Bitter...the term NObama used to vilify the working poor and middle-class in semi-rural states.
Well, he identified the wrong group as bitter, and for the wrong reasons.
We bitter ones are the ones who have realized that we no longer have a real say in who is presented to us to vote for; we bitter ones are the ones who realize that the leopard doesn't change his spots, and that NObama will sell us out as fast as anyone else will, just like he sold out his former pastor, when after 20 years as a faithful congregant, the light of ambition and self-interest switched on and he realized that Reverend Wright was a political liability. Just like he is selling out the young left who supported him for his empty promises of change, then embraced the Supremes' ruling on guns and the possibility of a much longer stay in Iraq - as well as the idea of funding faith-based initiatives instead of religiously-unaffiliated groups to help people in struggling communities.
As for McCain't - the man is a bumbling fool. He's working his hero image to the bone while bending over kissing ass in South and Central America, kowtowing to what he sees as a monolithic Hispanic vote in the US - which it is NOT. This idiot is wandering around the country to places like Ohio and Michigan - where jobs are disappearing more rapidly than a politician's word of honor - and standing in front of discouraged Americans telling them how free trade will bring hope and employment back to our moribund economy. He's waffled so many times on immigration he could open a pancake house.
McCain't and NObama - a rock (from the neck up) and a hard place (the heart).
I will vote, and I will vote for smooth-talking slick NObama, but ONLY because I care about the future of the Supreme Court, and hopefully NObama won't let us down there. But marking that paper ballot under the Democratic ticket will be one of the bitterest pills I have ever had to swallow.
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RC deWinter is an essayist, poet, photographer, singer-songwriter and civil servant who lives and works in the Connecticut River Valley.
Dear American Voters, reporters, media. professionals, political parties, and our hon. Presidential Nominees,
Subject: Presidential Temperament
Please talk about and "Compare And Contrast" the " Presidential Temperament" of our Presidential presumptive nominees. I will also request and plead to the nominees themselves [ Hon. Senator McCain and Obama ]. Our nation has been applying this yard and stick tor the appointments and confirmation process of our Supreme Court Justices nominees. Our Greatgrand Nation Foundations are as under: Family, friends, fellows, faith, funds, fun, with fairness & freedom And without fear, favor, and failure. It will be disgrace and shameful if the nominees and media will not look into this critical and crucial aspect under current challenging times and circumstances within our country and all around the Globe.
America wake up and the discuss the " Presidential Temperament" of our presumptive presidential nominee's [ Hon. Senator McCain and Obama].
Yours sincerely, COL. A.M.Khajawall [Ret]. Disabled American Veteran Forensic psychiatrist, Las Vegas, Nevada
PS: Presidential Temperament is the Key>
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Ali khajawall (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 11 comments)
on Tuesday, July 8, 2008 at 10:19:12 AM
As long as folks continue to vote for the duopoly candidates, we won't get anything better. Don't let yourself be put in the box of voting for someone who doesn't represent your values.
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Bill Samuel (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 228 comments)
on Tuesday, July 8, 2008 at 1:49:07 PM
Have people finally come to the conclusion that we do not in fact choose our President, but merely vote for one of the choices given us by the Power Elite? Maybe, just maybe, Al Gore may have been the last threat to their agenda, hence even though he received more than ½ million more votes, it was handed to the Supreme Court to make the appointment.
As Dennis Kucinich stated, “A vote for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for evil.” What would be the outcome if nobody voted? I know this is but a very theoretical question, but what would be the outcome should the final tally be McCain 0 Obama 0 (although I am convinced the corporate vote counting software would not allow this and would give us some afore decided vote tally)? But for the sake of the 0-0 tally I am certain the Supreme Court, and all of their wisdom, would have the solution and we would be stuck with yet another Power Elite puppet, but at least the citizens would actually have had their say.
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Dennis Kaiser (13 articles, 0 quicklinks, 6 diaries, 212 comments)
on Wednesday, July 9, 2008 at 7:22:10 AM
