Comments on: Why Do I Care So Much (about the outcome of this primary)? http://thedemocraticdaily.com/2008/02/15/why-do-i-care-so-much-about-the-outcome-of-this-primary/ Political News, Progressive Commentary, Liberal Opinions and Common Sense Conversation... Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:14:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Around The Campaign 2008 Sphere http://thedemocraticdaily.com/2008/02/15/why-do-i-care-so-much-about-the-outcome-of-this-primary/comment-page-1/#comment-5836 Around The Campaign 2008 Sphere Sun, 17 Feb 2008 19:05:32 +0000 http://thedemocraticdaily.com/2008/02/15/why-do-i-care-so-much-about-the-outcome-of-this-primary/#comment-5836 [...] Case For Hillary Clinton And Against Barack Obama is laid out in a MUST READ post by The Democratic Daily’s JoAnne Tybinka Blasko. Pointed? Yes. But it avoids the screaming, adjective hurling demonization that you now see on many [...] [...] Case For Hillary Clinton And Against Barack Obama is laid out in a MUST READ post by The Democratic Daily’s JoAnne Tybinka Blasko. Pointed? Yes. But it avoids the screaming, adjective hurling demonization that you now see on many [...]

]]> By: Hamilla http://thedemocraticdaily.com/2008/02/15/why-do-i-care-so-much-about-the-outcome-of-this-primary/comment-page-1/#comment-5825 Hamilla Sun, 17 Feb 2008 15:51:02 +0000 http://thedemocraticdaily.com/2008/02/15/why-do-i-care-so-much-about-the-outcome-of-this-primary/#comment-5825 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9z-Aatd0wA Found this video to be the very basic of my reason of why we should all vote for Hillary http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9z-Aatd0wA

Found this video to be the very basic of my reason of why we should all vote for Hillary

]]> By: myopinion http://thedemocraticdaily.com/2008/02/15/why-do-i-care-so-much-about-the-outcome-of-this-primary/comment-page-1/#comment-5819 myopinion Sun, 17 Feb 2008 07:46:42 +0000 http://thedemocraticdaily.com/2008/02/15/why-do-i-care-so-much-about-the-outcome-of-this-primary/#comment-5819 Ms. Blasko and "suskin"- you are both spot-on. Thank you. Ms. Blasko and “suskin”- you are both spot-on.
Thank you.

]]> By: bacalove http://thedemocraticdaily.com/2008/02/15/why-do-i-care-so-much-about-the-outcome-of-this-primary/comment-page-1/#comment-5801 bacalove Sat, 16 Feb 2008 11:52:34 +0000 http://thedemocraticdaily.com/2008/02/15/why-do-i-care-so-much-about-the-outcome-of-this-primary/#comment-5801 <p>Below are excerpts from reputable resources about Senator Obama's accomplishments -- so here if the Beef!</p> <p>Excerpt from: , <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/03/AR2008010303303.html" rel="nofollow">Judge Him by His Laws, By Charles Peters</a><br /> ***MODERATOR NOTE: COMMENT HAS BEEN EDITED -- PLEASE POST LINKS & BRIEF EXCERPT - NOT FULL ARTICLE *** Below are excerpts from reputable resources about Senator Obama’s accomplishments — so here if the Beef!

