I Have A Dream

you say

And finally, I do not believe Obama has the experience, qualifications or Character to be President. 1 year in the Senate (2 years running for office) does not qualify him. In fact, if he won – he would be the LEAST QUALIFIED, LEAST EXPERIENCED President we EVER had in our ENTIRE History.

Actually, Abe Lincoln only had two years in congress under his belt when he became president (Obama has 3.5 + 8 years in his state senate). He was an obscure congressman, and his opponents ridiculed him for being inexperienced. Now he is revered as one of the greatest presidents of all times.

If Obama becomes POTUS, watch the DNC eliminate primaries and substitute caucuses to make it easier to manipulate the nomination process.

When I watched her speech this morning, I felt something genuine in her voice. When she talked about dedicating her life to making America a better place, you could tell that was her deepest conviction.

She seemed a little hesitant endorsing Obama, but she also seemed very confident when she said we cannot afford to allow the Republicans to hold The White House for another 4 years or more.

In the end, I think Hillary’s decision to support Obama was what she feels is the best course for our country to follow. I’ve supported her so far, so there’s no reason for me to doubt her now.

Let’s take back The White House for the Democrats and turn the chapter on the Bush era of our country.

Who put the first woman on the Supreme Court? The GOP. Who put the first black woman as Secy of State? The GOP. who push to free the slaves in the first place? The GOP. There not so bad

We’re sore losers? Can’t accept the outcome of the primaries? We want to “take our ball” and go home? We’re racists?

Well, sour grapes make great wine and we are NOT accepting Sen. Obama to represent us in the White House. He doesn’t represent us, or grassroots Americans. He represents elitism, class warfare, demagoguery, race-baiting and misogyny. That’s his vision for America and the Democratic Party, not ours.

http://www.clintons4mccain.com/

you also say

Here is just how close the popular vote numbers came out:
Popular Vote Hillary Clinton 18,046,007 (50.2%) + 176,465 +.5%
Barack Obama 17,869,542 (49.7%)

In the end everyone makes up their own mind about who to vote for and why. That’s America.

Those numbers disenfranchise voters in Michigan who wanted to vote for Obama but couldn’t, and the 30000+ write-in votes for Obama that were thrown out. They also disenfranchise voters in caucus states that didn’t keep official tallies of how many people showed up (Iowa, Nebraska, Maine, Washington State). When you add these voters, Obama leads Hillary.

So you’ll supporting someon who laughed when someone referred to Hillary as a “bitch?”

Amazing

This blog is designed so we can see how many of the 18-million voters are sticking together and NOT doing what the Democratic Party expects of us.

There are many that feel disenfranchised and disgusted with how Hillary was FORCED out of the race. This blog is FOR YOU!

http://18milstrong.wordpress.com/

Abe Lincoln was known for his honesty too, something Obama clearly doesn’t have.
The problem with Obama is that he is the face of a greater, possibly malignant operation. He is an idiot– he is afraid to take stances on issues and is no stranger to frequent equivocation. He is merely the charismatic face to many anti-Israeli and corporate special interests.

His speech on Tuesday was scary– he is an utter and complete demagogue.

Fuck no I’m not voting for this.

Fantastic Post. I read this at Clinton Democrats, too. I especially love the Susan B. Anthony quote.

I think its a terrible irony to vote for McCain based on the misogyny argument. McCain is the guy who laughed at the “beat the bitch” comment, the guy that called his wife a c**t in public, the guy that will follow the religious right’s assault on women’s issues. The reason Roe has stood is that the majority of the Supreme Court has not been willing to overturn it. A McCain presidency gives the SC a majority of conservative judges, who will ensure that being a pregnant woman is much more problematic. Women, especially young women, will suffer under McCain and his disasterous SC appointees. Allowing a McCain presidency is dangerous in so many ways, especially on women’s issues. Allowing a McCain presidency is actively working against Senator Clinton’s values and ideals.

Hillary is just pure CLASS. After being repeatedly and viciously ridiculed and belittled by the Obama campaign, she still offers her unqualified support to the Democratic Party-selected candidate. But no, I cannot and will not support that candidate – and his surrogates – in the November election and beyond. Didn’t the Obama campaign blame Bill Clinton for the Democratic Party’s loss of Congress and eventually the Senate?

B.O.W.L.* Big Time in November! Hillary in 2012. Let’s remain united!

