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I suspect that everyone is sick of my Hillary/Obama posts. I'll try to stop making them. But I want to copy this CNN comment here, because I don't know if it will survive moderation:

I was an Edwards supporter, but I've noticed a few things that I keep seeing from Hillary supporters:

1. "We don't know anything about Obama's positions - he's a cipher!"

He has a website, and it has detailed position papers. Google for Obama, and there it is. Or better still, here's the link:

http://www.barackobama.com/issues/

If you don't want to bother, then please be honest about that and stop pretending that he has no positions.

2. "Hillary has EXPERIENCE!"

Experience doing what? Sleeping in the White House? George W. Bush has more of that kind of experience than she does! Did that make HIM a great President?

Or do you mean that she has more experience in the Senate? But she doesn't have THAT much more experience than Obama, and by that criteria John McCain beats them both, twice over, COMBINED. Does it make sense for Democrats to say that experience is the key qualification in this election?

And exactly what has Hillary's experience accomplished? She voted in favor of the Iraq war authorization, the bankruptcy bill (a gift to the credit card industry at the expense of the working poor) and the Iran "terrorist" bill - which practically INVITES Bush and Cheney to attack Iran. And she sponsored the pandering and idiotic flag-burning bill. Plus her campaign managed to blow through tens of millions of dollars in the biggest display of fiscal irresponsibility in DECADES.

Is this the sort of experience America needs?

3. "If you vote for Obama, it must be because you're black. Or you're a guilt-ridden white liberal. And you're a sexist pig because you're voting against a woman."

This is the sort of argument that really pushed me into Obama's camp. I'm not voting against a *woman* - I'm voting for THE BETTER CANDIDATE, irrespective of race or gender. By constantly playing the race/gender card, the Hillary campaign and their supporters have been dragging the Democratic Party down into the mud. And we'll all pay the price, if we're not careful.

America desperately needs great leadership to bring us back to the sane, fiscally responsible, non-torturing democracy we used to be. I don't know if Obama is the one who can take us there. But I think he'll try - and I'm very sure that neither John McCain nor Hillary Clinton will.

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If any of your readers are Senator Clinton supporters, I suggest they read Taylor Marsh's blog, www.taylormarsh.com for an alternative point of view.

Here is an email she got from a Sen. Obama supporter, which she says is one of many abusive emails she receive, that she won't even post, they are so vile:

You f---ing crazy c---! Can't wait to read your posts after Barack wins the nomination, than the presidency, you racist b----!

B----, you are totally, like, the Ann F---ing Coulter of liberalism. I wanna get on you so bad. My hardon is for you, my swastika is true. KEEP THAT N----- DOWN, YOU WHITE SUBURBAN B----!!!!

A message I'm posting wherever I can: Taylor Marsh should be banned from the planet. Her filthy, racist, dishonest invective has no place in a civilized discussion. ... .. If you persist, I will destroy you.

http://www.taylormarsh.com/%22archives_view.php?id=27009"

Today Taylor has an article about how Jesse Jackson Jr. is threatening African American lawmakers who support Sen. Clinton, "Jesse Jackson Jr. Threatens Colleagues as Pandemonium Breaks Out Over Lewis" http://www.taylormarsh.com/%22archives_view.php?id=27023".

Well, they didn't use my comment.

Having just taken a look over at BartCop (after years of not reading him), I've decided to stop posting Hillary/Obama stuff here...if I can help it, anyway. There's no point in aggravating you!

There was a bit in the Globe today about the split amongst liberal women as some want to support a woman and some want to support a black candidate and some feel guilty about supporting one or the other.

To me, it shouldn't make a difference; the issues should be the deal. Then again, I'm a white male more or less Protestant and thus I hardly have to worry about non-representation of my gender or race or religion.

I have seen commentary on some blogs that, well, the nastiness currently going on in the Democratic race is not historically unusual or even exceptional. I think after everything is said and done Hillary supporters will almost all support Obama and Obama supporters will almost all support Hillary; that is, as long as there is not the impression that the nomination has been "stolen" in some way, like one getting more delegates from the primaries and caucuses but the other winning because of superdelegates, or the winning factor being Michigan and Florida getting counted despite the Party's sanctions and the non-participation of the candidates other than Clinton.

At least I hope so; the Enemy is the Republicans, not other Democrats.

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