My mom's greatest regret.

[Sapphire Blue]

She despised Bill Clinton, though she voted for him twice. That might be part of the reason that she despised him. NAFTA, welfare reform, and media consolidation were the major reasons.

In the 2000 Presidential campaign, she saw Al Gore as just an extension of Bill Clinton's policies. She voted for Nader. She regretted that vote for the rest of her life. That was her shame.

In this presidential campaign, she was an Edwards supporter. I was, too. I know she would have been heartbroken to have seen his presidential campaign come to an end just as I was. I thought about writing in John Edwards' name in November. I won't do it. I don't want to live to regret a McCain presidency. I hope you'll join me in supporting Senator Obama for President.


Obama '08: http://www.barackobama.com


And I hope that you'll join John Edwards in his campaign to end poverty in America: Half in Ten: http://www.halfinten.org/

[fight4my3sons]

1. k&r

[Brundle_Fly]

2. I am doing a lot of kicking today!

and reco's too!

[H2O Man]

3. John Edwards

will serve as President Obama's Attorney General.

[Doityourself]

5. I certainly hope so...

[Spazito]

10. Oh, I so hope you are right! n/t

[VolcanoJen]

4. Excellent post.

Huge K&R!

:dem:

[SharonRB]

6. Sounds like you recently lost your mother

I lost mine, too, in April. My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family. :hug:

[Sapphire Blue]

8. It was the Saturday after Thanksgiving.

It feels like yesterday, and feels like a million years ago at the same time. And sometimes it still doesn't feel real, like I'll turn around and she'll be right there. That's when it really hurts.

Thank you for you kind words, SharonRB, and I'm so very sorry for your loss. Much love, prayers, and hugs to you & your family, too.

[SharonRB]

9. Thanks, SB

I know exactly how you feel. The first three months of this year were like a nightmare and it's still hard to believe it all happened. I sometimes still expect to wake up and find everything okay, but I know it's not. I know it's part of life, but it was all so unexpected, even though we had three months to get used to the idea. One day she was fine (or so I thought) and the next thing we knew she had a few months to live. It's all so unfair. :hug:

[Sapphire Blue]

11. You're welcome, SharonRB.

Sapphire Blue was my mom. I've been using her ID, and signing as Indigo Blue, but I forgot to sign it that way this time.

I don't know whether it's harder when it's expected or unexpected. I don't know if there's a difference. In my mom's case, it was expected. She was diagnosed with cancer several years ago. Metastatic breast cancer. Then multiple myeloma. Then leukemia. Then ALS. She was in so much pain for the last year, she used to joke about being lucky to have ALS; at least it would stop the pain.

I was with her when she passed, in bed with her, holding her... as I hold her forever.

[SharonRB]

12. I'm so sorry this dragged on so long for her -- and for you

I know it was a blessing when my mom died and that it could have been a lot worse than it was during the three months she was sick. She was diagnosed with cancer January 10, came home a week later and was getting ready to start chemo when she developed sepsis and wound up on a respirator for 10 days. She was pretty much out of it that whole time and they only gave her a week to live. Well, she managed to get through that and wound up going home under hospice care. She was pretty lucid until the last week of her life, when she slept almost all the time. The worst part was that she wound up being bedridden. They think she had a mild stroke while she was suffering from the sepsis. She got the use of her hands back, pretty much, the last few weeks, but never was able to get out of bed again. At least she had her mind (pretty much, other than some short-term memory issues) and the pain wasn't too bad most of the time. She never wound up going on chemo. I think things would have been worse if she had.

I know it's supposed to get better as time goes on, but that's hard to see at this point.

[Hawkeye-X]

17. I lost my aunt to cancer too - Mom was devastated too.

My aunt was diagnosed with breast cancer with that mutant gene BRCA1 - Unfortunately, nobody told her to also have the hysterectomy or she'd survive the next phase (she went through treatment for BC, survived, only to pass away of ovarian cancer in 2002). She, unfortunately, had lost her father, sister, and her uncle in a span of 3 years - the toughest 3 years of her life. She's still strong, though - having gone through another cancer scare (my father, this time - but he's cancer free now)

Hawkeye-X

[Hawkeye-X]

16. I'm sorry to hear about your mom - I really admired her

when she was still around, and she was around a damn long time (about the same time I was)

Hawkeye-X

[janx]

20. I lost my mom in the summer of 2000.

We talked about politics for many years, sometimes in person, but often via long distance phone calls. I still miss her terribly. One of the last conversations I had with her was about the Chimp running for president. I got very animated. It's funny when I look back at it now. Actually, a lot of our political conversations were great that way. After Bill Clinton had the blow job in the oval office, etc., I was talking to my mother on the phone, and I said the words "blow job," and she wanted to know where my kids were and if they had heard me say it. She was very concerned about that! (My kids were nowhere around, by the way.)

Our mothers are us; they're who we are, ultimately. My father used to say that my mother was the best friend I'd ever have, and he was right. She is my strength.

God bless your mom. She will be your strength, too.

[Tim4319]

7. No need for regret!

Remember, one of the many things Bush could not get right!

"Fool me once, shame on you; Fool me twice, shame on me!"

You are doing the wise thing by supporting Barack Obama, and I have a feeling Edwards will play a prominent role in Barack's administration.

[Irishonly]

13. I joined

Your mom was a treasure. Sapphire Blue was one of the first to welcome me. I was also an Edwards supporter and truth be told, I still am. I voted for Edwards in the CA primary although he had suspended. I came to support Senator Obama late in the game and I was a fence sitter for a long time. I am proud to K&R your thread.

[Psyop Samurai]

14. I wasn't clued in enough to despise Clinton...

I can't say if it would have dissuaded me from voting for Gore.

I can certainly sympathize with your mom, though. I voted for Anderson in '80. :eyes:

[AZBlue]

15. K&R

Hey, we all make mistakes - your mom more than made up for any of hers!
:hug:

[hfojvt]

18. I had the same reaction to Clinton and didn't vote for him

I thought Gore was gonna be a step up. He had written "Earth in the Balance" and he certainly struck a populist note in his acceptance speech
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/hfojvt/61

plus, I fully expected the Bush Presidency to be a disaster. Whereas it seemed like his father had more class and was a move to the left after Reagan.

[Hope And Change]

19. K & R!

[intaglio]

21. Peace - with a K and R

You are a supporter of the Democratic Party of America not a supporter of any particular candidate. There have been nominees you favoured above others but when it comes down to the wire you will support the candidate selected by the Democratic Party so that the American nightmare, that is the current administration and it's surrogates, will end

[crickets]

22. K&R

[not_too_L8]

23. K&R with no regrets

[closeupready]

24. Sorry about your mother. My feelings about Al Gore were similar at the time.

And though I didn't despise Bill Clinton (and still don't, really - and Al Gore has evolved into something much greater than Bill ever will be), I didn't like the way he triangulated, and hated a lot of things that came out of his terms.

Peace. :hug: