Obama is corrupt. No one seems able to come up with a long-time associate of his who isn’t corrupt, and it’s very disturbing. Most of the media are in the tank for Obama, or they might highlight his past associations more and his watering down his nuclear groundwater contamination bill to the point of meaninglessness in Illinois, and it never passed, although he said that it did in Iowa.

Now Exelon Nuclear of Illinois is one of his biggest contributors. He voted for FISA and for a huge taxpayer-giveaway for Big Oil in Congress, unlike Hillary Clinton and John McCain. He’s corrupt. He bullied and intimidated Clinton delegates before and during the Democratic Convention.

Doesn’t anyone care?

Posted by: Mark Impomeni

Wednesday, August 27, 2008 at 08:00AM

The second night of the Democratic National Convention prior to Sen. Hillary Clinton’s speech was nearly as unmemorable as day one. And an interesting pattern has emerged in all of the main speakers’ remarks. Barack Obama is an accessory, an add-on, a superfluous reference tucked in on the end of a litany of the speaker’s accomplishments and beliefs. There is almost no discussion of the nominee as a man separate and distinct from the speaker. Rather, he is a concept, an ethereal being, an abstraction. It is almost as if the speakers are deliberately trying to distance themselves from Obama, at his own convention.

Hillary Clinton was the star of the evening in a big way. So much so that she appears to have taken the convention by force, and will hold it for at least one more day.

Sen. Robert Casey of Pennsylvania got things started with a thoroughgoing and dull speech in which he mostly talked about his father. Casey gets credit for mentioning his disagreement with Obama on abortion; and he at least tried to rile up the crowd with some decent attacks on the Bush Administration and John McCain. But the crowd wasn’t entirely into it. They were anticipating greater things to come. Two hours in, David Gergen was once again on CNN, lamenting the lack of anything memorable happening in Denver.

Former Virginia Governor and likely its next Senator Mark Warner was the keynoter and he was dreadfully awful. It is actually hard to put into words just how bad, boring, and trivial his speech was. Warner must think he is a Senator already as his speech was full of incredible nothingness. He prattled on about how this was an election about th future, which he said is more important than a presidential election. He talked about his tenure as governor, praised his management of the state, bragged on his success in business, and just for good measure tossed in an Obama every couple of paragraphs or so. There was no energy in the arena during his address. Many view Warner as the 2012 front runner in the event of an Obama loss in November. Viewed in that light, this speech was his 2012 concession.

With Warner finished, anticipation in the hall began to grow for Sen. Clinton, the real headliner of the night. Before she took the stage, however, there was a speech from Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius, who demonstrated completely why she is not Barack Obama’s running mate. There was also a surprise keynote from Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer. His was an energy packed speech about energy policy. He was animated, connected with the crowd, and genuinely fun to watch. It was not the keynote listed in the schedule, but it was far and above a better one that Warner managed to deliver.

Then it was Hillary’s turn. Clinton delivered a real stemwinder of an address, recounting her primary campaign, and pointedly not conceding. She delivered the requisite declarations of support for Sen. Obama. But in a twenty minute plus speech, Clinton only managed to mention him by name 10 times. Like the rest of the speakers, the mentions of Obama came not in the context of anything he would actually do as president, but in a “him too” kind of way. The typical formulation can be seen in this passage from the prepared text.

I ran for President to renew the promise of America. To rebuild the middle class and sustain the American Dream, to provide the opportunity to work hard and have that work rewarded, to save for college, a home and retirement, to afford the gas and groceries and still have a little left over each month…
Most of all, I ran to stand up for all those who have been invisible to their government for eight long years.

Those are the reasons I ran for President. Those are the reasons I support Barack Obama. And those are the reasons you should too.

Except that when she delivered it, she left out the last line. Sen. Clinton’s speech was about her campaign, not the coming one. When it was over, Bill Kristol called it a “shockingly minimal endorsement of Barack Obama.”

