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I just made a contribution—in part because of the fine arguments Senator Dodd makes, but even more because of the threat by a few of Senator Clinton’s wealthier supporters to withhold funds from the DCCC. This is my party too, and I hope the DCCC recognizes that no single large donor (or even a small group of large donors) can match the power of millions of motivated “regular people” like me. Regardless of whether you support Senator Clinton or Senator Obama, I hope we can all agree that we should all have our voices heard.
I can’t give much, but I’ve giving $50 for the reasons stated above and in support of Rep. Nancy Pelosi. Thanks, Sen. Dodd, for all you do.
Dear Sen. Dodd,
Thank you for all you do. I am contributing so that my voice may be heard. This is the first time in my life I’ve ever donated politically. However, the Republicans have proven they can not govern and will never end this war. I also want the DCCC big money donors to understand that the party and this country belongs to all of us not a select few. We will beat Sen. McCain!
I’m tired of the wealthy donors thinking they own the political parties. I’ll donate in honor of Nancy Pelosi standing up to Hillary Clinton’s extortion tactics.
I’m so sorry, I can’t contribute - I’m so disappointed about the Czar and Czarina’s attempts to rip the party to shreds. They’ve been following Rove’s path - and I think it is time for the rest of the party to stand up and demand a stop to these tactics. If they want to be republican’s then let them leave this party to those of us who want to get some things changed. The Czarina is a hawk who just wants to stay at war anyway. I’m tired of political dynasties in this country…
We have not been making donations to the DCCC this season, but after the appalling letter by the big time donors we thought maybe it was time to show our support that our party can be and should be run by millions of people, not by 20 or so “fat cats”
Until that idiotic letter from a few spoiled, ultra-rich Hillarians, I was refusing to support the DCCC simply because it is my huge fear that a failure to impeach this president will lead to even worse global relations, a worse economic situation, and a continuing destruction of domestic policies.
Given the disgusting (although subtle) threat contained in their letter, I have changed my mind and will donate money to the DCCC again. It is proof positive that those closest to Hillary have the same ethics, morals, and social responsibility. And probably, just like her, they have precisely the same amount of shame. As in none at all.
Thank you, Senator, and congrats for a honorable presidential race. You remain someone who proves that good people can survive and make it into public office.
We’ve got your back--thanks to N. Pelosi and yourself, sir. Cannot believe the underhanded and completely obnoxious behavior of the Clintons. WE WILL WORK FOR YOU.
I just made my small contribution to help defray in a tiny way the possible loss of the group of big-dollar donors who, presumably at the behest of the Clinton campaign, have threatened to withdraw their funding for the DCCC as part of a last-ditch effort to retain control of the party, no matter the costs- such as ignoring the will of the voters.
It is high time for the party to move on from the political positioning of the Clinton era. And it can and will move on by virtue of the support of the many small folks out here, as opposed to being essentially the personal property of the few wealthy movers and shakers. I do like the opinion expressed above: “it’s my party too”. Threatening the DCCC was a very, very bad move- and I’m more than happy to be a part of the backlash.
It *is* our party too- and it needs to ride on the coattails of a positive presidential candidate, one whose message is of hope for a better style of politics. It seems to me that we have one of those available, and he’s leading in votes, states won, and momentum, despite all attacks. And, astonishingly, he’s not having his supporters send out letters threatening to pull funding for worthy Democrats. So use my money for good works, and keep the faith.
I will be donating to the DCCC for many of the same reasons listed before. I actually called the DCCC office just this morning to express my disgust at the tactics being used by the Clinton campaign and her surrogates. I also wish to express my gratitude to Senator Dodd and Congresswoman Pelosi for their hard work in Washington. Thank you both for standing up for us and for what’s right.
That said, it’s time to right this ship and build a strong Democratic coalition for November. Obama will need some good, Progressive Democrats backing him when he’s President!
I just contributed $50 (and I hope it helps). Although I regularly give to individual candidates, this is my first contribution to the DCCC. I’m giving for the reasons stated above, but mostly to express my gratitude and support for Congresswoman Pelosi for her hard work, and to thank Sen. Dodd for his patriotic leadership against telcom amnesty!
