, might ask Gates to stay on.
“I’m not going to get into details,” Obama said, but he added that national security policy, in particular, should be nonpartisan.
Other people mentioned as possible defense secretary picks in an Obama administration include former Navy Secretary Richard Danzigand Sen. Chuck Hagel, a Republican senator from Nebraska.
Some analysts have speculated that during the transition period between November 4 and January 20, when a successor to President George W. Bush will take office, the new president-elect would move quickly to fill key jobs such as Treasury Secretary, Defense Secretary and Secretary of State.
Some public policy experts see a need for early announcements on such appointments in light of the global financial crisis and the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
“I am not going to jump the gun on this,” Obama said but he gave credit to the Bush administration for its offer to make government resources available to both candidates to begin the vetting process early.
I knew it!! This is the main reason why I never liked Obama. Since his proclamation of his Reagan worship, I knew that Obama was a Blue Dog Democrat. As RD explains here, Liberalism is DEAD in the Obamacrat party. They want to be Republicans sooooo bad, but they don’t like the “Republican” name brand and this is is why so many of our current 2008 DNC leadership love him so. They are all DINOs each and every one of them. No wonder Colin Powell and other Neo-Cons are salivating at an Obama presidency, they gets to war-monger and skim the books all they want! McCain/Palin won’t let them do that, look what happened to Ted Stevens in Alaska!
Question for the Obots getting paid $7 as hour by Axelfraud to troll our site, I have a question for you and I challenge you to answer it in the comments section: When the Obama campaign hired you guys out on your “I hate Hillary” mission, your main excuse was that “Hillary is a triangulator.” Well, isn’t what Obama doing called “triangulating?” To help in your homework assignment, here’s a Wikipedia definition:
Triangulation is the name given to the act of a political
candidate presenting his or her ideology as being “above” and “between”
the “left” and “right” sides (or “wings”) of a traditional (e.g. UK or
US) democratic “political spectrum”. It involves adopting for oneself
some of the ideas of one’s political opponent (or apparent opponent).
The logic behind it is that it both takes credit for the opponent’s
ideas, and insulates the triangulator from attacks on that particular
issue. Opponents of triangulation[who?],
who believe in a fundamental “left” and “right”, consider the dynamic a
deviation from its “reality” and dismiss those that strive for it as
whimsical.
Obama started his career with people with far left leanings only because that was the way to get ahead in the Chicago Machine. Personally, I don’t buy that Obama is a socialist, otherwise this wouldn’t be happening in his neighborhood. Neo-Cons cook the books and make money off of war, while Obama’ and his cronies cook the books and make money off of low-income housing. Different means but same intent. Exploit the poor and bamboozle them into voting for you.
Voting for Obama is truly a vote for the Neo-Con Borg Collective. So don’t feel bad when you vote against the DINO-crat, my loud and hellacious liberal principled PUMAs. Remember this?
‘If you can’t run your own house, then you can’t run the White House.’
-Michelle Obama
Michelle Obama, I wondered the same thing too especially when your neighborhood, not too far from your million dollar Rezko mansion, looks like this:
American Girl in Italy at No Quarter posted a compelling argument into Barack Obama’s character by showing his paternal grandmother and Barack’s half brother – it’s heartbreaking – in her post “if you are not caring for your family…” It inspired me to do the same here at the Confluence. American Girl in Italy reminded us of when Obama was a state senator for Illinois, Obama pushed for privately owned and managed low-income housing that is subsidized with state and federal funds. In other words, the government gives the property owner money if they promise to provide housing for needy families and to maintain it under US housing code. And this tragic incident is the result of Obama’s corruption:
The great PUMA videomaker, Flineo, had this to say about Obama’s district in Chicago:
And this is how the Obama campaign & 2008 DNC sell him as:
Uhhhh, I don’t see rainbows and unity ponies floating in the sky over Grove Park or Cabrini Housing Projects. I don’t see Curtis Cooper’s family “getting over” his death due to Obama & Chicago Thug Crew’s quest for power & cash. We’re supposed to let this guy waltz into the Oval Office just because it’s a “historical candidacy” when he treats the very people he represented like animals to benefit his rich friends? The 2008 Chicago Machine DNC stole votes to put a corrupt slumlord appeaser into office? Voter fraud is little compared to what Obama let happen under his watch in the only piece of land Obama represented before his US seante run.
