I am a Democrat who is disappointed that my party will nominate a man who spent 20 years in an anti-semitic, anti-white, anti-American church. I will not overlook the Reverend Wright controversy, and I will never "get on board" with the Democratic Party on this. I place loyalty to country above loyalty to party. I am a loyal Democrat, and I will vote for Democrats in state, local and national races. I simply cannot bring myself to vote for Obama for President.

Your right "overplaying"! Actually these ads are good news for Obama because it means McCain is not choosing Romney as his runnimg mate who would have helped McCain in MI and in the Western States.

Don't pretend that there's not a real rift here. And, it will have an effect!

Let's see who McCain picks. The trouble with the Democrats this year is that they give the Republicans time to sit at the bar and make snide comments when they don't seem to have much to offer.

I love Hillary Clinton but there is no way I will vote for a candidate as grossly under-qualified as Obama.

Democrat for McCain

Memo to Obama cult followers: referring to the former First Lady of the United States as a “dried up old fruitcake” is not a prescription for winning over her voters. Nor is referring to her supporters as old, inept, uneducated, fat, stupid or racist. But keep trying! Maybe by November, we’ll realize that we really are old, fat, stupid and racist, and we’ll give Barry our vote out of sheer guilt.

There are not enough blacks and white-guilt liberals in this country to get Barack Obama elected to the Presidency. It’s that simple. Too many Democrats will jump ship and vote for McCain just to teach the DNC a lesson. I can’t bring myself to vote Republican, but I will vote Nader if he’s on the ballot. Otherwise, I’ll vote “present” for president.

The RNC doesn't have anything better to do but to recycle old sparring that's normal between two competing candidates. I guess that's because McCain can't run on his own merits and platforms. And taking into consideration 100 high schoolers showing up for a McCain and Latin Grammy artist event billed as a press conference, it's no small wonder his campaign is trying to stir up the ghosts of Billary. What lost souls the McCain camp are!

Alex: "Democrat for McCain" is an oxymoron. You are an independent for McCain. This isn't really hard to recogonize: When you support a guy who is against almost every plank of the party's platform (including ones inserted solely by Senator Clinton's muscle) you are NOT a Democrat.

If you have evaluated Senator Obama's experience (which over a decade in elected office with concrete legislative successes far exceed George Bush's in 2000) and can't support him, fine. But supporting McCain instead clearly identifies you as a Republican. Further, claiming you are a Democrat identifies you as a liar and really calls into doubt your assessment of Senator Obama's experience.

John McCain is a decent man, a proud American, and a war hero. He will make a fine President. All the lies and rumors put out against him by the Obama cult followers only intensify my support for him. It is reprehensible for the Obama campaign and followers to question John McCain's war record. This is the "new politics?"

Carrie: You are the only person I have seen refer to Senator Clinton in those terms (well, and Republican partisans and talk radio hate mongers, particularly in the 90's).

Why can't you attack Senator Obama's *positions* rather than make up lies about him or his supporters? He has made detailed policy statements available on his website, hundreds of pages of them in pdf format. Far in excess of Senator McCain, who is not making public his specific policies (beyond continued support for President Bush's economic and Iraq policies).

I too will be voting McCain, after being a democrat for over 20 years.

Howard Dean and the DNC sure turned our party into a real joke. Time to change to independent party, funny the candidate (Clinton) with the most majority votes loses, and to top it off, President Clinton and Sen. Hillary Clinton are being treated rudely to say the least by the Obama crowd.

Dean, Pelosi, Obama should start their own party--they sure don't act or represent the democratic party that I have known.

Clinton 2012

NielPA

What happened to Barack Obama's "new politics?" His attacks seem pretty conventional to me. In fact, they seem desperate. To critize John McCain for owning seven houses is laughable when you own your own mansion, one that was purchased under shady circumstances with the help of a convicted felon.

Carrie: Specifically, what lies are put out about Senator McCain by the Obama campaign? Do you have any facts or reality, or just snide innuendo?

If you want to debate facts, lets do so. If you are just trolling to see how many people you can rile up - well, you'd probably do better to actually make up some facts rather than just use name calling and slander.

``I love Hillary Clinton but there is no way I will vote for a candidate as grossly under-qualified as Obama.

Democrat for McCain``

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If the issue of experience was very important to you, you would have supported McCain instead of Clinton because McCain is more experienced than her.

I can tell you weren`t going to vote democrat in the first place don`t try to fool Clintonb supporters.

trust me obama followers. insulting us hillary supporters will only strengthen our resolve to either sit-out the election or vote for another candidate. much of the blame for this is obamas failure to attempt to unite the party early on. everyone kept expecting that we would jump on the bandwagon-i found that insulting.

hillary supporter in new mexico.

