Quite the rollercoaster ride for our partisan Obama and Clinton cohorts.

[Warren Stupidity]

Us Edwards supporters are just trolling along the bottom hoping for a mutual suicide pact. But you folks are having a six flags super coaster experience!

[maddiejoan]

1. At this point --

I envy you.

[thunder rising]

2. It must be slow agony for those at the bottom. Too bad

[OzarkDem]

6. Better than being a GOP'er

unless you know something we don't.

[swoop]

3. Interesting.

I lean towards Obama, but I haven't made up my mind yet... It wouldn't even occur to me to wish two candidates a 'mutual suicide pact' simply because the guy I'm rooting for is doing less well.

But that's me.

[OzarkDem]

7. Welcome to DU

Tell us some more about yourself.

[swoop]

11. I'm cautious.

A lot of the in-fighting here bothers me. However, what turns me off in politics is how each side tries to demonize the other. I remember when the other party was made up of other people who we simply disagreed with--not hated, not wished dead, not called 'Repukes'. I see no advantage to such sentiments (though I could write tomes about why it makes people feel good and morally superior). Revenge feels great and is very empowering--but it's not the best thing for us and America.

Obama doesn't seem to need that, and I admire him--and lean towards voting for him--for that reason. I see more than ever how 'revenge politics' has poisoned this country and, as this campaign moves forward, I'm going to lay a lot of the blame at the feet of the Clintons. It's coming out more and more--and I can now look back and see where it made a lot of the difference in what happened in the 1990's.

The Clintons never took responsibility for the the things they did wrong; they don't now. It turns out that much of what was said about them was true. The media didn't help by focusing on some things that should've been ignored and by totally sweeping under the rug things that mattered then, and matter now, very much (Bill Clinton's character, and Hillary's abetting him, primarily.)

I'm not going to sit here and criticize the other side (yes, I can see some of you getting all warmed up!) until we clean up our own house first.

Someone here asked a very good question in GD:P "Why is the GOP campaign being waged a lot more civilly than ours is?" I think it's because the GOPers consider themselves much more responsible for the conditions in their lives than any politics or President and his/her decisions are. Politics isn't the be-all and end-all to them the way it is to many here. They appreciate this country, don't expect it or ANY president to be perfect, and they are willing to take responsibility for the things in their lives that are not going the way they want them to. (That's why a Democratic candidate being sworn in as President isn't going to throw them. The lines on the conservative sites I hear most are, 'politics runs in a cycle, sooner or later, it'll be the Dems turn' and 'we lived through 8 years of Bill', we can live through anything' and 'I can wait for the election after that, look at the larger picture and down the road; we'll get it back'.)

Rather than call them the devil incarnate and wrong in every fiber of their being, we need to take a page from their book and make it work for us. The Democrats need a dose of optimism, self-determination, and working together. There is any number of natural disasters, environmental disasters and, yes, threats from outside that might make it imperative that we work together in this country. Obama seems to know this--and I respect that. He offers, hopefully, a new type of Democrat--and I hope I'm one of those, too. If I'm not, the Democrats will NOT be in our future.

[Warren Stupidity]

9. Metaphorical suicide pact.

Good grief, I didn't mean they should get together and walk hand in hand out onto a major interstate. The last few weeks of wound inflicting gender/race politics are what I am talking about - a mutual political suicide of mud slinging.

edited to make actual sense.

[swoop]

10. LOL!

I know you didn't mean it literally.

[TheDebbieDee]

4. And you're bosting of being a bottom troller?

How sad........

I'm uncommitted now but I was at one time an Edwards supporter, but I would never in my wildest nightmares have considered myself a bottom troller.

[Warren Stupidity]

8. I like to bost. It was the bost of times, it was the wost of times.

I meant that at this point, what with Edwards coming in third everytime, hopes of actually winning the nomination in the primaries is not realistic, whereas if you are an Obama or Clinton supporter you are going through a manic/depressive cycle every few weeks. Edwards still has a shot, the slim chance that one or both of Clinton and Obama self destruct. If we end up at the convention with no clear winner Edwards ends up with the deciding votes, so it really isn't completely hopeless, but us Edwardians are not on this roller coaster.

[OzarkDem]

5. Enjoying the slow, steady hike to the top with Edwards n/t