(*Barack Obama Will Lose)

Vote for your values. Don’t let sour grapes get in the way. Were you a Hillary supporter cause you liked her message and respected her or simply because you hated Obama? If you really respect the woman follow her wishes. Personally I vote values first and McSame is on the opposite end of the spectrum of my values when it comes from everything to the War, the economy, education and healthcare. Why you’d let sour grapes let you vote against your values is beyond me. If you share the same values as McSame you should never have been a Hillary supporter to begin with. Lets heal the wounds and move on. Vote values first.

Obama’s Plan To Disarm The U.S.
By INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Friday, June 06, 2008 4:20 PM PT

Defense Policy: In the middle of a war on two fronts, Barack Obama plans to gut the military. He also wants to dismantle our nuclear arsenal. And he wants to keep you in the dark about it.

The Obamatons of the mainstream media have failed to report one of the most chilling campaign promises thus far uttered by the presumptive Democrat nominee for president.

He made it before the Iowa caucus to a left-wing pacifist group that seeks to reallocate defense dollars to welfare programs. The lobbying group, Caucus for Priorities, was so impressed by Obama’s anti-military offering that it steered its 10,000 devotees his way.

In a 132-word videotaped pledge (still viewable on YouTube), Obama agreed to hollow out the U.S. military by slashing both conventional and nuclear weapons.

The scope of his planned defense cuts, combined with his angry tone, is breathtaking. He sounds as if the military is the enemy, not the bad guys it’s fighting. Here is a transcript:

“I’m the only major candidate who opposed this war from the beginning; and as president, I will end it.

“Second, I will cut tens of billions of dollars in wasteful spending. I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems. I will not weaponize space. I will slow our development of future combat systems.

“I will institute an independent defense priorities board to ensure that the Quadrennial Review is not used to justify unnecessary defense spending.

“Third, I will set a goal for a world without nuclear weapons. To seek that goal, I will not develop nuclear weapons; I will seek a global ban on the production of fissile material; and I will negotiate with Russia to take our ICBMs off hair-trigger alert, and to achieve deep cuts in our nuclear arsenal.”

You can bet that Obama will not make this sweeping indictment of our security forces again as he tries to move to the center in the general election. But this is what he thinks, and this is what he plans to do.

His campaign Web site doesn’t list a separate category for military or defense under “Issues.” But search shows near-identical language there regarding nuclear weapons.

His plan, needless to say, is frighteningly irresponsible given the world threats.

While there is fat in the defense budget, defense spending both as a share of GDP and the total federal budget are still at historically low levels, despite the war.

And while cutting fat out of the defense budget is a worthy goal, Obama would cut beyond fat to bone.

Caucus for Priorities aims to redirect 15% of the Pentagon’s discretionary budget away from “obsolete Cold War weapons towards education, health care, job training, alternative energy development, world hunger and deficit-reduction.”

On the chopping block: the F-22 Raptor, the V-22 Osprey, the Virginia-class sub, the DDG-1,000 destroyer and the Army’s Future Combat System.

Cutting allegedly “unproven” missile defense systems is music to Kim Jong Il’s and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s ears, let alone all the PLA generals wishing our destruction.

Yet Obama wants to kill a program that’s yielding success after success, with both sea- and land-based systems. The military just this week intercepted a ballistic missile near Hawaii in a sea-based missile defense test.

Proposing “deep cuts in our nuclear arsenal” amounts to unilateral disarmament, and it’s suicidal given China’s and now Russia’s aggressive military buildup.

Meanwhile, Iran and North Korea threaten nuclear madness, and Osama bin Laden dreams of unleashing a nuclear 9/11 on America.

In contrast, John McCain has vowed: “We must continue to deploy a safe and reliable nuclear deterrent, robust missile defenses and superior conventional forces that are capable of defending the United States and our allies.”

We’ve been down this road before. President Clinton pursued a denuclearization program, including his 1995 pledge to sign a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, and it led to him kicking open our nuclear labs to the Chinese, who proceeded to steal our warhead secrets and strengthen their own arsenal.

Like the Ben & Jerry’s crowd that supports him, Obama believes “real” national security is “humanitarian foreign aid” — essentially using our troops as international meals-on-wheels in Africa.

We’ve been down that road before, too, in Somalia and elsewhere. Thanks, but we don’t need a third Clinton, or a second Carter, term.

OT: Just THOUGHT!!!! Clinton/Nutter(Phil. mayor)2012 I think its a PERFECT combination(woman/AA), in 4 years. I think he’s MORE qualified than NObama is NOW. I like that he was a STRONG supporter for HRC this year, he gave some GREAT interviews on her behold. Trust ME, I haven’t gave on YEAR(not YET)!!!!!! Anything can happen(Rezko).We NEED to PROMOTE that ticket. Just a THOUGHT. lol!!!!!! NObama NEVER 08

The Oborg are really trying to make nice.

