I believe McCain is going to win by a landslide. I believe the polls are reflecting the Wilder/Bradley effect. I have found the Rasmussen Polls to be the most accurate so far.

I want to applaud all the Democratic bloggers here and on other sites, who picked our country, over your own party. I truely believe that you are the true heroes now.

You stood up to the biased media such as MSNBC, CNN and NBC, you stood up to the Daily Kos, the New York Times and the Huffinton Post. Bravo. You truely do own your vote.

I really believe in 4 years, if Hillary runs again and you all decide to vote for her, no one else will have a chance. If by some chance I do not vote for her, just know I will still be wishing all of you well. I will never again misjudge you.

This is a first for me too, I usually do not write two positives posts in a row, because Obama has given me too much to be negative about lately. I think it is because before posting myself, I read all of your posts and they inspired me once again.

Great site by the way too, it has kept me well informed. Take care all…

Isn’t more tasteful and ethically correct to allow each and every woman whose body will host the new life to decide what she wants to do with her life? It is ludicrous to want to control another person’s body and impose your own religious, moral views. It’s really fascist-like. Even Palin said that she believes in woman’s choice and she certainly upheld proudly the Constitution on the matter as well as the constitutional rights of gay partners’ benefits. Leave other women alone–unless you want to support their kids or you want to pay for their health and education. And trust me, now that Hillary is not running, there’s no way on earth Universal Health care will be anything but a dream in the near future. That goes for both Tweedle Dee McCave and Tweedle Dumb Obamarama!!

There’s the link.

That’s it, exactly.

I could not agree more.

I feel that this is what first wave feminism would do. I count Kate Waller Barrett, who established the fist Crittenden Missions, among them. Barrett’s POV was that unwed mothers should be given shelter and helped through their pregnancies, and trained in life skills so they could support their babies.

There have been recent charges by certain political pundits to the effect that, if you are a white American and particularly a white Democrat and do not support Barack Obama, you are probably a racist. This premise goes against Obama’s campaign assertion that America is not about red states and blue states, but is about the United States of America. Obama advocates that Americans need not be so polarized by political party loyalty. Therefore, it would appear Obama believes it is acceptable to not always vote solely along party lines and all candidates, regardless of their party affiliation, have to earn each individual’s vote.

To recklessly label someone a racist due to his political opinion is ignorant and lazy. After someone is called a racist, that usually ends all political debate.

It may not even be a true statement that Obama does not have the support of White Americans in the Democratic Party. A recent poll showed that almost 80% of Democrats are supporting Obama.

It should be noted that in North Carolina in the 2004 presidential election, white candidate John Kerry only garnered 27% of the white vote in North Carolina. Obviously, the 73% of the white voters who did not vote for Kerry in North Carolina did not vote against him due to the fact he was a white man. In all likelihood, they voted against Kerry because they did not support his policies. Therefore, it is extremely reckless to label someone a racist who does not support Obama. Obama is currently leading in many of the states Democrats have recently been winning in presidential elections and is behind in historically Republican presidential states.

At the risk of being labeled a racist, for historical purposes and for legitimate discussion, I will attempt to articulate what are some of the problems if there are problems with Obama and his candidacy.

The first problem Obama has is that he lacks a substantive message. His political message is of change and hope with his message having no real specifics. The greatest part of Obama’s political message is about fancy words and well delivered political speeches. Watching his campaign it appears we have ventured back to the flair of the disco days of the seventies where the production is more important than the actual message. I would suggest that it would help Obama’s campaign if he would attempt to have a more intimate one on one conversation with voters. There are issues in which the two presidential candidates differ such as the Iraq War, off shore drilling, capital gains tax, employee taxes, and tax cuts. Each voter will have to decide which candidate’s political position he supports.

Many Americans could have a real problem with Obama’s lack of experience. One thing that is quite troublesome is that he began running for president immediately after winning his current Senate seat. Failure to begin or to fulfill his Senate obligation could be interpreted as a lack of loyalty to the voters of Illinois that elected the candidate and suggest out of control ambition on the part of Obama. It should be noted that many North Carolina citizens resented John Edwards not fulfilling his first United States Senate term prior to beginning his run for the Presidency of the United States.

Obama does not have a sterling work history. He was a state legislator for the state of Illinois which is certainly not that impressive. He has been criticized for refusing to vote yes or no on many issues while in the state legislature of Illinois and casting only a present vote refusing to put his political positions on recorded record in order that he could latter be held accountable for his vote. Obama is 47 years old and his lack of a significant work history is troublesome. Unlike the other presidential candidate, he has no military background.

Obama’s former pastor Reverend Jeremiah Wright has been widely criticized for the publications and philosophies advocated by the church Obama attended for twenty years in Chicago, Illinois. Many of the church messages from the pulpit have been considered by many to be racist, anti -America and sexist. Obama’s explanation that he was unaware of the controversial preaching’s of his church after attending the church for 20 years has caused him to lose creditability with many voters.

There are other things that have brought scrutiny to Obama such as a questionable land deal with a since convicted felon Tony Rezko from whom Obama purchased the lot adjoining Obama’s current residence and his association with controversial former radical Weatherman activist Bill Ayers.

In discussing what harmed the personal opinion of Obama with certain Democrats, you only need to look to the organization Moveon.org. Moveon is an organization that was design to promote Democratic causes and is an organization that solicits Democrats all over the country for political donations. During the presidential primaries, Moveon announced that it was solely supporting Obama for president over Hillary Clinton and Moveon began promoting Obama’s candidacy over fellow Democrat Hillary Clinton. Moveon used financial resources that it had obtained from Democrats all over the country to defeat and destroy a fellow Democrat without any objection from Obama. Moveon released a valuable 1.7 million Democratic e-mail list to the Obama campaign. These actions violated a sense of fairness and did serious harm to unity of the Democratic Party.

Many voters opinion of Barack Obama has been harmed with the ruthless one sided pro Obama blogs like Daily Kos and the Huffington Post whose primary duties have been to attempt to seek and to destroy Obama’s political opponents. These blogs rendered ruthless daily attacks on fellow Democrat Hillary Clinton, causing great resentment within the Democratic Party.

The national media has been pro Obama to a fault. Rightfully or wrongfully, Obama’s popularity may have been hurt by a general feeling of unfairness of the national media in favor of Obama. A recent Rasmussen poll demonstrated that 51% of those polled believe the national media is attempting to have Obama elected president of the United Sates with its biased political coverage. Many of the national media attacks against Hillary Clinton have been considered vicious and sexist by many Democrats.

Many believe Obama’s followers went too far when they accused Bill and Hillary Clinton of being racist and running a racist campaign against Obama. Many Hillary Clinton supporters believe that the Democratic national committee members went out out of their way to assure that Obama was the Democratic nominee.

Again, labeling someone a racist has no benefit. Voters have many issues to sift through prior to deciding who will be their presidential choice in the upcoming election. There are many issues that will decide this presidential contest other than a candidate’s race.

Bobby Dees

Thank you so much for contributing to The Denver Group. Heidi Li Feldman and Marc Rubin are two whip-smart, determined, honorable and caring human beings dedicated to restoring the Democratic Party. I am proud to know both of them.

I also appreciate your kind words of support.

For what it is worth, this election season I have had my eyes opened as well. I used to look at Republicans, probably much the same way you viewed Democrats. That is over.

I can promise you that my politics are now country before party.

I sincerely think we would all be a lot better off if everyone thought this way. Each candidate, for whatever office, would then be judged on the merits, instead of being rubber stamped either yay or nay based on a label.