I just made a donation, also my first to the DCCC. Speaker Pelosi and Senator Dodd stood up for voters; we, the people. A few wealthy individuals should not be allowed to intimidate our public servants. Moreover, we do NOT need another compromised Bush-style power play “election”. We need to be a Democracy, not a corporate fiefdom benefiting !% of the wealthy enfranchised, and corporations that have decreasing investment in our nation and our well being as a society. WE HAVE HAD IT.
If I wanted a party run by a few rich people, I would be Republican.
Thank you Senator Dodd for your work to protect our rights, and Speaker Pelosi, remember those of us who voted for you! Please?
I have made a contribution to the DCCC today, in response to the letter sent to Speaker Pelosi by big bucks Clinton backers who seem to feel that their money gives them the right to decide how the Democratic Party functions. I also want to thank Senator Dodd for the clean campaign he ran, and for his support for our individual rights as citizens.
For Nancy Pelosi
I donated to express my sincere thanks for a true democratic leader. Speaker Pelosi many thanks for standing up for the millions of voters across America that want real change, not change funded by 20 donors that feel entitled to dictate the rules of democracy. Regular Americans have your back.
President Obama will need a strong Democratic majority to enact legislation which is critical to reverse the downhill slide started on October 11 2002 with H.J. Res. 114 authorizing the use of US Armed Forces against Iraq. Sen. Levin (MI) joined Paul Wellstone in voting Nay on this resolution two weeks before Paul’s tragic and violent death. (Clinton voted Yea on this resolution, along with McCain and every single Republican in the US Senate except Chafee (R.I.). Barack Obama was not yet in the Senate, but he had bravely spoken to a giant antiwar crowd in Chicago on October 2 against the use of force in Iraq.
Dear Senator Dodd,
I would be happy to contribute to the DCCC, but as long as you support Senator Obama, I will not.
How is that legislation Obama “put forward with his colleague Chris Dodd” going?
Are you having buyer’s remorse yet?
Please write again when you do.
I say no. Democrats have been in the Majority for how long? What have you done? I haven’t seen any progress toward resolving our Middle East debacle, just a lot of paper pushing and anecdotal rhetoric. Why don’t you take the extra money you all make compared to the average salary for an enlisted soldier in Iraq and add that to the pot. That should give you enough money to exist on for the next 100 years.
No more money from me, and I am a regular small contributor to the party and to Democratic causes. I will not donate to any Democrat who is supporting this disenfranchisement of MI and FL.
All the speeches and rhetoric in the world won’t get around that basic fact that voting is the foundation of our Democracy. If we don’t have that, we have nothing. It’s shameful.
I’m one of many life long Democrats who will not support the party, nor any of these candidates who come out in support of Sen. Obama. The Democratic party I used to support stood up for women’s rights and against racism and for voters rights. That the DNC has not spoken out against the sexist campaing of Sen. Obama, has not forced Obama to agree to a re-vote in FL and MI so those delegates can be counted, and would consider forcing the nomination of a man who has spent 20 years as a member of a racist, anti-American, and anti-semitic church means that the Democratic Party no longer represents my values. It’s sad, they used to stand for right, now in standing for Wright they are all wrong.
I am assuming that Ann is not familiar with NARA. According to the NARAL website, Sen. Obama received the following scores on NARAL Pro-Choice America’s Congressional Record on Choice.
2007: 100 percent
2006: 100 percent
2005: 100 percent
Or probably not familiar with the fact that ADL Leader Abraham Foxman praised Obama last week for an “element of sensitivity to the Jewish community,” including his “specific reference to Israel as our ally, his condemnation of radical Islam.” (...from an article by James D. Besser in The New York Jewish Week, which asks why the press focuses on Obama and Wright and not on John McCain and not Pastor John Hagee, the apocalypse-minded televangelist who has endorsed McCain.)
Regarding Michigan re-voting, readers should know that Senator Biden was the first to remove his name from the Michigan ballot when the DNC announced way way way in advance that it would not accept the results if the primary were held January 15. Senators Dodd and Edwards and Obama followed Biden’s brave lead, and then removed their names. Only Senator Clinton refused to follow the other Senators.
