Leaving DNC in protest
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There was a blackout for us on this site so I'm posting this to make sure it gets to all my groups. I am unsubscribing to the DNC and leaving this site in protest. I am checking into changing my affiliation to independent and checking what else I can do to show the DNC I disapprove of what they did - are doing - to this party. Thanks and God Bless Barbara in NC

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Sorry to see you go!
By Concerned Democrat Jun 2nd 2008 at 7:27 pm EDT
Barbara, I hope that you change your mind. I am assuming that you support Clinton. I hope that somehow she can help to bring people like you back to your party. We need you in November! And if anyone says otherwise on here, then they are wrong! Neither candidate will win in November w/out the support of the other's followers! Please let the primaries play out and see what happens. Obama has said (I have heard it w/ my own ears) that he will def. consider a Obama/Clinton ticket in the best interest of our party. At this point, I truly hope that is what happens!

Democrats Unite 2008!
  
go for it!
By Independent NYer for Hillary Jun 2nd 2008 at 7:28 pm EDT
I'm an independent, so I have no obligation to vote for one party or another, and though I have favored the democrats in pres elections, I'm not feeling the love this time around. I most likely will just sit out this entire process on Election Day in November.
My heart is not in either McCain or Obama, so I will be taking a time out - I don't want to be responable for either of them getting elected.
  
blp3:
By Michelle K. Jun 2nd 2008 at 7:34 pm EDT
I commend your stance!
  
I'm With Harriet
By Democrat in San Francisco, CA Jun 2nd 2008 at 7:35 pm EDT
If Nancy Pelosi and company don't want my vote, I won't insult her by voting Democratic again after 20 years of doing so. I'm following Harriet Christian out the door.
Re: I'm With Harriet
By wantedfairness Jun 2nd 2008 at 7:46 pm EDT
Independence is sounding more reasonable these days.

Im tired of being lied to by my own party and having them believe like sheep we will follow no matter they do or fail to do.

No longer a sheep.
Just a democrat, becoming independent of a party that has failed me in so many ways.

Once united over the idea that every vote must count, now I see votes only count if convenient and if they help the one being promoted.

I have not liked the Axelrod campaign and his surrogates for their many defamations and race baiting while remaining sexist. All prejudice is disgraceful and theirs is just as disgraceful
  
Double standard on rants
By Independent NYer for Hillary Jun 2nd 2008 at 7:43 pm EDT
When both Reverends spewed off their hatred/racist/sexist remarks, the DNC and the media and Obama camp made excuses up the whazoo about being misunderstood, or misinterpreted or they 'misspoke' but are really good men. But when Harriet says how she feels, right away she is branded a sick lunatic, and a racist. Even her critics, including the media, in their comments fell to using sexist remarks in their criticism of her actions. That what showed me what was really going on in this nomination process and the campaign from the beginning. Men have sadly not progressed in their thinking since the cavemen.
  
Bye now
By JW Jun 2nd 2008 at 7:44 pm EDT
Say good night Gracie
  
Re: well
By Z Rho Jun 2nd 2008 at 7:52 pm EDT
I know pc this is a difficult time for you. I admire your stance. I know it isn't easy.
  
It galls me
By Independent NYer for Hillary Jun 2nd 2008 at 8:01 pm EDT
How the DNC leaders are talking about what will happen after the primaries regarding we women:
Essentially they are hinting, "Oh they have pms right now but when they get over their "woman days" they will come around to our way of thinking.

The DNC treated women like we were mindless.
Re: It galls me
By wantedfairness Jun 3rd 2008 at 11:51 pm EDT
I agree I cannot stay with the DNC now.
They have treated us as if mindless sheep who will fall in line just because.

Howard Dean admitted to the sexism Sunday. Sunday, after all is over he finally owns up. But he waited. Waited to insure it worked. Mr Dean is thus now guilty of the very sexism decried. He used it to help Mr Obama. He used it as did many of our party leaders. To continue to support them would be hypocritical.

To leave them and assist others in a 3d party may be the ONLY way to have our voices heard. Perhaps they do need to lose to understand what they have done by not allowing a fair process but contributing to an undemocratic one of caucuses, of handing out delegates unearned or against the popular vote in the primaries, for race baiting and remaining silent on the issue of sexism, for being so weak as to run with the media rather than allow a fair process to prevail, for remaining silent and allowing one candidate to praise a Republican president who once had the brilliant idea that ketchup is a vegetable and simultaneously denounced the last successful 2 term Democratic president as one without ideas. Well that man with no ideas helped more people out of poverty and into the middle class, that man with no ideas left a surplus when faced with a deficit when he first took office. And this nominee who garnered the support of the media and our party leaders and used sexist comments, used race baiting surrogates, had no record of achievement declared himself the new messiah.

In dismay, I now denounce Howard Dean a man I once supported for contributing tacitly to an unfair process, for remaining silent in the face of sexism and for supporting the defamation of a democratic president whose successes we could now only wish for to be repeated.