So why are there so many undecided super delegates "sitting on the fence?"
They know Hillary Clinton is a liar.
They know Hillary Clinton is dividing the party.
They know Hillary Clinton is in a lawsuit right now for campaign fundraising fraud.
They know Hillary Clinton is the status quo.
They know Hillary Clinton has TONS of baggage that the republicans will use against her.
They know there are many republicans who voted for her because they want the infighting and division to go on, and don't want to face Obama in the general election.
Here's my opinion as to reasons why many of them may not stating a choice:
They 'owe' the Clintons and fear their retribution.
The Clintons have dirt on them that would damage their own public office.
They are part of the Clinton Machine.
They fear what real change in Washington will do to their own public office.
They have scandals of their own that may be washed out if Obama takes office, or that the Clintons will reveal if they don't win.
They too are in bed with the lobbyists and corporations that are running Washington.
They are racist.
They don't have a clue? This may be the big one. hah.
Thoughts, more ideas, anyone?
Paul vs. Clinton website launchedBy Kathy Miller | The Hillary ProjectPeter F. Paul has launched a new website to expose and inform the public of the upcoming landmark civil trial of Paul vs. Clinton. The case is pending in a California court against former President Bill Clinton, with Senator Hillary Clinton as a material witness.
A status conference hearing is scheduled for April 25, 2008, and a trial date is expected to be announced soon.
Discovery in the case is expected to begin in May, 2008 as it proceeds to trial.
The discovery will expose an ongoing cover-up of the campaign finance crimes and the obstructions of justice directed by Hillary Clinton with the help of Bill Clinton and former DNC Chair Ed Rendell. The cover-up rivals Watergate in its corruption of each branch of government and the media.
Since the media still refuses to cover Senator Clinton's involvement in the largest campaign finance fraud case in U.S. history, Paul will report on much of the news himself in this historic landmark case.
For news and information on this case, you can visit PaulvClinton.com
Please write to NOW and let them know your thoughts and intentions. Go to: http://www.now.org/comments.html Kim Gandy is the President of NOW.
Here's the letter I wrote:
Dear Kim Gandy, and the NOW membership,
I am a 54 yr old white female, living in NY State. While I think it's great that Hillary Clinton has been a supporter of many womens' causes, I will not vote for her. For the past several years, her life has been chicanery. There are many women out there who may deserve to lead our country. However, she has done too much damage to herself, and others. She knows what is right, and her recent years have shown that she doesn't do the right thing. You need to know that there are many like and unlike myself who support Barack Obama, and will not be changing our vote. I cannot vote for Hillary Clinton, ever. I know this sounds self-defeating, because our nation is such a mess, but I don't believe in the end she will further the cause to make things right in Washington, rather she will make things even less right. If Washington remains as it is, or worsens, it will be a detriment not only to women, but to all Americans. I don't want my grandchildren to grow up being led by a person who lies, deceives, and tears others down. Deep in her heart, I think she knows that the way she conducts herself is not becoming to how women would like to be represented. She may be strong, she may be a fighter, she may believe in and do many right things for women, but so do many others. I'll select the others. For this election, that is Barack Obama.
Very sincerely,Sue French
I need to crawl under a very very large rock and never come out, or start a riot.
Just sent Nancy Pelosi a letter. She needs to take action. This is not fun and games, this is agony.
I told her to go to Huffington Post and read some blogs, and inform herself about how we the people think and feel.
I also told her how I'm in Hillary's demographic, but will never never never never vote for her. My conscience will not allow it.
The party leaders may think it'll all be good once a candidate is selected, but I don't believe it, not unless they stop this chicanery now!
Chicanery: "The aging system of American-style democracy is beset in too many places by dry rot, cynicism, chicanery and fraud. It's due for an overhaul." Can you say "Thank you, Hillary"?
The encouragement is that Obama is approaching the race issue the right way, and the nation is ready to elect a black president. The warning is that it may not be as ready as polls suggest.
``Let's not kid ourselves again, the issue of race will not disappear; but I don't think it will predominate,'' the former Virginia governor said in an interview at his office in Richmond, where he is now mayor. At the same time, he said, even if Obama is the nominee and heads into the fall with an apparent lead, the election ``will be closer than any polls will suggest.''
Wilder, 77, is an authority in the matter. In 1989, he won the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in the overwhelmingly white onetime cradle of the Confederacy. Polls taken just before Election Day had put him ahead of his Republican competitor by as much as 10 percentage points; he won by less than half a percentage point.
