Thumbing through some RealClearPolitics ReaderArticles, I came across a very angry Democrat who supports Hillary Clinton. He tells of Obama supporters that seem to be out-of-control when it comes to even wearing pro-Clinton garb. I have reprinted the entire blog entry so that you can feel the full outrage this person has for Mr. Obama, and why.
[Lynne hit the mark dead on yesterday. As a Clinton supporter, the spectacle of having Obamites trying to make nice now that they think he's won is revolting. The Obama cabal has behaved in the most disgusting, depraved, adolescent way since this campaign began. Try writing something in support of Clinton on that electronic snot rag the Huffington Post. Try having a reasoned conversation with an Obama supporter and you will know it is, in fact, a personality cult. These are the people who cheered on the mentally unstable Olbermann when he became unhinged about perfectly true comments Ferraro made - comments that echoed John Kerry. The Obamites later had no issue when namby pamby Obama refused to disown his pastor a week later. These are the people who cheered on Rhandi Rhodes when she called the former First Lady a "[**king whore". The Obama hordes cheered when he flipped off the Senator from New York. The Obama campaign lied about the Clintons and race in South Carolina - cheered on by the cult. The Obama campaign lies about nearly all his past associations - most recently his connection to Hamas. The noise from the Obama campaign and its cabal on worshipers has been overwhelming at times. With the help of self hating gay men like John Avarosis and star f**kers like Arianna Huffington, the sick, immoral media has refused to do its job and created an Obama myth out of mindlessness, sloth, and hatred of strong women.
Personally, I have been screamed at on the street because I was wearing a Clinton button, I've been called a racist, and had my life threatened - all by Obama cult members. I know more than a few people who have been confronted in public, hung up on, and called any number of vile names all because they attempted to have a reasonable conversation about Obama. Reason has nothing to do with what this cult is doing to the country.
There is no going back, Obamites. Get over it. You won't get us back. The rupture you have caused with your name calling, smears, threats, hypocrisy and lies went too far. You smashed up the china shop for fun and now express faux wonder as to why broken glass is everywhere.
But let me be perfectly clear. I will not be voting for Obama because of any of this. I will not vote for Obama because he is not qualified to be President. Period. Especially not in 2008. As an added bonus - it turns out he is a liar, a fraud, a man of no core convictions, a fellow traveller with racists, terrorists, and those who would destroy Israel, and a wimp. His wife, the monstrously angry Michelle is worse. I don't know it- but I suspect - given what we know so far - there are many more skeletons in his closet. This not a casual indictment. Obama's past is loaded with deceit and creepy associations. Any sane person looking at him would not be surprised if the worst is yet to come.
You will find no evidence of this on MSNBC or most of the main stream media - because they are desperate to make a President. Sadly, you don't even see that the corporate media so many of you have railed against has now created Obama. They bought him and will expect a return. Obamites, your future is not bright. It will be full of bitter disappointment. Obama is no leader. He is the crassest of politicians - bred from the same Chicago machine that gave us Richard Daley and Jimmy Hoffa.
Fox News has begun to tell some truth about Obama. The critical mass of rotten information on Obama became too apparent to their audience. Some brave bloggers have spoken the truth about BHO to the wailing, screeching Obama hordes. Reasonable people woke up in Ohio and Pennsylvania. There is real hope we can keep this greasy man out of the White House.
I pray that Obama can be defeated. I pray once that is done Howard Dean, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and Donna Brazille are shown the door. I pray that this country can rise above the childish sewage of the Obama campaign and move on.
I have been reading some very angry comments lately all around the Internetfrom Hillary Clinton (whom I now have a begrudging respect for because of her tenacity - and would actually vote for if it was between her and Barack) supporters concerning their treatment by Obama supporters. These Hillary supporters are mad as heck, and could on the verge of purging the elites and radical leftists from their party to bring it back to sanity.
Here is my advice:
Look, you moderates have some choices you can make this election cycle. You DON’T have to “fall in line” with the radical leftists in the Democratic party after what they did by trashing you and your candidate.
You can:
1)Sit it out this election cycle
2)Vote by writing in Hillary’s name
3)Vote for McCain
If you sit it out, then other candidate you may like to see win won’t get your support, and the people you want to lose won’t get opposition from you, and may win - again.
If you write in Hillary’s name, then Barack Obama may still win, and your party, America and the world may suffer horrible consequences.
If you vote for John McCain (some of you may have to hold your noses to do this), then you will probably be able to actually defeat Barack Obama - and maybe even some of his egregious backers - thus purging your party of him and his ilk and saving American and the world from untold disaster and misery for us and our children.
So far, all you moderates have suffered disgrace and public humiliation at the hands of the elites and leftists in your party. It is time you FOUGHT BACK and showed those chauvinistic, bombastic elites that YOU are the backbone of your party, and that you will NOT be pushed around any longer. In my opinion, this will not only purge some of them from your party, it will send a STRONG message for them to listen to you and your concerns in the future.
Ted Kennedy, that giant liberal icon in the Democratic party, was asked in an interview on Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital With Al Hunt” what he thought of a so-called ‘dream ticket’ of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. His answer to that question may not please Hillary Clinton supporters.
“I don’t think it’s possible,” said Kennedy.
Kennedy said that he hoped Obama would choose a running mate who is “in tune with his appeal for the nobler aspirations of the American people.
“And I think if we had real leadership - as we do with Barack Obama - in the number-two spot as well, it’d be enormously helpful,” he added.
A Kennedy spokesman later went on to clarify the seemingly incendiary comments saying that Kennedy thinks Hillary Clinton is “more than qualified” to be veep, but doesn’t think it’s likely “given the tenor of the campaign in recent weeks.”
In my opinion, it sounds reminiscent of when Barackwanted to ‘clarify’ his remarks about small-town America clinging to guns and God while showing antipathy towards those that are not like them.
According to the Huffington Post, Mr. Kennedy was infuriated by Hillary praising President Lyndon Baines Johnson for getting the 1964 Civil Rights Act accomplished. Apparently Mr. Kennedy perceived this as a slight at the Kennedy family’s civil rights legacy as John F. Kennedy was first to propose the initiative in June 1963.
According to the article, “sources” said Mr. Kennedy was privately furious for Hillary’s remarks praising Johnson and that this was “part of the reason why the liberal lion from Massachusetts embraced Obama.”
Here are some interesting comments in no particular order from folks at various outlets that reported on this development:
JOHN 3:10PM May 9th 2008
I AM A LIFELONG DEMOCRAT,BUT IF OBAMA GETS THE NOMINATION I WILL BE VOTING FOR MCCAIN, AND I WILL VOTE DEMOCRAT FOR THE HOUSE AND SENATE.I FEEL THAT HAVING A REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT AND A DEMOCRAT HOUSE AND SENATE WOULD BE GOOD FOR OUR COUNTRY.