Right now, people are living in dangerous inhabitable buildings because of Obama and his Chicago cronies. And cold weather is already here and I wonder about the people in Grove Park, whether they are stuffing plastic bags between the door cracks just to keep warm. I wonder if Curtis Cooper’s family has filed a lawsuit against Obama’s friends who manage Cabrini, who opted to solve the problem by putting a chain around a fence so iron fences won’t kill another child.
The people of Chicago voted for Barack Obama and this is what they got. What will we get if he becomes president? More than ever, we have to really think about our voting strategy this November 4th. We’ve got to keep this criminal out of the Oval Office. Think out your voting strategy wisely.
To further prove that Obama’s campaign is really in trouble, the Oborg collective purchased 1/2 hr. spots on NBC , CBS , Fox, Univision, BET , MSNBC and TV One.
HARRISONBURG, Va. — Barack Obama will focus on the economy and how his tax plans would help the middle class in a half-hour political infomercial Wednesday night.
The program, scheduled to run on television networks on the 79th anniversary of the stock-market crash of 1929, “will share the specifics of Obama’s plans to turn the economy around and get the country back on track,” campaign spokesman Bill Burton said Tuesday.
“We want to make sure every voter heading into the voting booth knows exactly what Barack Obama would do to bring about fundamental change as president,” he said.
Campaign aides declined Tuesday to answer questions about what images viewers will see when they tune in, whether the format will be live or taped and whether it will feature Obama alone or include additional voices such as business leaders or economic experts.
The program will air at 8 p.m. EDT on NBC , CBS , Fox, Univision, BET , MSNBC and TV One, and at various times in other time zones. Obama is scheduled to be speaking during that time at a rally in Florida .
Message to Bill Burton: WE ALREADY KNOW EVERYTHING we need to know about Obama, and we’re not interested.
This is an act of desperation folks. Not only does Obama have a Dish TV channel, now he’s going to be on major network and cable channels too, AT THE SAME TIME. Maybe if the Obama campaign didn’t launch an attack against working class people like Joe the Plumber, maybe “undecided voters” would find his economy message more believable. Maybe if the Chicago Machine Run DNC didn’t steal votes to win and won his candidacy fair & square, maybe more Democrats would be voting for Obama. Maybe had Obama denounced the “war on women” his supporters and surrogates wage incessantly, maybe more of us would be willing to listen to what he has to say on Wednesday.
Yet despite the media HAKA, had Obama put this election in the bag as the “polls” say, they wouldn’t be going through all this trouble. Personally, this scares the living heck out of me. I plan to not watch it of course, it’s too “Big Brother” for my taste, but what will you do? Will you watch for comedic purposes, wait till it comes out on Youtube or boycott the Oborg completely?
Here’s a message I’d like to blast out to the Oborg collective:
Remember this guy below? His name is Tito Muñóz, a small construction business owner who went ballistic at the press last week at a McCain/Palin rally for attacking Joe the Plumber from 1:21 to about 3:40 where he now famously said “I was born in Colombia but made in the USA” (the other guy after that is an anti-choice guy so skip to the end):
Now, Tito the Builder opened a rally for Sarah Palin in Virginia.
Not only is Tito another working class man looking to better his life, but…Latino vote? CHECK. Working Class vote? CHECK. Aren’t these the voters a part of the DEMOCRATIC base??? Oh, that’s right, we’re not part of the new 2008 Chicago Edition Democratic party anymore! You have to be on the VIP guest list to belong to the new DNC. Since there is no room for the working class voter in the Democratic Party – take a guess who they are going to vote for?
From Harriet Christian, a lifelong Democrat, diner waitress who famously denounced the Democrats for rigging the primaries at the RBC meeting on May 31st, 2008, to Joe the Plumber a guy who Obama came up to with a gazillion TV cameras while he was playing ball with his son, and now Tito the Builder are becoming the voices of Americans everywhere who dared ask the questions and confront the media about Barack Obama’s illegitimate selection as the Democratic Presidential Candidate.
