Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child

I feel the same, very, very sad.

Obama and ’60s Bomber: A Look Into Crossed Paths

New York Times writes about Obama and Ayers.

Obama is just the visible tip of the iceberg.

There is Dodd, and Frank, and the Congressional Black Caucus involved in the mortgage meltdown.

There is Pelosi driving away Republican votes she needs to get the bail out bill passed.

There is the continued (finally ended we hope) moratoriums on USA oil so we don’t have to send the money to Saudi Arabia etc. etc. etc.

It is like a party working against its own country.

One has to think that out of this a third party will emerge. That or the hijackers of the party will be driven out once and for all.

They have been…did you see what Reid did the other day to the market when he said that the insurance(s) was about to go bankrupt? It was worse than the fake story posted at CNN that the SEC is looking into. They should ask Reid why he said that too.

we agree…after listening to brooks & shields last night, who begrudgingly think it’s basically over for McCain, my husband & I felt adfrift…we know so much about obama, the media refuses to reveal it, McCain won’t fight back, what is happening?

I understand what you are feeling. I’ve been a registered Independent voter for a long time now.

I tend to be fiscally conservative and socially moderate, certainly not in tune with the Republican platform.

Any room in your new party for me?

Likewise.

I feel like our government, economy, and political system is totally FUBAR, and I want a do-over.

I was a loyal, top-to-bottom of the ticket voting Democrat until after the 2006 betrayal. I’m no longer a Democrat.

NObama.

WARNING WARNING

For those going to Palin rally in CA.
The bots are planning on disrupting by any means. Watch your six O`clock.

Check out this video of Obama Youth:

http://logisticsmonster.com/2008/10/03/puma-politics-obama-definitely-has-changed-america/

I have literally voted for every party. I really feel there is no real party to define my views. Views that I feel can not be sacrificed for the sake of any party. When our founding fathers formed this nation, there were no parties, just ideas. The major players wanted nothing to do with party affiliations. I think it is high time we take a good hard look at how our government has evolved.

So much for the highly educated pod people:

You’ve probably heard statistics like this before: in a survey of 6,000 incoming freshmen at the nation’s top colleges, half didn’t know when the Civil War happened. Half couldn’t locate St. Louis on a map. Only six percent could name the original 13 colonies. And almost two-thirds — remember, this is among students going to top colleges — almost two-thirds got a famous 19th century author mixed up with a contemporary pop music icon.

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/student-ignorance-of-civics-is-nothing-new/

I feel they left me out in the cold on May 31st and then didn’t even bother to look at the larger implications of what they had done.

For over 30 years I was a registered Democrat in Massachusetts and as I saw how the primaries were moving and how the party was treating HRC I left the party in May and I’m now registered as “unenrolled”. It gave me great pleasure last month to vote against Senator Kerry in the primaries.

The NYT continues its mission of white washing Obama by rehabilitating the unrepentant Ayers. Why? …because Mc is about to take off the gloves. Mc wins if the election is about character. The NYT is “hoping” to blunt the attack. Though, one wonders if any of the independents and undecideds really look to the Times for objective information. Methinks they are preaching to the choir so to speak.

I am remaining a registered Dem until after the election on Nov. 4th.

Then I’ll officially register as an Independent. After this debacle, I don’t think I ever want to give my allegiance to any political party ever again.

I never registered as a dem but I voted dem in every election for almost 40 years. I can’t vote dem this election; the DNC corruption sickens me. I always thought dem was the party of the people but I see there’s no difference from the other party now. It’s very painful and you are not alone on that bench. I hope we find honorable candidates in the years to come. Good luck to us all; I’m afraid we’re going to need it!

That 0bama Youth propaganda video is sad. They could have accomplished those things before 0bama. They are now brainwashing people that their goals weren’t possible before. It was always within their power…all they had to do was do it…and this is true of anyone no matter what ethnicity.

This election is turning out to be a complete and utter sham. America is slowing being turned into a fascist collection of states with representative propaganda heads. If you think you live in a free country anymore and that your vote really counts, the following blog post will describe to you the evidence and reasons behind such a deception.

They make a strong point in a hypothetical: If McCain had an association with a former abortion clinic bomber whom he didn’t disassociate himself from would the media simply stay silent. Heavens we know the answer to that. Especially if the bomber got off due to a technical error and thus never held accountable for the crimes and never expressed remorse.

I don’t want to be rude to Pat Racimona, but were you one of those here that liked to say about Hillary, ‘she’s doing what she has to… do yada yada yada.’

One thing is true, when opportunities are lost they don’t return. You needed for Hillary to scream PUMA, she didn’t. But most of you had good excuses for her that she entered into her diary.

You have been a Democrat and now not, well I have been in your seat for 30 some years. I am a Republican that for the first time in 30 some years will be voting for a Republican presidential candidate. Yes, I did not voted for Reagan and never for any bushes. But no, I consider the Republicans that voted for the bailout bill misguided to say the least. And yes that includes McCain. But Palin is all what I care for because she is what we need in Washington. And I knew that Bush would get us into these messes and lucky us that Laura stayed next to him all the time keeping him in a pill regiment and reading him good story books at bet time. That lady is our savior.

It’s very sad. Obama is flip-flopping again. Now he’s promoting homelessness in his own party. Previously he was working for “homefullness” at any cost along with his contributors from Fannie Mae.

Well heck! if any candidate had gone around the country saying the Kennedys brought his father to America – and it was revealed to be a LIE – it would be headlined for MONTHS!
But – it’s Oblahma doing the LYING so – it’s OK.

http://www.talkleft.com/story/2008/3/30/13655/6958

I’ve been thinking about the “motherless child” comparison. Aren’t I old enough not to need a mother anymore? Why did I ever buy into the idea of “party” in the first place? If parties made sense 50 years ago, I’m convinced they don’t today. Don’t get me wrong, they make lots of sense for the party bosses and the hangers on, just not for me, for us.

Why can’t I go ala carte with ideas? The truth is I am a liberal in some areas and a conservative in others. Those are my values and I’m tired of people from Rush Limbaugh to Barack Obama trying to tell me my values are wrong.

The only new “party” I am interested in is one that has a tent so big anyone but genuine America haters can fit in. I like to hope that efforts like the Denver Group will take the party back, but the fact is the extreme left will still be there and powerful even after we beat Obama. Let them be the democratic party if they want, I’ll find something else. The “meanings” of both parties has shifted several times through history and that may be happening again. I just don’t want to play anymore.

When the democratic party turned into “Mommy Dearest” that was the day I started planning my escape. That park bench from where I am looks great. I view the world with open eyes and I am eager to join with other orphans of both parties to wrest back our country from the army of the corrupt. Choose to channel despair into taking America back.

1) At least once a day visit another website blog and share information.

2)Cut and paste information or links to said, from reliable sites such as this. That email may go around the world and connect with a fence sitter.

3) Volunteer to watch for vote fraud. I went to the Republican Headquarters to do this. Today I will be there. Fair Warning if you are going to CHEAT we aim to catch you.

4) Send things to FOX, The Drudge Report and UK Telegraph. Send the link and search until you find an actual news site, they usually don’t do blog information. If all else fails do a “Hail Mary” and send the blog information.