I will NOT VOTE FOR OBAMA 3:20PM May 9th 2008
I am a 50 year old Democrat or should I say I used to be. I will not Vote for Obama. Look at Chicago! Do you want the rest of the Country to be like that. ObamaDistrict is FULL OF MURDERS AND SLUMS! That is a Clear Example of His Leadership! With all the talk of YES WE CAN! HOW COME HE DID NOT DO IT FOR CHICAGO!
Katherine 3:25PM May 9th 2008
Thank goodness!!!! No Hillary on Obama ticket!!! GOOD. Hillary or McCain. Never Obama.
slister 4:48PM May 9th 2008
I am for Obama, but Hillary for VP - NOT! I can’t stand her. For those that say you won’t [vote] for Obama, do you think it will matter? He has the majority without you. By the way, you weren’t going to vote for him anyway, so your vote is insignificant. Obama will have enough support to win the presidential election - then what? If you don’t like it - move!
M2D5 4:52PM May 9th 2008
Obama, is smart enough to know how hard the general election campaign is going to be. He does not need an albatross from N.Y. tied around his neck. He needs someone who will work at uniting the party behind the ticket not some one who has been bent on wrecking the party if her ambitions were not realized. Also think of the cost to the treasury Dept. All those extra agents to protect POTUS. I do not want the honorable(?) senator from N.Y., evan remotely near the “line of succession”
jkw 5:49PM May 9th 2008
Are you kiddingme? The ONLY thingHillary wants is to be President. If she were VP, the only thing standing between her and the presidency would be Obama. If that were the case and I were Obama, I’d be afraid to go to sleep at night, I’d be looking over my shoulder every minute. I would not trust the Clintons and “The Bitch” for one second.
Posted by Ladywithpetdog on May 9, 2008 7:47 PM
What is wrong with Teddy Kennedy? He must be nuts to be shooting at another Democrat with so much riding on this election. He obviously has some unresolved resentments against Bill and Hilary from when Bill was president and is petty enough to jeopardize the election to get his revenge. Typical alcoholic behavior. What does he know about real leadership?
Posted By: Nate | May 09, 2008 at 02:03 PM
With Hillary being just a heartbeat away, President Obamawould be wise to hire a food taster! She’ll stop at nothing!
Rick9719 5:51PM May 9th 2008
Post-partisan candidate? Don’t make me laugh. When has this man offered any kind of olive branch to the Republican party? If you really want to unite the country you have to offer SOMETHING to your political opponents. Look at Obama’s voting record. If you then don’t think Obama is a partisan, you don’t know what the word means.
Simon Vouet 5:55PM May 9th 2008
As a life long Democrat , I am sickened once again by the Kennedy family. Ted Kennedy, Caroline Kennedy and Maria Shrivershould be ashamed of themselves. The Clinton family always backed the Kennedy family and in return Bill and Hillary Clinton were slapped in the face by them. With friends like the Kennedy’s who needs enemies? Ted Kennedy has destroyed the Democratic party. Kennedy (out of anger at Bill and Hillary) backed Obama, who has no experience at all. God help us all when Sharpton, Jackson and Farrakhan are put into high positions in this presidency. I could never vote Obama. But, if Hillary was put in as a V.P.—I just might succumb.At least I know with Hillary in a high position she will be able to clean up any mess Obama may get us into.
Posted By: | May 09, 2008 at 01:44 PM
PRAISE THE LORD! She would not be an asset to the ticket. She is poison and vile and should be sent packing to NY.
Posted By: JOHN | May 09, 2008 at 02:25 PM
If Hillary is Obama’sVP. And, there is only one bullet from the Clinton’s getting what they want. Sweet dreams Obama - wouldn’t wanna be you
Posted By: Anthony | May 09, 2008 at 01:32 PM
The more the Obama-bots shun Senator Clinton, the more they alienate her supporters. I’m more than willing to sit this one out in November!
Posted By: obamish | May 09, 2008 at 02:54 PM
Take THAT, Thunder Thighs!
Posted By: | May 09, 2008 at 01:38 PM
I see that Hillary hate is still very much alive among the sore winners. They should take a look at today’s Daily Gallup poll for a sign of Hillary’s strength. ABC news shows Obama is ahead in the popular vote by just a few hundred thousand votes if Michigan and Florida are factored in. Yet Kennedy and many Obama supporters would gladly throw away the woman supported by about half the Democratic party, and insult her in the process. And then of course they expect all her supporters to jump on the bandwagon and happily vote for Obama in the Fall. Why not just say “We don’t need you” to all those Democrats?
Posted By: Katie | May 09, 2008 at 01:51 PM
The racist Obamaand his terrorist supporters will very much regret not begging Hillary to be his VP pick! If he turns his back on millions of Hillary fans he is going to lose in November- many will vote for McCain who at least loves the country. Unlike Michelle Obama..
Posted By: IND | May 09, 2008 at 01:56 PM
Obama has cost the party greatly. He is not a uniter. He plays the race card at every turn and then tries to act like he is above the fray. He is not and he will not win in November.
Posted By: Halli Casser-Jayne | May 09, 2008 at 01:57 PM
Good move, Senator Kennedy. There goes 49.?% of the Democrats vote to either McCain or write-in votes for HRC. And these guys are going to be the new uniters? And with comments like these, they think they can win the White House? What a disgrace! Halli Casser-Jayne http://www.thecjpoliticalreport.com
Posted By: Pole | May 09, 2008 at 01:58 PM
Hillary has to admit 2 things. First, she has no future with the Dems. Second, the Dem party has been hijacked by left-wingers. A logical conclusions would be is that she can AND should start a third party. She will be able to win centrist Dems AND Republicans and many independents. This is still a majority in this country.
Posted By: Pam | May 09, 2008 at 01:59 PM
Nobler aspirations? Like hangingout withRev. Wright for 20 years, pals with Ayers, doingbusiness with Rezko and slumlord, and supporting a nut for President who when he lost killed as many Christians as he could? Well I guess to Kennedy this is nobel as he himself is guilty of drowninga young woman, abusing his wife and just a general a hole.
Posted By: Sue | May 09, 2008 at 01:59
PMHah!! That’s pretty funny comingfrom a guy who fought Jimmy Carter all the way to the convention in 1980 and contributed to his defeat!!! (Guess Teddy won’t be getting the VP nod either.) And I won’t even mention another famous scandal that, until now, I’ve never felt compelled to use against him.