Democrats had a candidate that won the majority of the votes, connected and resonated with working class voters which understood her talk about raising taxes without scaring the heck out of people, has a sparkling clean record and background, the gravitas, love and grasp of solving problems for our country. She’s still working her heart out for Downticket Democrats since the “That One” is too busy to help the DSCC and DCCC as he is supposed to do as the Democratic Party “Leader.”
Speaking of working class voters and the economy, this guy thought the same thing we all did (h/t/ Hillbuzz):
WASHINGTON–As Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) noted Sunday, he
believes it is pre-mature to speculate who Gov. Blagojevich will tap to replace Barack Obama if he is elected president. Nonetheless, the Chicago Defender called for Jackson to succeed Obama, and the lawmaker blasted out the news in an e-mail.
Others in the top tier for Blagojevich to consider:
Illinois Veterans Affairs chief Tammy Duckworth
Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.)
WASHINGTON–With
Barack Obama’s lead growing and John McCain’s path shrinking,
speculation is growing about who will serve in an Obama White House. On
Sunday, ABC’s George Stephanopoulos asked Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.)
whether he would be interested in serving as Obama’s chief of staff.
Emanuel did not rule it out.
Former Clinton White House chief of staff John Podesta—a native of
Chicago’s North Side–is quietly overseeing Obama’s transition
operation, dealing with personnel, policy and process. The transition
operation commissioned white papers on how to turn campaign promises
into action; arranging security clearance for those involved in the
handover; figuring decision time lines out how the executive office
should be organized.
Obama has been pondering transition matters since at least last
April, I have learned, with activity stepped up as it looked more
likely he will win. The Obama team has been trying to keep all
transition matters secret for fear of raising the hubris factor.
UPDATE:
Other names being mentioned for Obama White House Chief of Staff are former Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S.D.), whose own team made up the core of the Obama operation; real estate executive Valerie Jarrett, the confidant of Michelle and Obama who has known them for years and banker William Daley, the former Commerce Secretary and Mayor Daley’s brother.
This is not the party I once supported and knew. This is a complicit and systematical Chicago Machine takeover on the national scale – at all costs. This Neo-Democratic thug crew is measuring the drapes and cutting their pieces of their pie while our votes are thrown in the trash. This is their reward for a “job well done” – for pissing on Democracy, Free Speech and Women Rights, among so many other rights the current 2008 DNC has violated. And God help me, as long as I have breath in me, I’ll resist it to the end.
Please watch this scene from Steven Spielberg’s “Amistad” – especially from point 7:25 on forward:
In this scene where John Quincy Adams defended Cinque the Mende leader (brilliantly potrayed by Anthony Hopkins and Djimon Honsou), he reminds the Supreme Court that who we are as a people is who we were, and that Cinque was a man who is fighting for his right to exist as a free person just like our Founding Fathers (and Mothers!) fought for their right to exist as a free nation.
This rings true today with regards to our situation as PUMAs. Who we are today is who we were. Forged from a principle of equality and Democracy, we are a nation of fighters, people that believed in the common good that everyone should have the right to cast a vote, be represented in goverment by elected officials who win the majority of their constituents’ votes and the right to protest. The right to vote is the only leveling ground which makes everyone equal. Doesn’t matter if you are rich or poor, woman or man, gay or straight, healthy or sick, tall or short, white/black/brown/yellow/red/green with purple polka dots: we all have the right to vote and expect that vote to be cast and counted as it was intended. Without that right, we become second class citizens, chattel, collateral damage and lowly subjects to an imperialist society.
The line of “Convert to Obama or else” is drawn in the sand. We are all on trial and the O-bots and the MSM are judge, jury and executioner. Families, friendships, private property and jobs have suffered because of this ideological divide. The Democratic primary caucuses, the RBC meeting and at the Democratic Convention were the signs of the widening rift. On one side, Democrats who believe in “one person = one vote” tenets of Democracy and on the other, Democrats who believe that having an African-American candidate trumps Democracy, despite him being the most inexperienced presidential candiadate in the history of the United States, and regardless if it means stealing votes for that candidate to ”win.”