I’m familiar with NARAL and there is more to women’s rights than NARAL. And, I wasn’t talking about MI and names being taken off the ballot, I was talking about Obama’s refusal to sanction a re-vote because he knows he will lose and he’s rather dis-enfranchise the voters of those two states then lose the nomination.
This tactic, however, shows how unprepared he is for the nomination and the presidency. The ruthless behavior of he and his supporters has already cost him about 35% of core democratic voters and refusing to allow a revote in FL and MI will cost him two big electoral wins. Sen. Obama does not have a winning coalition—not hispanics, not core democrats, not electoral must win states. He has the African American vote, the liberal elite and caucus victories in mostly red states. If he is given the nomination he’ll be lucky to carry IL—the last poll I saw he was in danger of losing MA.
I worry about MA, because Mitt will definitely help McCain there. Mitt is very smart, flexible, and reasonable person. Duh! He survives as a Republican in a state that voted for McGovern in 1972! Regarding MI, the do-over is dead, not because of Hillary or Barack. It is because the whole Democratic establishment is occupied with something really quite bigger than the Presidency: saving Detroit. The Mayor misspoke alot. Unfortunately, not just on videotape like Senator Clinton (Bosnia) and Senator McCain (in Jordan last week standing next to Lieberman), but in court, under oath. Mayor Kilpatrick has 8 counts of mis-speaking to defend in court. He was booked and fingerprinted last week. The whole Democratic establishment in MI is scrabmling now to figure out how to push Detroit’s economic recovery in the wake of the mayoral scandal. By the way, Obama carried Minnesota and North Dakota easily, without your “African-American vote”.
I will donate-- To Hillary Rodham Clinton for President.
The DNC is allowing one democratic candidate--Obama-- to malign and sully the record of an effective life-long Democrat, Senator Clinton. In addition, the DNC allows Obama to attack the successful economic record of President Clinton-- the president with the record Democrats need to be reminding the electorate about. Instead, the DNC is allowing this non-experienced, non-professor, and non-flag wearing/saluting two-year senator to DIVIDE our Party and then blame it on Senator Clinton.
Obama is a sexist who advances himself by demeaning women (Obama Girl-- has he ever denounced that??).
The DNC will see my money go to Senator Clinton as the Democratic candidate for President. If she is not our nominee, then I will support Senator McCain--as he will be the only candidate left with any experience!
Sorry Mr. Dodd. After your endorsement with Obama I lost every respect I had for you and most prominent democrats. You are supporting a person thet sat in a church listening to Anti-American, Anti-Jewish, Anti-Italian, anti-everything that is not black or from Africa, and you want a person like that to be a president. You could see the indoctrination thru Michelles words. You are supporting a person that is close with a relative in Kenya (Odinga) that is connected with Jihadis and he is responsible for killing 100’s of Christians. What kind of judgement you saw in this person to lead us forward. It seems your judgement is off too. So do not expect any money from me.
I am a registered Democrat and have been all my life. I will not give one red cent to the DNC until all voters have a voice, which is a fundamental right in this country. I am extremely upset with Mr. Dean who managed to implode during his own Presidential candidacy—and now feels it necessary to ruin the entire Democratic party as if his one big blunder wasn’t enough! As for Dodd, no one cared what he had to say while he was running for President—and no one cares now. He is speaking for Senator Obama so his words are highly disingenuous. Go away!
I will donate to the candidate of my choice and will not donate to the DNC until every democratic voter is heard from. I reside in a State which as yet to cast its votes and for you to even consider not allowing me to exercise this right is unconscionable.
The letter from the donors in Florida was not a threat to the Democratic Party because they support Senator Clinton, but was a letter asking those that have been speaking on behalf of the Democratic Party regarding Super Delegates to clarify to the Public the role they are to play and why they were put in place to begin with. It was no threat to withhold funds, it was a call to the Party to recognize that we as Democrats can not disenfranchise any voters. In doing so, we can not call ourselves Democrats. Suffrage is the most precious right we have and I take great offense at the idea that an elected official from my Party would systematically try to deprive me of that right. And, Senator Dodd, in doing so, you can be assured you will have no support form me until every vote has been counted. Have you no decency? Did you learn nothing form the debacle in 2000?
