berni_mccoy (1000+ posts) Mon May-05-08 06:34 AM
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This is *Democratic Underground*

I've seen a number of posts now call out the overwhelming Obama support on this site and saying it has become an Obama fan club. It's true the majority of posters here support Obama. But no one has really discussed why that is. The small number of remaining supporters, while I respect their tenacity, should consider more deeply why they are in such an extreme minority at this point. Here are a few clues as to why this is:

- When a candidate engages in race-baiting tactics, that candidate will lose supporters from this site.

- When a candidate blames early losses on Democratic caucuses and African American votes, that candidate will lose supporters from this site.
- When a candidate agrees to the decisions of the DNC before she loses the early primaries, and then wants to change the rules afterward, that candidate will lose supporters from this site.

- When a candidate pays over $100,000 per day to a union busting political strategist who is secretly working on Bush's trade deals, that candidate will lose supporters from this site.

- When a candidate threatens to use MI and FL as a divisive tool against the nominee if it isn't her, that candidate will lose supporters from this site.

- When a candidate endorses the Republican nominee over her Democratic opponent, that candidate will lose supporters from this site.

- When a candidate allows a surrogate to say her opponent is "lucky to be black" for 12 straight days before stopping her, that candidate will lose supporters from this site.

- When a candidate circulates religiously bigoted emails about her opponent and goes on Rush Limbaugh, that candidate will lose supporters from this site.

- When a candidate starts working with Ruppert Murdoch and Richard Mellon Scaife for their news media endorsements, that candidate will lose supporters from this site.

- When a candidate sits idly by as racially divisive and religiously bigoted attacks come from places like freerepublic and end up on an ABC debate, that candidate will lose supporters from this site.

- When a candidate drinks beers and pounds back Royal Crown shots to hypocritically hide her true elitism, that candidate will lose supporters from this site.

- When a candidate hires a third party organization to violate election law and suppress the African American vote in NC as well as several other states, that candidate will lose supporters from this site.

- When a candidate attacks her opponent on gun laws with a RW-look-alike hit piece and she has the very same stance on gun law, that candidate will lose supporters from this site.

There are many, many more reasons that Clinton herself is providing for the ever decreasing population of Clinton supporters at this site, but I hope the above list is enough to provide some understanding.

....this read reminded me of all the reasons why I don't support her, kind of like a short youtube film...of course, just within the context of writing a political post...does that make sense to anyone, lol.

anyway, I'm glad you put this up.....the words that come to mind are intelligent, beautiful, and honest. This is a list is worth keeping with you all the time to remind Hillary supporters who they are passionately standing behind.....kind of like, kucinich with his pocket constitution, lol.


Leave the dark side Hillary supporters, and join the rest of the bright and intelligent DUers here and get with a campaign that isn't as screwy as Hillary's....

and to the Extreme Gung-Ho women activists out there that want to see a woman as President soooo badly,....don't want it and be obsessed with it so much that you would vote for the Devil....in Clinton's clothing...

Our Country United should come first, regardless if it's brought by a Man or a Woman....it just so happens to be a Man that can do that, but I would have been "All Game" even if it were to come from a Woman....I like personally like Gov. Sebelius as a future DP nominee for President....let's get past the evil and wait for a woman that can offer a lot more!
....but now, it's Obama's turn to shine and Unite the Country for all of us, including women.