A load of interesting stuff about John McCain from brother Joe.

1. It shows John's Oedipus Complex with Cindy mirroring the role his mother had when he was a boy.

2. Shows his family was Navy royalty with both father and grandfather being admirals.

3. Shows how out of touch the McCains are with average people -- Mom was managing the oil leases [my mom did that too LOL!] and John knows how Americans are because he serves on a committee.

4. Finally, brains don't flow on the male side as dad and grandpa finished near the bottom of their classes along with John.

“The person who took care of all the business was my mother,” he said. “My father had no idea about the family business, what oil leases he owned in Oklahoma.”

Joe McCain, who makes his home in Washington’s Northern Virginia suburbs, chuckled when recalling that “one time, [John McCain's mother] bought a house to remodel” in Southeast Washington while “[dad] was at sea.”

John McCain’s years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam and as chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee also help him “emphasize with the American people” on pocketbook issues, Joe McCain said.

John McCain was a less-than-stellar student who graduated fifth from the bottom of his class at the Naval Academy.

“By the way, that's a McCain tradition,” he said. “My father and grandfather, both four-star admirals, and they graduated in the bottom fourth of their class, too."

jhw539, I am not as concerned with Barack Obama's policies as I am his lack of character. Voting "present" instead of taking a stand shows a lack of principles. I prefer a man like John McCain, who says what he thinks whether he is agreed with or not. And if you seriously think Obama supporters have not referred to Hillary supporters as old, uneducated, stupid, and racist, then you have not been paying attention.
Some of us have long memories.

NeilPA: I appreciate your honesty in clearly stating you are leaving the Democratic party.

As for Senator Clinton recieving the most votes, that is only true if you only count primaries and state that Obama won zero votes in Michigan - where he was not even on the ballot. If he were on the ballot in Michigan, which everyone agreed was just a beauty contest (and yes, Senator Clinton literally signed onto that interpretation), there is little doubt he would be in the lead in the popular vote.

A truthful statement with less qualifications is, "Obama won more total votes than Clinton in the contests where they both appeared on the ballot."

Just think

after this breast pounding about Hillary and wink wink from billary...If Obama wins 300 electoral votes...what will be the world like!!

Hillary will not win reelection from NY in 2012...so if u want to end Hillary's political career...go ahead vote for mccain...

Carrie: Yes, he voted present 130 times over 8 years and more than 4000 votes. Many of those votes were part of a clear party strategy, and some were clear protest votes - avote against a measure he supported except for a technical or constitutional opposition - he does have the same sort of constitutional law professor orneriness as Ron Paul shows at times.

I find it humorous you claim John McCain "takes a stand." You know that infamous rating of Senator Obama being the most liberal senator for 2007? You know where McCain ended up rated? Probably not - he missed too many votes that year to even qualify for the scoring. Way to take a stand.

And I do have a fair memory and still think you are mistaken or lying about Obama supporter slander. I certainly heard such trash from TV talking heads, but not from mainstream Obama supporters. (Although I'm sure now we'll get a "longtime Obama supporter" logging in to say just those things about Senator Clinton.)

At least Obama is consistent - he lies at least once every day!

Let us all Hillary supporters take a breath to celebrate her achievements tomorrow.That is the only part of the convention worth anything.Her supporters voices can no longer be ignored by the dictatorial DNC-Obama axis.

Sonia:
"much of the blame for this is obamas failure to attempt to unite the party early on"

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by this. He has show unprecedented deference to the Clinton camp (to the point the paternilistic Republican echo chamber is harping on how it shows how "weak" and "easily pushed around" he is) and clearly resisted the push to go negative in the primaries. He did not go to a kitchen sink (loaded with right-wing sludge from the 90's).

Please state a factual insult that came from Senator Obama, if you are a supporter of Senator Clinton (who needs and is fighting for a Democratic Whitehouse to make her healthcare legacy in the Senate), and we can debate.

Memo to Obama cult followers: referring to the former First Lady of the United States as a “dried up old fruitcake” is not a prescription for winning over her voters. Nor is referring to her supporters as old, inept, uneducated, fat, stupid or racist. But keep trying! Maybe by November, we’ll realize that we really are old, fat, stupid and racist, and we’ll give Barry our vote out of sheer guilt.

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Carrie, I hate those horrible labels as well. You can't judge all of us (or Obama) by a few nuts on this blog. If you look, you'll see plenty of nasty things said about Obama supporters as well. I still admire Hillary even though she was not my choice this year. I still believe that people are generally better than what is represented here in "hate-land."