Comments on: The DNC: A Night of Political Soap Opera

By: BBloom

BBloom — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:19:41 +0000

I am so disgusted with the DNC that I have stopped watching. I don’t know what I will do. My daughter has said I have no choice, I should think about the Supreme Court. I have a choice, though. I don’t believe that I can support such blatant liars. McCain is not Bush. Obama is much more of a Carter then a Kennedy.

By: Phyl

Phyl — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:00:29 +0000

I share Phyllis Chesler’s concern with Islamic fundamentalism. I was in lower Manhattan on 9/11. My first requirement of a president is that he protect the United States. I was struck by one thing Obama said in an interview—did McCain really think he, Obama, was less concerned to protect his wife and daughters than McCain was? I think Obama was and is sincere. I believe he will follow through with a reasonable timetable for exiting from Iraq—which even Bush thinks is necessary now—and will turn our energies to winning in Afghanistan. He will protect the United States and will maintain our commitment to IsraeI as he pledged. I believe he will also protect a woman’s right to choose, as McCain definitely will not, and will at least try to help people who are struggling rather than comforting the comfortable as McCain would. He realizes that the United States should not be one of the few developed country’s where an illness can be a financial catastrophe. He will at least try to bring about universal health care coverage.

Dr. Chesler, the personal stuff and trotting out the family stories may be silly, but this is how politics is conducted in this country, by left and right. Terrorism has receded from the public consciousness and Obama and Biden have to address the main immediate concerns of the people. I was glad that Biden at least brought up terrorism.

I’m sort of disappointed that you, a person who has fought for equality, don’t feel any of the real joy of this moment. I ask myself, how can you NOT feel it? The struggle against terrorism is hugely important but it is not the only struggle that matters.

Because I worship the United States I am so glad that we have reached this landmark that so many good people died for. Forty-five years after King’s “I have a dream” speech, a big part of that dream has been realized. A major American political party is nominating an African American for president of the United States.

By: John Peter Maher

John Peter Maher — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:39:12 +0000

The show was a completely scripted soap opera. Turn off the Teleprompter. All the “speakers” would be stutterers without it. Oh, for the days when the convention outcome was not “pre-announced” days, week, months earlier! Once upon a time we didn’t know who the party nominees wuld be until the end of the show. Biden is in bed with the Albanian Muslim heroin/prostitution mafia [so is McCain] and with Nazi Croatia, an ethniccally “pure” fascist Catholic state.

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By: Z Budapest

Z Budapest — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:31:07 +0000

Darling friend and sister!
Democrats do deserve a time of coalecing without spelling out the details of their plans. This night was NOT for specific issues. Only feelings. You call that soap opera i call it a relief from bickering.
I was hurt when Hillary was not chosen to be the vice president.
But reality is what it is, and she still made herslef a pioneer amongs women. Her speach was flawless. She looked terrific. Bill was very much enjoyed, the people still love him. He did good. Both are forgiven. Chelsie looked great as well, turned out to be quite a looker.
I will vote for Obama/Biden. I wished i could vote for Hillary but i need this country to go democratic. Sometimes as Hillary have done, you have to step aside and stop wishing for perfaction.
Vote in a democratic candidate.
Nobody gets to be president without the support of big money. Come on.

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By: Ester

Ester — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:45:12 +0000

I became a citizen in 2007 and was so happy to vote for Hillary. I’ve always followed the political scene very closely, and was terribly disappointed when she lost. I think she would make an awesome president. Nevertheless, rather than vote for McCaine, I’ll be putting her name on the page. It’s a privilege to be able to vote.

By: Lorelei

Lorelei — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:38:31 +0000

Am much in agreement with Fern. I am thus uncommitted to Obama
at this point (although I’ve been a lifelong Democrat). The assumption of being able to reason with the unreasonable is absurd.
Worth a try, to be sure, before sending youngsters to war.
As a humanist and Zionist, I need to know that our next president has Israel’s
interest at heart.

By: Virginia/Greenconsciousness

Virginia/Greenconsciousness — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:37:49 +0000

Judy thanks for reminding me about Dr Ingrid and the ISNA invited to speak at the DC as a “religious tolerance” organization. — All BO’s crap about I am not a Muslim is just to cover how strong his ties are with radical Islam in Chicago, in Kenya and with the Palestinians through Hamas and Hezbollah.

Still what difference does it make if BO cuts your throat or McCain shoves you into a Burqa?

By: Virginia/Greenconsciousness

Virginia/Greenconsciousness — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:30:22 +0000

This is what I wrote on my blog:
Poor Bill
Well Bill Clinton is speaking.

He just could not walk the line unlike Hillary. He is reminding me of that other speech so much like this one.

“I – did – NOT – have – sex – with that woman.”

What a bore and a hypocrite.

Thanks for NAFTA Bill – now go back to being irrelevant.

The country has a choice between 2 evils – McCain is against reproductive Choice which is THE fundamental means of access to women’s liberation. If a woman cannot control her own reproduction in a country where one in four children are raped IN THE HOME to say nothing about what it is like when they grow up, then women cannot be free to actualize.

McCain voted against equal pay for equal work.

McCain will build nuclear power plants instead of alternative energy. With no place yet to put the toxic waste.

Obama is a corporate tool, wall street his money source.

Both parties have corrupted the process so the votes of citizens do not count. Also to that end both parties are flooding the country with immigrants whose understanding of civil rights will degrade what unions and women have won.

Obama has no history of Civil Rights work although he and his wife benefited by AA, they destroyed women who won it and those who supported AA legislation through sexist tactics and race and age baiting. BO is supporting Kenyan politicians working to install Sharia courts. The BO’s concern for people in poverty shows in what they have done for his Kenyan relatives and the examples they use when they talk about how hard their own lives have been.

So I have no party and no people. Soon my country will be unrecognizable.

Neither vote for either candidate will save my country which has been sold to commercial interest by the co-optation of the non-profit people’s organizations by corporate wealth which decided not to fight but to buy the boards and staff.

All this happened because people believe what feels good not what is in front of their eyes. So I will vote for the best person – Hillary Clinton. It no longer matters how the vote is counted.

I am writing in Hillary as we have two corrupt parties in the US, both sexist, neither of which will produce anything for working people , both of which will produce only for corporate wealth and Wall ST., both of which are now into vote manipulation through computer balloting which does not allow write-ins.

http://www.writehillaryin.com/