Posted By: Craig | May 09, 2008 at 02:02 PM
Just curious to the few who say Obamahas the best chance to bring the country together…how do you figure? He can’t even wrap up his own party nomination. If he truly were ‘the man’ why aren’t all the supers flocking over and sealing this? He cannot even close the deal on his own party. The supers don’t need to wait for WV and KY. If Obamawas the man, they’d have already closed it out. He can’t even bring his own party together much less the country. He’s split his party and divided it between the moderates and the liberals within the party. Sorry but he’s a divider…
Posted By: Cyguy | May 09, 2008 at 02:02 PM
I’ve never liked Ted since he got drunk, killed an innocent women and has spent the rest of his life covering it up. How does this bafoon continue to get re-elected?? The libs. should be REAL proud of their poster boy.
Posted by snake63 on May 9, 2008 7:43 PM
I agree with Ted Kennedy. If Hillary becomes Obama’s V.P. She will have Barack assassinated Jan 21. This way she can serve three terms.
RClark9247 6:12PM May 9th 2008
Hillary Clinton is the last person I would want as my vice president. I wouldn’t pay one red cent towards her debts either. I hope Obama see it that way……
Posted By: Tobias | May 09, 2008 at 02:05 PM
Go have another drink, Ted. This race isn’t over we’re taking it all the way to the convention. Clinton’s supporters will not be railroaded.
Posted By: Barbara | May 09, 2008 at 02:09 PM
When Obamais defeated in November as a aloof elitist the party will question why they failed to choose Hillary Clinton. She can win critical swing states like Ohio and Florida. Obama has largely won caucus states where left wing groups got out the college educated latte liberals. Hard working blue collar working people often have not time to caucus for hours at a time as we work shifts and have families to tend too.
Posted By: | May 09, 2008 at 02:13 PM
Keep talking Ted, McCain appreciates all your help
Posted By: ChitowngirlInCT | May 09, 2008 at 02:32 PM
No veep slot for Clinton, says the Senator who could not deliver his home state for Obama, priceless….
Posted By: HillarySupporter | May 09, 2008 at 02:34 PM
Sounds to me like a festering wound that developed between Ted K and the Clintons when the Clintons were in the White House
Posted By: | May 09, 2008 at 02:14 PM
It’s ironic, but the Kennedy clan’s endorsement was the turning point in my decision way back on Super Tuesday to vote against Obama (I had been on the fence till that big Calif. rally). They seemed to want to keep Camelot alive for a new generation, and they had found their successor in Obama. It seemed to be all about them, which I think is fittingbecause, with Obama, it’s all about him, too.
Posted By: james | May 09, 2008 at 02:15 PM
Could someone please explain to me how a guy who can’t even unite his own party is supposed to unite our country? It’s pure nonsense based in an alternate universe where BO is the messiah. His Senate record (however thin) has NO examples of him ever reaching across the aisle.
Oliver 6:00PM May 9th 2008
Advise to Hillary from a democrat voting REPUBLICAN: Don’t stoop to his level and humiliate yourself any further. What Hillary Clinton ought to do is run as an “independent”. She’ll win the general election hands down. Don’t take it anymore from loosers like Kennedy.
Joel Litaker 6:13PM May 9th 2008
Remember she could also take her support to a 3rd party ticket and destroy the dem ticket.. And i hope she does you people have made me sick of your way’s from Dean to Kennedy on down
Posted By: SHIRLEY | May 09, 2008 at 02:18 PM
OH, HOW I HAVE LOST RESPECT FOR THE DEM. PARTY AND PEOPLE I USE TO ADMIRE. AT THIS POINT I REJECT AND DENOUNCE THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. kennedy is the once and future BIG-TIME jerk!!!
Posted By: disappointedinMD | May 09, 2008 at 02:18 PM
All these nasty comments about Hillary will come back to haunt Obamain the GE. If he wants women’s vote in November he had better ask his supporters to stop the denigrating comments and putdownsdirected at both Hillary and former President Clinton. His supporters say they are supporting him because they want a ‘uniter’ but they themselves are doing the opposite. The nastiness has caused hurt feelings and anger on the other side and will guarentee votes for McCain. It is totally counterproductive. Democrats stop this now!!!
Posted By: mONROE | May 09, 2008 at 02:37 PM
I still cannot believe that the left wing of the Democratic Party actually believes that Obama can win. Obama’sassociation with the Black Panthers, his endorsements by HAMAS, his close family friend the racist Pastor Wright, and the most liberal record in the U.S. Senate will sink him in Mainstream America. You are judged by the company you keep, and birds of a feather chirp the same notes.
Posted By: LatinoVote | May 09, 2008 at 02:40 PM
Obama a Uniter? just look at all the blogging. He is divisive, if it wasn’t so, everyone on the blogs would be in agreement. Instead, I hear alot of Hispanics (even Dems) who are saying they will not vote for Obama. A racist by definition can not be a uniter. He is alienating most of florida because he wants to win so bad, he doesn’t want the hispanic vote to count.
Posted By: Nick | May 09, 2008 at 02:41 PM
Given the fact that Obama is a rascist, hypocritical socialist, it doesn’t really matter who he picks as a running mate.
Dave 1 6:16PM May 9th 2008
“Is white America really responsible for the fact that the crime and incarceration rates for African-Americans are seven times those of white America? Is it really white America’s fault that illegitimacy in the African-American community has hit 70 percent and the black dropout rate from high schools in some cities has reached 50 percent? Is that the fault of white America or, first and foremost, a failure of the black community itself? As for racism, its ugliest manifestation is in interracial crime, and especially interracial crimes of violence. Is Barack Obama aware that while white criminals choose black victims 3 percent of the time, black criminals choose white victims 45 percent of the time? Is Barack aware that black-on-white rapes are 100 times more common than the reverse, that black-on-white robberies were 139 times as common in the first three years of this decade as the reverse? We have all heard ad nauseam from the Rev. Al about Tawana Brawley, the Duke rape case and Jena. And all turned out to be hoaxes. But about the epidemic of black assaults on whites that are real, we hear nothing. Sorry, Barack, some of us have heard it all before, about 40 years and 40 trillion tax dollars ago.
Posted By: Murph | May 09, 2008 at 02:41 PM
First, let me say that I’ve been a lifelong Democrat for 29 years. In that time, I’ve been forced to vote for Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale, Michael Dukakis, Bill Clinton twice, Al Gore and John Kerry. And you know what? Every single one of those guys was more qualified and more moderate than this clown, Obama. The Democratic Party has veered so far to the left, I don’t even recognize it anymore. I guess I’ll be voting for a Republican for the first time in my life this year.
