GOP Targets Clinton-Obama Rift

I am a Democrat who is disappointed that my party will nominate a man who spent 20 years in an anti-semitic, anti-white, anti-American church. I will not overlook the Reverend Wright controversy, and I will never “get on board” with the Democratic Party on this. I place loyalty to country above loyalty to party. I am a loyal Democrat, and I will vote for Democrats in state, local and national races. I simply cannot bring myself to vote for Obama for President.

Don’t pretend that there’s not a real rift here. And, it will have an effect!

I love Hillary Clinton but there is no way I will vote for a candidate as grossly under-qualified as Obama.
Democrat for McCain

There are not enough blacks and white-guilt liberals in this country to get Barack Obama elected to the Presidency. It’s that simple. Too many Democrats will jump ship and vote for McCain just to teach the DNC a lesson. I can’t bring myself to vote Republican, but I will vote Nader if he’s on the ballot. Otherwise, I’ll vote “present” for president.

Alex: “Democrat for McCain” is an oxymoron. You are an independent for McCain. This isn’t really hard to recogonize: When you support a guy who is against almost every plank of the party’s platform (including ones inserted solely by Senator Clinton’s muscle) you are NOT a Democrat.
If you have evaluated Senator Obama’s experience (which over a decade in elected office with concrete legislative successes far exceed George Bush’s in 2000) and can’t support him, fine. But supporting McCain instead clearly identifies you as a Republican. Further, claiming you are a Democrat identifies you as a liar and really calls into doubt your assessment of Senator Obama’s experience.

Carrie: You are the only person I have seen refer to Senator Clinton in those terms (well, and Republican partisans and talk radio hate mongers, particularly in the 90′s).
Why can’t you attack Senator Obama’s *positions* rather than make up lies about him or his supporters? He has made detailed policy statements available on his website, hundreds of pages of them in pdf format. Far in excess of Senator McCain, who is not making public his specific policies (beyond continued support for President Bush’s economic and Iraq policies).

What happened to Barack Obama’s “new politics?” His attacks seem pretty conventional to me. In fact, they seem desperate. To critize John McCain for owning seven houses is laughable when you own your own mansion, one that was purchased under shady circumstances with the help of a convicted felon.

“I love Hillary Clinton but there is no way I will vote for a candidate as grossly under-qualified as Obama.
Democrat for McCain“
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If the issue of experience was very important to you, you would have supported McCain instead of Clinton because McCain is more experienced than her.
I can tell you weren`t going to vote democrat in the first place don`t try to fool Clintonb supporters.

A load of interesting stuff about John McCain from brother Joe.
1. It shows John’s Oedipus Complex with Cindy mirroring the role his mother had when he was a boy.
2. Shows his family was Navy royalty with both father and grandfather being admirals.
3. Shows how out of touch the McCains are with average people — Mom was managing the oil leases [my mom did that too LOL!] and John knows how Americans are because he serves on a committee.
4. Finally, brains don’t flow on the male side as dad and grandpa finished near the bottom of their classes along with John.
“The person who took care of all the business was my mother,” he said. “My father had no idea about the family business, what oil leases he owned in Oklahoma.”
Joe McCain, who makes his home in Washington’s Northern Virginia suburbs, chuckled when recalling that “one time, [John McCain's mother] bought a house to remodel” in Southeast Washington while “[dad] was at sea.”
John McCain’s years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam and as chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee also help him “emphasize with the American people” on pocketbook issues, Joe McCain said.
John McCain was a less-than-stellar student who graduated fifth from the bottom of his class at the Naval Academy.
“By the way, that’s a McCain tradition,” he said. “My father and grandfather, both four-star admirals, and they graduated in the bottom fourth of their class, too.”

NeilPA: I appreciate your honesty in clearly stating you are leaving the Democratic party.
As for Senator Clinton recieving the most votes, that is only true if you only count primaries and state that Obama won zero votes in Michigan – where he was not even on the ballot. If he were on the ballot in Michigan, which everyone agreed was just a beauty contest (and yes, Senator Clinton literally signed onto that interpretation), there is little doubt he would be in the lead in the popular vote.
A truthful statement with less qualifications is, “Obama won more total votes than Clinton in the contests where they both appeared on the ballot.”

Carrie: Yes, he voted present 130 times over 8 years and more than 4000 votes. Many of those votes were part of a clear party strategy, and some were clear protest votes – avote against a measure he supported except for a technical or constitutional opposition – he does have the same sort of constitutional law professor orneriness as Ron Paul shows at times.
I find it humorous you claim John McCain “takes a stand.” You know that infamous rating of Senator Obama being the most liberal senator for 2007? You know where McCain ended up rated? Probably not – he missed too many votes that year to even qualify for the scoring. Way to take a stand.
And I do have a fair memory and still think you are mistaken or lying about Obama supporter slander. I certainly heard such trash from TV talking heads, but not from mainstream Obama supporters. (Although I’m sure now we’ll get a “longtime Obama supporter” logging in to say just those things about Senator Clinton.)