Anton—Well, MN, and ND don’t make for an electoral win in Nov. MI can be won by Sen Clinton in November if Sen. Obama would allow for a re-vote so that the delegates can be heard at the convention. I don’t think he has a chance of carrying MI because of his refusal to recognize the people’s right to vote. It’s absurd for a democrat to think you can win in November when you piss off your base and key electoral states.
I will not donate to the DCCC because of the strong-arming tactics from House Speaker as well as others trying to protect THEIR reputations by shutting down the contest early and saying it is for the benefit of the party. Dean wants DNC money and will not receive any from me until ALL Americans have voted.
I am from Indiana and I don’t appreciate Dodd, Leahy, Richardson, Pelosi and others trying to discredit my vote. If the super-delegates overturn the will of the voters BEFORE the primaries are over, they will be sorry. Not only will they HURT their own re-election chances they will hurt the Democratic party’s chances for a president in the fall.
This “will of the voters” crap is disingenuous because from early on the super-delegates have gone against the will of the voters in their state. Isn’t that the very reason the DCCC wants money in their first place? So, now you say it is the will of the nation after a few contests have been run. Well, the will of the nation is LET ALL OF US VOTE. Just run the same primaries exactly as they were run in FL and MI in Jan. with the same lists in the exact same polling places with the exact same balloting measures. Just change the date on the ballot. How hard can that be. Let us VOTE!
If Sen. Clinton gets denied, you will get denied. That is change you can believe in. Now you may turn the page ...
I am a lifelong Democrat who likes to brag that she has never, not once, voted for a Republican. I have supported the DCCC for years, but no more. I find the disrespectful treatment of Hillary Clinton shocking. It is ludicrous to insist that she withdraw. If Obama is in fact the sure winner, what’s the problem? I’ve been reading a lot of “comments” these past two weeks, and the one pattern I’ve observed is that Obama’s supporters are vicious in their ad hominem attacks on Hillary Clinton.
I supported McGovern in 1972, and Bobby Kennedy in 1968. Remind me again who won the presidency in those years. The left seems to have a death wish. To have prominent Democrats attack President Clinton and Senator Clinton with the insane suggestion that they are ruining the Democratic party makes me think I’m in some strange time warp where everything we know is turned upside down. The Republicans treated post-Watergate Richard Nixon better than we are currently treating Bill and Hillary Clinton.
And this is how Chris Dodd and Nancy Pelosi think we can get to victory in November? Maybe “think” isn’t the right verb.
Fortunately, Hillary Clinton is one tough customer. She won’t cave in the face of this bullying assault. She’s been through the fire once or twice before. Hillary Clinton will be a splendid president. If we place principles over personalities, I think reasonable people must conclude that she has the wisdom, strength, brains, and practical experience to deliver a progressive agenda.
Dear Senator Dodd,
I am sorry but I cannot contribute to the DNC. The politics of dictatorial coercion and strong arm tactics practiced currently by this party, my party, have completely turned me away from the party. I thought we lived in a democracy where the people were given their chance to speak their voice, but apparently I was mistaken. It appears as if the media and the DNC are the ones to select the candidate and not the people. I am appalled at the unabashed bias towards Senator Obama. Furthermore, I am completely astonished that the DNC and the good old boys club, would so blatantly support a candidate who is clearly unqualified for the job of President. It used to be that the candidate with the best qualifications would get the job, but apparently that is no longer the case. I suppose the DNC is just following in the Bush legacy footsteps--elect the most unqualified candidate. The reasoning behind this eludes me. I am ashamed of the DNC and its leaders. Senator Clinton is the only candidate who has a comprehensive understanding of the issues, both domestic and international, that face our country. She is the only candidate who has put forth detailed, well-researched, and specific policy statements throughout this campaign which have any hope of addressing our current challenges. For this party to first disenfranchise two major states which represent 4.5 million people’s voices and the proclaim that Senator Obama is in the lead is preposterous.