It won’t work.

I agree nancyincali. I will vote for John McCain in Nov. But one difference. I am waiting to change my party affiliation. I’m going to go into the voting booth as a Registered Dem and pull the lever for McCain. That way, when Donna Brazile and all the statisticians go over the election data, they can see me among the millions of their own party that defected. They will know that their own turned against them, just as they turned against us.

As soon as the GE is over, I will switch to Independent.

I have a DREAM=HRC as the President!!!!!!! It can STILL be a REALITY= HRC08/12 or McCain08!!!!!! Let KEEP FIGHTIN!!!!!! WE have the POWER!!!!!!!!!

Your Whiteness is Showing:
An Open Letter to Certain White Women
Who are Threatening to Withhold Support From Barack Obama in November

By Tim Wise

June 5, 2008

This is an open letter to those white women who, despite their proclamations of progressivism, and supposedly because of their commitment to feminism, are threatening to withhold support from Barack Obama in November. You know who you are.

I know that it’s probably a bad time for this. Your disappointment at the electoral defeat of Senator Hillary Clinton is fresh, the sting is new, and the anger that animates many of you–who rightly point out that the media was often sexist in its treatment of the Senator–is raw, pure and justified.

That said, and despite the awkward timing, I need to ask you a few questions, and I hope you will take them in the spirit of solidarity with which they are genuinely intended. But before the questions, a statement if you don’t mind, or indeed, even if (as I suspect), you will mind it quite a bit.

First, for those of you threatening to actually vote for John McCain and to oppose Senator Obama, or to stay home in November and thereby increase the likelihood of McCain winning and Obama losing (despite the fact that the latter’s policy platform is virtually identical to Clinton’s while the former’s clearly is not), all the while claiming to be standing up for women…

For those threatening to vote for John McCain or to stay home and increase the odds of his winning (despite the fact that he once called his wife the c-word in public and is a staunch opponent of reproductive freedom and gender equity initiatives, such as comparable worth legislation), all the while claiming to be standing up for women…

For those threatening to vote for John McCain or to stay home and help ensure Barack Obama’s defeat, as a way to protest what you call Obama’s sexism (examples of which you seem to have difficulty coming up with), all the while claiming to be standing up for women…

Your whiteness is showing.

When I say your whiteness is showing this is what I mean: You claim that your opposition to Obama is an act of gender solidarity, in that women (and their male allies) need to stand up for women in the face of the sexist mistreatment of Clinton by the press. On this latter point–the one about the importance of standing up to the media for its often venal misogyny–you couldn’t be more correct. As the father of two young girls who will have to contend with the poison of patriarchy all their lives, or at least until such time as that system of oppression is eradicated, I will be the first to join the boycott of, or demonstration on, whatever media outlet you choose to make that point. But on the first part of the above equation–the part where you insist voting against Obama is about gender solidarity–you are, for lack of a better way to put it, completely full of crap. And what’s worse is that at some level I suspect you know it. Voting against Senator Obama is not about gender solidarity. It is an act of white racial bonding, and it is grotesque.

If it were gender solidarity you sought, you would by definition join with your black and brown sisters come November, and do what you know good and well they are going to do, in overwhelming numbers, which is vote for Barack Obama. But no. You are threatening to vote not like other women–you know, the ones who aren’t white like you and most of your friends–but rather, like white men! Needless to say it is high irony, bordering on the outright farcical, to believe that electorally bonding with white men, so as to elect McCain, is a rational strategy for promoting feminism and challenging patriarchy. You are not thinking and acting as women, but as white people. So here’s the first question: What the hell is that about?

And you wonder why women of color have, for so long, thought (by and large) that white so-called feminists were phony as hell? Sister please…

Your threats are not about standing up for women. They are only about standing up for the feelings of white women, and more to the point, the aspirations of one white woman. So don’t kid yourself. If you wanted to make a statement about the importance of supporting a woman, you wouldn’t need to vote for John McCain, or stay home, thereby producing the same likely result–a defeat for Obama. You could always have said you were going to go out and vote for Cynthia McKinney. After all, she is a woman, running with the Green Party, and she’s progressive, and she’s a feminist. But that isn’t your threat is it? No. You’re not threatening to vote for the woman, or even the feminist woman. Rather, you are threatening to vote for the white man, and to reject not only the black man who you feel stole Clinton’s birthright, but even the black woman in the race. And I wonder why? Could it be…?