Buck up Pat!
After 40 years as a loyal dem, I now respect only a handful in that party.
I will vote by candidate only from now on…we may lose clout, but will gain a clear conscience!
For me, that is the most important lesson I take from this debacle!
Emotionally, I am over the hump!

OJ gives us a look into this unrepentant Ayers character. Given the right circumstances they strike with twice the temerity and twice the contempt for the law.

The corporations are safe with Oblahma and media corporations, including PBS (News Hour), wouldn’t be promoting him if they really thought he’d “change Washington.”
Obama will not “change” the very people and entities that paved his run to the WH.

You are correct. The grieving procces the media talked about was the grieving process of switching from demo to republican. Acceptance is one of those steps. I too have learned to accept that I am not a democrat any longer.

I wounldn’t call my self a republican though. I would say I am not an independent voter.

now not not lol

Do they really need us? Is Obama and the DNC building a bigger voting base by overtaxing some to give more to a greater amount of others? Has the Democratic Party become party to vote buying?

“The greatest find, the greatest discovery in the political world is a new voting bloc, and his book and his research here is targeted at proving that Obama’s big voting bloc is the 30 percent-plus of Americans who pay no income taxes,” Limbaugh said. “These people get polled a lot, they are played to constantly, and they are all for ever higher taxes on everybody else ’cause it means more for them, in their own version of ‘trickle down.’”” Rush about the “The Audacity of Deceit” . Released by WND Books, and has hit the nation’s largest bookstores.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=76971

Pat,
Make room on the bench for me. I’m not just sad, I’m mad. For awhile, I’ve felt that Democrats were the more noble, high-minded party in the integrity department. Uhbama and the Gang have shot that to hell. Our leaders in Congress are an embarrassment.

I’m going to cast my vote today as I just don’t want to be bothered to get in the mess that will exist on election day.

This is just a day in the life of a pathological habitual liar. Once the lies are found, people tend to excuse them because one reason or another but mostly because they become irrelevant by then. Yes, life is such. But the naked truth is that pathological habitual liars end their heists in bankruptcy. Given the size of the federal budget, Oblabla will have to give us some heck of the mother of all lies. Coming soon to a theater near you.

Well well well, Biden ended his debate encounter putting down the economy and the country. Next day the stock market went mostly down. No relationship? Not one that can be proven.

Actually I have been concerned about the direction of the Dem Party for at least 8 yrs now. And everytime I voted Dem I felt it was picking the one who would do the least damage.

I’ve voted Dem for 40yrs. but if you paid attention to what they were doing in the House and Senate it certainly wasn’t for the voters. It’s been entirely about Corporate America.

I started out with Edwards again this year , I watched them all and I was afraid Hillary would be too big business.

Well, Hillary finally convinced me ( much to my happiness ) that she would go up against the Party and big business for the voters. So I felt some hope that she was what I’ve been waiting for anyway.
She was what we as a country needed desparately now to get back on track.

Of course Wall Street and Big Oil didn’t like that go against their “Globalization” agenda.

And I can only hope Americans will march their butts enmass to the polls to vote against Obama and the New Dem Party .

Whats left of the Dem Party is the Arrogant “ME” before the country and the sheeple who follow them.

Thank you, Pat another outstanding cartoon.

Do you have a link?

For most of Bush’s presidency, Dems have complained about the media CONCEALING damaging info about him, his admin, and his secret decisions.

Think of ALL the damaging info about Obama that the media has CONCEALED from the public.
Think that would end if Obama becomes president??

Sarah Palin is a straight talker about media bias and may be our BEST advocate against it.

Dems aren’t likely to address media monopolies nor media bias since they’re indebted to the corporate media for giving Obama so many passes into the WH.

Excellent post. I feel so betrayed. Today I saw a video of John Murtha who refused to own and apologize for falsely accusing our troops of mass murder, despite the charges being dropped. What the hell happened to this party? I suddenly see them as Children of the Corn.

I’m right there with you. The New Democrats are actually the New Neoconservatives. I don’t trust one of them, but I can’t embrace policies on the right that only benefit the corporate wealthy and hang the people of this country out to dry.

lark, I am one of those who said Hillary is doing what she has to do – I still feel that way but it’s just my opinion. If she didn’t do it, she would never have another chance at the presidency although I’m not holding my breath that she actually will get that chance again. But I have gotten over her loss and will be voting for McCain/Palin – not enthusiastically but at least I have no doubts that the two of them love this country.

Me too – loyal Dem for decades – now registered Repub.
I refuse to be a part of a political party that perpetrated a scam of a primary and rigged the nomination.

The biggest threat to the elite Washington and media establishment would be a woman in the WH.
A woman, representing other mothers and wives on crucial issues affecting their daily lives.
Nope! can’t have it.

Obama claims he never worked with ACORN on his fight the smears site

Here is more on the story

I love the cartoon, Pat. There is just one little problem. The park bench is not long enough or big enough to hold all of us disaffected former Democrats.

Sarah Palin would be an excellent role model for ALL Americans – and especially women and girls.

But we MUST MUST MUST elect a Black man! – even one in an Empty Suit.

Jesse Jackson, Jr and 19 other members of the Black Caucus voted against the bail out initially. How did Meeks and Waters vote?

Thank you for this drawing, Pat. I too feel lost and bereft of my lifelong party.

This won’t help, but it is worth thinking about the larger political context:

Progressives in the US are not alone in this. Tony Blair had much the same effect on huge chunks of his feminist, anti-racist, progressive, lesbian/gay/bi/trans/trans, and anti-poverty supporters, who came to refer to him as a ‘Bush wannabe’ or ‘Bush lite,’ and the ‘labour’ party is not really that, anymore. The Canadians are now led by hardcore rightwing ‘women in the kitchen’ conservatives, and their ‘liberals’ (sort of like democrats) are at least as rightwing now as the UK labour people. Greens all around the globe are adopting sexist classist racist pro-’traditional family’ politics. The left is looking more and more like what I have always hated about the right, while those tiny bits of positive change that give me hope seem to be taking place more on ‘the right’ these days.

With great change comes great opportunity, I try to tell myself….

But we must not just sit back and watch this unfold. This feels like a pretty important period in history.

Does anyone ever post things on Obama’s website comments? This video should go on there!

Kind of OT
I received this in an email and had a nice
chuckle.

“One sunny day in 2009, an old man approached the White House from across Pennsylvania Avenue , where he had been sitting on a park bench.

He spoke to the Marine standing guard and said, ‘I would like to go in and meet with President Barack Obama.’

The Marine replied, ‘Sir, Mr. Obama is not President and doesn’t reside here..’

The old man said, ‘Okay,’ and walked away.

The following day, the same man approached the White House and said to the same Marine, ‘I would like to go in and meet with President Barack Obama.’

The Marine again told the man, ‘Sir, as I said yesterday, Mr. Obama is not President and doesn’t reside here.’

The man thanked him and again walked away.

The third day, the same man approached the White House and spoke to the same Marine, saying ‘I would like to go in and meet with President Barack Obama.’

The Marine, understandably agitated at this point, looked at the man and said, ‘Sir, this is the third day in a row you have been here asking to speak to Mr. Obama. I’ve told you several times that Mr. Obama is not the President and doesn’t reside here.

