For many people Obama is not a "lesser evil." For the privileged, he can be.

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128. I'll Just Repost This From The Madhound Thread

Before I do, I don't think I have ever read anything more condescending than your OP. Perhaps you are not aware that some of us feel that the Democratic Party has changed, abandoning its fundamental principles. I'll just let my post speak for itself.

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It's as if half the people here didn't read your post. I clearly read where you will be voting for Obama...as will both my wife and I.

But no one will convince me that I'm voting for a true Democrat...at least not a traditional Democrat. My vote for Obama is a vote against the nightmare that Romney represents. Believe me, I would far prefer to be voting FOR a Democrat.

It's almost as if people here have forgotten what it means to be a Democrat and the proud traditions that made our Party the Party of the People. We have allowed ourselves to be dragged to the Right...and we weren't even heard to be kicking or screaming.

Now we are known as "Progressives" because the Right has successfully made the word "liberal" a bad and evil term. And to think, it wasn't that long ago I was simply known as a Democrat.

We have become a shadow of ourselves, rationalizing our new definition and even giving ourselves a new name..."Blue Dogs."

We have abandoned all that has made us great...becoming a less lethal reflection of the very Party we oppose. We live in denial of our past to include all that we have accomplished and even died for.

And now you call upon me to cheerfully pull the lever for policies and principles that I spent a lifetime fighting against? I will, but I'm under no illusions: I am voting for the remaining threads of a once great and proud Party...a Party of uncompromising principles.

Finally, I'm reminded of the old saying "If I have to explain it to you, you wouldn't understand."

There are people here that will not understand this or the original post. They will probably never understand in that we may have reached the "new normal". If that is the case, I have no hope of convincing you otherwise.

"Let the truth be told, tho the heavens fall."

I am a Democrat!

-Paige

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