While Doug Wilder believes this may have quite an affect on votes for Obama, I happen to disagree to an extent. What I saw after Obama's speech on racism, was a renewed interest by many Americans to put racism behind us, to move forward and once again visit the issue with more positivity. I do believe also that there are still many people who are racist, and don't want to change, but I believe that the majority of those people are hard-right conservatives, the likes of Sean Hannity, while the rest of us are "conVERSatives" and want to bridge the divides we still live each day. The longer this campaign goes on, the more I see the right-wingers as portraying themselves as god loving people, but whom in reality are quite hateful in many ways which I think is mostly guided by fear on their part. This is one of the reasons I see it as an absolute necessity for Barack to be our next president. He is the only candidate who has been able to "engage" us into action, those of us who know racism needs to be addressed and lessened, have been motivated by Barack. This is the inspiration side of him that overpowers both McCain and Clinton in this campaign, along with many other traits, such as integrity and the ability to hear us, and walk beside us as he leads, his determination to end having all legislation go to Washington to die, to end the old way of politics. Now, if Barack hadn't given his speech on race, perhaps I'd believe what Mr. Wilder said would ring more true, but in light of how things have progressed, it's mainly the right-wing die hard conservatives who won't vote for Barack, and would not have anyways; thus in my opionion the race aspect will not be a very large part of a vote loss for him.
It is good to see the DNC putting out ads against McCain, however, their hands are tied when it comes to putting out accurate information to combat the negatives towards Barack Obama. Hillary Clinton is in essence, pitting democrats, republicans and independents against Barack. She is adding fuel to the republicans' fire. It is time for the DNC to put a stop to this. It is time for them to be able to defend Barack in every way. Hillary is helping the conservative base, and promoting racism and pulling the non-Barack democrats away from the party once Barack becomes the nominee. It's time for the DNC and super-delegates to wake up and take a stand. We need to be able to move forward! There is going to be a huge increase of negative ads towards Barack, and if Hillary continues to feed on them and use them to her gain, she will destroy the party. I almost wish Barack was running as an independent in light of the poor state of our democratic party.
I wish the campaign would run another 'letters to the super-delegates' campaign such as they had earlier this year. Anyone have clout to get them to do this?
It seems almost everyday I hear something new that is intended to smear someone who we all believe in and know is a wonderful person with great integrity, our Barack Obama.
It makes me so sad, he's trying to help us to do so much good for our world, and I keep seeing all of the hate and maliciousness, racism, sexism, bigotry, just pure evil. I don't understand. I am not even religious, and I feel like I have more compassion than half of the people living in our country. How can these people think they are doing so much good by spreading so much hate?
I'm going to bed now, and I'll pray in my own way for the world to be a better place when I wake up.
The campaign has gone from Yes we can, to Yes we MUST!
Has anyone else noticed the change in tone in the blog posts?
We are becoming more engaged, as we know it is truly the urgency of NOW.
Don't forget about the million in a minute donating campaign at 1 PM today!
YES WE MUST!
I have an inkling about the PA primary. I think there are many voters in PA, who are in neighborhoods with old-timers or stuck-in-the-mud old mindsets, who will not outwardly say they are for Obama, but when they go vote, their anonymous but important voices will be heard. I think that though they might not want to hear the negative comments from their neighbors and friends, that they do realize that Barack is the one we need, and they will cast their votes in favor of him.
Yes we can!
In reading recent posts, I think the best thing that has come of this political season for the candidacy of POTUS is that it's become very common for everyday Americans to see the horrible state of our media, the very poor service they provide to us. We are showing them that we see through what they want to distract us with. We are showing them that we have the ability to inform ourselves in other ways, that we will look through many lenses, not just a few, that we will form our opinions based on full information rather than just what they want to offer. It's feels so good to know that!
Also, I've seen posts of some who seem to feel that we are head over heels for Obama, that we are rather cultish, that no matter what Barack says or does, he's always right. What those individuals don't realize, is that Barack has engaged us, that he has given us a reason to hope for a better planet, a reason to do more good things for people less fortunate than we are, that he has given us the incentive to stand up for ourselves in the face of controversy, to take issues to another level, to have conversations about issues that haven't been brought up in a very long time, a chance for us to bridge the gaps that have us divided, to find "common ground." Perhaps it seems that some of those at the highest level of the campaign don't allow enough room for those who question, who aren't gung-ho for Obama, that rallies seem overpowering with enthusiasm. However, overall, I think that Barack truly does provide something we've all been waiting for - ourselves! So, if it seems we are Obamaniacal, please realize that we feel the urgency of now that he speaks of, that we don't want to let an opportunity pass us by that can give us a chance to better ourselves, our families, our neigborhoods, our towns and citys, our counties, our states, our country, and our world. Obamania is more than being enamored with Obama, it is the realization, that through his campaign, we have a vessel for re-engagement in government for we, the people. Barack isn't perfect, and states that fact regularly. We all know that too, but what we see is the person who aspires diligently, consistenly, and with a very big heart, to make everyone's lives better, one who will work with us and for us and will walk along with us to lead us, rather than walk ahead of us and not look behind, as most of today's politicians do. He has stood by what he believes throughout his life and his campaign, unwavering in the face of those who oppose, and that in and of itself is contrary to what we have seen in the political arena for a very long time. His words and actions are not based on what he thinks everyone wants to hear, but rather developed from his ability to hear us. He has more substance, more intuitiveness and insight, more of a grasp on the issues that we care about, and for the people who are affected by those issues. Obamaniacal, yes, I guess I am. I'm determined not to let this opportunity slip away, for if not now, when? If not us, who? Together, yes, we can! I hope this explains to those who think we are blindly following. We're not blind, we see the future can be brighter.