See, I told you your whiteness was showing.

And now for a third question, and this is the biggie, so please take your time with it: How is it that you have managed to hold your nose all these years, just like a lot of us on the left, and vote for Democrats who we knew were horribly inadequate–Kerry, Gore, Clinton, Dukakis, right on down the uninspiring line–and yet, apparently can’t bring yourself to vote for Barack Obama? A man who, for all of his shortcomings (and there are several, as with all candidates put up by either of the two major corporate parties) is surely more progressive than any of those just mentioned. And how are we to understand that refusal–this sudden line in the proverbial sand–other than as a racist slap at a black man? You will vote for white men year after year after year–and are threatening to vote for another one just to make a point–but can’t bring yourself to vote for a black man, whose political views come much closer to your own, in all likelihood, than do the views of any of the white men you’ve supported before. How, other than as an act of racism, or perhaps as evidence of political insanity, is one to interpret such a thing?

See, black folks would have sucked it up, like they’ve had to do forever, and voted for Clinton had it come down to that. Indeed, they were on board the Hillary train early on, convinced that Obama had no chance to win and hoping for change, any change, from the reactionary agenda that has been so prevalent for so long in this culture. They would have supported the white woman–hell, for many black folks, before Obama showed his mettle they were downright excited to do so–but you won’t support the black man. And yet you have the audacity to insist that it is you who are the most loyal constituency of the Democratic Party, and the one before whom Party leaders should bow down, and whose feet must be kissed?

Your whiteness is showing.

Look, I couldn’t care less about the Party personally. I left the Democrats twenty years ago when they told me that my activism in the Central America solidarity and South African anti-apartheid movements made me a security risk, and that I wouldn’t be able to get clearance to be in some parade with Governor Dukakis. Yeah, seriously. But for you to act as though you are the indispensible voters, the most important, the ones whose views should be pandered to, whose every whim should be the basis for Party policy, is not only absurd, it is also racist in that it, a) ignores and treats as irrelevant the much more loyal constituency of black folks, without whom no Democrat would have won anything in the past twenty years (and indeed the racial gap favoring the Democrats among blacks is about six times larger than the gender gap favoring them among white women, relative to white men); and b) demonstrates the mentality of entitlement and superiority that has been long ingrained in us as white folks–so that we believe we have the right to dictate the terms of political engagement, and to determine the outcome, and to get our way, simply because for so long we have done just that.

But that day is done, whether you like it or not, and you are now left with two, and only two choices, so consider them carefully: the first is to stand now in solidarity with your black brothers and sisters and welcome the new day, and help to push it in a truly progressive and feminist and antiracist direction, while the second is to team up with white men to try and block the new day from dawning. Feel free to choose the latter. But if you do, please don’t insult your own intelligence, or ours, by insisting that you’ve done so as a radical political act.

Source: Tim Wise
http://www.timwise.org/

Way to go Nancy. I just received an email from Howard Dean calling for unity. This is what I told him:

You just told me that I am a dumb broad and that my opinion is worthless and you want me to “get into bed with you?”

You need more than the benefits of unity to persuade me. This is when the diamond comes in handy. It’s not a canary diamond. It’s not an opal or a square shape. It’s a very special diamond called the Hillary diamond. Don’t come back before you get it.

All due respect to the original poster, I think that you are clearly voting soley on identity politics. If you look at the issues that Clinton stands for, you would listen to her call to help elect a Democrat. Women will be hurt by McCain. He is not moderate. Look beyond his claims to his actual votes. He is terrible on global warming. He is not for civil unions. He voted against his own immigration bill. He is currently running afoul of his own campaign finance legislation. I did not support Edwards because of misogyny or identity politics. I voted because of issues, and what I consider Democratic ideals to be. I would have been very proud to have Clinton as the nominee, and as the first woman president. Voting McCain and against the ideals for which Clinton has championed indicates you care nothing about the issues, only the gender of the candidate, which I would describe as sexism. In regards to the war, I disagree that it rests soley on the shoulders of Bush supporters. We all have allowed it to continue, we all play for it, we all assent to it with our compliance and silence. Electing McCain means more Americans will sacrifice their lives for nothing. Having friends who serve in Iraq, I can say that I care about the war, and that to wash your hands of it and yet vote for its continutation bespeaks a willful ignorance of its devestation.

The bottom line this year, a year when a fairly elected nominee would have walked into the Oval Office without even breaking a sweat, two things come to the forefront!

