Posted on 10/29/2008 6:31:30 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
Since I started writing speeches more than ten years ago, I have always believed in the Democratic Party. Not anymore. Not after the election of 2008. This transformation has been swift and complete and since I’m a woman writing in the election of 2008, “very emotional.”
When I entered this campaign, it was at the 2006 Edwards staff Christmas party. My nametag read “Millie Worker.” When former Senator John Edwards read it, he laughed and said, “That makes you like my parent.” He went on to say, “Would you please come down to Chapel Hill so we can talk about what’s coming up.” I sat in John and Elizabeth’s living room for two and half hours. I left North Carolina, energized about politics for the first time in months.
I didn’t hear from anyone for three weeks.
When I finally received the official offer, it was the kind of political offer that said, “Go away.” That happens. It’s their campaign and I just assumed that I had been pushed out. The problem was that I had canceled a number of freelance writing jobs because I had assumed that when John said, “Start right away” I would. I needed a job right away and so I took the one in front of me with Senator Barack Obama.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
I’m waiting for Peggy Noona to come out for Obama :).....or has she already?
No, not yet, just against Palin. What a washed up nothing. Reagan made her good, then she lost her way.
Bookmarked!
And don’t forget the PUMA vote. If you talk to any of those people in person, they dislike Obama as much as most Republicans do.
good read.
This is what you call a Democrat with integrity. There are many Democrat women standing up for Hillary and Sarah yet Hillary doesn’t have the guts to stand up for herself after the way she was treated. She will not be a stateswoman and denounce the voter registration fraud and accusations of racism that probably cost her the nomination. She and Bill jumped right on the “party before country” bandwagon. Very sad.
Maybe this is all too little, too late.
The endorsements should already be in. People are already voting.
I’ll take any vote I can get, from any source and for any reason. (Thank God for PUMAs.) But one of the things that has always troubled me about John McCain is that he’s so centrist he’s the sort of Republican a lifelong liberal could vote for. I wish we had two Sarahs, one running for president and one for Veep.
Bravo Wendy!
she keeps writing in favor of obama? what gives with her?
Wow! Thanks for posting. This piece took a lot of guts. Great read.
I was with her until she described trickle down as outdated.
Then I stopped reading.
How can you, on one hand - declare that people should not be taxed, keep their own money to stimulate the economy, and then on the other hand declare trickle down as outdated?
Sheepers.
I welcome her vote, but this woman is seriously confused. It's one or the other. "Trickle down economics" is a perjorative term used to discredit the very policy she advocates here:
This is the absolutely worst time to raise taxes on anyone: the rich, the middle class, the poor, small businesses and corporations. Our economy is in the tank for many complicated reasons, especially because people don’t have enough money. So let them keep it. Let businesses keep it so they can create jobs and stay here and weather this storm.
"Trickle down economics" is not outdated. It's common sense, which never goes out of date. It absolutely works. I make my living off of it. I am self-employed. I rely on a customer base that is in a higher economic quintile than me, and that's fine. I love what I do. That's why I do it. If my customers get hit with higher taxes, they will have to cut their expenses, and some of that will come out of my business. I like prosperous people! They pay my bills!
Further, they don't just pay my bills. They pay my neighbors' bills, too. And the better off my neighbors are, the better off we all are, because then all the businesses are better off, and so on.
Again, I welcome her vote, and perhaps she's just taking her first baby steps out of the wilderness, but she's fooling herself thinking there is some mysterious third way. You either tax people more or you tax them less. Taxing them more is "progressive", aka socialist, taxing them less is "conservative" aka trickle down, aka freedom. Pick one.
hehe, see my post right below yours. I had the same reaction. I guess she’s taking baby steps. Not able to accept the full wrongness of her ways.
I very thoughtful and genuine critique. I think there are a fair number of Democrats who are shaking their heads at the outright sexism concerning Palin and the anti-working class attacks on Joe the Plumber. We will find out on election day if America is a bigger or smaller. I still believe the best of America and the strength of it will rise and win the day.
But these Dems who are supporting McCain get very little press coverage. Most notably Lieberman.
That was a very good read. Thanks for sharing.
Poorly written.
“I still believe the best of America and the strength of it will rise and win the day.”
Me too. Keep the faith!
“Poorly written.”
That’s what I was thinking. Hard to believe she makes a living writing. Poor syntax, grammar, punctuation, etc. Still... if she can change some minds, that’s a good thing.
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