Excerpt from: , Judge Him by His Laws, By Charles Peters

***MODERATOR NOTE: COMMENT HAS BEEN EDITED — PLEASE POST LINKS & BRIEF EXCERPT – NOT FULL ARTICLE ***

]]> By: suskin http://thedemocraticdaily.com/2008/02/15/why-do-i-care-so-much-about-the-outcome-of-this-primary/comment-page-1/#comment-5793 suskin Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:47:26 +0000 http://thedemocraticdaily.com/2008/02/15/why-do-i-care-so-much-about-the-outcome-of-this-primary/#comment-5793 I share your thoughts JoAnne, both on Hillary and Obama. I couldn’t have said it better. I also have never cared so much about the outcome of an election. I have never gotten involved and I have never donated. But I am now. I’m doing everything I can to try to stop the train wreck from happening and get Hillary nominated. I think there are lots of us who feel the same way. I think the reason why so many of us are so concerned, is because after eight years of Bush, we can see how important it is to choose the right candidate. Eight years ago America picked the charisma guy. The uniter not the divider. The guy who could work across the isle. The one who was going to change the tone in Washington. But Bush was inexperienced and unprepared for the job and so his advisers took over and we all know the rest. If America had picked the other guy, the boring guy, the guy with the methodical solutions; America would have been a lot better off. I voted for Obama in Illinois when he ran for Senator. I had never heard of him before, but I was very excited. I thought he would be a strong voice for change. Instead, I heard nothing. The only voice I heard was Hillary’s – that is until Obama announced he was running for President. I could not believe Obama had the audacity to run for president when he had only been in the Senate for what, one year? How could he possibly have the experience he needs? Why didn’t he wait and get that experience? I lost my enthusiasm for him right there. And this whole religious messianic revivalist showmanship garbage is just way over the top. Obama’s message is deeply negative, divisive and disturbing. It says in essence that everyone who isn’t an Obamabot is evil. The past is evil. The old are evil. Lobbyists are evil. Politicians are evil. People who fight for the causes they believe in are evil. Using a message of hope and unity, Obama is raising an army founded on hatred and anger. It’s as sad as it is troubling. This kind of negative rhetorical campaigning was Obama’s only hope. He had to discredit Hillary’s strengths as a leader because her strengths are his weaknesses. She has experience. She is a fighter. She is proven. She is respected. She will stand up for America. Obama was an unknown, weak candidate whose career is defined by compromise. So David Axelrod went to work. He used a message of hope, change and unity to distract the voters from his candidate’s weakness and discredit and denigrate Hillary’s and McCain’s greatest strengths. And he rallied the youth with promises of a utopia, into a formidable army of hate. I share your thoughts JoAnne, both on Hillary and Obama. I couldn’t have said it better.

I also have never cared so much about the outcome of an election. I have never gotten involved and I have never donated. But I am now. I’m doing everything I can to try to stop the train wreck from happening and get Hillary nominated. I think there are lots of us who feel the same way.

I think the reason why so many of us are so concerned, is because after eight years of Bush, we can see how important it is to choose the right candidate. Eight years ago America picked the charisma guy. The uniter not the divider. The guy who could work across the isle. The one who was going to change the tone in Washington. But Bush was inexperienced and unprepared for the job and so his advisers took over and we all know the rest.

If America had picked the other guy, the boring guy, the guy with the methodical solutions; America would have been a lot better off.

I voted for Obama in Illinois when he ran for Senator. I had never heard of him before, but I was very excited. I thought he would be a strong voice for change. Instead, I heard nothing. The only voice I heard was Hillary’s – that is until Obama announced he was running for President. I could not believe Obama had the audacity to run for president when he had only been in the Senate for what, one year? How could he possibly have the experience he needs? Why didn’t he wait and get that experience? I lost my enthusiasm for him right there.

And this whole religious messianic revivalist showmanship garbage is just way over the top.

Obama’s message is deeply negative, divisive and disturbing. It says in essence that everyone who isn’t an Obamabot is evil. The past is evil. The old are evil. Lobbyists are evil. Politicians are evil. People who fight for the causes they believe in are evil. Using a message of hope and unity, Obama is raising an army founded on hatred and anger. It’s as sad as it is troubling.

This kind of negative rhetorical campaigning was Obama’s only hope. He had to discredit Hillary’s strengths as a leader because her strengths are his weaknesses. She has experience. She is a fighter. She is proven. She is respected. She will stand up for America. Obama was an unknown, weak candidate whose career is defined by compromise. So David Axelrod went to work. He used a message of hope, change and unity to distract the voters from his candidate’s weakness and discredit and denigrate Hillary’s and McCain’s greatest strengths. And he rallied the youth with promises of a utopia, into a formidable army of hate.

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