This year Democracy is now at stake, a vote for Obama in August and November is approval of Selecting a nominee and not Electing a nominee, allowing Party leaders to bait and control theprocess for their own agendas and not those of the people, thus taking peoples voices from the rights of America!

This year, the writing on the wall was so evident to the GOP, the most liberal candidate the GOP could place atop the ballot will lead to the distruction of the Democratic Party and keep the GOP in the Oval office for another 4 years!

Obama and his team of thugs feel they can manipulate the GOP like they did a fellow Democrat, they have another thing coming. The acts of the DNP and the Obama thugs will continue to be in peoples faces this entire campaign season and rightly so, as it was the most disgusting exhibit of control ever exhibited in a free society!

So above Roe vs Wade, above an economy in dire straights lays the foundation of a country at stake, Democracy in a free society! Nothing is more important or basic an issue now than the choice between freedom and the desires and controls lost May 31st when transparency, peoples rights and democracy was dismissed by a small group concerned over the forward movement of a completely unqualified candidate!

Thank you NancyinCali! Wonderful article!

The last two presidential elections were decided by -
2000 Gore about 500,000 more votes.
2004 Kerry lost by about 2 million votes.

If even 1/7th of Hillary’s 18 million supporters defected (which by all polls show they will – by at least 30%) – Obama will lose in the biggest landslide in history. I know CA is going in McCain’s column – Schwarzenegger is a HUGE supporter of McCain’s and he and McCain present themselves as moderates. Without CA – Obama doesn’t have a chance in hell. New York might defect too as they see Obama as too dangerously inexperienced and naive about foreign affairs and the economy – as will many other formerly Democratic states. And once the “whitey” tape comes out – well, there goes the Democratic Party. Knowing the idiotic elites of the party, they would still nominate Obama after that tape is released. Nominating an anti-American, hate-whitey couple for the top job in America? Democratic Party will forever lose its credibility and trust among the American people – if they haven’t done so already.

It’s over – count me a Republican or Independent. And if the Republicans keep nominating moderates who will bring this huge debt down and get rid of this recession – heck, they have my vote and my party affiliation for future elections.

“But for you to act as though you are the indispensible voters, the most important, the ones whose views should be pandered to, whose every whim should be the basis for Party policy, is not only absurd, it is also racist in that it, a) ignores and treats as irrelevant the much more loyal constituency of black folks, without whom no Democrat would have won anything in the past twenty years.”

Twisted logic. The Republicans held the real power in this country the duration of the Cold War. They have dominated the Supreme Court. The have consolidated power to the Presidency. The Republicans have not need the Black vote to win anything. Women represent a greater majority of voters than men, it is a genuine misnomer to call a woman a minority. The statistics prove otherwise. The Black vote will not win out over the Hispanic/Latino vote in this Country. John McCain is on point with Ted Kennedy on immigration. John McCain can capitilize on other Maverick Republicans, such as Schwarzenegger, and Maverick Democrats like Lieberman. The Democrat Party is divided by Race. Why? Barack Hussein Obama, David Axelrod, Rev. Wright, Louis Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Father Pfleger, etc, etc. The Republican Party will win with the following coalition:

Woman for Hillary/McCain
Hispanics for Hillary/McCain
Working White men for Hillary/McCain/Edwards
Gun Owners
Patriots
The Jewish vote

What is Obama’s coalition? I would ask an Obama supporter to reply.

Here some facts ladies

1974
Mary Louise Smith of Iowa becomes the first woman chairman of the Republican National Committee.

1975
The first woman to be appointed Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development is a Republican – Carla Hills – appointed by President Gerald Ford.

1978
Republican Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas is the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate without first having been preceded by her husband in Congress or first being appointed to fill an unexpired term.

1981
For the first time, two women members of the U.S. Senate – Sen. Nancy Kassebaum (R-KN) and Sen. Paula Hawkins (R-FL) – serve concurrently in their positions without first being appointed to fill an unexpired term.

The first female Supreme Court justice – Republican Sandra Day O’Connor – is appointed by President Ronald Reagan.

President Reagan appoints the first woman U.S. Representative to the United Nations, Jeane Kirkpatrick.

President Reagan also appoints the first female director of presidential personnel, Helene von Damm.

1982
In his first two years in office, President Reagan appoints more women to serve in top policy-making positions than any other president for a comparable period of time (105 positions).

1983
The first woman appointed Secretary of the Department of Transportation is a Republican – Elizabeth Dole of Kansas. She is appointed by President Reagan.

The first time in history three women serve concurrently in a president’s cabinet – Elizabeth Dole, Secretary of Transportation; Margaret Heckler, Secretary of Health and Human Services; and, Jeane Kirkpatrick, U.S. Representative to the United Nations. They serve in a Republican administration.