Let us all Hillary supporters take a breath to celebrate her achievements tomorrow.That is the only part of the convention worth anything.Her supporters voices can no longer be ignored by the dictatorial DNC-Obama axis.

Memo to Obama cult followers: referring to the former First Lady of the United States as a “dried up old fruitcake” is not a prescription for winning over her voters. Nor is referring to her supporters as old, inept, uneducated, fat, stupid or racist. But keep trying! Maybe by November, we’ll realize that we really are old, fat, stupid and racist, and we’ll give Barry our vote out of sheer guilt.
Posted by: Carrie
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Carrie, I hate those horrible labels as well. You can’t judge all of us (or Obama) by a few nuts on this blog. If you look, you’ll see plenty of nasty things said about Obama supporters as well. I still admire Hillary even though she was not my choice this year. I still believe that people are generally better than what is represented here in “hate-land.”

Janet: I can see your point. So we should have put Hillary in with all her bad baggage… Or McCain with all his, which by the way far exceeds Obama’s if you people would do your homework and stop letting the news lead the way you think.

Carrie: I am not a paid Obama blogger, and you have shown yourself to have no facts supporting your position beyond the well-worn Pastor Wright controversy. That’s fine – it saves me time.

I agree with Hillary Clinton. John McCain has credentials in foreign affairs, and Barry Obama has a couple of lame speeches.

Carrie: McCain was at war for 5 hours… 5 hours that is how much war experience he has. Then he was shot down and became a POW like hundreds of others. Hundreds of other men suffered the same blows. Stop putting McCain on some golden thrown… McCain is an empty suite period. If you want the US to fall and fall hard and you want to stand in soup lines in 4 years then by all rights vote for McCain and then close your mouth and never complain about a thing from that point on.

I’m a democrat BUT i will vote
republican in november…..
I don’t trust Obama as commander
in chief………
Obama is an opportunist,un-qualify
un-experience for the highest office
in the land……..
country first……….

I LOVE this ad. I’m a Hillary supporter who will be voting McCain this fall, so this is right in tune with me. Got to give it to the Repubs – they’ve come out with some “fresh, fun” ads this year which are driven by underlying truths.
Go McCain!!

Carrie:
“Where else do they have to go?” I can answer that question, Barry. We have three places to go – vote Ralph Nader, stay at home, or vote John McCain”
None of those three options support Senator Clinton’s platform. A Clinton support voting for anti-choice, anti-healthcare McCain? Please. This is politics, not prom king.
” Obama voted “present” all the time ”
If you call 0.03% of the time “all the time” (thats less the number of votes Senator McCain ducks entirely).
“Barry Obama has a couple of lame speeches”
And work with Senator Lugar, and committee work in the Senate, and discussions with numerous world leaders this summer, and a prescient assessment of the Iraq war years ago – before it even started, when it was politically dangerous to be against taking out the Tyrant Saddam.
And that’s the end of my lunch break folks. Have fun.

When will Obama supporters get it through their thick skulls that we did not vote for Hillary because she is a female, but because she was the experienced one that we felt would be able to handle the task at hand. As an African American I did not even have to think twice about voting for Hillary, it was about who would make the best president, so now why would I go back and vote for him just because he is the democratic nominee. I then went back like I did in the beginning and looked at both sets of credentials for Obama and McCain just to make sure that I was making the righ tdecision and McCain is now the most experienced of the two and he has a proven record of getting things done even if it riles his party, which is a good sign for me. When are you people that supported Obama going to take responsibility for your vote, if he loses this thing, you better take a look in the mirror and blame yourselves, you are the ones that decided to vote for an unqualified individual to run the country, if you had done your research like I did and not just drink the Change Kool-aid you would have made the right decision to vote for the invidual with more experience as well as the ability to win, the person that would fight to the end, that knows how to handle the repbulican machine, but eventually an empty suit will fall and you have no one to blame but yourselves for voting for a nominee that you knew could not withstand the competition, how about you take a good look in the mirror instead of blaming everyone else and calling them racist for having good judgement.

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ALL YOU CROSSOVER REPUBS PUSHING CLINTON YOU CAN GO HOME NOW AS YOU ARE VERY OBVIOUS—–NO SELF RESPECTING DEMOCRAT WOULD EVER VOTE FOR MCCAIN—SEE WE KNOW THAT MCCAIN WOULD HAVE BEATEN HILLARY—GUESS YOU LOST THIS ONE.

Obama can’t heal a rift will Hillary Clinton and he thinks her supporters don’t matter. Well maybe we don’t….
now….but we will in November…we will, we will REMEMBER! We will vote for McCain.