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I am a relatively happy newly registered democrat, because I am confident the States will have a dem in the White House next year. I was formerly an independent but registered in order to vote in the primary. I don't believe in defining myself with a group mentality, as it does tend to blur your ability to self-critique and critique group leaders. After this presidential election is over, I'll probably go back to being independent. Hell, I may change back before the presidential election. I never would have changed my party if the primary vote wasn't so heated. If I could have voted for my dem nominee without changing parties, I would have stayed independent.

As for the divide, I am behind the issues of both Obama and Clinton, and I am actually happy that the country is in shambles because, in these privileged times, that's what it takes to bring about change. If Joe Average doesn't feel it, Joe Average is apathetic to it. I believe the country will move in a much better direction under the next democrat-controlled administration.

I am voting Obama, because he stands for more than issues, he stands for a new political zeitgeist. His past, though not as lengthy as Clinton's, is a hundred times more pure. He taught Constitutional Law; she joined the board at Wal-Mart (she says to promote women's rights, but there is class-action lawsuit re gender discrimination which includes the years she was on the board - she can really get things done, huh?). Clinton and her husband's past is littered with corruption, big money deals, nursing the corporate teat, leeching taxpayer dollars for personal gain, and livid dishonesty. I wonder how many people with an "IMPEACH THE LIAR" bumpersticker are planning on voting for Clinton in the primary. She always boasts how she fought for healthcare during her husband's administration - yeah, she really fought hard, in the first of his eight terms, then after that she let the hundreds of thousands roll in from big pharm and big insurance in exchange to not bring up the subject again. Big fighter.

However, despite all my meanmouthing and dislike of her and her political rhetoric, if she wins the nomination, I will still vote for her. And wait for the next corruption scandal as she betters the country.

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Electing a female prez will only say to the world that we've finally caught up; Thatcherism is as old as Reganomics. Electing a racial minority, which as far as I know has never happened in a major country, will thrust us ahead among the progressive nations like going to the moon was a thumb of the nose to sputnik. I guarantee France would have no hope of electing a black president with a name like Barack Obama.

As far as Hillary goes, my beef has nothing to do with sex at all. My beef is that she is old school politics. Big Money from Big Corporations. She says she's a fighter, she fought for universal health care the first term of Bill's eight years, then let the money roll in from Big Pharm and Big Ins, hundreds of thousands each year for the next seven years, in exchange for keeping her mouth shut. What a fighter. For Wal-Mart.

However, I will vote for her if she SOMEHOW gets the nomination. One of the things I do like about Hillary is that she doesn't invoke God and Religion in her speeches, not that I can ever recall. I like that.

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More power to 'em! It's called Natural Selection!

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I work downtown. I don't get up at 6 am to give my money to some kid dressed head-to-toe in Hot Topic gear who takes a break from his cell phone conversation to ask for change. Don't get me started I got a million examples of panhandlers in need of a swift kick. I have given money to elderly folks who are obviously mentally ill, no problem with that.

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