Don’t you understand?’

The old man answered, ‘Oh, I understand you fine. I just love to hear you say that!’

The Marine snapped to attention, saluted, and said, ‘See you tomorrow, sir!’

I want a new party!!!

I wish we could all go to America, where the people all have a voice and the freedom of democracy, and…oh, wait, I forgot about the changeover. Now it’s the country formerly known as America.

I now call it Iraqmerica. Obama’s campaign is putting up murals of him around the country. The next will be a statue like Saddam had. I’m wondering where Obama’s will be placed. DC? Chicago? Or will they be in all big cities?

I have always imagined the fall of Obama would be with a very loud thud like the tearing down of that Saddam statue in Bagdad. Please GOP, don’t let me down!

I watched the debate the other night with a good friend, who is still an undecided voter. I mentioned how it seem odd to me that we would elect anyone whose middle name is Hussein, just 7 years after 9/11. Have we forgotten already. She asked, “His middle name is Hussein?” I could not believe she didn’t know. Alot of people probably don’t know. Can you imagine if he is (I can’t bring myself to say it) and on inauguration day they swear him in with his middle name? His supporters will probably gasp!

Message to GOP, start using his middle name!!!!

Pat, I am floating in “unaffiliated” (NY State version of Independent) limbo.

I think you’re going to have to get a much bigger bench.

This is not over. You are paying too much attention to weighted polls. There are still 4 weeks to go, and most people do not make up their mind until the last 72 hours. They are trying to suppress voter turn-out. Don’t buy into it.

Yea, they can’t win without lying, intimidation, and fraud. It’s called the “new politics.”

I wasn’t one who said it here, but I understood it. Her dilemma is profound. I know this cannot happen, but my fantasy was that she would become the leader of a third party.

I am pleased that she hasn’t taken off against Sarah Palin, hurling those easy insults as so many others have,

Pat,

Thank you for the poignant cartoon & the very perceptive comments. Yes, I will you join you on the bench, and in fact this blog is the bench, and there are a whole lot of good people already sitting here. I am very grateful for this blog, this “bench,” and the solace and companionship it provides in these dark and scary times. My heartfelt gratitude to you, Susan, Larry, and the many other courageous bloggers. May the spirit of PUMA prosper!

Fair enough, Shiloh–

It was just the song that emerged as I drew. I guess everyone wants to know there is something out there that one can be a part of that is bigger than oneself. That is the loss I feel, politically speaking.

Welcome home. We are independents.
We put our nation first and we look at all candidates with a critical eye.
No longer are we bound by dogma, the scales have fallen from our eyes.

Here among the thinkers we consider the character of a person before we entrust them with the future of our children and the safety of our men and women in uniform. We look for qualities of honesty, honor, ability to listen and find common ground. We look for persons who would never accept oaths to the person over the Constitution.

You are my dear friends and fellow Independents and you are not homeless.

It’s not just about 2012. Hillary is doing exactly what she said she would do in her suspension speech: “I was fighting for the issues that are important to you before there were lights and cameras, and I will be fighting for these issues after the lights are gone.” She has proposed constant legislation on various fronts since her suspension. Every day I read about another piece of legislation she is pushing through Congress. The woman never sleeps. You overestimate her ability to fight the entire Party alone. We saw that in the primaries. Even her allies turned on her in the end. And the notion of a Third Party is unrealistic. She would be sidelined for good. She is strong, but she would not be able to accomplish anything without collaboration. It would be wonderful to expect her to immolate herself on pure principle, but this is not a Hollywood movie. She is not perfect–and she gave blood, sweat, and tears fighting it for months. She’s not done yet–not by a long shot.

Me, too. In fact, I could have voted twice for Mr. O’Reilly, as I was handed two paper ballots. (But, I didn’t.)

Do not accept the nay sayers. On this date in the last election Kerry was farther ahead in the polls and George won.

Grab a T-shirt and walk around the mall. Ask Obama supporters why thye support him and then why you don’t.

I have found this very successful. SImple logical honest above all honest answers to questions make a huge difference.

Keep the faith and I will go in to the HQ and repeat the concerns I have and that you have shared.

We shall call it the American Party.
WHen shall we meet and for it for real?
I am all for 5 Nov.

My friend in CA. GO to that rally with a warriors heart and do not fear the bots.

In my experience, they run from me and logic. Stand up tall and yell right back–but yell facts.

If the get in your face stare them down.

I have made a sport of it and I now get them to back away–I am a little fat lady with grey hair. LOL

I don’t think I want to become a Republican

I dont blame you. It’s crushing to rely upon on the party of no-spine.

No, you are not alone. Indeed, you are among the clear majority of the Democratic Party, abandoned by the DNC and aided and abetted by the MSM.

It will become increasingly obvious as the years go on that 2008 had nothing whatever to do with Obama-Biden, nor with McCain-Palin. It had everything to do with defeating the Clintons. The GWB years were so horrendous, in every sense, that even though the MSM had long ago made the word Clinton anathema, it was apparent that Hillary would inevitably become the next President.

Senator Obama was groomed as that instrument toward her defeat. But without the Kennedy/Pelosi/Dean controlled DNC and the MSM fighting her every step of the way, she would have easily prevailed. She was supremely qualified, and, as was proven by her husband before her, her solutions on the economy and in international diplomacy would have worked supremely well. Indeed, that universal health care initiative she had long ago trumpeted would have certainly come to fruition in her administration.

It would have meant, quite possibly, not simply a return to America’s last Golden Age, but an amplification of it.

It is not a coincidence that the powers that be needed to defeat her. The insurance and the credit card lobbiests could not have prevailed under a Hillary Clinton administration. But under an easily manipulated Barack Obama and his credit-card state representative Vice President Joe Biden, those lobbiests will surely remain in the driver’s seat.

The sad irony of this year is that the majority of the Democratic Party-eighteen million strong–in spite of the anti-Clinton invective, were never sold on Senator Obama. Indeed, Hillary Clinton decisively won the hearts and minds of the rank-and-file.

Thus, in the end, the only way to stop the return of the Clintons was to shut down the election process itself and anoint Senator Obama the winner. The very same rape of the democratic process that was exercised before the eyes of the world in denying the popular will and anointing George Walker Bush the President in 2000, was again exercised in making certain that Barack Obama would be the Democratic nominee in 2008.

Of course, with the near-collapse of the financial markets anticipating this year’s national elections, Senator Obama is now inevitably the President simply by default.

We who remain, the true rank-and-file of the Democratic Party, accompanied by our independent and Republican compatriots who know only too well that the Clintons were, and still are, after all, very good for America indeed, can only hope for some wisdom in an Obama administration.

Perhaps the Obama camp’s ego will vitiate. The rest of us can always dream. Perhaps the reality of our wretched times will set in and Hillary and Bill may yet return to power positions, even in an Obama asdministration, “cleaning up after the second Bush, as they did after the first.”

That remains our only hope. Otherwise, remember the Clinton years as being truly Amerrica’s last Golden Age.

Wow–very insightful comment. Thank you Larry. You do make a ton of sense.