Barack Obama has no presence at this convention. He is not physically there, and he is not oft discussed. His name is used like a drug to placate the seething masses of delegates, administered in small enough doses to keep them wanting for more. But it never comes. Clinton stepped into this atmosphere, and took over. The convention is now about her. She is who everyone is talking about; and she will continue to be the topic after tomorrow night, with the roll call of the states and former President Bill Clinton’s speech. Tonight, Clinton laid down a marker on 2012 and a gauntlet for Thursday night, when Obama will have to equal her performance. He had better be good or he will leave Denver with the nomination, but without the mantle of leader of the Democratic Party.

http://www.redstate.com/diaries/redstate/2008/aug/27/dnc-wrap-day-two-its-hillarys-convention-now/

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This whole primary season has been so disheartneing. I have been a registered Democrat since first registering to vote twenty nine years ago. I can’t begin to list the countless times I have defended the democratic platform in arguments with family and friends. I truly believed we were the party to defend and represent those who did not have a strong enough voice to represent themselves. For nearly thirty years being a Democrat was something that made me proud. I wore it like a badge of honor. Sadly, I can no longer say that. Today, I removed the “Proud American, Proudly Voting Democrat” decal from my car window. It literally left a lump in my throat as I removed it. I feel lost. I feel hurt, and I feel betrayed.

There are so many things that have happened along the way during this campaign that made me want to scream out in frustration. Why is it so difficult to actually get the most qualified candidate the presidency? Hell, we can’t even get the most qualified candidate the nomination!

The media has “had it in” for Hillary Clinton for years and they just salivated at their opportunities to bad mouth Senator Clinton with some of the most disrespectful comments ever uttered on national television or written publications. MSNBC’s Keith Olberman and Chris Matthews were relentless in their attacks, and The New York Times who had endorsed Senator Clinton in time for the New York primary, later jumped on the Obama bandwagon and became major Hillary bashers.

The system of delegate allocation also got me hot and bothered. The unfairness of it all makes the electoral college in the general election look fair. How could Senator Clinton win New Jersey by over 100,000 votes and only come up with an 11 delegate advantage over her opponent yet he could win the Kansas caucus where only 21,000 party members voted and he comes away with a 12 delegate advantage. Where is the democrats credo of fairness in that?

The Reverend Wright debacle, a hot bed issue in this campaign provided Senator Obama with an unseen advantage. It gave him a national platform to deliver, in my opinion, a less than convincing speech which was lauded as the best speech since Martin Luther King, Jr.’s I Have A Dream. The pundits were beside themselves over the eloquence of such a gifted speaker.

The constant cry of “the will of the people” also made me see red. If the superdelegates overrule the will of the people, the pundits said, Obama supporters would be livid. The last I checked, a popular vote tally represents the will of the people. A pledged delegate tally represents the will of the party. I know they like to think of Clinton supporters as undereducated (or as they have said, uneducated) but believe it or not we are not stupid!

The blatant hypocrisy of Democratic Party bigwigs like Nancy Pelosi, Howard Dean and Donna Brazile who all claimed throughout the contest to be uncommited yet made it all too obvious where their loyalties were.

Senators like Ted Kennedy, John Kerry and former senators like John Edwards had to know that Senator Clinton had the best, most detailed plans to achieve a goal to better the citizens of this nation, yet they fell in line with that tired old mantra of “Change”

Obama supporters who were disrespectful, hurtful and downright nasty to Clinton supports will learn come November what it feels like to be called such vicious names, and they will learn what it is like to have their candidate villified with such vile comments.

And what to say about Florida and Michigan. The party was too cowardly to settle this matter promptly and delayed it until the end of the primary where it would be too late to do anything about their decision. Knowing that Florida was not the fault of any democrat, orignally stripping their state of it’s delegates was an assinine move. Their resolution of Michigan was a slap in the face to Hillary Clinton and was their way of telling her, “Don’t you get it yet, we don’t want you” To give Senator Obama all of the uncommited delegates was insult enough but to award him four of hers was a disgrace.

All of these things made for a very disappointing primary season, one that I was totally looking forward to but there is one thing that has happened in this campaign that has soured me on the Democratic Party forever. They can deny it all they want, but the Obama campaign was responsible for bringing race into this primary and for smearing and sullying the reputations of two of our party’s most respected and cherished members. President Bill Clinton, the only two term Democratic President in my lifetime, and Geraldine Ferraro, the nation’s first female nominee on a major presidential ticket were both labeled racists for comments that were by no means racial in the least and our party’s leadership sat back licking their chops and permitted it. In his “historic” achievement at being handed this nomination, Barack Obama has already reached his ultimate goal of bringing change. He and his campaign are responsible for tearing our party apart. I am sick about it.

