Love the cartoon! It has nothing to do with the with the 08 Democratic Primary, but I still love it. The problems the Democrats have this year stems from its leadership. The Democrats don’t know how to run a fair primary. Caucuses, delegates and super delegates. Oh No! If the Democratic primary was run with similar rules as a presidential election the Democrats would have a candidate that the entire party would support. I would have thought it impossible before the primaries that we could have four more years of Republican leadership! Democratic Leadership has blown another election! Maybe they can get it together for the 2012 election… if we are still here.

The substitute cartoon maligns voters, and is obscure.

The lesson?

Always go with your first impulse.

(Journalism does not exist, to suppress unpleasant truths.)

Apparently truth has become the target of their “War on Terror.”

I should know better, but let’s sort through this silly quagmire shall we?

The cartoon in no way infers that a vote for Hillary is racist. In light of the past eight years, a vote for Hillary is a perfectly legitimate and coherent thing IMHO – My criticism is of the fact that she has based the last month of her campaign on racial code words, championing the votes of “the working white people” – She essentially has said the Democratic Party needs the votes of racists in the fall (I don’t throw that term around lightly, like some might, but saying in a poll you can’t vote for a black man for President – as some of the “hard working white people” have – is 100% racist.) I always expected Hillary and Bill to challenge racism, not harvest it for electoral gain.

I am genuinely disappointed with Hillary – I expected greatness from her in this campaign, and she has been surprisingly rudderless. Her appeal that she is the strongest candidate because she is white is just beyond the pail.

Also, the only people that will benefit from a further drawn out primary fight at this point are journalists, satirists and pundits, and John McCain.

I also think that Obama and Hillary supporters should be careful about shredding each other and angrily pronouncing that they’ll vote for McCain or some independent (Bob Barr?) candidate. Just keep your eyes on the Supreme Court, people. The next President will probably be appointing three new judges to it.

It’s quite a stretch to say that Obama, who started this campaign 20 points behind Clinton but has won more popular vote, more states, more pledged delegates and more superdelegates, is being “forced on you.”

Gary – Basically identical stances on the issues is a good place to start but for myself, and many voters, judgment and a sense of whether someone is genuine or not is also relevant. And add to that the much smaller, but still relevant, issue of feeling that something or someone is being forced on you. I once thought Obama was a Good Thing but my opinion took a distinct turn after his Selma speech; that was his proving ground for me. The behavior of the DNC has been icing on the cake.

All that is to say that a person that refuses to support Obama… even if they vote McCain… has a plethora of reason and issues to choose from. And the DNC has not helped, has in fact harmed, the party more than any other single thing.

Being labeled a racist for political choice is pretty harsh and creating a divide that may never heal.

sign me… ex-Democrat, now an Independent