Posted By: Nayeli Puentes | May 09, 2008 at 02:43 PM
The election will come down to Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa, New Hampshire, New Mexico and…MICHIGAN. While he might enjoy a 50/50 split (more or less) in the popular vote, BARACK OBAMA will lose by a large margin in the Electoral College. Why? He is trailing McCain in some states BEFORE McCAIN HAS EVEN BEGUN CAMPAIGNING!!! My election prediction: McCain 299/Obama 239. McCain will capture Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Iowa, Ohio, New Hampshire and Michigan.
Posted By: Gibson | May 09, 2008 at 02:44 PM
Let’s see, Kennedy, Kerry and Governor Patrick (Obama clone) all endorsed Obama and Hillary won Massachusetts by 15. Who in the world cares what this windbag has to say?
Posted By: mike | May 09, 2008 at 02:50 PM
First time in my adult life that i have ever been ashamed to say i am dem.not for long if Obama is nominee.I will be for MCCAIN A TRUE AMERICAN.
SGammell 6:32PM May 9th 2008
As a lifelong Republican, I’m glad to see so many anti
Obama people out there. This guy is scary. I’ll be voting for McCain (while I hold my nose), but I’d rather see Hillary than BHO anyday !!!
Posted By: RCB | May 09, 2008 at 02:53 PM
As a Florida voter and a lifelong Democrat I wont be votingDemocratic no matter who is runningunless my vote in the primary is counted. It wasnt my fault the party bosses didnt follow the rules - why do I have to suffer for their mistake ?
Posted By: pete | May 09, 2008 at 02:54 PM
Do you guys realize that the rules state that the candidate who gets 2025 delegates receives the nomination. Does Barry have 2025? Does Hillary? The answer to both of those questions is no. The rules do not state that whoever has a majority of delegates automatically gets the nomination, or whomever every media outlet favors gets the nomination. The rules are 2025 and since noonehas that they both have a right to be in the campaign. Democrats claim themselves to be stringent rule followers so follow the rules and stop *****ing.
Posted By: Randy W | May 09, 2008 at 02:56 PM
How do you silly Obamites and the Obama campaign plan to attack McCain.. U don’t have the Right Wing PlayBook u losers decided to use against the Clinton’s… Not one person on this site that Supports Obama believes his message based on your words..Truly Sad, Childish. Non-Factual political jibberish
sandi 6:17PM May 9th 2008
Obama has run a dirty race. Locking supporters for Hillary out of the buildings for the caucuses.Sending hecklers in to the Clinton rallies.Stealingvoter ballots in several states. Hiring workers at the polls to tell people no no do not vote Hillary here.Just Obama.That is on tape by the way.
Posted by nyc_1957@yahoo…. on May 9, 2008 9:57 PM
No offense to you Obama supporters but sit back and see what is goingon. A majority of Clinton voters - those older people and those who have to work swing shifts could not make the causus where Obamadid most of his winning. In those states where they had primaries Clinton won the majority of them. Let’s not forget about those voters in Florida and Michigan who will be expressing their anger come election time. Obamais not winning by any overwhelmingmajority and he wouldn’t have if the votingwas all primary and not caucus. Furthermore, a larger percentage of Clinton voters will not vote for Obama. Also, many Republicans were voting in our primaries and caucus to vote against Hillary as well. Come November it will be McCain who wins the White House - Kennedy and Obama have handed the White House to the Republicans and of course they [Kennedy and Obama] will spin it that the Clinton’s had somethingto do with it. The Karl Rove machine hasn’t even started on Obama yet - they are going to hit
Posted by hedyanne on May 9, 2008 11:21 PM
I cannot believe that he said that about her. I made a call to his office yesterday about him and Kerry not standing up for the voters in MA because we all voted for Hillary and other Sen and Gov were standing behind their voters but you can’t get an answer from them. Well when it’s time to vote for president it won’t be for Obama he’s not going to tell the voters in MA who they should vote for. He has no respect for women any way just look at the reputation he has a drunk and a womanizer.
Dave1 6:06PM May 9th 2008
WILLIAM AYERS. ADMITTED TERRORIST. TRIED TO BLOW UP NY POLICE STATIONS AND THE PENTAGON. HE TOLD HIS FOLLOWERS TO KILL THEIR PARENTS. HIS WIFE SUPPORTS THE KILLINGS OF CHARLES MANSON. HE SAID HE DOES NOT REGRET WHAT HE DID AND WOULD DO IT AGAIN. JIMMY CARTER. SUPPORTS THE TERRORIST GROUP HAMMAS. THIS IS THE GROUP THAT BLOWS UP INNOCENT PEOPLE AND KIDS IN THE MIDDLE EAST. THEY TEACH THEIR CHILDREN TO HATE AND KILL JEWS, CHRISTIANS AND WESTENERS. THEY ALSO USE THEIR OWN KIDS AS BOMBS. AND OF COURSE JEREMIAH WRIGHT. OBAMA’S PASTOR AND ADVISOR FOR 20 YEARS. HE IS AN ADMITTED RACIST. HE ALSO SUPPORTS HAMMAS. AND HE SUPPORTED QUADAFI OF LIBYA WHEN HE BOMBED THE PAN AM FLIGHT OVER LOCKERBIE. AND ALSO WHEN LIBYA KILLED OUR SERVICEMEN IN MUNICH GERMANY IN THE 1980′S
LAST WEEK LEADERS IN HAMMAS AND IN IRAN SAID THEY LIKE OBAMA.
NICE ENDORSMENTS OBAMA. ALL THIS INFO IS ON GOOGLE.
A C P 6:01PM May 9th 2008
I can’t bring myself to back Kennedy anymore—USED TO BE A STAUNCH DEMOCRAT—-No more!!!! But Clinton still is TOOOSmart to even remotely think of Mister “Stands for Change”, He has never said what the change would bring and doesn’t have the balls to take on the oil companies even though the other demo would[.] From here on in VOTE FOR MCCAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!
sandi 6:02PM May 9th 2008
I’M NOT BITTER, I’M DISCUSTED! BARACK OBAMA HAS BROUGHT RACISM INTO THE POLITICAL RACE BECAUSE HE SPENT 20 YEARS WITH A RACIST/RADICAL WHO IS HIS PASTOR, AND IS FRIENDS WITH WILLIAM AYERS. HE HAS NO ONE TO BLAME BUT HIMSELF. THEN YOU HAVE AL SHARPTON THREATENING THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY THAT HE WILL BE MARCHING IF OBAMA IS NOT THE NOMINEE. IT IS PEOPLE LIKE SHARPTON AND WRIGHT WHO ARE PROMOTING RACISM IN THIS ELECTION AND AROUND THE COUNTRY. IT NEEDS TO STOP, AND NOW!!!OBAMA WILL NOT BEAT McCAIN IN NOVEMBER BECAUSE OF ALL OF THIS, PLUS HIS LACK OF EXPERIENCE OF ONLY 143 DAYS IN THE U.S. SENATE. OBAMA NEEDS TO BACK OUT AND TAKE 8 YEARS TO PROVE TO AMERICAN WHO HE “REALLY” IS.