Might all this organized sh*t have infiltrated and affected the DNC, and could something like all this have something to do with the DNC hand-picking someone like Obama?? Oh, they are so clever. But in spite of this mountain to overcome, Hillary got 18 MILLION PEOPLE TO VOTE FOR HER — during which time, there was a veritable news blackout plus she ran out of money!

This was in part thanks to Obama, and the constant riveting of our attention. It is all the more stunning that because of her inner light, and the fact Hillary was an outstanding candidate, WE WOKE UP AND SAW THROUGH THE BULLSHIT. In fact, because she was so outstanding, it made the BULLSHIT all the more glaring and obvious.

She WON!!! Never forget this. Hillary Clinton won the nomination, but it was stolen from her because it was rigged before it began. So if you’re upset, you’re supposed to be. It’s not because you got hit by a truck when you were three. If you weren’t upset, I would worry about you.

The problem is not that we are flat broke because of the economy or because we gave the campaign our last dime, but more because we are weary. It was exhausting to keep up that kind of drive and energy, riding the roller coaster for months on end, only to find that our worst fears were correct and our powerlessness in working this system was confirmed.

As we who have climbed the mountain before can attest, rest is essential, but it doesn’t take very long to get back into shape and feel renewed again. This website is excellent because we can keep in touch, share our feelings and ideas. It could well be that there REALLY IS RECOURSE. For example, while Florida and Michigan sue in the courts, we can find out how to impeach the creeps at the DNC at every level and get the rules changed. Remember, this has been going on for a long time, it’s just that we were unaware until now.

Another thing we can do is raise money and HIRE OUR OWN ORGANIZER because we are so tired and we need help from professionals who specialize in exactly this sort of problem.

So, I say let’s rest for a few days, and then start researching and emailing and calling organizers. Share what we find out, and make some decisions.

i am glad you are recovering from your surgeries. I was very sick last summer. I was in horrific pain and on heavy pain killers that sapped me of my strength and my brain. It was a long ordeal and it took many months to recover and get even my muscle tone back. For months even taking a shower exhausted me so much that I would sit on the edge of the tub for five minutes gasping for breath before I could even put my underwear on. I thought U was going to die. I could not figure out what the hell happened to me and I still do not really know. But it has passed though it has left me with lasting nerve damage and burning pain in my feet. Still it is endurable.
This summer is turning out very differently. I think I can endure anything and I have good friends and family who care about me and that is all that really matters.

I cried during the middle of the speech especially when she said “whenever your knocked down, you get right back up”. I bursted into tears because this year I went through 2 surgeries which were real hard, and during that time I didn’t know what was going to happen. I had no idea what was going to happen from one moment to the next and having to go through two, just made it harder. Now, 3 months later, I am stronger than I have ever been before working out with a personal trainer when only weeks back I was sitting in a bed recovering from surgery. When Hillary said that, it just hit home with me because she would got knocked down and got right back up like I did.

When she won Texas and Ohio, it made me feel less nervous about my upcoming surgery because she gave me hope and something to distract myself from what I was about to go through. Watching her on stage today, it just felt so wrong. SHE SHOULD BE THE NOMINEE, it should be fuckin hers!!!!!!! I feel like the DNC and the media were the cause of Obama’s rise and its just sad that people were blindsided.

Now were stuck with the lesser of two evils just like in 2000. Who are we supposed to trust?? Obama??? How can we trust him when we don’t even know what he stands for!!! And his association with Bill Ayers scares me! But then we have John McCain, who’s going to keep us at war and probably make our economy worse! I feel cheated and the American people deserve better! What the hell happened!

Maybe someday we’ll understand why this all went down the way it did. But I’m not happy about it…Not at all.

Hillary is a true American patriot and i’m sorry all of those people who voted for Obama were so stupid to support him. I’m willing to bet alot of them are having doubts about him.

I don’t know who I will support. I’m going to take time to think about it

anyways, take care and God Bless Hillary Clinton and God Bless the United States.

Mike
California

Dear Super Delegate;
Senators Clinton and Obama, as brilliant as they are, are “players” such as quarterbacks and running backs, but you, Super Delegates, are the head coaches, defense/offense coaches who must develop winning strategies for the team, Democrats. We hope that you set aside your own “personal feelings” and “think” for the good of the Democratic Party. We have two great candidates who are already the role models and champions for the millions of Americans. It’s up to you to make the history for the Democratic Party.

