What this primary means to me...

I guess I am in the minority because I don't have a candidate to root for, so therefore, I am rooting for both... Yes, Go Obama, Go Hillary, cause any other choice is a vote for more of the same. I will take the raunchiest Democrat over a Republican any day of the week.. If I have to go out and buy a big bag of clothespins, I will, because I understand the only true way to effect change in this country is to vote a Straight Democratic Ticket.. Any other choice for me, is unacceptable...

The Democrats have a chance to make some history this election and that is so exciting... Whether it is A Woman, or an African American in the White House, it will make no difference to me... I want a Democratic President so bad I can just taste it... I want a majority of Democrats in The House, and The Senate.. I want to really being able to effect some change and this is the only DAMN way I know to get that done..

Some have said I am lock-stepped, and one poster actually referred to me that I was like someone from the Soviet Union, because I believe in a Straight Democratic Ticket... I tend to look at it as the only way in this country to make the changes we need to make.. How can anyone really think otherwise? Do you really think without a Democratic President the status quo will change? Whether it is the Favorite Son Obama, or the former First Lady Hillary... I will take either and be happy....

On a sadder note: In the past six months, I have lost a Brother and a Sister.. I am beginning to realize what is really important in life, and have begun to question my very existence and mortality because of their deaths. They will never get to see history being made like I will, they will never experience the change we could have if we just vote for Democrats. I am very sad at their passing, and even more so, because both died before their time.. My Sister was crazy for politics and knew everything there was to know.. My Brother never followed them, but knew what has really been happening in this country... I so wished they could of lived to see the change that is coming....

There is a change coming round the corner, and I am so proud and honored and blessed to be a part of it.....

Very well said.

It's time we redirected all the energy we're using to hate one or the other Democratic candidate and use it to show how much better either candidate is to the Republican, John "Four More Years" McCain.

I'm sorry for your loss. Losing loved ones does put things in perspective. peace and love, kim

Losing loved ones is always painful and quite galvanizing in helping us look at what is real in this world. I am sad this happened to you and pleased it has helped you refocus on what's important. I have fun at times with this process, but I am dead serious when it comes to this war. I am hardly a Straight Ticket Democrat, if a Democrat at all. I am for the best person in the best position at the best time. And the time for me has come to mean a predominantly Democratic ticket. I am one of those single-issue voters: no more dead young men and women coming home in obscurity in flag-draped coffins. If getting to that end required me to vote for the Rev. Hagee himself, I would have to do it. It might kill the rest of the country (I apologize in advance) but no more senseless war. And we're poised to do it again in Iran.

I am fed up and tired of it all.

so strongly about a straight ticket, because I know the Republicans want more of the same and at least most Dems want this war over with......

you say your son was injured--how is he doing now?

I loved a bumper sticker I saw here a few days ago, in this reddest of counties: "support the troops--pray for peace"

may all of our daughters and sons, mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, come home safely.

pace

injury and the scar tissue is preventing him from having full use... They have operated but it is doing no good and the tissue is growing back.. Doctors won't say what the final outcome of this is, such as full limited use of his arms, they have hinted...

I am sad it happened and almost happy it was not as bad as most, which I know is weird to say, but it is how I feel... He has qualified for VA... Doesn't know if he will have to go back to Iraq or not.. He still is serving in the Guard....

I too hope for a quick return of all of our Sons and Daughters from this slaughter they call a war.. I also pray for the Iraqis. All the deaths and damage can never be repaid....

Thanks for asking :hi:

BTW were you a Republican leaner before your son was involved in Iraq? It just sounds as though you may have been. As for me, I think true leadership among Democrats would have given a number of Republicans the "out" they longed for. I do believe many found this war gut-wrenchingly sickening and would have gone with a well-thought-out escape option (such as the Baker-Hamilton Commission findings) had there been the stomach to make it happen. Democrats let your son down, I believe thus no one gets held harmless in my view. But it's about the person, IMO, not the party, at this point. Let us take a moment of silence together.

I too believe more Republicans will have to listen to their own constituency, rather than their party line, and we might just make an end to this war a reality...

I don't want to look at who let my Son down, as much as I am trying to look ahead to who can help my Son, and how do I make that happen? Straight Dem Ticket is the only way I see to effect the change...

Thank you so much for your sentiments... :hi:

thank you so much for posting this.

It trouble me deeply when I see some here proclaim how they will not vote for one of our candidates it their candidate doesn't get the nomination.

I also continue to hold out for a unity ticket, but that's looking less and less likely.

I am sorry for your losses and for your son's injuries.

Is the single most critical piece in the puzzle right now, imho. I'm not sure how it happened that any Democrat would think this is a good idea, but it's scary as hell to me!

This is the whining that is hurting our party, the hurting is not coming from the candidates, but from our own Democratic voters, and I think it stinks.

I think when we are actually at the point of our candidate versus McCain, people will come around.

On the other hand, some "supporters" of certain candidates seem to have much more hate for the other candidate than they do love for their own and I question whether these people are really Democrats at all.

Absolutely spot on in that assessment!

with a veracity I have never seen which could split this party in two... This is why straight ticket becomes so important, now more than ever...

This is something I group with "whining" and the hating and whining needs to stop.

I cannot imagine the thinking that gets a person to state they won't vote for the other candidate should their own not get the nomination. And the furthering of this line of thinking should not be allowed here on DEMOCRATIC Underground, imho.

...that the democratic candidates will actually CHANGE much. What specific changes do you anticipate? When I look at the candidates' positions I see only lukewarm support for minor changes, despite the rhetoric about CHANGE with all capital letters. It would make my job as an independent voter a lot easier if the candidates would talk less about how DIFFERENT they're going to be and give us more information about the specific differences they propose to make.

Democrats are at a disadvantage from the start, because of the 10 or so that tend to vote with the Republicans because of their constituency.. Therefore, we need more in office... I believe that they will effect change for the people more than the Republicans ever could... I don't know if it will be earth shattering changes, but I do know, there will be more positive changes, if we have the majority of both houses and the WH.....