C. Brown 6:18PM May 9th 2008
Democrats saying they will vote for McCain if Obama is the candidate are the same STUPID RACISTS that would ruin our country because of their narrow minds. American voters are the world’s dumbest.
Marj 5:57PM May 9th 2008
I, like many others, will not vote for Obama even though I supported Hillary. As it appears that Obamagot much of his votes BEFORE many issues surfaced about him, the Democratic party is now STUCK WITH HIM! They have no chance with him as the nominee….McCain will be president. And I will vote for him. As far as Ted Kennedy, he is a nobody.
annie 5:58PM May 9th 2008
Even if Hillary runs for VP (which I strongly believe she will NOT) I will still not vote for Nobama, so she shouldn’t waste her time because no matter what anyone says, that is not going to pacify the Party. Welcome to the next president, John McCain!!
Dave 1 6:04PM May 9th 2008
The real Mr. Obama is an easy target for the general election. Mrs. Clinton is a far tougher opponent. But Mr. Obama could win if people don’t start lookingbehind his veneer and flowery speeches. His vision of “bringing America together” means sayingthat those who disagree with his agenda for America are hijackers or warmongers. Uniting the country means adopting his liberal agenda and abandoning any conflicting beliefs. But right now everyone is talking about how eloquent of a speaker he is and - yes - they’re talking about his race. Those should never be the factors on which we base our choice for president. Mr. Obama’s radical agenda sets him far outside the American mainstream, to the left of Mrs. Clinton. It’s time to talk about the real Barack Obama. In an election of firsts, let’s first make sure we elect the person who is qualified to be our president in a nuclear age during a global civilizational war.
beachdog 6:10PM May 9th 2008
HILLARY IS BETTER THAN THAT, SHE CAN RUN IN 4 YEARS AGAINST PRESIDENT MCCAIN CAUSE NO WAY RACIST, LYING, LIBERAL SOCIALIST OBAMA IS WINNING WHEN FOLKS LEARN THE REST OF HIS SKELETONS AND LOOK AT HIS LACK OF EXPERIENCE!!!! ANYONE BUT OBAMA….
HILLARY OR MCCAIN 2008~
JDL 6:11PM May 9th 2008
I can not believe that everyone is slamming Hillary about race. What about OBAMA, who is half white but does not bother claimingit or runningas a white man. He is getting the black vote just because he is black. No one looks at the issues in the race. So grow up and look at the issue and stay of the race card. As for me I will not vote for him, but will vote for McCain. OBAMAis nothing but a BIGGOT.
KK 6:11PM May 9th 2008
Very Concerned American
Well add me to the racially deficient. I have been a democrat for more than 30 years and I will not vote for Obamaeither. Why is it when someone will not vote for him they must be racist? It doesn’t have anythingto do with his race although he has unjustly accused Hillary of beingracist in order to position himself as the victim. Its because he has no original ideas, he’s dishonest, he has yet to explain why its OK to condemn America (20 years) and he’s arrogant and patronizing. I will do what many democrats will do, Vote for McCain, and vote for democrats in the house and senate. McCain might not be my first choice but he’s not my last choice either.
ron fenton 6:18PM May 9th 2008
I’m with you, John. If it’s Obama, I’ll vote for McCain too. Then I’ll vote for Democrats in the house and Senate. It’s called ” checks & balances”. I just hope McCain comes up with a younger Veep.
rrm12 6:19PM May 9th 2008
Now the picture is clear. At first I couldn’t understand Kennedy endorsing Obama against the will of his constituants, but now it is clear that he placed his own interests ahead of the people that elected him into office. He is a jerk and should be ejected from office at the very next election. I have voted for Kennedy’s all my life, but when he endorsed Obama against the will of his constituants it clearly shows that he could care less for you and me, and is only interested goingthrough the back door to the Presidency by way of the Vice Presidency. You had me fooled Ted Kennedy, but not anymore. You couldn’t shine either Jack or Bobby’s shoes, you are a loser and probably always was. You get on that ticket and I will donate everything I can to McCain to include campaigning for him. WHAT A [**D] DAMN EGOCENTRIC FOOL YOU ARE.
mary 6:25PM May 9th 2008
Have really had it with everyone telling Hillary to quit. Obamais still in the church and with another paster who is worse than Wright. He has no concept of correctness and I do not understand why the Democratic Party is backinghim from the beginning. You very rarely hear about him or someone telling him to quit when he was behind. If he gets the nomination sadly I will vote for McCain.
alicia 6:30PM May 9th 2008
I will not vote Obama…I will vote republican or not at all.
Joyce 6:31PM May 9th 2008
I’ve got news for you….the Hillary supporters are already pissed off & for good reason. How can anyone continue to respect those “in control” of the DNCwhen they have shown utter disrespect to Hillary Clinton. She has deserved better treatment than what she’s been handed, yet she has shrugged it off & continued on with a smile on her face. The DNChas been digging itself into a hole & before long the “dirt” is going to fall back in & bury them up to their ears. That is what they deserve. Yes, we Hillary supporters are royally pissed!
David JOHNSON 6:32PM May 9th 2008
If Hillary Clinton has committed a crime here in the USA it is being a women. The people of America lack vision when it comes to female leadership. If Obama becomes the Democrat candidate I will once again vote of a Republican. I said that I would never do that again after I voted for Nixon and his first term. Shame on you Howard Dean and your lack luster leadership.
ObamaLies 6:33PM May 9th 2008
Time to CHANGE to Rep….Go MCAIN!…..
JFE 6:35PM May 9th 2008
IF OBAMA GETS NOMINATION I WILL CROSS AND VOTE MCCAIN[.] OBAMA A UNITER??? ,WE HAVE BECOME SO DIVIDED[.] BE CAREFUL WITH YOUR VOTE AMERICA[.] HILLARY 08
Richard 1234 6:35PM May 9th 2008
Ted Kennedy should still be in jail and I AM A DEMOCRATE! Its sad to see and harder to defend. Ted is proof that with money you can either.
#1. Get away with murder
#2. Do not wrong
I am from Illinois and I am sorry to have to say that Senator Obama will get John McCain Elected in November.