I am sorry to disagree, but Canada is definitely NOT led by ‘hardcore, rightwing, women in the kitchen conservatives’. And our leftwing is still as nutty and tax and spend for the special interest groups as they ever were. This is the reason that we too are in the midst of an election. For the past couple of years we have had a Conservative MINORITY. This means that essentially, nothing gets done in our beautiful Country because the Fiberals walk out instead of voting on things (kind of like Bambam and his ‘present’ votes). Here’s praying that we will have a solid Conservative Majority come October 14, and finally get our Country moving forward. I pray the same for your Country, that come Nov. 4, McPalin sweep in. The World is not ready for an Obama Theocracy.

Proudly UNA (unaffiliated)

The D party was willingly hijacked by the Obama thugs and punks. The elites were living out their fantasies while the rest of the country had their jaws dropping to the floor agape.

WTF were they THINKING????
WTF DID THEY JUST DO????

We could have had HILLARY YOU DUMB ASSMOFOS!

I’m done with you.

PROUDLY UNA
PUMA 4 PALIN baby!
ESAD

how’s that for polite?
oops, my bad :- P~~~

Like I said earlier, Welcome home.

We should form a 3rd Party called the American Party. Our first meeting should be 5 November. We should collect all the Independents from across the nation and our primary platform should be “For our Country and Honesty First”

With open eyes and independent minds we can move forward for our children.

Everyone scoot over a little, please.

Deam Corrupt Party! NObo, No Way!

Yes, I, too, want my mommy. If we could get her off the Kool-aid, maybe she’d come home and be mommy again.

Welcome to an old established group called Independent voters. I promise you will be appreciated for your thoughtful analysis of the candidates’ character, experience and qualifications in the general election because, as an Independent, you probably won’t be participating in the primary elections.

Your right to vote is only valid in the general election and your choice will have been narrowed to one of two candidates selected for you by either the Republican or Democratic parties. Oh, there will be other candidates on the ballot but since they receive neither media publicity or are allowed to participate in debates and conferences with the “real” candidates they have no chance of winning.

But there are benefits to “owning your vote”. You don’t have to toe the party line like Senator Clinton was expected to do and you can vote for “the lesser of two evils” with a clear conscience of “not responsible for helping put this idiot on the ticket.” And then, although it doesn’t fix anything if an idiot gets elected, it’s rather nice to be able to say “Not my fault” when everyone complains about the idiot in the Oval office.

Again, welcome to the largest growing political party in the USA – Independents.

My Mom and I left the D party together. My daughter has not but has finally decided NOT to vote for Obama. She thinks Palin is a “bitch” (I said, HELL ya she BETTER BE)

Especially the way they’ve been treating her. But my kid is too naive to get it. At least she’s no longer voting for Barry though. THAT I’m glad about.

NC doesn’t need one more voting for the punk. ACK and he’s gonna be in ASheville this weekend. BLECH! Our local puma group is planning a protest! W00T!

go away BAMBI!!

Anyone who wants Clinton to run in 2012 does NOT want her to “scream PUMA.” For heaven’s sake, the PUMA movement is, among other things, A TOOL to enable that result.

The fact remains, a candidate needs a party structure. It’s why we didn’t see, despite a SHITLOAD of money and a fair amount of votes, President Perot. It’s why we’ll never see a President Ralph Gorefucker Nader–and that’s a consolation, certainly. That offensive and offending party structure is “the” vehicle to get things done. Without it, a candidate is characterized as a crank before they even file the papers.

Maybe things will change in the future, but we’d probably have to get rid of the electoral college first. I’ll be dead by then, I suspect.

In the interim, it would be easier for Clinton to challenge a GOP ticket in four years, but if she has to challenge that crook with the big ears, so be it. It’ll be a stronger challenge than Kennedy v. Carter because Clinton hasn’t driven off any bridges and doesn’t have a booze and coke problem.

Also, we will have to see how many of her HILLPAC-supported candidates make it to the Hill–there’s where you consolidate your power.

I lived through the Clinton years over seas. It was not so great for America out there–I am glad you had a good run in the country.

I came under fire of more terrorists and they felt empowered. (seriously)My friend Don Wells was chased by Iraqi terrorists with guns trying to get his ID and post pass. This was in Germany.

I believe the greatest days of America are ahead of us and they do not include Obama.

I don’t think Obama is going to win. Sorry, I don’t. We are a month out and we still have time to expose Obama for the scum that he is. I have seen McCain, Palin and their campaign manager. None of them seem panicked. There is only one answer for that…they know more than we do. I refuse to believe that my country is so full of total idiots that Obama would get any closer to the White House than he already is. This is never going to be a communist country, never. Even if Obama gets elected, which I doubt and I hope and pray against, his associations, criminal behavior and shady background WILL catch up with him. Clinton got impeached, although they overturned it. Obama has done MUCH worse, by 1,000 times, and he will have to answer for it. This country will not survive Obama. No way, no how. We have survived war, economic failure, etc. and always pulled out of it. Now we have Pelosi and the moron liberals screaming Chicken Little and make the problems worse so that they can assure panicked lemmings vote Obama. It’s not going to work. We’re America. The best country in the world. No matter how much liberals try to destroy us. Obama isn’t going to win. And if for some reason he manages to commit voter fraud, by registering enough dead people to cheat and cross the finish line, then we will catch him. It took a while, but OJ is paying for what he did too. God and the universe clean themselves up. All I can say about Obama is this…

If you sit by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies float past you.

Obama is a bad guy. God will get him. Or we will.

twice I’ve changed from Dem to Indie in my 52 yrs.

both times I was able to vote the primary BEFORE changing.

THAT was the reason I changed. The WRONG primary!

I almost changed in 04 when they didn’t even give CLARK the time of day over LOSER KERRY! THAT pissed me off REALLY bad!

But I held on. Then PELOSI dropped the ball on impeachment and the rest is history.

BACK to Indie and we’ll see how history goes whether I’ll switch back to vote in a primary for anyone ever again AMEN!

It’s OVA!

grrrrrrrrrrrr!

Make posters with Obama’s sins.

His FISA VOTE

HIS VOTE for BIG OIL

His Statement about Jeruslaem

His Cocaine years

His New York years

Birth Certificate?????

you may not turn many but you will add pressure.

i agree and frankly i am sick of hearing woe is me. those of you without a party welcome to the independent party. you are just now seeing what has been the truth for a long time. the dims haven’t been our supporters for a long, long time. think for yourselves. work individiually against those who don’t support you.

and the polls? PLEASE! only read them if you truly like fiction. this campaign isn’t over. dang, we got this legislation passed and palin is doing well. i am as angry and upset as any of you, but i don’t find woe is me a good answer.

Jackie, I appreciate ou post. I too believe that America’s best days can be ahead of us.

There seems to be a fatalistic attitude prevailing on this thread that we need to arrest. We have a voice if we will come in one mind and one accord to get the job done.

I refuse to think of O Hussein in the White House. It may be, but until it is, I will fight, fight, fight and get the message out and stir up the vote away from this INSANE HUSSEIN.

Don’t ever give up America!!!

McCain/Palin 08

Right On Nancy!

hillary needs to put COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY! enough said!