GEE CHRIS
Let Obama drop out. the point is to win the election not the primary....God Damn America....er I mean God Bless America SUPPORT HILLARY!!!!
Mr Dodd,
Please refrain from influencing democrats as to which way they should vote in the future. With every passing day I lose more and more respect for the DCCC. Your present plot to get Hillary to drop out of the race is both premature and insulting. I am donating my money to the Clinton campaign directly, as I have no intention of supporting an organization that is attempting to bully her out of the race. Shame on you…
Senator Dodd,
A person in your position should have remained neutral during the primary elections. Your desire to cut the primary elections short makes your request for support easier to ignore.
Frankly, I have never seen any of the Clinton supporters behave as the Obama supporters do. How can any civilized person believe that Chelsea Clinton ought to answer an inappropriate question from an ill-bred imbecile. Her response was, in my opinion, restrained. It isn’t his business. It’s nobody’s business. He asks an inappropriate question, and she’s chastised? That’s the nastiness of the Obama fans.
Obama supporters are making harassing phone calls to Clinton supporters. Obama supporters are trying to infiltrate Clinton camps. What’s honorable about that?
What senator has done as much as Clinton in the short time that she’s been there? What record does Obama have that distinguishes him from her? What I know about Obama is that he’s worshiped in and supported a church that spews racism and hatred. They have no tolerance for Jews, whites, homosexuals...they even suggest that when their gay choir director was murdered that he it was his fault because he chose to live that way… Explain to me how any of this is in any way representative of the Democratic party. Explain to me how any of this is good for the country.
No, I will not support the DCCC. No, I will not send any money to the DNC. And sorry...no, I will not vote for Obama if he becomes the candidate for the Dems. My conscience will not allow me to do so.
Wow! After reading the last 30 plus comments all supporting Hillary and Democracy I want to stand up and applaud. Thank you sane people of the US! I thought I was the only one getting furious and disgusted with the DCC and the good old boy network.
You guys have mistreated one of our best democratic presidents ever - Bill Clinton (who still enjoys a huge following BTW), and one of our most hardworking, experienced, qualified and loyal democrats - senator Hillary Clinton.
The DCC has not spoken out in outrage against any of the thousands of sexist assaults Obama supporters and the sycophantic media have leveled on Hillary Clinton.
Mr. Obama is under qualified, racist, sexist, and demeans the American public and the American voter .. and yet you are all trying to cram him down our throats...why?
I will not send one thin dime to DCC - you are all trying to take away our right to have every voter counted, which seriously impedes democracy.
I may be old fashioned but I love our country, our political system, and our freedom to vote.
The ones ripping apart the Democratic Party and the ones corroding the presidential race we had in the bag when Hillary first announced her candidacy - are the DNC, and Obama.
Good old boys trying once again (where’s the change?) to bully a mature, brilliant, well-educated and vastly experienced, hardworking loyal Democratic senator to quit so that a younger, under qualified, inexperienced man can win the nomination - and ruin our chances to see a Democratic in the White House in November
the letters from the Clinton donors were asking that Pelosi and her posse wise up and stop trying to bully Hillary into quitting by strong arming delegates to support Obama. Pelosi and Dean want a dictatorship not a democracy.
Richardson and Pelosi are hypocrites - Hillary won both New Mexico and California and yet against their own “philosophies” they support Obama - but want everyone else to do their bidding.
re-do the Florida and Michigan primaries, let super delegates make up their own minds and let’s meet at the convention - that in no way hurts the party only makes it stronger. Trying to circumvent the rules, bullying the best and only electable Democratic candidate and disenfranchising 4+ million voters is not what the DCC should be all about. It’s not what America is all about. It’s certainly not what I am all about.
My money, my support and my allegiance go to Hillary.
Let the games continue and the may best the candidate win.
I would like to remind you all that there is not right to vote in a party primary. No one is disenfranchised, this is something the PARTY made rules for, and if the politicians you elected in MI and FL did not break the rules you would have had a real election.