1984
The first female head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is Susan Meredith Phillips.

Janet McCoy becomes the first woman high commissioner of the U.S. Trust Territories.

Faith Evans of Hawaii is the first woman appointed U.S. Marshall.

1986
The first woman and the first Republican elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Hawaii, and the first Asian-American woman elected to Congress, is Pat Saiki.

The first time in history five Republican women receive the party nomination for governor – Kay Orr of Nebraska, Julie Belaga of Connecticut, Norma Paulus of Oregon, Arliss Sturgelewski of Alaska, and Patty Cafferata of Nevada.

The first Republican woman elected governor is Kay Orr of Nebraska.

1987
In his two terms, President Reagan selects women for more than 1,400 high-level, policy-making positions.

1989-92
President George Bush appoints approximately 2,500 women to high-level positions, including Surgeon General Antonia C. Novello, Secretary of Labor Elizabeth Dole, Secretary of Transportation Lynn Martin, Secretary of Commerce Barbara Franklin and U.S. Trade Rep. Carla Hills.

1995
A woman holds the top staff position of the Republican National Committee, and women head six of the RNC’s divisions and departments.

On January 25, 1995, New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman becomes the first woman to respond to the President’s State of the Union Address.

Robin Carle becomes the first woman to serve as Clerk of the House of Representatives while Cheryl Lau becomes the first woman to serve as House Counsel.

A historic number of women gain appointment to prominent committees and leadership positions in the 104th Congress. Sen. Nancy Kassebaum (R-KS) becomes the first woman to chair a Senate committee.

As chairman of the House Small Business Committee, Jan Meyers (R-KS) becomes the first woman to chair a House committee since 1976.

1998
Republican women chair a record seven House subcommittees and three Senate subcommittees. Rep. Heather Wilson (R-NM) becomes the first female veteran and the first Air Force Academy graduate elected to the House of Representatives. Rep. Jennifer Dunn (R-WA) becomes the first woman to seek a House senior leadership post when she runs for Majority Leader. As vice chairman of the House Republican Conference, Rep. Tillie Fowler (R-FL) is the highest-ranking woman in the U.S. House and the first Floridian to hold a position in the elected Republican majority leadership.

2000
Rep. Jennifer Dunn (R-WA) assumes a prominent position when she is named deputy permanent co-chairman of the Republican National Convention.

Judy Martz is the first woman elected governor of Montana, while Melissa Hart (R-PA), Jo Ann Davis (R-VA) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) are the first Republican women elected to the U.S. House from their respective states.

As vice chairman of the House Republican Conference, Rep. Deborah Pryce (R-OH) is the highest-ranking woman in the U.S. House. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) is vice chairman of the Senate Republican Conference.

2001
President George W. Bush appoints several women to key positions in his administration, including Condoleezza Rice, the first female National Security Adviser; Gale Norton, the first female Interior Secretary; and, Ann Veneman, the first female Agriculture Secretary.

2002
Congresswoman Deborah Pryce of Ohio is elected chairman of the House Republican Conference, making her the highest-ranking Republican woman ever to serve in the majority party in Congress.

Jennette Bradley is elected lieutenant governor of Ohio, thereby becoming the first African-American Republican woman in the nation to serve in that office.

2004
President George W. Bush appoints Dr. Condoleezza Rice to serve as U.S. Secretary of State, making her the first African-American woman nominated to that position.

Becky Skillman becomes the first woman elected lieutenant governor of Indiana, while Betty Ireland is the first woman elected to serve in West Virginia’s executive branch of government. Sarah Steelman is the first Republican woman elected state treasurer in Missouri.

2006
Michele Bachmann is the first Republican woman elected to Congress from Minnesota. Sarah Palin is the first woman elected governor of Alaska.

Well all I am going to say is McCain ‘08 because it has all been covered here….

Check out BO’s website they are sucking up to Clinton.

Joe B. was my first choice, Hillary my second choice and McCain is my third choice….some day I will get to vote for my preferred candidate…I have never had that privilege but I hope to some day.

I’m now an independent. I have 4 other family members that have also changed their party affiliation and 2 that are planning to do so.

We will no longer be taken for granted.

One positive aspect of this long primary season has been to open the eyes of many to the true nature of leftist. They do not believe in equality for all. They believe they have THE answer to all problems and are superior to everyone else.

This is the same type of arrogance lead to the lost of McGovern.

