So Long, Democrats: A speechwriter for Obama, Edwards, and Clinton on why she’s voting McCain.

The Daily Beast ^ | 10/31/08 | Wendy Button

[Winged Hussar]

Not only has this party belittled working people in this campaign, it has also been part of tearing down two female candidates.

...I was dead wrong about the surge and thought it would be a disaster. Senator John McCain led when many of us were ready to quit. Yet we march on as if nothing has changed, wedded to an old plan, and that too is a long way from the Democratic Party.

I can no longer justify what this party has done and can’t dismiss the treatment of women and working people as just part of the new kind of politics. It’s wrong and someone has to say that. And also say that the Democratic Party’s talking points—that Senator John McCain is just four more years of the same and that he’s President Bush—are now just hooker lines that fit a very effective and perhaps wave-winning political argument…doesn’t mean they’re true. After all, he is the only one who’s worked in a bipartisan way on big challenges.

[dotan]

I can no longer justify what this party has done and can’t dismiss the treatment of women and working people as just part of the new kind of politics.

Welcome, PUMA. For my part the frightening prospect of a President Obama has caused me to completely reevaluate Sen. Clinton and her husband.

[nikos1121]

Governor Palin and I don’t agree on a lot of things, mostly social issues. But I have grown to appreciate the Governor. I was one of those initial skeptics and would laugh at the pictures. Not anymore. When someone takes on a corrupt political machine and a sitting governor, that is not done by someone with a low I.Q. or a moral core made of tissue paper. When someone fights her way to get scholarships and work her way through college even in a jagged line, that shows determination and humility you can’t learn from reading Reinhold Niebuhr. When a mother brings her son with special needs onto the national stage with love, honesty, and pride, that gives hope to families like mine as my older brother lives with a mental disability. And when someone can sit on a stage during the Sarah Palin rap on Saturday Night Live, put her hands in the air and watch someone in a moose costume get shot—that’s a sign of both humor and humanity.

I think this kind of sums it up..

[AIC]

If a person would really look at what the Democratic Party is suppose to stand for and then look at what Obama stands for, one would come to the conclusion that Obama is NOT a Democrat but is only running on a Democratic ticket.

[AuntB]

BTT!

[NRA2BFree]

Hey Wendy, come on over! We’re glad to have you! We have a common enemy, and his name is BaracKKK Obamanation. God help us if he gets elected.

[Ann Archy]

Dear Wendy....the Democrats have ALWAYS treated women horribly.....they DESTROYED black families where the black women have truly suffered....having children out of wedlock and having to raise them themselves in orfder to get a GOVERNMENT CHECK.

[libstripper]

GREAT POST!!

This is the third of three different posts of articles by highly articulate women, one of them posted by me, that reflect similar defections occurring from the Obama campaign. The biggest difference is this is the first one by a clearly identified author, the other two being anonymous. This article by an identified author, definitely speaking on the basis of her own personal knowledge, gives great credibility to the authenticity of the other two articles.