Having an African-American president has been one of my biggest dreams just like having a female president serve in my lifetime. But I don’t want that president to come to office if he/she had to steal votes to get there. I would not feel a sense of pride in their presidency, in fact I’d feel the same way I feel about George W. Bush, that he/she was selected not elected and was illegitimately holding an office that was not chosen by the voting majority. Current Democrats are acting as if the only way of becoming a millionaire is to rob a bank. Of course this is not the only way to become a millionaire, but many in the Democratic Party have been infected with this ”ends justify the means” haka that desecrates our American ideals of respecting the sanctity of “one person = one vote.”
Not too long ago (but what seems an eternity) what filled me with pride as a Democrat was that we were on the “good guys” side. We defended civil rights, women’s rights, gay rights, voter rights, housing rights, etc. As a liberal, I want everybody to have a good paying job , a decent place to live, a good public school to send your kids, have a good doctor, participate in the American dream of buying your own home and for everyone to live a prosperous happy life living under a government that is for the people, by the people. While knowing that certain candidates did not have a full grasp to the needs of middle to lower income Americans, nor have the fighting spirit to defend them, I stood by my party for decades as they rolled out candidate after candidate who I voted for because I was a Democrat. I stood by them because they earned the majority of our party’s votes and because they had Democratic principles (despite that some of them were a bit “right-of-center” to my more liberal views.) I don’t feel that sense of pride anymore, I don’t feel that the Democrats are the “good guys” because the current Democratic Party morphed into the “enemy” and it’s eating its own just to win. It’s become the blue-tinged version of the Neo-Con Republican Party with an “O” instead of a “W.”
We are accosted and harassed with hundred-million dollar HAKAs through every media vehicle. We face the “Convert to Obama or else” threats every waking second of every day. We are force-fed misogyny and unbridled zeal to destroy, defame, denounce, decry anything that opposes Obama, even if that opposition has the evidence to prove Obama’s lies and voter fraud. Even the simplest “I don’t think he’s experienced” is met with accusatory and inflammatory charges of racism (even if you are a POC like me).
But what keeps us strong here at The Confluence is that we understand that “who we are is who were were.” Our Founding Fathers (and Mothers!), our great abolitionists, our heroic civil rights and women’s rights leaders all fought valiantly to defend our American right to cast a vote, be represented in government and to live productive and healthy lives as a free people. Free people means that we can say what we want, do what we want, think what we want and vote how we want and to respect those that have a difference of opinion. The MSM and O-bot bloggers don’t get that we follow “democratic principles” and not just “Democrats.”. They think we are outcasts, the shrieking band of paranoid holdouts, the pariahs of the Democratic party because we are not falling in line with the current Democratic Party.
I have a message for them:
If you are voting for Obama, good for you! But please, stop harassing me to vote for him. This is not the Democratic Party I once knew and no one living in the United States should have their right to vote surpressed, like mine was. By enabling such deeds, we cease to exist as a “free” nation and by supressing our protest and our votes, you are murdering the precious right of Democracy and of critical thinking. Thomas Jefferson said:
“Difference of opinion leads to enquiry, and enquiry to truth; and I am sure…we both value too much the freedom of opinion sanctioned by our Constitution, not to cherish its exercise even where in opposition to ourselves.” –Thomas Jefferson to P. H. Wendover, 1815.
And:
“Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there is one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.” –Thomas Jefferson to Peter Carr, 1787.
I, like many in this forum, have exercised our right to critical thought. We’ve gathered the facts and decided a long time ago that Barack Obama is not going to have our vote due to the voter fraud in the Democratic primaries/caucuses/RBC/DNC Convention, rampant misogyny promoted by his surrogates and supporters, his glaring inexperience and his failure to win the popular vote in the Democratic Party. If there is to be that Civil War in the Democratic Party, let it be so. The current Democratic Party does not speak for me since they ceased being “Democratic” during the 2008 primaries. I could care less what anyone thinks of me at this point. I care about this document that’s right here, which says:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, ensure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
The more you push, the more I resist. I follow Democratic principles, not people who call themselves “Democrats.” So Don’t Tread on Me !
Distinguished and Honorable Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton:
I am one of the 18 million people who voted for you, currently a resident of Florida, which is one of the many swing states you won during the Democratic primaries. I voted for you because I believe in your “Solutions for America.” I’ve scrutinized and scoured your plans and felt that you were the most qualified and most committed to solving the problems that our nation face at the result of the catastrophic 8 years of George W. Bush and his adminstration.
