Teddy Roosevelt said:

"There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all. ... The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic. ... There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else."

 

Roosevelt failed to mention (alphabetically) African-Americans, Arab-Americans, Asian-Americans, Australian-Americans, Canadian-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, Indian-Americans, Iraqi-Americans, Israeli-Americans, Jewish-Americans, Latin-Americans, Mexican-Americans, Native-Americans, Russian-Americans, Swiss-Americans, etc.  After all, he was a self-proclaimed "Progressive Republican" (another hyphen) and a separatist.  I'm not suggesting we return to his vision of America, just using it to portray a partial view.

Within all of the hyphenation, there is even further division by gender, sexual preference, political party affiliation, religion, income and an entire hosts of things we use to define our individuality. 

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I just finished watching a rather graphic movie called, "Untraceable." In this film, people were abducted and torturously killed by the number of hits a website received. Thousands of comments streamed in, like, "OMG, that dude is dying," and "Just kill him already."

This movie focused on anonymity and people feeling connected as observers but not accountable for anything because it was just harmless internet voyeurism.

From the likes of the posts here on Democrats.org, it would seem that supporters of one candidate would sooner click and drag the other to death via the WWW than actually support the party's nominee.

Now, how many Obama supporters have actually sat down with Hillary and personally spoken with her vis-Ã-vis? To be fair, how many Hillary supporters have attended a sold out Obama speech?

You all act as if you KNOW your candidate and that they've actually EMBRACED your views as much as you have THEIRS. This isn't your neighbor and your cousin running here - these are two candidates trying to convince YOU that YOU matter, although, YOU are a nameless face to them. These are people that seem to have convinced you that they would give YOU four years of personal servitude for your individual vote.

There are a number of people posting here that act as though one of these candidates have wronged them personally. Funny, the most negative of comments on Obama come from anywhere BUT Illinois and the worst comments on Hillary come from states nowhere near Arkansas or New York.

I suppose that what makes each of us so emboldened is that we're not in a room, face to face with either these candidates or (more importantly) each other. The way that discourse has been dictated here, it would seem that there would be fisticuffs each and every moment.

If you were all in a town hall meeting, there would be metal detectors at the door.

Now, I also ask of each and every one of you: Could you look me in the eye and TELL me, "It's more important that MY candidate be the nominee than it is for YOUR son not to be sent into a senseless battle that WE ALL agree is offensive to OUR VERY CORE as DEMOCRATS." Could you (any of you) tell me that, eye to watering eye?

I will tell you this: If you are not prepared to vote for EITHER candidate in November, I ask that you do us all the honor of shaming you as you vote "R" for McCain. Bear in mind that you have sworn to do this if "your" candidate is not the Democratic Nominee. Please also realize that you are less than an expatriate, lower than a traitor and (I hesitate to say this) an accomplice in furthering the loss of life in Iraq. You should have to wear the "I Voted" sticker for a year and tell everyone you're "proud as hell" to have voted for your second choice, since your "Jeanne d'Arc" or "Rayon de Soleil" wasn't on the ballot.

My heart is with my youngest son. He has enlisted that you may have this faceless discourse, this ludicrous banter and these unfounded arguments. He will (in due time) be patching holes in Marines that get blown apart by IEDs. I'm proud of him, but I'm angry to know that so many of you are willing to allow this war to go on simply because your little pageant didn't go the way you wanted.

Hillary is NOT a monster. Barack is NOT a Muslim extremist. McCain -IS- a guarantee that another 7,000 troops will die under his watch. Further, McCain is also a guarantee that this war will over-extend not just our military, but all of us.

Imagine the perpetual slide of seven years going on for nine more... What will any of us have left? A car with no gas to live in?

Luke 23:28
But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, Weep not for Me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children. For behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, "Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck."

Prepare to bury your young. Rejoice if you have none.