I join you oppo. Feeling down today and wondering how we will get thru four yrs of bambi. This country deserved and deserves better….thinking Hillary here, but no chance this year. We still have a month but McCain had better act soon. Where are the GOP 527′s? Thing is, they don’t need to lie. Just tell the truth about BHO.
McCain in 08
Hillary in 12

Ditto!!!

how about

Jeremiah GDM Wright and the US of KKKA?

or

a blow up picture of Fr. Pfleger humping something?

the list is endless which makes any sane person question just who is dragging this rancid piece of dog meat across the faux finish line???

The PEOPLE will not allow it. I am confident. There are NOT enough hippies & acid heads still alive to make a difference but in a few states. The same goes for the AA population is what? 14 percent of the voting population? add the kids that manage to show up (the ones with the red O phones should make it) the others may or may NOT.

I don’t see him winning either. But he’s sure gonna try to buy his way in…………. he fudged up not adding Hillary. That will go down in the history books as the WORST DEMOCRATIC BLUNDER EVER for a thousand years they will SCOFF and SPIT.

That’s an adorable cartoon, LOL.

Nobody is motherless or homeless or alone. We are the people, the life of the party. Doesn’t matter which party you belong to or if you’re a Puma or you’ve gone Green, we’re all Americans, we’re the lifeblood of this country.

“Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child”

I feel the exact same way — scoot over on the bench a little so I can have a seat.

Thanks

That’s ok cuz they’re planning a PROTEST OF OBAMA in ASHEVILLE !!! hehe!

what COMES around GOES around!!!

I hope OUR group is larger than THEIR group!!

of course OURS won’t get shown by the media

look at this point let’s spend as much energy and time on hillary as she does on us. and that is? not much! she is a politican first. don’t get me wrong i voted for her and will again. i like her and her policies. i gave her some slack in supporting obama. but now ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY!

Will they still call me a racist after I vote for Cynthia McKinney?

I agree and Pat just LOVE your drawings!

I would subscribe to your comic strip or buy your troll pictorial any day!

Thanks for always entertaining us! (mE)

this only works if ya’ll sitting on the bench get up put your boxing gloves on and get with it. the lord helps them who helps themselves.

IF YOU DO ONE THING TODAY, MAKE IT THIS. please write hillary your feelings. don’t cry about the past. it’s OVER! don’t say you are a supporter but you understand. YOU REALLY DON’T! all this sadness is really anger turned inward. ya’ll in my view are very angry. what are you going to do about it. if a million or so of hillary’s supporters started telling her enough is enough, i rather imagine you just might see her speaking out more. WHY HAVEN’T YOU DON’T THAT? WONDERING!

I don’t get it. Can someone explain this party stuff to me? I have felt through this election, more than ever, that people’s literal IDENTITY is somehow connected to this “party” BS. WTF? We’re AMERICANS. It’s like what Colin Powell said when someone asked him about being “African American.” He scoffed at it and said he “is AMERICAN first.” That’s what we ALL are. Get over it people, your own party screwed you. Big time. The DNC has become, quite frankly, the most dirty, corrupt, filthy backroom political machine in the history of America. Between the cheating in the primary, the Hillary mess, the BS “roll call,” all of the nonsense with Congress and their 9% approval rating thanks to people like Pelosi, the lies about McCain and blame placed when the Dems caused Fannie Mae, etc. – how could ANYONE “miss” being part of that ugliness? The DNC has DESTROYED ITSELF. They hoisted themselves on their own petard. Now, they PAY. They pay with a LOSS on November 4, so they know that they can never cheat and lie to the people who support them. As for being a “homeless child?” Well, I would think that would be better than being an ABUSED AND BATTERED CHILD. How many more slaps in the face could the Dems take? This is embarrassing. All of it. And it’s ALL from the liberal side. Were any of you in Denver? If so, then you know what a joke it was. Party unity? ROFLMAO. Howie Dean should off himself and get it over with. What he did was despicable and along the way he forgot the term “vet” when he selected Osama Biden Laden and alienated the Hillary clan. Oh well. Good luck with that Howie. We don’t vote for who you FORCE us to. And America comes FIRST. ALWAYS.

MCCAIN/PALIN 08

COUNTRY FIRST, PARTY SECOND

LOVE YOUR COUNTRY

I’m doing the same thing.

I want the pleasure of pulling the lever for McCain as a registered Dem. And I will fill out an exit poll to let them see.

After the election, I’m changing to Indie and never coming back – unless Hillary runs.

I’m also sending the DNC a letter and a copy of my old Voter Registration (D), along with my new Voter Registration (I).

I’ll never give my allegiance to a particular party again either. They proved to me that I’m not needed or appreciated, so I’m moving on.

McCain ’08
Hillary ’12

the crook with the big ears will be back licking his wounds in the Senate by 11/5

Hillary (my poor dear Hillary) was cheated of her one chance. jmo.

But I will remember her forever as bringing back the FIGHT for what is RIGHT in this old disabled byrd!

LOVE you HILLARY! Thanks for lighting a fire under us all!!!

The party you describe, sadly, USED TO BE the Democratic Party. It’s why I liked it. A massive BIG TENT, a bit disorganized, a bit contentious, but it was a PARTY in every sense of the word. You had your conservatives like Jack Murtha, your screaming liberals like Dennis Kucinich, and milling about smartly, your progressives, your latte/limo libs, your blue-collar hard working FDR Dems, your “new immigrant” Dems, your urban, suburban, and rural types…it was a delightful smorgasbord of varying ideas, experiences, and temperaments.

And once upon a time, EVERYONE had a voice.

That’s not the case anymore.

Unfortunately, it’s now the party of “Thug Children” who find it amusing to knock over grandma in her walker, surround her and chant until she changes her vote, or send her to the wrong caucus site and chuckle about it. Little “Liberal” Roves, who actually think Barack is going to legalize pot–the fucking idiots. They also think he’s going to send a shitload of soldiers home into an economy that SUCKS the balls of a dead domestic animal, and not continue to do what the Saudis tell er, ask him to do in order to prevent Americans from freezing to death in their homes in winter. These buttheads beliee that swords will be turned into plowshares and everyone will have their own personal rainbow! They’re backed up by the DNC Officialdom and their Toadies: fat, old, resentful, flaccid, angry and sexist men and a cadre of women-hating women, who really think a penis is a mandated “Presidential Staff” in order to claim the job. It’s pathetic. Sprinkled throughout that dynamic are people who just hate Bill Clinton on principle, despite all that pesky peace and prosperity he enabled, for one of two reasons–Monica Lewinsky (how DARE that man get his carrot waxed…or get CAUGHT, more honestly), or simply because he whipped George the Elder–and they’re taking that hatred out on his wife.

I’m not shrieking like Zell Miller, who couldn’t stand the new ideas that the Democrats were putting forth, I’m pissed off because ALL THE IDEAS save those silly little empty sound-bites of The Anointed One have been beaten down and shoved out of the Big Tent into the parking lot, and told to take a hike. “We’ll win without you!”