As for the rest of you who are threatening to vote for McCain, I would like to ask you what you think about the SUPREME COURT justices HE will appoint?
THINK PEOPLE. You do not have to donate or support the DNC or Obama, but don’t destroy our country because your preferred candidate loses the primary.
Sen. Dodd, it is precisely because of your disrespectful treatment of Sen. Clinton and because Nancy Pelosi has chosen not to remain neutral and advocate that the SD vote for her canidate that I will NOT be contributing to the DCC, DNC anytime soon.
I was incensed by the Obama supporters including yourself and Sen. Leahy as well as Gov. Richardson(whose state voted for Sen. Clinton) calling for the premature end of the primary season when both canidates are vey close and neither can win without the superdelegates. The voters in the upcoming 10 states deserve to be heard.
I live in FL and I cannot tell you how many fellow Floridians that I have talked to who are incredibly upset at Donna Brazile, Dean and the Obama campaign for not working out this situation and counting our votes. Don’t count our votes at the Democratic party’s peril and I can tell you that this highly educated, Black, high income, high-information voter will either write in Sen. Clinton or sit this electin out.
Continue to disrespect Sen. Clinton’s supporters. Not one red cent to the DCC or DNC.
Kimoco—it is party leaders (dem and republican) who chose to move the primary dates up in FL, MI, NH, IA, NM and SC, not the people of any of those states. It is disgraceful for the Obama campaign to refuse revotes in FL and MI and to disenfranchise the voters from those states. It is equally disturbing that he and his surrogates continuously call for Sen. Clinton to withdraw because they’re too tired to see what the rest of the voters have to say.
The supreme court scare tactic won’t work—it never has—and if you really cared you would be supporting Sen. Clinton’s candidacy because her record on women’s rights is far superior to Sen. Obama’s. She was willing to filibuster the Alito nomination, while Obama was not.
Sen. Obama is a terrible Democratic candidate and he has no chance of winning in November. I only hope that the super delegates do their jobs and secure the nomination for Sen. Clinton so she can take it to McCain and win won for the Dems.
You are right. We don’t have to donate or support the DNC or Obama, and, we are not the ones destroying our country. The people who are trying to circumvent the will of the people are the ones doing that. This campaign for the democratic presidential nominee is a dead heat. Millions of people have voted and voiced their opinions for both of these candidates. The rules are the rules defense is ridiculous. There are rules for how to deal with situations exactly like what has happened in Mi. and Fl. that would allow for a revote and for seating their delegates at the convention. If those states are not allowed to have their say in who they think the nominee should be, then woe to the Democrats in November! If the DNC does not rein in the forces working for the Obama campaign and if the DNC does not get it’s thumb off the scales, then, THEY CAN NOT COUNT ON MY VOTE ON NOVEMBER. PERIOD. I will not have a candidate shoved down my throat just because that’s what the “men” want. If the Democratic party thinks it can win a general election without many of it’s core voters, WOMEN, then go ahead and try to do it. You made this mess, YOU clean it up!
It’s simple. This is a democracy. Just count the votes.
Daniel Entin
The states of Florida and Michigan decided to not have re-votes. Can’t blame anyone else but the politicians there for that mess.
The rules were if you moved up your primaries, you would not have the delegates seated. What are the rules you are discussing? I think Dean is suggesting they split them 50/50 since the states could not get a re-vote together.
If you are going to whine, at least get your facts straight.
And please DEBORAH BARR STEVENS in Romulus,NY , speak for yourself. You do not speak for all American women.
Lots of negative comments throwing at Hillary and her supporters on the very own DCCC blog will hurt Democratic Party chance in GE. As a HRC supporter, I feel that I have been alienated during the course of this campaign. I feel that Democratic Party has abandoned its lifelong member. And I’m seriously rethink my position.
Kimoco—sorry, you don’t have the facts straight. The rules were that if any states moved their primaries up they would lose 1/2 their delegates at the convention. Every state NH, IA, NV, SC, FL and MI moved their primaries up ahead of the DNC schedule against party rules. Only FL and MI were penalized by the DNC with the loss of all delegates. You really need to read the rules before you talk about this anymore—you aren’t accurately representing them.