I understand the passion of African American community, they want to see someone that represents them in the white house. That being said, unfortunately it’s too much to expect others to give Obama a pass on all his corrupt associates and dirty politics. It’s too much to expect others to condone the DNC hijacking the election. It’s too much
to expect me as woman to ignore the blatant misogyny by Obama his supporters and the MSM. I will
not vote for Obama in protest, as that is the only way I can send a message to the DNC. I have a voice and I will use it. If that upsets someone reading this, I’m sorry. But as of today I know what it is like to have a dream dashed. The world will not end if Obama isn’t the next president. Get A Grip!
PUMA POWER BABY!!!!

Have you ever read Red State? I came across this piece doing some research…

Barack Obama sought the New Party’s endorsement knowing it was a radical left organization

http://tinyurl.com/4nxck9

It is an eye opener to the New Party and ACORN

Formally known as the Cook County Democratic Organization, the Daley machine was a hierarchy of elected officials who had two main jobs: to make as much money as possible for themselves and other members of the machine, and to make sure that all machine-backed candidates get elected. There were 8 main tenets for working in the machine:
Be faithful to those above you and repay those who are faithful to you
Back the whole machine slate, not individual candidates or programs
Be respectful of elected officials and party leaders
Never be ashamed of the party, and defend it proudly
Don’t ask questions
Stay on your own turf, and keep out of conflicts that don’t concern you
Never be first, since innovation brings with it risk
Most important of all, DON’T GET CAUGHT

Change we can believe in. Yes we can.

Loved your post NancyInCali. You got it just right. I only differ with you in that
I pray HRC does not take the VP position. I would hate to se the more qualified woman in a subordinate position to that of an unqualified man. Even then rewarding and vindicating the DNC and Obama for what they have done with my vote would be too much. Please Hillary, don’t take it.

The race card has been played to death. Frankly, I’m sick of it.

I’m not voting against “the” black man. I’m voting against “this” black man with a nonexistent record and/or list of accomplishments, who has a questionable history of relationships and financial dealings, who ran a deceptive campaign of soaring rhetoric and empty promises, who has flip-flopped on issue after issue, and . . .

It’s too wearisome to go on. But if anyone thinks I’m going to pull the lever for Barack Obama over white guilt, you’re nuts. And if our votes aren’t important then why come to a site like this only to provoke and argue and spew your rantings?

For a bunch of people who are considered dead enders and throw aways, we certainly are attracting a whole lot of attention. I suggest the Obamatrons go to a few other sites and tell working people they’re ignorant, racist and unimportant.

That’s sure to conjure up votes. See you in November.

Hillary Clinton says to vote for Obama. She obviously doesn’t know what’s best for herself. Or women. Or something. The above rant is transparent McCain propaganda, or clueless shut-in material, or both. Prolly both. Whatever. Goes double for this whole site. It would seem bizarre and manipulative, if it weren’t just so overwhelmingly hateful and crappy.

I pick my nose a lot.

A vote for McCain is a vote against issues that Clinton cares about and champions. A vote for McCain indicates that you care nothing for issues. I hope everyone here will examine at length the substantive differences between the Republican platform and the Democratic platform in this upcoming election. Bush has been a disaster, and McCain promises to follow his lead. I am tired of having people tortured and bombed and spied upon in my name. A vote for McCain legitmizes the last eight years, and sets the nation up for another ruinous eight.

Amazing the number of “make nice” trolls out today. I find this very encouraging. They must be scared shitless. I guess I’ll start to worry when they stop showing up. No way in hell we’ll vote for Obama. By the way, the stats about 18 million are primary numbers-just think about the # of GE voters who will vote McCain if we extrapolate the primary to the GE-it probably means only about 5% of the GE voters need to swing to McCain for us to get our landslide and clean house in the DNC

I read your piece, Nancy this morning. Nicely done. Thanks.

At Clinton finale, anger aimed at Chris Matthews, news media

WASHINGTON — Bettyjean Kling is tough, she’s mad and she’s about ready to kick some pasty MSNBC butt.

“Chris Matthews, I can’t even look at him anymore,” Kling spat as she waited for Hillary Clinton to take the stage. “What’s the name of that other nut?”

“Keith Olbermann,” offered a friend.

“Keith Obama-man,” growled Kling, a retired special ed teacher from Shippensburg, Pa.

Hillary Clinton’s campaign valedictory was “the very definition of bittersweet,” said Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., a longtime Clinton supporter, who insisted that the greater goal of a Democratic White House would unite those who gathered on a steamy day in the cavernous main hall of the National Building Museum.