Well, I got my new shoes on, so I guess I’d better start walking.

please don’t make excuses for hillary. she needs to start speaking out RIGHT NOW FOR THE WELFARE OF OUR COUNTRY. I AM SICK OF EXCUSES FOR NOT DOING THAT. if we started writing her and not making excuses for her, we might see her speak out. and i don’t think she’d lose anything for that. so she should be concered what the dnc thinks? PLEASE!

please don’t make excuses for hillary. she needs to start speaking out RIGHT NOW FOR THE WELFARE OF OUR COUNTRY. I AM SICK OF EXCUSES FOR NOT DOING THAT. if we started writing her and not making excuses for her, we might see her speak out. and i don’t think she’d lose anything for that. so she should be concered what the dnc thinks? PLEASE!

Im my family I have the blessing of diaries being passes down since 1540′s

My family in England and Germany were agitators. Translators of the bible an that sort. (he got burned at the stake in Belgium)

They have always strived to be free and were on the leading edge of that movment.

They had unlimited faith in the new nation and fought for it both in writing and in deed.

When I lose focus I look to their words.

“Fear not to raise up thy voice to justice and mercy. Keep thy mind strong and do not waver as Peter did.
Defend the freedoms we sought which brought us to this land and never turn thy face from the new day. Stand as our fathers have and fear not death for being on the side of right and truth will take you to a greater reward.”
Amos Fuller (my 15th great grand father)

We will get him then God will.

BRAVO!! BRAVO!! BRAVO!! You speak it best!!

Get the word out!

Barack Hussein Obama is anti-american and hates us.

We don’t need the MSM to tell us what we already know!!

Vote McCain/Palin 08

the thing is we aren’t abused battered children. we are grownups. this is a divorce. don’t let him get your house or your car. be brutal. don’t cry while he robes you of your future. kick his tush, smile and go to a new and dimocrat less future.

Thanks for this yttik. Makes me feel a little better. Maybe the glass is actually half full.

Comment by stodghie | 2008-10-04 10:51:43

the thing is we aren’t abused battered children. we are grownups. this is a divorce. don’t let him get your house or your car. be brutal. don’t cry while he robes you of your future. kick his tush, smile and go to a new and dimocrat less future.

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THAT’S THE SPIRIT!

Everyone here who loves this country, do ONE thing today to stop Obama and convert your friends and neighbors. It’s not over until WE say it is and we need to take our country back. Nothing has been worse than the continual STINK on America this election has been. All the way down to beady-eyed Biden checking out Palin’s azz at the debate. It’s been a disgrace and fraud start to finish. Let’s stop it TODAY.

I’m going to the Palin rally. Someone here posted that the Obama scum will protest. I’ll get up in their faces. How dare they? I’ve had it.

GO GET ‘EM AMERICA LOVERS.

NOBAMA NEVER

HELL NOBAMA

COUNTRY FIRST

I am doing the same.

I stuck with my Democratic affiliation for a few reasons:

It is like a party working against its own country.

Exactly right on, and the concept presented itself as a lone rant from right wingers and was without adequate explanation or documentation until now. Meet the “Cloward-Priven Strategy” born from where else but Columbia University. That same institution that cannot now locate Obama’s senior thesis on Soviet nuclear disarmament.

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6967

Thought the Cloward-Priven strategy as proposed focuses on breaking the welfare system to cause revolt. It is easy to expand this idea to the destruction of our financial system. Actually, Cloward and Priven were “small thinkers” it would seem. This election cycle transcends politics. It is a fight for freedom itself. In the closing statements of Sarah Palin Thursday night, as she spoke of freedom… a light went off in my head… she gets this. I slept better that night then I have in months… because as a nation we do still have redeeming qualities.

You don’t understand the political process. Contenders don’t win by trashing others within their party–that’s how they buy a ticket to Oblivionland.

This isn’t a question of “excuses” it is a question of political viability. And all of the ALL CAPS in the world don’t change that. Clinton is not a political neophyte, she is taking the smartest tack she can take in these circumstances. No one navigates the political waters better. You should take a lesson, here, instead of crabbing about her. She who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day.

She IS speaking out–on the issues. As she said she would. If you paid attention to her (if you’d have turned on CSPAN2 and watched the Senate at work on occasion; that might have helped you to see what she’s been up to) you would see that. She’s also working hard to get specific candidates elected, via HILLPAC, and they’ll have her back if they make it to DC.

She is a Democrat. She will always be a Democrat. Disabuse yourself of the idea that she will switch parties or magically create a new one. That is not going to happen. Ever.

I, for my part, am a “Clinton Democrat” but I’ll be fine with calling myself an unaffiliated independent after Election Day.

except that Oblama doesn’t have a chance of being the next CIC

it just won’t happen

your dear party fk’d up

now they will pay by being lost in the wilderness for another 4 yrs

sigh

pathetic

chuckle

I love your cartoons and write-ups. The cartoons are great to look at and make a powerful statement. The write ups explain in easy-to-read text complicated subjects that affect all of us. Together they often make us aware of things that we felt and did not know how to express.

The Democratic party in the last election has had more of its people elected than they even expected, and look where we are as a country and as a party? The party that claimed to have the biggest tent and welcomed and respected all people, but now does not welcome or respect people from the same party who disagree on almost on any subject. To me the Republicans used to require as a sign of loyalty that everyone walk-in-lock step or else, and now I feel that the Democratic Party is playing by the Republican loyalty rule of either walk-in-lock step, which in this case means worship Obama, or you are the enemy.

I will sit with you and help you hold the sign and pray that we find a party that is more like what the Democratic Party used to be.

Rich

Since we know very little of Obama’s past… save for his two propaganda manuals books. Maybe this is a good time to delve further into personalities. Here is a pretty fair description of Narcissistic Personality Disorder or NPD.

http://dslweb.nwnexus.com/jmashmun/npd/six.html

I would leave it to you to draw your own conclusions.

Jack Murtha supported Hillary in a big way. Read this: http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/03/18/john_murtha_endorses_hillary_c_1.html

He’s a conservative, Roman Catholic, pro-life Democrat and a career military man. He’s also extremely supportive of the troops, and he’s an advocate for better funding for them, from pay to equipment. He also doesn’t put up with any crap.

He’s so conservative in some respects, there are plenty who call him a DINO or GOP Lite. Check his record sometime. I doubt he is friends to ANYONE on Team Obama–they’re no doubt urging him to get out the vote for the Anointed One, and hoping he doesn’t poison the well for them.

If you’re talking about the incident I’m thinking of, he’s right. There’s some very poor leadership happening in the Armed Forces nowadays; and it’s problematic. Just because someone isn’t convicted of a crime doesn’t mean they didn’t do it. This lousy leadership HAS led to problems. It’s why we’ve had so many low quality recruits inducted, military rape and suicide are at all time highs, servicemember divorce is skyrocketing, and so is domestic violence between deployments. The Bush Administration dismantled a lot of the family support/deployment support functions that the military used to have in abundance, and that, coupled with some sketchy leadership from the top down (example — how the Pat Tillman friendly fire/murder case was handled) and no wonder you’ve got Psycho Rambos who never should have been inducted in the first place going off the page.

Wonderful ‘toon, Pat, that really hits home with a lot of us.

Country First

PUMA for McCain-Palin

They recycle that one every four years!!!

First time I heard it, NIXON was ‘the one!’

I want to go to a Hillary rally with a fog horn and yell out “I thought you said Obama was not ready to lead and that he had questionble dangerous associations?” and other stuff. I can’t stand the lies by her and Bill saying Obama is the One.

http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=3130656&maven_referralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,432501,00.html

why? why? why?

