Added: May 16, 2008
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Count Michigan & Florida Join Hillary in Ensuring That the Votes of MI and FL Are Counted! http://www.HillaryClinton.com/HillBuzz: Cynthia Ruccia, in Ohio, has started a group for women who will not support Barack Obama for president under any circumstances. The group's name is Clinton Supporters Count Too. It is not outwardly associated with the growing Democrats for McCain movement, or the corresponding Latinos for McCain or LGBT for McCain movements. The treatment Obama and his supporters have given Hillary Clinton and her supporters makes it seem highly unrealistic that the bulk of Clinton's base would ever line up behind Obama, should he be the nominee. So, definitively, Hillary Clinton wants a Democrat to win in the fall, but her supporters largely feel she is the only Democratic candidate they will back. The consensus is: if not President Hillary Rodham Clinton, then it will be President John Sidney McCain. ABC: I've posted a few times in the last two days about female supporters of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton who are angry — at the Democratic Party, at the Obama campaign, or at the general situation that sees their candidate facing tough times, in their view, in part because of sexism. Just talked to a 55-year-old Columbus, Ohio resident named Cynthia Ruccia, a spokesperson and organizer for a group calling itself "Clinton Supporters Count Too." She said the group — numbering in the hundreds, and organized in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida, and Michigan — stands ready to boycott the Democratic Party if Clinton doesn't win the nomination, and will work against superdelegates who support Obama over Clinton as a means of registering their displeasure with the party. "We have a plan to campaign against the Democratic nominee," the group said in a press release Thursday. "We have the (wo)manpower and the money to make our threat real. And there are millions of supporters who will back us up in the swing states. If you don't listen to our voice now, you will hear from us later." Ruccia tells ABC News that she believes "millions" of women share her group's views, though they have only begun to make contact with like-minded women. They're disgusted, she said, that Democratic Party leaders haven't more aggressively denounced sexist media comments and coverage in the campaign, and are angry at the drumbeat for Clinton to get out of the race. "We're just at the boiling point," Ruccia said. "Women will sit back and be quiet about things for a while, but we've had enough. Unless Hillary Clinton is our nominee, we are not going to support the nominee." Part of their plan, she said, is a primary-night boycott of NBC and MSNBC during next Tuesday's primaries in Kentucky and Oregon, particularly to protest comments made by Chris Matthews and David Shuster that her group feels were sexist. Ruccia said she doesn't necessarily view the disqualifying of delegates from Florida and Michigan as sexist in itself, but added: "I do believe the people there will not forget that Sen. Obama stood in the way of having their vote counted." This is one group, and not a very large one at this point. But in gauging the fallout among female voters of this divisive campaign, it's also worth keeping in mind what's going on in the wake of NARAL Pro-Choice America's decision to endorse Obama on Wednesday. As documented by the Huffington Post's Sam Stein, NARAL blogs are being overwhelmed, and many state affiliates are angry at the national group's decision. Emily's List is furious. And Martha Burke, former chair of the National Council of Women's Organizations, tells Stein she is "disappointed": "It feels like they are abandoning a known ally for a less committed candidate because they want to jump on a bandwagon. I think the pro-choice community should stick by a woman who has stuck by them." It's impossible to know at this point how big an issue this would be for Obama if he's the nominee. But clearly he would have some major work to repair rifts inside the party — even if little of it is his fault, directly. UPDATE: Radio Talk Show Host Steve Corbett from Hillary's home town in PA Has launch a mass campaign called OPERATION TURN DOWN letting the DNC know we will TURN DOWN OBAMA. we Will NOT vote from him under Any circumstance and he talks about their treatment of Sen Clinton. People called in from all over the states saying NO OBAMA. Hillary supporters now have a voice that will reach MILLIONS. Tomorrow OPERATION TURN DOWN continues at 3 p.m est this is going to grow MASSIVE http://www.wilknetwork.com/pages/322229.php
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GretchenDawntreader Says:
Sep 8, 2008 - I mean seriously. You want a VP who very conceivably could wind up president taking over for an ailing or dead McCain, who thinks the earth was made by god 6000 years ago. At a time when the US is way behind the rest of the world in science education.That would be *great.* Please make us look more ridiculous in the eyes of the world, torture and unneccesary wars weren't enough.
ayoooitzdanny Says:
Sep 11, 2008 - whats wrong with that. were you here 6000 years ago? sicence is a belife just like christianity.
Redmanwanted Says:
Sep 11, 2008 - If McCain gets in office, the women will be in the streets giving themselves abortions with hangers.
GretchenDawntreader Says:
Sep 11, 2008 - wow....just, wow. are you here in 2008 with the rest of us? Ever heard of radio carbon dating? Of rock layers several billion years old? Guess radioactive decay and the entire field of nuclear physics is just a theory too.Ever take science in high school?Welcome to the year the Large Hadron Collider went online. Shame you are still back before the Italian Renaissance somewhere, I invite you to join the rest of the world in modern times.Your brain lacks a Higgs field.
brian300ish Says:
Sep 12, 2008 - Fox's vicious hate speech against liberals disguised as right-wing opinion. They demonize liberals & call for their extermination. Liberals are called effeminate, perverted, godless USA haters. Ann Coulter has regularly called for violence against liberals. On the home of the right-wing news media, FOX News, pundits regular joke about the execution of presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama. Other commentators such as Bill O'Reilly compare liberals to Nazis and the KKK.