Ray 6:37PM May 9th 2008
I have always voted Democrat. But I will not vote Obama. I will have to go with Mccain.
csunbean 6:38PM May 9th 2008
LIFELONG DEMOCRAT WON’T VOTE FOR OBAMA
ARE LISTENING KENNEDY.. we won’t vote for your puppet. You can try to bury the workingclasses with your BIG money but we won’t vote for Obama the racist who only dumped his pastor AFTER he made jokes about your speech. I liked Obama better when he had a scratch of integrity. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrjNKi3vOys
Whose the [***CH] NOW?
patty 6:39PM May 9th 2008
are you kidding me… he killed mary jo… a coward then… a petulant coward now,,, i am for hillary and if the press and msnbc do not stop trying to form a mysogeny club i will vote for mc cain do not p—
off the female dems.
J mac 6:41PM May 9th 2008
I will not vote for OBAMA if he wins I do not trust him at all. I have been a lif long democrat I will vote for John McCain If Obama gets the Nomination
mary k 6:41PM May 9th 2008
I am a life time Democrat. I will not vote for obama. He reminds me of a hot dog with ears.. Can you see it? Well said Mary O
WILMA 6:44PM May 9th 2008
HILLARY DO NOT JOIN WITH HIM. DNC MADE A BIG MISTAKE FORCING HIM ON US. WE WILL VOTE REP.
Look, I am NOT a Hillary Clinton supporter. I know a lot about Hillary, and I don’t support most of her policies. Having said that, I would (this is hard for a conservative Republican like myself to admit) vote for Hillary Clinton over Barack Obama in a HEARTBEAT.
Then we have his nasty, elite comments about small-town America clinging to guns and God while showing antipathy towards those that are not like them, his aversion for saluting or wearing an American flag and his dissing of those that do, his equating his grandmother with the abhorrent comments his mentor (he now denies this moniker) Jeremiah Wright has said over the years, his churches’ love affair with racist, antisemitic Louis Farrakhan and Hamas propaganda, his older brother, militant Muslim Abongo “Roy” Obama, his bloody ties to his cousin, Raila Odinga, Prime Minister of Kenya, who “has promised to implement strict Islamic Sharia law if he receives the Muslim vote in the predominantly Christian country and is elected president,” his 67 ‘misstatements’ thus far and counting, his links with Rashid Khalidi, a Columbia University professor who has branded Israel an “apartheid system in creation,” and now revelations that Robert Malley, one of Barack Obama’s Middle East policy advisers, told The Times that he had been in regular contact with Hamas.
The following is from a web site called, ‘Obama who?‘
[Letter to Senator Obama
by an Obama Who? contributor;
Person, (and I use this term lightly):
You have been out on National Television and sporting how you are going to announce yourself the presumptive winner on May 20 Really? And just who do you think is going to believe this?
It is also reported that you are trying to win over Hillary’s supporters. Well let’s think about this for a moment shall we. Over the course of this campaign you have trashed Hillary unmercifully. You have had your thugs on the ground ripping up her signs, sending her people out of the voting places, lying and treating them like they are a disease. You have trashed her husband, a former President of the United States, rigged voting places and stuffed ballot boxes in caucuses all over the nation. You have used every dirty trick in the book to get your way. You are now saying on the 20 of May you will declare yourself the winner and this leaves the voters of Florida and Michigan where? Since the committee meets on May 31 to determine what is happening with them it leaves them totally out of the equation? You have gone out of your way to disenfranchise them and have cheated and used dirty politics at every turn in this election and now you want to get us to vote for you?
Take this to the bank Mr. Elitist that there is no way that even IF you somehow steal the nomination that a true Hillary supporter will even look in your direction. We are not idiots (as portrayed on the news media) we are people who work hard and yes, many of us are degreed people…(have you fainted yet at this revelation) and the simple fact is we do not like you, your tactics, politics, nor your bitter, racist, un-American and angry wife.
You said you know there are hard feelings? Really? You, Dean, Brazile and Pelosi are the ones who created them. Do you honestly think that one single woman or man who supports Hillary Clinton will support you after the way you have beat up on her and her loyal supporters? Think again sir.
Here is my personal take on you MR. Obama. You say on the 20 you shall declare YOURSELF the winner. Is this after you walk on water and raise the dead? Is this when they give you a crown and a pretty robe to wear with access to the vault of crown jewels and lead you to your throne? Then all your loyal subjects get down on their knees and worship you? I sir will not be one of them.
To me my vote is precious, a freedom given to us by our American founding fathers and fought for by the blood of many of them. I do not take it lightly nor do I support a candidate just to be on the presumed winning team which you sir are not a member of.
Based off of your lies, of Rezko, Ayers, Dohrn, Bittergate, Naftagate, Wright, Farrakhan, Million Man March, your terrorist brother in Kenya, your actions, your Chicago style politics and your anti-American actions of refusing to salute the flag or wear the pin as well as your racist attitude of whites, the anti American racist attitude of your wife I would never cast a vote for you. I am not one of the blind sheep, will never follow you and would never so much as cast a glance in your direction. Like the man in the restaurant in Indiana, I will wave you off as he later told reporters “I can’t stand him” and guess what I feel the same. I am an American first, a woman second, and a Democrat third. I would vote for a true American even if it is out of my party before I would ever cast a vote for an un-American individual such as yourself. Your actions have spoken a whole lot louder than your words.
So, declare yourself the winner Elitist on the 20 and watch how fast people make fun of you for this and you become the laughing stock of the country. We shall delight here in Florida and in Michigan to watch you go down in flames if you ever do get to be the nominee because guess what? Hillary does have a very good chance of beating the tar out of you and I am hoping that she pulls it off. Go ahead and have your thugs riot in Denver because there are a lot of jail cells for them waiting. We are not scared of these threats and we will in fact fight back and hard with our votes. Get over it Obama, you will never be the president and you have set back relations between blacks and whites in this country over 100 years and have created a division in the party that will not be healed. Be proud of yourself elitist as it has been all about you.
With deepest sympathy for your failure…..NOT: A Florida voter]
This is what I wrote as a comment after reading this post:
[But seriously, tell us how you really feel.
Kidding aside, I have a plan for all you moderate American-loving Hillary Clinton supporters.
If you want to rid your party of Obama and the radical leftist elites, and save America AND the world from a horrible and catastrophic Obama-and-thug presidency, please join me along with millions of other Republicans, Democrats and Independents and vote for John McCain this election cycle.
Look, I am a conservative Republican who only agrees with McCain about 65% of the time. I used to think Hillary Clinton was a very scary candidate, until I learned about Barack H. Obama. Hillary seems reasonable compared to Obama, and I would (this is hard for me to admit) vote for her in a HEARTBEAT over Obama because Mr. Obama truly scares the piss out of me.