It makes me sick the way she goes from state to state and town to town telling Americans that Obama is the best thing since slice bread and that voting for Palin is more of the same. Bite it! This behavior is a direct threat to democracy and my families future. She recently said Obama is not fit to lead and now she is out there lying and saying that he’s the one. Voters are doing a double take and calling it as they see it. She jumped on Obama’s bandwagon of lies. The reason she is doing it is because she is a party loyalist. Well my family and nation come first. Screw the DemocRAT party.

If you’re disillusioned with the Democratic Party of 2008, then for gosh sakes don’t look into their past, if you do you’ll find a party whose leaders voted against every piece of civil rights legislation and every Constitutional Amendment from 1863-1964 pertaining the black community. Look again and you’ll find a party that aided and abetted apartheid under the form of Jim Crow and the KKK. Look again and you find a Democratic Presidents that authorized the mass arrest of citizens that disagreed with his war policy and instituted mass surveillance and another that stripped citizens of their property, rights and interned them in camps. The only question is what took you so long

Amen Jackie!
“We look for qualities of honesty, honor, ability to listen and find common ground.”
Finding common ground so we can get something positive done. Coming together to find the things we share and building those things is what will take us over the hump.
The other side embraces hatred as a means… we see it as a symptom of a sickness.
So, if it is for us to feel any hatred, let it be that we shall hate “Hatred” and what it has turned our countrymen into.
We have the power to snap these dummies out of it at the ballot box.
So many of these people are such small minded followers that they, like so many herd animals, will turn away from this socialist crap the minute that most of the others do.
If we stop this horror here, it will become a footnote denoting the turning point in America’s Great History.
If we don’t stop it, it will be the end of American History and the start of the Socialist state.
Given these two options, let us just take care to do the first.
Be strong…
they say , ‘yes we can’
we say,
WE WILL!

I am wondering, if Obama is elected, how many Americans would feel “motherless.”

HooAhh Jackie!
That’s the way!
I used the “194 days of experience” line yesterday on a friend. She just looked at me… then, a small flickering light started behind her eyes.
She was just being promoted after slaving for five years to get the job she won.
Keep telling the truth!

To the author of this post:

Step 1: Stop reading blogs that engage in baseless character assassination and peddle right wing smears, or you are a de facto Republican

Step 2: Remember that Hillary is supporting Barack Obama to be our next President

Step 3: Remember that we can’t do ANYTHING to change the Democratic party from the outside, because no one will trust us otherwise. Why would the DNC change any rules for people who vote Republican?

Thank you Mr. Fucking Perfect

Any more conceited wisdom you want to piss out?
What a warm and heartfelt welcome to those folks who have had their party stolen from them.
Sure you’re not a troll?

And You are a troll!

hey zeke exactly who is a troll here? the person saying you can’t change the party inside? that may very well be true. that is not trolling.

the democrats have lower poll ratings than bush, brad. i wonder why? the answer is they sucked up to every lame brain idea he had and put into law including fisa, the homeland insecurity crap. they were they ones with the leadership(lack) at fnma and freddie mac. YEAH, I’LL LOOK AT THEM AS I AM AN AD ADULT AND WILL MAKE MY JUDGMENTS. AS FOR YOU, your saracasm is lame.

Thanks for the great cartoon, Pat. I’m sitting with you all.

Here in ObamaLand (SF Bay Area) I’ve put a Nader sticker next to my PUMA sticker. It’s more of a protest than a McCain sticker. And I’ve never seen another Nader sticker or sign anywhere; CA will go blue.

I was so mad at my friends who voted Nader in 2000 but I think he’s right. There’s too much money in American politics!

The one thing I trust McCain/Palin to do is to try to get the money out of our system. They can work with Feingold on this. McCain is, after all, using the public financing. WHO MAKES ALL THE MONEY THAT BAMBI RAISES? THE MSM with all the ad buys. It’s just disgusting. We should be like other nations around the world–3 month campaigns with free public air time!

I’ve been wearing blinders all these years as a loyal Dem. They are no better than the Rs. I like the idea of a third party. Maybe the time is right.

I thank God for Hillary. Had she not mentioned that Rezko deal during a debate, I would not have checked Barfy out thoroughly and may have blindly followed the dems and hated myself in the morning!

Thank you Hillary. You did save us. I have no doubt.

Comment by Justin | 2008-10-04 13:42:43

To the author of this post:

Step 1: Stop reading blogs that engage in baseless character assassination and peddle right wing smears, or you are a de facto Republican

Step 2: Remember that Hillary is supporting Barack Obama to be our next President

Step 3: Remember that we can’t do ANYTHING to change the Democratic party from the outside, because no one will trust us otherwise. Why would the DNC change any rules for people who vote Republican?

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How much do they pay you disgusting TROLLS again? .05 cents a post, right?

ROFLMAO

That’s as good as Obama running this country.

ROFLMAO

pat racimore- that’s exactly how i feel! i still cannot bring myself to change parties. to become a rebuplican, i can see myself voting for one, but, i can’t see myself changing parties quite yet. although at the moment, i am totally embarrassed of saying i was ever even a democrat. i feel “homeless” too. i think for now, i will just find a nice bridge to lie down underneath of and maybe a bottle of wine and take a nap.

I’d rather call them the NEO-Democrats — or the POD Democrats! (Actually, New Democrats is a term which referred in the 90s to Clintonism.)

A Nader vote helps Obama, pure and simple. Anyone who doesn’t want Obama has to vote McCain. You have to vote for the only chance to beat him!

Please Obama nonsupporters, do not waste your very important vote!

So true. The Clinton years were the Golden Age. And you are right about the shady maneuverings to oust Sen Clinton and to quash the legacy of her husband’s presidency altogether.

My sister (an indie) received an Obama bumper sticker. I made her CUT it up, put it back in the provided envelope, and mail it back to the DNC…WITHOUT a stamp!

Over the course of this election, this life long Democrat registered as an Independant on June 6th, the day after Obambi was unofficially anointed the nominee. Then sometime in July while I was walking into the Walmart, registered as a Rebublican when I was told it would help them get addition funding. More money to help beat Oblowme…OK! On Nov. 5th, I will register as an Independant once again. Howard, Donna, Nancy…you told me you didn’t need me. Well I don’t need “YOUR PARTY” either…never again…

I am now sitting on a different bench with people who are working for the Democrats for Principle over Party–The Denver Group.

I am still a registered Dem, and I hope staying registered that way is somehow skewing the polls because I think they may weight their polls based on registration number.

I also stay registered as a Dem because I do have some very excellent Dem candidates in my county (District Attorney), by state house district, my state senate district, my congressional district, and especially my Senate District. Our Democratic governor is wonderful, as far as I’m concerned. There was an article today about my Dem candidate–Mark Udall–in our paper. (The Udalls should be well-known by you older people here on the site.) He talked about growing up in a political family, about knowing John McCain. He talked about how political discussions were more cordial in those days. People were allowed to have differening opinions without being demonized.

That is what we need now. I doubt that we will ever have anything but a two-party system (unless the fascists/socialists do get power). The Republicans need to be moving back to the center–as may happen if McCain is elected. And the Democrats definitely need to understand their populist center far better.

