Clinton Backers' Support of Obama Not Universal
Her strong endorsement of Obama gave many of her supporters a reason to stay in the Democratic fold
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Vote For McCain = More Of The Same
It really doesn't shock met that the hate mongers that be Hillary Clinton supporters would rather see four more years of the same incompetence and failure that we've had for the last eight all in the name of spite. It really sickens me that they'd rather back a person of McCain's political views and standards which amounts to the remedial way that "W" ran the country straight down the toilet. Here are 10 things that you need to know that are fact not fabrication about Mr. McCain
1. John McCain voted against establishing a national holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Now he says his position has 'evolved,' yet he's continued to oppose key civil rights laws.
2. According to Bloomberg News, McCain is more hawkish than Bush on Iraq, Russia and China. Conservative columnist Pat Buchanan says McCain 'will make Cheney look like Gandhi.
3. His reputation is built on his opposition to torture, but McCain voted against a bill to ban waterboarding, and then applauded President Bush for vetoing that ban.
4. McCain opposes a woman's right to choose. He said, 'I do not support Roe versus Wade. It should be overturned.
5. The Children's Defense Fund rated McCain as the worst senator in Congress for children. He voted against the children's health care bill last year, then defended Bush's veto of the bill.
6. He's one of the richest people in a Senate filled with millionaires. The Associated Press reports he and his wife own at least eight homes! Yet McCain says the solution to the housing crisis is for people facing foreclosure to get a 'second job' and skip their vacations.
7. Many of McCain's fellow Republican senators say he's too reckless to be commander in chief. One Republican senator said: 'The thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine. He's erratic. He's hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me.
8. McCain talks a lot about taking on special interests, but his campaign manager and top advisers are actually lobbyists. The government watchdog group Public Citizen says McCain has 59 lobbyists raising money for his campaign, more than any of the other presidential candidates.
9. McCain has sought closer ties to the extreme religious right in recent years. The pastor McCain calls his 'spiritual guide,' Rod Parsley, believes America's founding mission is to destroy Islam, which he calls a 'false religion.' McCain sought the political support of right-wing preacher John Hagee, who believes Hurricane Katrina was God's punishment for gay rights and called the Catholic Church 'the Antichrist' and a 'false cult.
10. He positions himself as pro-environment, but he scored a 0-yes, zero-from the League of Conservation Voters last year.
John McCain is not who the Washington press corps make him out to be. Does the think that his family are more deserving of a better life than you and yours? Yes Osama Bin Laden is a evil man with evil intentions and deserve to be punished for his crimes, but the one thing I can say about him is that when he was recruiting and jockeying for the political position and favor he held he showed the people that would be his followers that even with all the wealth at his disposal he dressed like them, ate like them, worked like them, and held himself in no higher regard than he held them. You think John McCain has even an ounce of such value for the American People? If you think for a second he does you're either delusional of just plain stupid! Just like W. Bush and Cheney he has his own and his cohorts best interest at heart and that's what's going to come first and foremost. Obama seeks camaraderie, peace, and all who make up America coming together and being Americans, and supports issues and policies that would give any hard working American the same quality of life that any senator or congressman enjoys. McCain wants to keep your haves and have not divided society going. He knows that if everyone enjoyed a good quality of life and everything was economically well for everyone no matter what class you fell in, that our dependence on government would cease, and this would be the beginning of the end of their control, it would be the scissors that cut the strings that control the the American people like the puppets that most of us are being. Anyone who listens to Obama hear what he is saying he wants to give the power back to the people! It's our government, we are the one's who put these people where they are. Governments should fear their people in America it's the exact opposite the people fear the government. Are you going to be a coward and give into McCain's lies and fear tactics? The same one's that lead to Bush's defeat over Kerry, or will you stand on your own two feet and relinquish the chains that has bound the American people for so long and cast a vote for the candidate that looks out for every American not just the wealthy and privileged. God Bless Barrack Obama, God Bless the American people, and God Bless America!!
Clinton supporter will not vote for Obama
I will not vote for Obama - he scares me. Clinton did not get a fair shake from the media. The media (which is corporate America) picked their golden boy from day 1. Good luck America - what a choice Obama or McCain. No thanks to either of them.