The Dem leadership in FL tried to get their date moved back but it was the Republican legislature who wouldn’t allow it. The real problem is that Obama won’t allow a revote because he knows he’ll lose those contests and as such possibly be behind in delegates going into the convention. However, it is stupid to think that FL and MI will ever support the nominee that they didn’t want when he wouldn’t let their voices be heard. The 50/50 split is really stupid because not only does it not reflect the voters’ votes, delegates get to vote however they want when they get to the convention.
Deborah Barr Stevens speaks for me and for many, many, many other core Democrats. But, you are right, she doesn’t speak for all women, just most.
So far you want to disenfranchise 2 states and over 2 MILLION VOTERS IN FLORIDA AND MICHIGAN, ANYBODY CARE ABOUT US?
IF YOU DON’T WANT YOUR VOTE HEARD THAT’S UP TO YOU, I WANT MINE TO COUNT AND I EXPECT DEMOCRATS TO COUNT IT-- EVEN GEORGE BUSH COUNTED FLORIDA’S FIRST ROUND OF VOTES. OBAMA WON’T AGREE TO COUNT FLORIDA OR MICHIGAN?
Next of all HOW DARE YOU ASK HILLARY TO DROP OUT? What is wrong with this picture?
Disenfranchise 2 states, AND tell Hillary to drop out simply because your candidate is tanking in Pennsylvania and the world now knows his spiritual mentor is a bigot?
COUNT THE VOTES OF MICHIGAN AND FLORIDA, AND OBAMA SUPPORTERS NEED TO STOP TELLING HILLARY TO QUIT WHEN OBAMA FALLS IN THE POLLS, AND SEEMS UNABLE TO WIN A HUGE, IMPORTANT, CRUCIAL UPCOMING STATE--PENNSYLVANIA. DELIVER, OR HOLD ON.
YOU’RE ABOUT TO LOSE HALF YOUR DEMOCRATIC BASE in SEV KEY STATE AND 28% OVER ALL-- YOU’VE ALREADY LOST ALL REPUBLICANS AND MOST INDEPENDENTS.
Sen. Dodd, I am livid at the treament being meted out to one of our best Senators and the most intelligent Senator in our Democratic field of comments. Sen. Clinton knows the policies and intricacies of all of the programs, the specifics and details of how to get us out of the mess that we are in and can relay them unscripted and without a teleprompter a la Sen. Obama.
Yet, she is being urged to drop out of the race by the likes of yOu and Sen. Leahy( all Obama supporters by the way) and Gov. Richardson (Judas Iscariout- I will never respect this man again).
This race is incredibly close and the 10 remaining states should have their say. The SD accroding to the rules can freely vote their mind and does not have to vote for the pledged delegate leader. Neither Sen. Obama or Sen. Clinton has the necessary 2024 delegates to win.
Why not take the time and energy and urge for the counting of the votes or a re-vote ! No one can clain to legitimately earn the title of the Dem. Nominee on 48 states, they will seen to be legitimate if Fl and Mi are not counted BEFORE a nominee is chose.
I have lost all respect for ‘party elders’ and the Dem. establishment. My wife and I refuse to contribute to the DCC or the DNC until Fl and MI are rectified and until better treatment of our esteemed Sen. Clinton is had.
Sen. clinton, you have shown yourself to be a fighter and a tough opponent. That is who i want running our country. You will not back down to Ahminijad, you will not talk to dictators without parameters and you will not back down for true Universal Health Care.
Keep your head up, now I’m off to donate to 3ws Hillaryclinton . c o m
I will not give one dime to any Democratic fund, with the exception of the campaign of Senator Hillary Clinton for President. I, too, am livid at the constant calls for her to step down from the race, when the race is so close. Additionally, since the DNC has decided to disenfranchise both Florida and Michigan, I am changing my party affiliation to Independent. I am not sure who I will vote for this fall, but if Hillary Clinton is not on the ticket, it will not be for Barack Obama, that’s for sure.