Extremely interesting reading!!
http://www.mishalov.com/Clinton_IndefensiblePardon.html
An Indefensible Pardon
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE2DC103FF932A05751C1A96E958260
Thank you Becky Carroll, National Director, Women for Obama, for the huge compliment you gave me. I had met Becky way back in late October early November at a Women for Obama house party in Davenport, Iowa. We had a nice discussion at the house party finding many common areas of why we support Barack. Anyway, I recently contacted her to tell her an amazing story. I received a reply from her today, which is so amazing that she took time out of her hurried schedule and crazy life on the campaign trail to reply. Wow! I am very impressed. Many others would just let it go by without a response. So, her compliment to me was that I was the number one Illinois volunteer for Barack in Iowa! That means so much to hear those words from someone as amazing as Becky. Just think, she is in charge of the National Women for Obama!
Keep working hard Becky because your dedication and devotion to this campaign is so commendable. I admire you! And thank you again for the compliment. I hope to see you again during the General Election and of course at the inaugural!!!
What the media and Ms. Fowler didn't tell us... but someone else who attended the San Francisco event did!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-coleman/i-was-there-what-obama-re_b_96553.html
Excerpt:
Obama began to talk about addressing the bitter feelings that many in some rural communities in Pennsylvania have about being brushed aside in the wake of the global economy. Senator Obama appeared to theorize, perhaps improvidently given the coverage this week, that some of the people in those communities take refuge in political concerns about guns, religion and immigration. But what has not so far been reported is that those statements preceded and were joined with additional observations that black youth in urban areas are told they are no longer "relevant" in the global economy and, feeling marginalized, they engage in destructive behavior. Unlike the week's commentators who have seized upon the remarks about "bitter feelings" in some depressed communities in Pennsylvania, I gleaned a different meaning from the entire answer.
First, I noted immediately how dismissive his answer had been about "talking points" and ten point programs and how he used the question to urge the future volunteer to put forward a larger message central to his campaign. That pivot, I thought, was remarkable and unique. Rather than his seizing the opportunity to recite stump-worn talking points at that time to the audience -- as I believe Senator Clinton, Senator McCain and most other more conventional (or more disciplined) politicians at such an appearance might do -- Senator Obama took a different political course in that moment, one that symbolizes important differences about his candidacy.
The response that followed sounded unscripted, in the moment, as if he were really trying to answer a question with intelligent conversation that explained more about what was going on in the Pennsylvania communities than what was germane to his political agenda. I had never heard him or any politician ever give such insightful, analytical responses. The statements were neither didactic nor contrived to convince. They were simply hypotheses (not unlike the kind made by de Tocqueville three centuries ago ) offered by an observer familiar with American communities. And that kind of thoughtfulness was quite unexpected in the middle of a political event. In my view, the way he answered the question was more important than the sociological accuracy or the cause and effect hypotheses contained in the answer. It was a moment of authenticity demonstrating informed intelligence, and the speaker's desire to have the audience join him in a deeper understanding of American politics.
End of excerpt.
Thank you David Coleman for shedding the light that the media STUPID never does.
Isn't it a bit unfair that when Hillary and Bill "mis-speak", it's because they are tired, or 60 years old, but when Barack uses not the best choice of words, he's an elitist?
I can't tell you just how bitter, infuriated, burnt, p'oed, hot, broiled, and lots of other things I feel right now.
My list of those I don't trust keeps growing and growing. Most politicians, lobbyists, corporate big-wigs, all media...
I think the rallies, Stand for Change, and One Voice for Change, should be turned into marches, like Martin Luther King had. I am a pacifist, a peace lover, always trying to help heal, help people to feel better, but this stuff has me turned upside-down and inside-out. I'm ready for a revolution.
I can't take it anymore.
Together we are one, alone I feel like none.
Barack is so amazing. How does he remain so cool, so strong, so determined, so rock-solid with all that is being thrown at him? I wish I had those traits. He is so much stronger than I.
Our Pres. just held a news conf. He's begging for the tax cuts to become permanent. (Go elites!)
He's begging Pelosi to open for a vote for the Columbia Trade Agreement.. says we can't give our friends, the Columbians, the shaft (not sure of the exact word he used).
Read my lips, President Bush. We're not going to take it anymore!!!!
We, the people, are the ones who've gotten the shaft.
See me.
Feel me.
Touch me.
Heal me.
Listening to you, I get the music.
Gazing at you, I get the heat.
Following you, I climb the mountains.
I get excitement at your feet.
Right behind you, I see the millions.
On you, I see the glory.
From you, I get opinions.
From you, I get the story.
We're not gonna take it anymore!
Go barack!
I'd like to buy Hillary Clinton a pair of flip-flops, but I can't even afford them for myself.
Something just came to mind when I was reading another blog about Hillary's flip-flops.
Remember way back when she was joking with the audience, about "the skies will open"', etc??
Funny how now she's saying all of those small town Pennsylvanians feel that way. What she then called false hope, she's now saying is real hope.
If and when the skies open, it will be because Barack has become our president! That's where the real hope is.