Al112987 Says:
Sep 14, 2008 - So...Basically, platforms aside, these two broads leave the democratic parties because their spokeswoman didn't win the nomination? They think the dems are disenfranchising them because they're didn't nominate Hillary? Could they get any stupider?
sshapewa Says:
Sep 14, 2008 - OK U OBAMA ASSES ANSWER THis ?.Do u prefer a scorpion over a cat as a pet?do u prefer assfucking high taxes by obama than the abolishment of tax by RON PAUL?DAMN most of u motherfucking americans r real fucked dogged assholes!!im blackafrican,i suffered racism by whites but that does not mean i have to prefer a blackman over a whiteman regardless of his traits!!RON paul was the man!!fucking assholes,no wonder y hitler came in2 power!!!
willywill3 Says:
Sep 16, 2008 - Fuck you. That's why Obama beat Hillary and it's time to stick with Obama or you will have that Balloon Cheek faggot McCain carrying on the Bush legacy and HE DOES NOT GIVE A FUCK ABOUT Blacks. Time to open your eyes and Ron paul is not in the election, oh well.
willywill3 Says:
Sep 16, 2008 - I believe In God, but to say 4000-6000 years ago Dinosaurs existed is just PLAN STUPID...PALIN STUPID!
SocratesTheGadfly Says:
Sep 18, 2008 - behold the obamamessiahhe will just wave his magical dumbocrat fairy wand and solve all of America's problems.a question for all you obamashiites out thereif the obamamessiah is so powerful thenWHY DOES HE NOT WAVE HIS WAND RIGHT NOW????hmmmmmm?
BigDaddy530 Says:
Sep 20, 2008 - You think gas prices are high now? If Obama is in there it will spike to $7.69 in the first 2 years.(FACT) NO plan, No drilling. NO BACKBONE TO TERRORIST, and NO experience.-- And a prayer (while it's still legal) God help us all in the US and free countrys if he gets elected - AMEN.
mykol13v Says:
Sep 20, 2008 - Palin's father was a Science teacher, taught Darwinism theory to his classes and his daughter. You made this up to scare women. I bet you are an Obama supporter, the Superdelegate's choice for candidate. Chosen, not elected. Sit and wonder why people are angry after the way Hillary was treated.
kate10170 Says:
Sep 20, 2008 - Sista was kidnapped, held against her will, drugged up, and is being forced to speak anti-Obama propaganda. Just look at her..she looks like Patty Hearst, I mean Tania.
GretchenDawntreader Says:
Sep 22, 2008 - LOL if Palin's father taught evolution, he must have a pretty low opinion of his daughter.
Dunitlucky Says:
Sep 22, 2008 - Obliviously you don't even watch Fox News. Both political persuasions are always given their turn to speak. I watch Bill O'Reilly daily and you sir are a bald faced LIAR. Ann Coulter is one super intelligent woman, she's at least got the guts to tell it like it is, and not have to resort to telling lies to get her point across. I suggest you quit watching Hollywood Tonight and get educated.
jungletiger160g Says:
Sep 23, 2008 - Mccain and palin the Right choice for 08 !!!
clhoyt1003 Says:
Sep 24, 2008 - McCain and Palin...the better-than-the-alternative-choice for 08 !!!:-|
petepamf Says:
Sep 28, 2008 - if your a retard.
clhoyt1003 Says:
Sep 29, 2008 - if you're not even from the US and not a US voter, shutta-you-face! LoLz
patriciaoday Says:
Sep 29, 2008 - v=XetdVxIKj0sObama said McCain was right 12 times during the debate. See for yourself.
Stunatra Says:
Sep 30, 2008 - It wasn't 12 times, and so what if he agreed with McCain? The issues aren't deniable.
sxv32idf Says:
Oct 7, 2008 - That's interesting. I wonder if they still feel that way.
bmoody82 Says:
Oct 8, 2008 - Obama's gonna win! Hahaha
FlaggyStar Says:
Oct 8, 2008 - obama kicked ass today thats 2-0! ZERO for mccain!!!! FUCK mcsame Vote for Obama 08 and any one with any substance will do the same
GretchenDawntreader Says:
Sep 8, 2008 - heh good for her getting high approval of a tiny population. Helps that she governs a state where the government sends everyone an oil revenue check, heck, anyone could be popular doing that. Here, have some cash.Oh, and you really don't want to start on radical religious mentors. *cough*Hagee*cough*Parsley*cough*creationist*cough*My, what a cough I seem to have developed.McCain's mentors he was so proud to receive their endorsement, think God used Hitler to punish the Jews.