The media described for us two broad groups of voters:

Voter Group 1 :Economically struggling and the working middle class/ Over 40/50/60/ Majority Hispanics/ Religious democrats/ Women

Voter Group 2 :Economically well-to-do democrats/ Under 30 (many first time voters)/Blacks (clearly a racial identification)/ Non-religious/non-believers/
Extreme liberals

We know that the Voter Group 1 has been the traditional “loyal supporters” for the Democratic Party; and the Under 30 voters of the Group 2, are the “new comers.” Please know that we can embrace both Groups and maximize this wonderful opportunity to our advantage by considering the “join-ticket” with Hillary Clinton, President; Barack Obama, Vice President. Why?
Because the issues of the Voter Group 1, in general, are much more urgent: the Dem Party needs to address “actively and immediately” the economic and health care concerns of the blue color working families, single parents (mostly women), and the older people. The “changing political process and system” which inspired the Voter Group 2, though equally important, simply takes longer time. We need to give “solutions” to the “basic human needs,” such as food, security, shelter before we can move on to the higher needs, such as “changing political process.”
Therefore, let’s go for the “join-ticket” with Senator Obama as Vice President. This will give him 8 years of crucial “presidential partner” experience. I am more than confident that during the next 8 years Barack Obama as VP will find ways to increase voter registration. He will educate, engage, and encourage the new voters to stay participated in the “political process.” After 8years as VP, in the year 2016, Barack Obama fully experienced with the increased voter participation on his side can surely be NOMINATED and ELECTED as the next President of the United States of America. (If you ever think the two Senators cannot work together as a team, well, then, perhaps neither should deserve to lead this great country.) So, I am asking you, the leaders of the Democratic Party, to have a vision and strategize for 16 years! When you are given the extraordinary opportunity please do not settle for the “ordinary 8 years”. It’s up to you to make the history. Please campaign for the “join ticket” with Hillary, President, Barack, Vice President. Plan for 16 years of BLUE!! Go for the “win-win” strategy!!
Thank you for your visionary leadership and courage to act!

If she is serious about finishing and winning her bid for the Presidency of the United States as the first female in that office, then she should run as an Independent candidate in the general election in November. What has the Democratic Party done for her in this race anyway?

The interests of any single PARTY have never translated to the full interests of our COUNTRY and Ms. Clinton could well help remedy those historical imbalances that have existed for much of the time since our first president. George Washington was our first and only Independent Party president and I think Hillary Clinton should be our second Independent Party and first female president.

Otherwise, the country will be left to just a new bunch of ‘good old boys’?

Take Care, Sharon - Green Valley AZ

Thanks for your commentary and the video. I have been a Democrat since 1976. But I’m leaving the party because the party has left women and me behind.

I will follow Hillary but I will no longer follow the party. All candidates will now have to earn my vote based on proving to me that they are not sexist and have the best interests of women at heart. That automatically eliminates Obama because of his behavior. He’s run one of the dirtiest, divisive campaigns in my lifetime.

Thanks again for your remarks, Sharon. Looking forward to your future comments.

Speaking of “well funded,” does anyone else find it ironic that Hillary Clinton, the so called “establishment” candidate, has been perpetually cashed strapped from the beginning of her campaign, while we are supposed to believe Obama raised $234 million from “$20 donations by his legion of followers”- yes, and the Tooth Fairy left those dimes under my pillow! So Obama has outspent Clinton 4 to 1- and after all this time and money he only leads her by 2% in public opinion voting polls, and is in a dead heat with McCain, who hasn’t even started campaigning against him yet. But the superdelegates, whose only reason for existence is to help the party choose the candidate with the best chance to win in November, are using the party unity excuse to defect to him in ever greater numbers. Wouldn’t it make far more sense to wait until the convention to look at the current August polls, especially those all-important electoral college poll results in the swing states, and make their decision then? If they are unwilling to take the heat and make hard decisions, they have no reason for existence and their positions should be abolished. Their arrogance in trying to force their personal preferences on the voters could very well cost us this election.

