It has been quite awhile since I looked at this post but was googling my comments and saw yours. I find it really spooky to see how much of this post is playing out from the late term abortion/feeling blue issue to all the speculation about Hillary as Supreme Court candidate.

I’ve joined the Pumapac and started a very intermittent blog but find that everything I still worry about this presumptive nominee still holds true and more so.

I should know. I was once groomed to be a precinct head in that area. We grew a garden. Yup. And all the precinct was free to come and harvest. We took care of traffic fines, small requests, bigger issues.

In exchange, we delivered 100% of our precinct to the preferred candidate. The way we did that was to indicate on a premarked ballot who to vote for.

Now, I didn’t know that this was illegal even back then. LOL*

I was 20 years old, and this very charismatc Italian filled me with spaghetti and groomed me to take over his job. He even sold me his house at a great deal. (Do I relate to Obama? Yup! )

I once said, “Maybe I should be Independent.” I got such an earful about how not voting straight Democrat harms people that, to be honest, I voted straight Democrat for the next 30 years! LOL*

But I do get the tactic. It’s old-style politics. It is illegal, unethical, and it works.

Hillary has such baggage due to Bill’s impeachment that she was absolutely forced to run a clean campaign. Nothing else would have worked for her.

It’s just now coming to fruition and, I think, will go down as a role model for future races on how to trust honest politics over trickery. That will be one gift she gives to all of us. I don’t believe Hillary is super-special, btw, in this regard. I just believe she knew coming in that would be her challenge. To overcome the impression that she and Bill are not on the up-and-up. That was the legacy of the Republican attack.

So she’s gone out of her way to make sure she played fair.

The delightful result is that we see the people finally responding.

Positively. Overwhelmingly. We appreciate the honesty. We WILL rise to her defense, because she’s earned it.

And Obama with his tricks has earned our disdain.

Clean politics is the only way to go today in the era of U-tubes and the internet. They can’t get by with the old-style politics.

We all are clear. Caucuses are the worst form of democracy. They are simply unprepared to handle real interest. Great for the boring years. Terrible in this year of great excitement.

His supporters who played dirty tricks, no doubt, felt justified. They’d been fed a pack of baloney about how Hillary had this nefarious “machine.” Obama used fear to galvinize the worst of the American spirit. He played on their emotions. That always makes people go to their worst level.

Frankly, we should all be very impressed that it hasn’t been worse than it was.

One of the comments I read was from another woman in Colorado who had a friend tell her how rude some of the Obama supporters were at the convention. This is true. I have seen it at the caucus, the county convention, the congressional district convention and finally at the state convention. Whenever a Hillary supporter gets up to speak, they are interrupted by booing, by “yes we can” chants and other comments. On the other side are the Hillary supporters who sit and respectfully listen to whomever is speaking on behalf of the Obama campaign. It speaks volumes about the type of people that are supporting him.

I addressed my disappointment with the head of the State Democratic Party and was told that in fact at least three other local/state politicians had been nominated to be the “unpledged” delegate but withdrew their names, leaving only Pena on the ballot. The conclusion I obviously drew was that this whole process was indeed a forgone conclusion being decided not by the people but by the politicians and superdelegates. In addition, this party leader told me that from where she was (on stage at the front of the arena), the “yeas” clearly outweighed the “nays”, and that she didn’t hear any objections from the floor. I pointed out to her that from where I was sitting,and with the large number of people in the arena, it is unlikely I would have been able to scream loud enough to be heard. I also pointed out that anyone that has been in an arena knows that what you hear, and how you hear it, depends a lot on where you are seated.

Prior to the ballots being handed out, a number of Obama campaign staff came around the arena and passed out a paper containing a list of names that the Obama campaign “recommended” the delegates vote for to go to the DNC. They then were told that they would vote for seven people to be delegates to the DNC and that even though hundreds of people had submitted their names to be considered, only seven would be on the ballot because that is who the Obama campaign decided they wanted. I was sitting next to a very nice woman who happened to be an Obama supporter and I turned to her and asked how it felt to not have a choice or a true vote. She agreed with me, at least on that point, that it didn’t seem right. I would go a little further and say not only wasn’t it right, it is undemocratic, unethical and appalling to tell people how they will vote and not give them a choice.

Finally, to those of you who have said you won’t vote if Hillary doesn’t get the nomination. I encourage you to still vote, it is the only way to send a message. I don’t care who you CHOOSE to vote for, I just care that we all take advantage of what I consider our privilege and responsibility as American citizens.

I am outraged, disappointed, appalled and feel totally disenfranchised by what happened at our State convention and imagine many of you will be as well. Thanks again for the support and many kind comments.

Race cards were aces.
Gender……10s.

That’s the truth.

And that’s what is terribly offensive to women. You know, it should be offensive to AA women, too.

We are raising the nation’s children, folks. Look at the divorce rate. Look at the single-parent homes. Look who is carrying the load.

It’s the women.

Yes, yes……we need those support checks (which we do NOT get punctually).

But make no mistake. Women are very, very key to this country.

You perpetuate the problems when you tell children that women don’t matter. Frankly, they come home to “Just Mom” more than to anyone else. So what….they are not being raised OK?

Children have the right to feel proud of their mothers.

Sexism matters, in the case of future generations, even more than racism.

Sexism involves women of ALL races.