Reply #84: He is below Hillary for myself, my friends, and my fam

[Divine Discontent]

except for one friend that still has him as her fave, because she's from IL. Everyone I talk to (and my friends are news reader types) have ruled him out because of the gay slams, the insults about the older crowd, and the flag issues. I find his comments a form of ageism. I also think he's doing everything wrong lately.

He literally is sealing the deal that Hillary is the heavyweight favorite to win the nomination. I thought it may come down to him or Mrs. Clinton, but now I think it'll come down to Edwards, Biden or Obama (unless he keeps insulting voter segments of the Democratic party) as big outside shots to stop Hillary, although I hope I am wrong and she will lose ground.

The entire old folks park where my best friends mom lives is already discussing Sen. Obama not having the love of this country to face the American flag and place his hand on his heart out of respect for those who have died for this country... that's their take on a small issue, it's not my fault, he did it. And it's not a stupid discussion, because I even got an email about it from a lady I know in CO, and she rarely forwards political items.

His gaffes of the patriotic type are going to destroy his chances as that story gets more and more circulated, because he already has so many racists against him and people who are scared of his potential ties to his father's religious ties that his dad apparently didn't really practice, but to simple folk in Ohio - that won't matter!

I still don't understand the point of removing the flag pin - is he trying to lose his shot to beat Hillary? There will be commercials slamming him for doing the flag things, and, sorry, if I have to suffer through a Hillary presidency, I'll do it instead of putting us up for certain failure from an Obama GE run. Hillary can win it, but I don't want her, I want Biden or Edwards since Gore or Clark aren't running.


Sorry for the long comment if anyone was reading, this just upsets me about Tom. Thanks to the OP for the thread.