***I REFUSE TO VOTE FOR THE NOMINEE***

[More Than A Feeling]

...of any party other than the Democratic party!:evilgrin:

Go Democrats '08!

[Warren DeMontague]

1. Fuckin' A, Bubba. There's your "straight talk express", as it were.

Some folks here apparently have their heads up their asses.

Hopefully they can hear your message through all that ass.

:applause::applause::applause::applause::applause::applause::applause::applause::applause::applause::applause::applause::applause::applause:

[cliffordu]

2. I was just thinking about this.....

And I have to tell all the 'special' folks who DEMAND the candidate EARN their vote that this election isn't about JUST YOU. It is about the future this country and this world, and you'd BETTER look at like more than shopping for a new set of sunglasses or "If you're nice to me I'll give you a kiss." This ain't the mall and this isn't a popularity contest.

If the Republican/NEOCONS get in for another 4 years, there might not BE a Democracy to vote in, in 2012.

[WillParkinson]

3. Sorry Cliffordu...

I've voted Dem since I was 18, simply for the fact that they WERE Dems. In that time they've kicked me to the curb every time they get into office. They give me crap like Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Defense of Marriage Act, etc.

The elections have never been ABOUT ME. But, sorry to say, no election seems to want to include me except as a vote.

I'm tired of lip service. I want action. 25 years is long enough to wait.

And when the two leading Dem candidates say they don't agree with gay marriage, but are OK with Civil Unions, that chafes me more than anything I can say. My partner and I have been together longer than most straight couples I know. Yet he'll never know my benefits if I should die, nor I his.

So you'll have to forgive me if I can't just roll over this time. Want my vote? Earn it.

[cliffordu]

4. Well......

My wife's best friend has been with his partner for 28 years....I've seen what they've had to do in terms of community property, power of attorney, medical decisions, home ownership...

I don't know how you feel, because I haven't been in your shoes, but I would say that in this uptight, clusterfuck repressed nation of ours that the dream of your marriage denied must be outrageous and painful. I would have voted for it 35 years ago had that been an option. I'd vote for it right now if I could. To NOT have full equality is not acceptable.

But the essence of the statement I made stands, I think. If the republican/NEOCON machine stays in power I don't really believe any of us are going to have ANY voice in our lives anymore.

I truly think those weasels are capable of breaking out pink triangles and barbed wire fences.

That statement seems over the top until I think about Rendition, and the "Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007" that targets "bookstores, bathhouses, libraries, mosques, online chat rooms" to find those who the NEOCONS figure could be "terrorists".

Will they call you and your partner 'sexual terrorists?' I want to see you gain full equality immediately, but we cannot achieve that until the NEOCONS are "another failed political dead end on the funeral pyre of history..." to paraphrase a conservative asshat who couldn't say the word 'homosexual'.

Oh, and about the sexual repression in this country? Man, you are on your own there. I wouldn't know where to start.

Peace