Post #159

Subject: Democratic Party, 2008, R.I.P.

“The will of the people as expressed thro the voting booth does not matter.” – that should be repeated by every far-left news ‘personality’ and every superdelegate who has declared for Barack Obama, including Chris Matthews’ former boss, President Jimmy Carter.

Primary votes:
Hillary Clinton - 17, 833, 005
Barack Obama – 17, 571, 347

“The will of the people as expressed thro the voting booth does not matter.” Oh, yes. Despite the media’s oppressing the vote by declaring the race was over months ago, Hillary still won.

Complain that Obama’s name was not on the Michigan ballot. Well, ya can’t blame Clinton – that was Obama’s fault. Democrats should be about counting votes – not making up votes. Complain that Puerto Rico was allowed to vote. Well, ya can’t blame Clinton either – that was the DNC’s fault.

“The will of the people as expressed thro the voting booth does not matter.”

So there ya have the new motto for the Democratic Party of 2008. Ya’d think. so soon after 2000, Democrats would know better. * sigh *

And, of course, the sub-title is “Racism is wrong… when practiced by whites – when practiced by blacks, racism needs to be understood.” I don’t know if Obama is a racist – tho it’s not hard to imagine that some venom has not rubbed off during the 20 years of nodding ‘Amen’ to Reverend Wright. But I do know he is an apologist for racism – in my book, an apologist is even worse. I shudder to think the message his daughters are getting.

The irony is that I was fully prepared to vote for a black man – as I have done before – even after the news of Wright broke. It wasn’t until Obama called for “understanding”in ‘the greatest political speech of the past 40 years’ that I realized what I was dealing with. Race was not an issue in the ’08 election until Obama made it so.

As Obama said, poor white trash “get bitter, they cling to… antipathy to people who aren't like them.” As a loyal and faithful Democratic voter for my whole life, I’ve always voted against racism. I am a member of the Democratic base, poor white ‘bitter’ trash. Now, I’m being asked by the Democratic Party to support an apologist for racism who is half-black – as tho that matters. I wonder if Jimmy Carter can explain that to me.

As I believe John F. Kennedy said, ‘sometimes, party loyalty asks too much.’

Barak Obama has been judged not by the color of his skin but the content of his character. I will still vote Democratic down the line, but I cannot support an aloof apologist for racism at the top of the ticket.