It seems to me

[rockybelt]

that no matter which candidate leads in the polls or voting, they draw the ire of supporters of all the other candidates. No matter if Hillary is leading, Obama or Edwards it is exactly the same.
I can't figure out if it is because of such intense dislike for all the other candidates, other than the one you support, or if it is just out of a sense of frustration from not winning.
Or does it go much deeper? Are the candidates themselves causing the divisiveness within the party? Or are the solutions to issues by the candidates so different from each other that individual camps will do anything to bring an advantage to their candidate?

Or does it really make a damned who does what? We are going to have a "selection" rather than an election anyway. The process of choosing a candidate is so polluted that it takes little effort to manipulate the outcome of the primaries. So the powers that be will select which candidate you get to vote for anyhow.

So why not everybody just shut up and let the selection begin? We don't need to have opinions or even vote. Let the powers decide who our next president should be.

Myself though, I am voting for Edwards. None of the rest of you are voting. Right?

[classof56]

1. Rockybelt, I agree with your take on all this, and I have to wonder:

Maybe it's just the resentment and frustration similar to what we (me anyhow) used to feel back in high school when our team didn't win the game or my best friend didn't win the cheerleading contest. We used to get preached at about being "sore losers" and how bad that was, but there's that deep-seated sense of loss and disappointment that lurks within us (me anyhow) and causes some sort of gut reaction that's unbecoming and well, immature. I'm pleased to report I get over these thing really quickly anymore (about damned time), but I confess to a sense of helplessness in terms of the big picture, if, as you say, it doesn't make a bit of difference what any of us do, and in the final outcome, it's all pretty much out of our hands. I do, though, intend to vote for Edwards when I have the chance, and whatever Dem candidate who's the chosen (by whoever) nominee in the GE. If there even is a GE...sigh!

Hope all's well in your world.

Tired Old Cynic

[rockybelt]

2. I agree with you

that it is a sense of hopelessness that we all feel. we want one candidate to stand out and emote the character that we have in our minds. Given the experience of the past seven years it is no wonder that we feel such frustration.

Our only hope is that frustration boils over in enough people that they get off their collective asses and start shouting at the top of their lungs, "I've had enough. I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more!"

We cannot solve this serious problem by negotiations. It is simply impossible to negotiate with the devil. We must have someone that is passionate about their beliefs in this experiment of ours. Passion is the only thing that is going to get us through. The founding fathers did not gain our freedom by compromise. They did not negotiate with the enemy. It was freedom or death. That kind of passion MUST be in the highest office of this land.

The current occupiers of that office must be thrown out and sever ly punished for their actions.

That is why I am for Edwards at this point. I could see the fire in his eyes at the last debate. Please note that I do not see into his soul as the shrub saw into Putin's soul. I saw the fire!