It seemed to be more bitter than sweet for many, however, with special acid reserved for the media. Several of the hundreds gathered here said they thought that unfair news coverage helped Illinois Sen. Barack Obama win the Democratic presidential nomination. Other common culprits were the Democratic National Committee and the party superdelegates, who helped swing the nomination to Obama in the last few weeks.

According to rezkowatch.com (http://rezkowatch.blogspot.com),

“Attorney, law professor, and labor union expert Dr Stephen F. Diamond will guest on the WABC-77 portion of John Batchelor’s radio show this Sunday. They will discuss when Barack Obama and former Weatherman William Ayers met, and Obama’s chairmanship of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, which Ayers set up in the mid-1990s.

The interview is scheduled for 8:35 PM Eastern Time and will be streamed via the WABC website.

Batchelor will be interviewing other guests about Obama’s associations. Visit RezkoWatch for the complete schedule for the WABC and KFI-640 Batchelor show broadcasts.”

My state always goes red but I will still be working hard in what ever way I can to help get McCain in office. I don’t think I would have voted had the republican nominee been anyone else…McCain is more in the middle on a lot of things…

I could have written this post, and if I didn’t know beyond a shadow of a doubt that I didn’t, I would swear I did. Right down to the statement that you supported Kerry even though you weren’t all that excited about him.

Every argument you made for McCain are the same ones I’ve had floating in my head since before Clinton suspended her campaign, just in case she actually doesn’t get the nomination.

But I keep affirming that the Super Delegates, along with the pledged delegates on the second ballot, will vote Clinton. Neither can win on the first ballot because it’s only for the pledged delegates. But after that, two things happen…the pledged delegates are released to vote their conscience, and the Super Delegates can vote. And their vote is secret, so no one will actually know who voted for whom.

http://clintondems.com/no-vote-petition/

I’m not sure what the “Tank” is, but I’m not espousing talking points. Its just that on so many issues I’m sick of what Republicans have done to this nation. I feel that the issues go beyond the indentity of the candidates involved. I know that not many here agree with me, but I am trying to engage in a conversation about where we are headed if McCain is president. If you were a Clinton supporter, it would strike me that you would care about the issues that are important to Democrats. I just don’t see how anyone who would vote Democrat would allow a continuation of what we’ve gone through under Bush. I have friends and co-workers that have fought in Iraq…needlessly so, in my opinion. I have friends that have lost jobs in the mortgage business. I guess I feel that the issues in the primary, and I agree it was a disaster, are secondary to more Republican governance. I don’t consider myself to be a troll despite not sharing your exact political point of view. My goal is not to annoy or offend, but to engage in a dialogue. I would imagine that no matter how deeply you feel about the issue, you can at least disagree with me in a cogent manner without believing me to be the enemy or an operative.

For Darren who claims Obama has more experiencethan Abe Lincoln had when he ran for president:

Abe Lincoln held political office starting in 1834 and held four successive terms in the Illinois House of Representatives. He was elected to a term in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1846. In 1854 he was instrumental in forming the new Republican Party. In 1860 he ran for President.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln

Do the math.

Interesting how even while you guys pat each other on the back for selling out your ideals and hyperventilate about nonexistent video tapes, Obama has pulled ahead of McCain in the polls outside the MOE and now has the support of 80% of Dems (up from 60-70%) in the latest Rasmussen. Favored in the electoral map 311-227. All this before Hillary’s speech. Something tells me you guys will be on the losing end this year, but, no worries, I’m sure you’ll still be uncovering huge make-believe Obama scandals a year from now while LJ rakes in the ad dollars. Hell, he’s probably laughing at you too while he counts the money.

HRC supporters – it hit me tonight that we can do something constructive to show our displeasure regarding the outcome of the Democratic primaries. Unfortunately, I saw Keith Olbermann say that if Barack loses, it’s all Hillary’s fault. I was in absolute disbelief. I’ve sent MSNBC e-mails, etc., but to no avail.

So, here’s my idea. Let’s set up Operation Payback (Nins – you get credit for the name after thinking I was involved in Operation Chaos). As of today, I’ve cancelled my subscription to Newsweek and will NEVER watch MSNBC again. My relatives have done the same. If we hit these media outlets who have so mistreated Hillary in the pocketbook, maybe we can at least address some of the anger we’re all feeling.

Obama supporters – do us all a favor and stay out of this with putdown comments. I think that this gives HRC supporters something we can do that is constructive and places blame (at least from my perspective) where it is due.

Hillary supporters – what do you think? If we pass this along to our friends, families and post it everywhere, I think we can make a difference.