So I stay in the party to try to move it to the center. That is why I try not to feel party-less. It is hard to hear some of the young snots in my office making cluelesss remarks about the election and not being able to support them, though they know I was a delegate all throughout the primary. They assume I will vote O. If they ask me directly and privately I tell them how I feel.

I am just hoping we can become a more cordial nation again.

As usual, Pat, your cartoon gets right at the heart of what a lot of Democrats must be feeling. Let down by the party they have supported and felt part of for many years. Feeling lost and alone and looking for others to share their misery. What are we to make of Hillary and Bill and Clark now on the Obama bandwagon? Actually, I think your bench should be about a mile long, because that is probably how big it should be to seat all the people who would like to sit down beside you. The party has left a lot of us confused and disenchanted, if not disenfranchised. Should we support the current democratic nominee who is big on rhetoric, but may be serously lacking in substance, or go for the old maverick warhorse teamed with a woman with a lot flash and pizazz, an appealing wink and a smile, but who is not thoroughly convincing about how she would carry out her enthusiastically offered promises if McCain wins the election. Clearly, Palin has more personal appeal and a more winning personality than Biden. But it is hard to discount the significance of Biden’s long record in the Senate. Some of us have been horrified at the videos that have been circulating, showing innocent children recruited to blindly follow Obama, with ritualistic singing or ranting in ways only too reminiscent of the Hitler Youth movement decades ago or the ways in which the Chinese have brainwashed their children. It is hard to believe that mainstream Democrats, if they exist anymore, would back this kind of activity, but I have yet to hear that this kind of tactic has been repudiated by der furher, or for that matter by the Democratic leadership or by Hillary, Bill or Clark. This contributes greatly to my own disillusionment with the Democratic party. Yes, move on over, but better yet, get a bigger bench for all of us disillusioned, disaffected former Democrats to sit and commiserate with you.

Obama lies about anything so long as it an help him to get votes. He even lie about whether he is a natural born citizen.

Washington is upside down.

Attagirl, Jackie! Exactly!

I walk around with my Hillary shirt and my McCain/Palin button in places I will not disclose lest the brownshirts try to suppress me, and I talk to anyone and everyone. In office building lobbies. In shopping center parking lots. In grocery stores. Outside an ice cream shop. At outdoor markets. Anywhere. *PREFERABLY* in places where other people can also hear the conversation, so that my time has an effect on more than one person.

I’m deliberately getting out there to show that it’s not over, that McCain still has support even in our very-left-leaning area, and that standing up and voting for character over policy for the first time in one’s life is NOT unthinkable. The “my way or the highway (under the bus)” attitude of the current Democratic party is not going to lead to a coming-together of America, but rather more divisiveness.

Then sometime in July while I was walking into the Walmart, registered as a Rebublican when I was told it would help them get addition funding.

I hadn’t heard that. Drat. A missed opportunity. I’d have done the same thing for the same reason, had I known.

Cause and effect, stodghie…
“Please hang around this dead whale of a party and stay ineffectual. Hang with us Obot’s and change things from within even though Donna says you’re not needed.
Do anything other than the ONE thing that will really change things.”
Stodghie, this game is played at many levels and the attempts of anyone to deflect us from the only play we have which will stop them has the same effect especially considering the original subject of this thread.
Please explain all you want how the bullshit I responded to isn’t the work of a pro-Obama player trying to mitigate our efforts.
Asserting your views in front of the rank and file DNC suck-ups will get you nowhere. Remember they drank the koolaid. What good did it do when Hillary was being buried?
Get yourself some coffee buddy, I don’t think you’re firing on all cylinders today.
regards

Pat, I wrote that I feel like I’ve fallen down the rabbit hole. Not sure if the Cheshire Cat is friend or foe.

We should start a new party of centrists!

We shall call it the American Party.

We should launch it on the 5th of November. Common sense and the common good should be its hallmarks. Absolute transparancy of action and money.

Any takers???

All In the Family The democrats and ceo Fannie mae Freddie Mac and more-Down load this on Disk and send to all…I have it on VCR – DISK -CD- ALL IN THE FAMILY

And download as you see this-

All In the Family
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rodIc9E1g7E

To Justin from “Author of this post”
1. I research carefully.
2. Hillary does not speak for me
3. I do not believe the party can be changed from the inside–the only way it will get the message now is if lots of us leave it.

Sad but true.

Pat

May I join you on that bench? Losing HIllary thanks to Obamarama’s fraudulent caucuses and the misogynist media’s blatant pushing her off the ring so the Anorexic Resume could be crowned…..No way the wounds will disappear.
But seeing how hard Hillary works to keep things moving gives us hope. But I agree NEW PARTY TO REPLACE the ex-DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS URGENTLY NEEDED. Look at Canada’s example. If it weren’t for the Third Party (New Democratic Party) they wouldn’t have UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE, which is used as stimulus for economic recovery.

Since 1965 Canadians’s major cause for bankruptcies has NOT been MEDICAL BILLS!! And Women’s Equal Rights are constitutionally protected.

Doesn’t this make you wish, Pat, that the Third Party’s birth should be quick and urgen? How about the Pumas as political midwives?? This election is between Tweedle Dee and Tweedle DumbO!

Kal,
You’re right about Stephen Harper, the Canadian Prime Minister who’s sickeningly Bush-like and anti-woman. But he pales compared to the real George W. misogynist policies. Why?

In Canada, there’s a THIRD PARTY that ensures the right-winger neanderthals never get balance of power. Best legislation is when there’s a minority. Since 1965, thanks to their New Democratic (3rd party) UNIVERSAL HEALTH care became national law. And WOMEN’S EQUAL RIGHTS are constitutionally entrenched since 1982.
Canada’s way more progressive Women’s policies and social policies in general owe their existence to a more tolerant and progressive world-view of a Third Party that has survived in Canad for decades. And it was born because there were only two deaf, dumb and blind parties–like the Republicans and the (ex) Democrats in the States!
Yes, and the time for a THIRD PUMA PARTY IS NOW!

Yes, I am on the bench. This is one of the rare
places that I feel connected. Thank you all.

I forgot to give you this link to a perfect
sweatshirt about “no longer being a democrat”
http://www.cafepress.com/cp/tf.aspx?tf=579947
It says it all. Take a look.

It’s a gamble as to what BHO will flip-flop about in the future if he’s elected. We don’t know enough about him, or he would be criticized more now, but especially before the primaries. There’s just enough time now for most voters to “latch” onto the scumball million dollar ads that are placed in prime time on which most voters rely on for information regarding the candidates for whom to vote. There’s too much that’s behind the BHO/DNC connection and promotion and I’m afraid we won’t find out the answers to the “real” questions until after he’s elected…. we assume…

Pat, I love your ‘toons….and you have so many appropriate subjects with which to work! Don’t worry about not having anyone else to sit beside you…there are many more than you think!!! I really don’t think a third party would be advantageous to the election process….the party system would be more splintered, and as I recall a bit of history, that was tried and shortly failed.

It’s atrocious that adult men and women are so selfish and greedy for money and power that they can’t be stewards for the betterment of our country.

This cartoon expresses exactly how I feel.