Mr. McCain reaches out to Democrats for the good of America, while Obama reaches out to the crazy man in Iran. Mr. McCain and Mrs. Clinton are friends, while Obama likes racist Reverend Wright, [terrorist] Ayers and his terrorist wife etc.
Here is my strategy: Vote for Mr. McCain in this election cycle to purge your party of him and his radical friends so that Mrs. Clinton can run again in 2012. You can at that time vote for her. Mr. McCain will be 76 years old.
Please seriously consider this strategy for your party, America and the world. You moderate Democrats hold the key to my children’s future. We NEED your help now.
Going through RealClearPolitics ReaderArticles I stumbled upon a young 18 year old lady that was quite upset about an e-mail she said she received from Democratic uncommitted super delegate Donna Brazile.
This young Democrat, who according to her web site, Little Isis, must have just turned 18 years old recently, said she “was on Taylor Marsh and someone said that she (Brazile) responded to one of their emails on her blackberry before she went into the Situation Room with Wolfe Blitzer,” so she “decided to write to Donna Brazile” herself, ”to appeal to her better nature.” Apparently, ”a lot of people have been writing to the DNC and to Super Delegates about seating Florida and Michigan and about declaring,” and some people ”had some pretty colorful threads with Donna Brazile.”
So this young Democrat wrote the following message to Donna Brazile:
[From:natalie bryan [mailto:daughterofgaia323@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 2:17 AM To:donna@brazileassociates.com Subject: This Race
Hi Donna!!!!
I am emailing you on behalf of many people. I am, as you may know, a Hillary Clinton Supporter. You have probably gotten a lot of emails from her supporters, and I understand from the blogs I often frequent that you have responded to many of them.
I want you to know that I read bits and pieces of your autobiography, Cooking With Grease, and thought it was wonderful and well written. I came to understand from your book and from a lot of what I have witnessed in this election cycle that to simply put groups of people in Demographics and Exit polls is a misunderstanding of both America and the Democratic Party.
What I have learned is that people often vote based on their experiences. You, as an Undeclared Obama supporter, probably identify strongly with his candidacy because of the struggles you went through during a time when race relations in this country were in turmoil. I voted for Hillary Clinton, not only because I relate to her strongly as both a person and a woman who is very spiritual and devoted to her family and to helping others, but also because she is the greatest candidate to lead this country out of the mess we’re in, and because her policy proposals have been phenominal and close to my heart, because it proves to me that she is not simply talking and promising change, she is telling me how she is going to make it happen. It proves to me that she actually cares.
As a young person, I have a big future ahead of me, and I also have dreams and ambitions, and strong opinions and many other things. CNN tells me every day that I should be supporting Barack Obama, because his freshness and newness should appeal to my fickle nature. But I support Hillary, and like many of her supporters, I feel sad and dissappointed and hurt and many other things by what I see, based on rationality and facts, as the poor and undeserved treatment she and her husband have received by the DNC party elite and the Chicago Style Campaign tactics of Senator Obama’s Campaign that I have witnessed with my own eyes and heard a number of stories about.
I understand that many of the emails you have received by Clinton Supporters urging you to do the right and ethical thing by seating Michigan and Florida delegates have been angry and often probably obnoxious. But you cannot possibly understand how frustrated they are. And while you may say that they are “the reason” Hillary is losing, whatever her supporters have done or said pale in comparison to the abuse and mistreatment we have suffered from some supporters of Senator Obama.
You may use Roe V Wade as a trump card for accusing them of being petty in their vows to not support Senator Obama, should he be the nominee, but I assure you that using something like that as a threat will not work, because there are few (actually, no) politicians I have seen that are as devoted to a woman’s right to choose than Hillary Clinton, and you know that as well as I.
Ms. Brazille, I urge you not to disclude and disenfranchise millions of voters from every walk of life from this nominating process simply for the sake of one candidate, because doing so would be an awful mistake. I have respect for you as a person, Ms. Brazille, but I would implore you to make the right decision and seat Florida and Michigan . I would also implore you to stop encouraging super delegates to force Senator Clinton out of the race, because the more they do this, the stronger she gets.
Ms. Brazille, I cannot pretend to understand what you have gone through in your life, nor what you are going through now. It would be ignorant of me to try. But many people feel angry when they are stereotyped or put in a box because if what candidate they support. I support Hillary Clinton, and I love all of my friends. Including the great African American friends I have that I adore. and all of the African American women at my mother’s church who embrace me and always tell me how “pretty” I look every time I see them. I also love my Latino friends, my Italian friends, my Jewish friends, my Catholic friends.
As I said, I cannot pretend to understand your experiences, but nor can you understand mine. Just because a person’s skin may be paler that yours, does not mean their lives are without suffering.
I, for one, cry at night wondering what my republican mother will do if anything happens to her, because she doesn’t have Health Insurance. And because of this, my mother may just support Hillary Clinton over John McCain come this fall. She is a Republican who supports Hillary Clinton not because Rush Limbaugh told her to, but because she believes that Hillary Clinton is a Candidate that may actually care about her.
So Ms. Brazille, I would yet again urge you to do everything you can to seat Michigan and Floridaproperly, and also, I would ask that you stop saying you are “undeclared” on CNN’s panels when clearly you know which candidate you support.
Thank you very much for reading this email. Like you, I am very emotionally invested in this Campaign, (as is Stephanie Tubbs Jones, a Congresswoman from the district next to mine who also supports Hillary :D) and wish you all the luck in the world.
respectfully,
A young female voter from Ohio]
This was Brazile’s response to this young Hillary Clinton supporter:
As of today, I am not going to respond to any more anti American, Anti Democratic emails. Have a nice day.
I am sorry because you are sincere, but the Hillary forces are uncivil, repugnant and vile. When you come up for air and would like to email a person who cares about America and not just a personality, I will respond.
[I kid you not. That was her reply. This is DNC leadership. A Superdelegate and a person responsible for seating Florida and Michigan. Is this normal behavior for party leadership? I must say that I'm somewhat confused. And if anyone can tell me how my letter to her was "Anti-American" and "Anti-Democratic" and how I supposedly "don't care about America" because I urged her to count the votes in two swing states, please let me know. I'm dying to figure out how counting votes is "Anti-American" and "Anti-Democratic". I would urge everyone not to try and email her anymore. She is beyond rationality at this point. And I would also urge everyone who did have exchanges with her to contact the DNC about this and also to send what she wrote back to every media outlet you possibly can. She clearly is incredibly unprofessional, and it alarms me that she is in the position she is in right now.]
If all that I have posted is true ( I don’t have a good reason not to believe that it isn’t), then the Obama forces truly are a scary bunch, in my opinion.