What!!!!!!!!!!!!
You have no idea what gracious is. There was nothing gracious about Hillary ending her campaign. Nothing. Instead she came across like the sour loser she is and with that she held on to some of her supposed 18million supporters. The same supporters who are even right now still rooting for her to get the nomination away from Obama. The same people who have decided that if it can't be Hillary then they would rather vote for McCain - the Republican. Which is exactly what Hillary wanted. Your supporters take thie cue from you Hillary. If they can so easily vote for a Republican then they were never Democrats. What are you? Did you choose the Democrat party because you were convinced you would beat Obama?
Her endorsement of Obama was not sincere, she had no choice and she gave it begrudgingly, with every word uttered in that speach. I'm ashamed of Hillary and that she is a woman like I am. Her loss had nothing to do with her being a woman, her loss was because her actions and words made us embarrassed to be women and made men loose faith in us and our amazing capabilties. Where is her self respect? And this was her campaign not her husband's - she put in in the Presidents seat - because it would be been him ruling no her and we all saw that.
Obama will become the 44th President of the United States of America with or without her true endorsement.
Yes - I am definitely voting for Obama!
Yes, let's not hand over the country to another four years of reckless republican rule. In that time, oil well will spring up along the coast of California and throughout National Parks. We will be bogged down with military problems, perhaps more than we can imagine right now. There will be little inspiration left in politics as once and for all fear-based spin is shown to be the way to get anything done.
HEY OBAMA SUPPORTERS
I continue to be amazed how you Obama supporters justify why Hillary voters should vote for Obama. It's ok to treat WOMEN LIKE SH*T and then turn the tables by threatening us with Roe Vs Wade. ..STAND UP WOMEN DO NOT LET THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY TELL YOU WHAT TO DO!
NOBAMAS
I continue to be amazed that you would rather overturn Roe v Wade and many other women's issues and vote for a philandering adulterer who cheated on his first wife for political gain... YOU AMAZE ME... You FEMINISTS.... ROFL is all I can do when you claim feminism and sexism and then throw your vote to the most sexist person in modern history.... Fine... vote for him.... I hope you can live with your own conscience... this man has zero history where it counts for women's rights....
post primary depression
I've voted the Dem. ticket for 45 years, not counting the year Ross Perot ran. I've worked in situations where the politics were unbearable and chose to change careers rather than put up with the crap. This year I watched Dean & Pelosi use politics to ensure that Hillary was not the candidate. I guess they can do whatever they'd like, but I don't feel the need to buy into it. I refuse to give the DNC any more money until there's a change in leadership within the DNC. At this point I don't feel as though their candidate of choice or even the DNC represent me. I'm contemplating sitting on my hands through this one. First time. Never missed a vote in the past. If enough of us do that I'm sure we'll see a change. According to current reports, Dean has not managed the money well & the DNC is close to broke. I'm sure they'll listen if we don't fill their coffers back up.
no support for obama
I never was a going to vote for obama!!! Was a dem for 24yr, now an independent!! Dont trust poll's, I have told two that i was going to support bama(big joke) not a chance ! McCain not my pick but better than A man with BAD Friends...
P.S. MOST POLL'S ARE NOT TO BE TRUSTED....
I like Hillary too, however
Those so called democrats who supported Clinton and now wish to support McCain are not being completely truthful with thier reasons for not backing Obama. Never before in my lifetime--and I am 40 years old-- have I seen a situation like this before. Who would believe that after 8 years of Bush and the way in which republicans have failed this country miserably, that democrats or any republicans of sound mind for that matter would even entertain supporting McCain. Truthfully, Clinton is no more qualified that Obama. Her husband was president-- she was not! She has been a Senator just as Obama has.
The true reason that the primary went on for so long and the true reason we are even having this discussion over whether or not to support the DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE is that so many Americans are inherently racist and will at any cost refuse to support a black man. If Obama were white, the primary would not have continued so long and he would win this election very easily. Shame on this nation. The world is watching and observing the sad state of affairs in this nation.