I support Hillary because she has the most experience, the best thought out policy plans, and is by far the most prepared to assume the office and be the president we desperately need at this time. She is not perfect; personally I hate that she voted to authorize the war in Iraq (as did every other senator with presidential aspirations, including “liberals” like Kerry and Biden) – I understand it, but I hate it. One of the things I like best about my fellow Clinton supporters is that we are not a bunch of True Believers who insist our candidate is perfect- we are intelligent, well-informed voters, and we’re being dismissed as a bunch of ignorant, redneck racists! Recently even some of the most ardent Obama “kingmakers” in the party are admitting Obama is woefully unprepared for the presidency, but assuring voters that that’s OK because “he’ll be surrounded by good advisors”. HELLO! That’s what you do when a boy prince becomes king - it’s totally unnecessary when you have a prepared and ready candidate already available. These same people are saying Obama cannot select Hillary as his running mate because she’d be “too strong”. If Obama is that threatened by a strong VP, is he really the best choice for President?

If Obama loses the election in what should be a Democratic landslide year, the media and DNC will blame racism and Hillary’s “stubbornness”. Unfortunately, race will be a factor (especially when the Republicans start “swift boating” him). By the way, under the premise of “know your enemy” I receive several conservative newsletters and there is absolutely no question that from the beginning the Republicans have wanted to face Obama rather than Clinton. Race will be a subtext in the Republican campaign, but the overt attacks will be on Obama’s liberalism, including his support for the UN’s Resolution to end Global Poverty, which among other things calls for a “fair redistribution of the world’s wealth and resources”. You can imagine how well that’s going to play with the average American voter! The fact is that the US has not elected a liberal since Kennedy, and he only won because Mayor Daley voted the Chicago cemeteries to give Illinois’s electoral votes to the Democrats. Unless McCain totally self-destructs, the party could again lose the millions of voters (especially in the swing states) who have repeatedly demonstrated that they are comfortable voting for a moderate Democrat like Clinton, but not for an outright liberal like Obama. The Democratic delegates and superdelegates are all aware of this fact - even if they don’t know history, Hillary has told them often enough. Their willful blindness in ignoring it both infuriates me and brings me close to tears.

All of those t-shirts, etc., are disgusting. No questions.

Barack Obama, by refusing to denounce this nonsense, is enabling it. Period.

That’s yet another reason I will never, ever vote for Barack Obama — and if the DNC finally succeeds in their suicidal wish to fracture the party beyond repair by forcing Hillary Clinton to the sidelines when they could’ve had an outstanding President who would’ve united the country — shame on them.

There’s such a thing as picking the _best_ Presidential candidate — and at such a perilous time, the only candidate who makes any sense of the three remaining is Senator Clinton. She has the most generals, admirals, and military men in her corner for a good reason; she also has an outstanding universal health care plan, and a record of competence and bipartisanship, besides.

I do not understand this lemming-like movement toward Obama in the name of “party unity.” Obama is a weak candidate. If the Dems insist on putting him up anyway, they deserve what they get — a bunch of newly-minted Independents, and probably a McCain Presidency. All because the “Democratic” leadership wants to “purge” the party of the Clintons (A.B. Stoddard said this on the Geraldo Rivera show on Fox News last weekend) — and apparently is so suicidal that they have forgotten that at least half the electorate strongly support Senator Clinton, and at least one-third will never, ever vote for Obama under any circumstances.

And I am one of that third.

If I were anywhere near as classless or crass as those “Iron My Shirt” lunatic Obama supporters, I’d say something . . . well, something profane. But I don’t need to do that.

What I will say, instead, is to reiterate that Barack Obama does not have my vote. He will never, ever get my vote, either.

And the “Democratic” party leadership has vastly failed its constituency, which is why I’m soon to become an Independent after being a solid Democratic voter for over twenty years (since first maturity).

http://www.guide2womenleaders.com/Current-Women-Leaders.htm

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I thought Hillary won Indiana.

Anyways I wish the black vote had been a bit better balanced in North Carolina primarily because Bill Clinton was lovingly called “the first black president” by blacks back in the 90’s. The most popular “black president” from the 90’s and his family still could not break 10% in North Carolina this year???

The election was stolen in the caucuses. It does not bode well for the democrats to select their candidate by a delegate count that does not accurately reflect the will of voters in the caucus states. Caucuses should not be the difference maker if the delegate allocation in caucus states does not represent the actual voter sentiment in those states. Barack could still be the winner in his caucus states wins, but not by the ridiculous margins that gained him an additional 80-90 delegates he did not deserve. Multiply that number by two because Hillary therefore lost 80-90 delegates she should have won.

Barack Obama’s 11th largest wins were all in caucus states, and that should send off alarm bells as the odds of that being an accurate reflection in the billions.