If that e-mail from Donna Brazile is true (I don't have a reason why I shouldn't believe you are telling the truth about it), she really is quite reckless.
I am a McCain supporter, but that doesn't mean I don't empathize with your feelings concerning her utter disrespect for you and the millions of other Hillary Clinton supporters she seems to have trashed with her response.
Bill Clinton said that if Hillary and John McCain were their partys' presidential candidates, it would be a respectful (though vigorous) match-up. As you may know, Hillary and Mr. McCain are friends, and McCain is, I believe, trying to run an honest, dignified campaign. Barack Obama, on the other hand, has been playing what I consider to be dirty tricks against both Mrs. Clinton and Mr. McCain. I have also witnessed liberal media trying to trip up Hillary for a long time now, and it's about time you moderate folks fought back against them. They do NOT seem to think you moderate Democrats should get in THEIR way of coordinating THEIR new leader for the THEIR Democratic party. They seem to want you to get OUT of the way RIGHT NOW, but will then assuredly ask for your vote in November so that THEIR policies and agenda's can prevail.
Look, I am a Conservative person who has major problems with Senator McCain on several issues I care deeply about. Yet I will support him against Barack Obama in a heartbeat. What I want you to consider doing is to support Mr. McCain this year, then in 2012, when McCain will be 76 years old, you can support Hillary Clinton again. If Obama wins, Mrs. Clinton might not get a chance to campaign for the presidency again.
By the way, I plan on putting your letter, along with Donna Brazile's nasty response, in a blog post at my blog. I hope you don't mind. If you do, please let me know.
BTW, here is a blog entry that contains a link showing Obama's many (67 and counting) misrepresentations of facts. Mrs. Clinton seems pretty honest about what she wants to do as president, while Mr. Obama seems to major in FRAUDULENT political discourse.
I urge all moderate Democrats to seriously consider the above strategy so that your candidate can run again in 2012. Don’t let the Democratic party become Obamatized so that there isn’t any room left for moderates. Look what how they trash Hillary Clinton supporters at the Daily Kos and Huffington Post. Don’t you see how they loathe you, but NOT your support and vote? Show them who really is the back-bone of your party or your party might not be recognizable once the Obamites seize control of it.
GOP nominee-to-be Arizona Senator John McCain went on the offensive against Hillary Clinton, but saved his most pointed remarks for front-runner, Illinois Senator Barack Obama.
Speaking before a crowd of about 2,000 at Wake Forest University on Tuesday in Winston-Salem, N.C., McCain said his “nominees will understand that there are clear limits to the scope of judicial power, and clear limits to the scope of federal power,” but that “Senator Obama in particular likes to talk up his background as a lecturer on law, and also as someone who can work across the aisle to get things done…But … he went right along with the partisan crowd, and was among the 22 senators to vote against this highly qualified nominee.”
McCain went on to say: “Apparently nobody quite fits the bill except for an elite group of activist judges, lawyers and law professors who think they know wisdom when they see it — and they see it only in each other.”
According to prepared remarks, McCain was to say that “for decades now, some federal judges have taken it upon themselves to pronounce and rule on matters that were never intended to be heard in courts or decided by judges.”
“Assured of lifetime tenures, these judges show little regard for the authority of the president, the Congress, and the states.” The remarks state that judges “display even less interest in the will of the people” and that the only way to remedy the situation is to “find, nominate, and confirm better judges.”
He was to say that “the next president” will “nominate hundreds of qualified men and women to the federal courts, and the choices we make will reach far into the future.”
He charged that his “two prospective opponents and I have very different ideas about the nature and proper exercise fo judicial power,” noting that between the three of them, “we would nominate judges of a different kind, a different caliber, a different understanding of judicial authority and its limits.”
His remarks state that “one justice of the Court remarked in a recent opinion that he was basing a conclusion on ‘my own experience,’ even though that conclusion found no support in the Constitution, or in applicable statutes, or in the record of the case in front of him.”
He was to also point out that “Politicians sometimes contribute to the problem as well, abdicating responsibility and letting the courts make the tough decisions for them.”
McCain cited a case in California where a man filed “a suit against the entire United States Congress.” McCain went on to state that the man “insisted that the words ‘Under God’ in the Pledge of Allegiance violated his rights under the establishment clause of the First Amendment,” saying that the “Ninth Circuit court agreed, as it usually does when litigious people seek to rid our country of any trace of religious devotion.” He then was to bemoan that the court “declared that any further references to the Almighty in our Pledge were –and I quote–”impermissible.”
He was to further complain that “31 nominations” were pending in the Senate, and ”because there are so many cases with no federal judges to hear them, a ‘judicial emergency’ has been declared” by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. He was to say that “their (the Senate) idea of judicial emergency is the possible confirmation of any judge who doesn’t meet their own narrow tests of party and ideology.”
He further was to complain that Clinton and Obama are “both lawyers themselves, and don’t seem to mind at all when fundamental questions of social policy are preemptively decided by judges instead of by the people and their elected representatives.” He was also to charge that Clinton and Obama haven’t “raised objections to the unfair treatment of judicial nominees” by the Senate.
“For both Senator Obama and Senator Clinton, it turned out that not even John Roberts was quite good enough for them,” McCain complained. “Senator Obama in particular likes to talk up his background as a lecturer on law, and also as someone who can work across the aisle to get things done. But when Judge Roberts was nominated, it seemed to bring out more the lecturer in Senator Obama than it did the guy who can get things done. He went right along with the partisan crowd, and was among the 22 senators to vote against this highly qualified nominee,” McCain stated.
Senator Obama has stated that he puts “Roe at the center” of his “lesson plan” when “teaching Constitutional law.”
“And just where did John Roberts fall short, by the Senator’s measure,” McCain asked. “Well, a justice of the court, as Senator Obama explained it–and I quote– should share “one’s deepest values, one’s core concerns, one’s broader perspectives on how the world works, and the depth and breadth of one’s empathy.’”
“These vague words attempt to justify judicial activism,” McCain stated, maintaining that “somehow Senator Obama’s standards proved too lofty a standard for a nominee who was brilliant, fair-minded, and learned in the law, a nominee of clear rectitude who had proved more than the equal of any lawyer on the Judiciary Committee, and who today is respected by all as the Chief Justice of the United States.”
McCain stated that he had his own “standards of judicial ability, experience, philosophy, and temperament. And Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito meet those standards in every respect.” He stated that “they would serve as the model for my own nominees” if elected.
McCain Noted that he had voted for Bill Clinton’s two Supreme Court appointees, Stephen G. Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, “because I believed that they were qualified.” He added: “Elections have consequences. One of the consequences is the president of the United States gets to name his or her nominees to the bench.”
