Wow (courtesy of angry_biscuit)

[veronica_rich]

Um ... how fucking self-defeating can you be?

Seriously ... your female candidate loses, so instead of getting over it and voting for the next best thing being offered in this particular election to what you wanted, you're going for the senile white guy who wants to stay at war for 100 years, and privatize Social Security (among other things not desirable for minorities or people who earn under $200K a year, I assure you)?

A vote for McCain is a third term for Bush. Your choice. Pass it on.

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[a-silver-rose.livejournal.com]

IMO, if people are going to compare DNC 2008 to the General Election of 2000, a few things need to be pointed out:

1) Hilary Clinton was claiming she got more of the popular vote based only on the numbers of voters in the *primaries*. The voting numbers from the *caucuses* were not calculated, because they were not available or released (can't recall which off the top of my head).

2) Hilary Clinton has long been seen as a divisive figure, ever since her First Lady Days. I'll concede that a good slice of this is because she's a woman, but she's has been tagged with the "liberal" label just like Obama has.

3) I don't think it would be too far off base to surmise that if Obama had walked away with the majority of pledged delegates (with or without Florida and Michigan), the superdelegates are well aware that if they went the other way and gave Clinton the nomination, they would effectively be slicing the Democrat Party's vote. *That* would be the big scandal, the Dems ignoring the vote of the people (by way of pledged delegates) and throwing the victory to the person who lost. Sound familiar, anyone?

4) Hilary Clinton was OK with the punishment being handed down to the FL and MI delegations until it became clear that she needed their votes to bolster her delegate count.

5) McCain, while trying to distance himself from Bush publicly, is actively trying to court Bush's support. He also wants to make Bush's corporate tax cuts permanent. Doesn't sound like he's doing much distancing to me.

6) McCain voted AGAINST the national holiday honoring Martin Luther King, Jr.

7) Obama, while serving in the Illinois legislature, voted for a gas tax holiday. The gas tax holiday didn't work, as prices stayed the same or went higher anyway. Obama has since apologized voting for this failed idea.

8) McCain believes in free trade, which, although a noble idea on paper,just doesn't work.

I'm sure I can come up with some other things, too, given more time.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

#2: YES. This is not a new thing. I mean, I can understand how teenagers wouldn't know better, but adults should be well aware of this.

#5: That man has flipflopped more than John Kerry ever thought about doing. I can't respect a guy who went crawling back to Bush after Bush fucking gutted him in the 2000 primary. That's the big thing - I used to at least respect McCain, but I haven't for some time.

#7: Well, I guess you could say he at least *tried*. And I love how people are yelling about him raising taxes ... without hearing the other half of what he said, about WHO he wants to raise taxes on. (It's like the Republicans yelling about the farm bill "raising taxes" a few months ago - uh, those weren't tax raises, those were *enforcing* the taxes that *ought* to have been collected for a long time on offshore businesses.)