Sorry boys, you don’t want to count my vote over a rule I never broke. All my money is tied up in Vote Vets and Act Blue. We voted you in you didn’t do what we asked. Pelosi took impeachment of the table she caves to Bush and his gang. No vote count, no money. Off to vote vets for my weekly donation to their worthy candidates.
I will be more than happy to contribute as soon as you count my vote in the Florida primary. No vote, no money for the DNC.
I am deeply disappointed with the DNC’s decision wrt. FL and MI. I cannot in good faith continue to support a party that has dis-enfranchised voters like this. Until Senator Dodd, Nancy Pelosi, Howard Dean and others stop taking sides with their candidate, and allow him to win fair and square, the voters of this country will believe that this election/nomination of Senator Obama is illegitimate.
Sen. Dodd—for all your good works over the years, please don’t disappoint us now. Can’t you see that by asking Clinton to step down you are alienating half of the Democratic Party? Many of us have been already ill-treated by Obama supporters, and have reached a point of frustration—and many of us, if not all, have been staunch Democrats all of our lives, and for many generations. Calm down...let the voice of the people be heard. If Sen. Obama is the strong candidate you believe he is, he should be able to weather this. And should he win the nomination, he will have the Clintons strongly backing him. Your calls to have party big-wigs shut down the primary is adding fuel to a fire that is largely in your own heads (and the MSM).
Dear Dodd, I’d love to help you out but seeing as how Obama has decided that he can’t win the nomination unless he disenfranchises me and my fellow Michiganders, I simply have no money to give you. As sick as it makes me, I’m saving my money for the party that will be happy to honor my civil right to vote...the Republican party.
I said, many women, not all...But I have lots of friends, including men, who are fed up with the way the media and the powers that be have conducted themselves throughout this campaign. They still have time to redeem themselves somewhat, I’ll be watching and listening closely to see what happens from here on out.
Obama could have this thing wrapped up now...all he has to do is get the supers...but he hasn’t. He’s already given the supers more than three times as much money as Clinton has…
If ending the race is so important to the party, why haven’t the supers just decided to end it? What are they waiting for?
...it’s what we’re all waiting for....the unknowns about Obama.
It’s Sunday, and the mainstream networks have really gotten beyond this stuff. CNN showed Hillary rousing up a crowd in Indiana, looking QUITE upbeat. This is healthy for the Democratic party. I don’t know how the idea came about that a prologation of suspense (who will be the nominee) is damaging the Democratic Party, probably a REPUBLICAN! Other networks showed Barack bowling in Indiana, looking quite chill. And sorry Obama-bashers, I watched Barack’s feet, he was very careful NOT to step over the line demarcating the beginning of the lane. Families have heated arguments, but the successful families end up back in the fold. I honestly don’t see the Democrats breaking up as a party over Rev. Wright or faded memories of events in Bosnia. Obama and Clinton are in basic agreement on so much: getting out of Iraq, not getting into Iran, their views on Roe v. Wade, their views on taxation and economic stimuli, their views on stem cell research, and so on. The Democratics family is definitely at feud with the McCoys, I mean McCain, on all those issues.
Chill out. Enjoy the show, as hundreds of thousands of people leave their sofas and get involved in activist politics. The Democratic Party is the party for activists, for people bored with whining. Like Nancy Schiebner, quoted by Hillary Rodham in 1969 in her commencement speech at Wellesley College:
My entrance into the world of so-called “social problems"
Must be with quiet laughter, or not at all.
The hollow men of anger and bitterness
The bountiful ladies of righteous degradation
All must be left to a bygone age.
And the purpose of history is to provide a receptacle
For all those myths and oddments
Which oddly we have acquired
And from which we would become unburdened
To create a newer world
To transform the future into the present.
We have no need of false revolutions
In a world where categories tend to tyrannize our minds
And hang our wills up on narrow pegs.
It is well at every given moment to seek the limits in our lives.
And once those limits are understood
To understand that limitations no longer exist.
Earth could be fair.
And you and I must be free
Not to save the world in a glorious crusade
Not to kill ourselves with a nameless gnawing pain
But to practice with all the skill of our being
The art of making possible.
:)