My parents immigrated to the United States fleeing from a Caribbean dictator with that promise of freedom for themselves and for their children in their hearts, so am I well aware as a first-generation American the value of Democracy and Liberty. I am also one of those “invisible” people that you’ve fought for all your life, as I am a divorced single mother caring for an elderly parent. Any change in gas prices, utility bills, milk, eggs, bread impacts my budget. I’m also a lifelong Democrat and my first vote proudly was given to your husband in 1992, to which I am endebted for boosting the economy which allowed me to earn more income in my chosen career. I know the great things you’ve accomplished as a Senator from NY because most of my family are your NY constituents. They can’t be more thrilled to have you represent and fight for them in Washington, D.C.
I, like you, believe in the tenets of our party of equality and social justice. I believe in one person/one vote. I believe in equality across the board of our diverse humanity, I believe in women’s reproductive rights, I believe in separation of church and state and I believe in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. I believe that despite its flaws, the United States is a country that has her arms open to anyone and everyone who wants to live in peace, who will work hard to achieve their potential and live in the freedom that was promised to us by our founding fathers (and mothers!)
Your presidential platform soundly and realistically represents everything that I and the majority of Democrats want: Universal Healthcare, economic reform, environmentally and economically sound energy independence, secure diplomatic platform while maintaining national security, comprehensive immigration reform, protecting women’s reporductive rights, pro-child and pro-teacher public education platform, etc. You won my vote and 18 million votes, NOT because you are Bill Clinton’s wife and NOT because you are a woman, but because out of all the Democratic candidates, YOU have the best grasp to what the majority of Americans need and what will solve our nation’s problems. You have a breadth of experience and gravitas and a PLAN that will help people like me and help heal the economic rift in our nation.
Recently, you said in an interview to Fox and Friends that you were disappointed that people who voted for you are not supporting Barack Obama. I’m sorry you feel that way, but would you like to know what I am beyond disappointed? I’m disappointed that our party stole votes from you to cushion a neophyte panderer with ZERO experience. The Democratic Party that you want me to support betrayed you, they betrayed the Democratic tenets of one person/one vote, they betrayed 18 million votes that were thrown away at the convention all for the sake of “party unity.” Is Party Unity worth more than Democracy itself? I don’t think so. “Party Unity”is not why our soldiers bravely fight, nor why our civil rights heroes march, and not what made you become an honorable and exceptional civil servant for 35 years. There are many people in this country who are not wealthy, but the one thing that they have, just as much as any rich man, is the right to vote. If the right to cast a vote is marred in any way, then the United States can no longer consider itself a “Democracy” and no longer a source of pride and honor for its citizens. And that is much more important than the price of gas, the lack of jobs and most definitely much more important than “party unity.”
At the Democratic Convention when you gave your brilliant speech that I call the “Keep Going Speech,” you asked your supporters “are you in this for me?” My answer to you is NO, I’m not in it for you, I’m in it for me, my family and my country. You want us to stand beside you in supporting Barack Obama, a man who was not elected by the majority of the Democratic Party and who stole votes and delegates from you to “win.” Despite my respect and admiration for you, Senator Clinton, I cannot follow your lead. You promised to work your heart out for the Democratic candidate, but I never promised to vote for that candidate especially when said candidate employed the tactics of George W. Bush of voter fraud to “win” his candidacy.
I understand that you are caught between a Barack and a hard place and you have to say what you are saying to appease the DNC overlords, but I own my vote and I will not reward a party that undermined Democracy. I will not reward voter suppression and voter fraud. I will not reward rampant misogyny. I will not reward “faith-based initiative” pandering. I will not reward a candidate that states that a woman has to consult a committee to decide on her own reproductive rights. I will not reward the Democrats with a vote that was mutilated in the primaries, at the RBC and at the Democratic Convention in Denver.
I hope that after this election, lifelong Democrats who are opposing the candidacy of Barack Obama can reform the party so that this disregard for Democracy and for Democratic tenets does not happen again.
You’ll hear from me again on November 5th, 2008.
Respectfully yours (and until the Democratic Party keep acting like a rabid band of locusts eating away Democracy), I remain,
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