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Lunabell

(5,920 posts)
Sat Sep 17, 2016, 05:00 AM Sep 2016

I am ready to make nice.

I admit, I was one of Hillary's main critics in the primaries. She has her flaws, No one is perfect. But I am so ready to be with her campaign. We can not afford to let a rethuglican in our highest office.

Hillary Clinton is one tough cookie and I admire that in her. She recently had a bout with pneumonia and she tried to forge on. She took a few days off and came back out with dignity and pounced on the issues. She personifies an empowered woman and I like that.

I will continue to push the agenda in a progressive way and I will support progressive candidates. And I will continue to support Hillary Clinton as she heads toward the highest office in the land. She has my vote, my full support and I will sing her praises in the next few weeks as we head to victory!

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I am ready to make nice. (Original Post) Lunabell Sep 2016 OP
What a great post - considered, pragmatic and inspiring remaineruk Sep 2016 #1
Welcome to the effort! BlueMTexpat Sep 2016 #2
Having Hillary lose to tRump helps no-one except tRump and Teapublicans... marble falls Sep 2016 #3
At this point it's a rescue mission to save the country from Trump. Vinca Sep 2016 #4
Yup MFM008 Sep 2016 #5
everyone who thinks they are democrats, liberal, progressives MUST come out and support Hillary beachbum bob Sep 2016 #6
Trump is a neo-nazi, Pence is a teabagger fundie. radius777 Sep 2016 #20
It will all change Jon King Sep 2016 #7
Hope you're right. Welcome to DU, Jon King! pnwmom Sep 2016 #19
Birtherism is the cut above Trump's eye radius777 Sep 2016 #21
I read a post on FB TNNurse Sep 2016 #8
Every vote counts. oasis Sep 2016 #9
I often said I didn't particularly LIKE her but I've warmed up to her now. randome Sep 2016 #10
Given that the courts are at stake Demsrule86 Sep 2016 #11
Bernie had my support until barbtries Sep 2016 #12
Oh and thanks for the post Demsrule86 Sep 2016 #13
What wonderful stories. This is how HRC will win remaineruk Sep 2016 #14
Post removed Post removed Sep 2016 #15
What is refreshing is bullshit like this won't be tolerated here for the most important election of still_one Sep 2016 #16
Could you clarify. I don't understand your salient point remaineruk Sep 2016 #23
I wasn't responding to you: "Response to Post removed (Reply #15)" still_one Sep 2016 #24
Many apologies friend. No I didn't see it. remaineruk Sep 2016 #25
No problem, that is what I assumed. We are on the same side, and definitely have the still_one Sep 2016 #26
Thanks Luna. We are on the same page on this one still_one Sep 2016 #17
Yay! Thank you! People like you really help inspire people like me. n/t pnwmom Sep 2016 #18
Nice message, nice start to my day. Hortensis Sep 2016 #22
Thank you! We need people like you vlyons Sep 2016 #27
Couldn't have stated it any better... N_E_1 for Tennis Sep 2016 #28
Everything we have won since Hoover is at stake!! lastlib Sep 2016 #29

marble falls

(56,358 posts)
3. Having Hillary lose to tRump helps no-one except tRump and Teapublicans...
Sat Sep 17, 2016, 06:25 AM
Sep 2016

I am joyfully voting for Hillary and encouraging everyone else to do the same.

We at least get to keep Bernie in the Senate where he will help to give Hillary a Congress that will work for us.

Vinca

(50,170 posts)
4. At this point it's a rescue mission to save the country from Trump.
Sat Sep 17, 2016, 06:34 AM
Sep 2016

This is a bad year for a protest vote. Romney isn't the opponent, a total nutjob is the opponent. We can't let Trump win.

 

beachbum bob

(10,437 posts)
6. everyone who thinks they are democrats, liberal, progressives MUST come out and support Hillary
Sat Sep 17, 2016, 07:30 AM
Sep 2016

the 3rd party nonsense must end....how could any stein or johnson voter allow a trump to have a possibility to win is beyond horror....and is a disgraced to america

hillary has faults as all people do but trumps issues are HUGE and his supporters are the worse of the worse


glad you have seen the light

radius777

(3,624 posts)
20. Trump is a neo-nazi, Pence is a teabagger fundie.
Sun Sep 18, 2016, 12:20 AM
Sep 2016

The choices in this election are as clear as they've ever been, how or why anyone could stay home or vote third party boils down to some combination of cluelessness, spite and (let's face it) white privilege.

Hillary is a dependable and predictable mainstream center-left Dem like any other, like Obama, Biden, Kerry etc, who would advance similar policies - yet gets painted as somehow "scary" and "untrustworthy" by some on the left, as well as many millennials and others who have bought into 24 years of anti-Hillary (and anti-Clinton) hysteria and sexist framing.

Wake up people. SCOTUS is at stake. The next president will definitely appoint one or more justices, that'll likely affect the balance of power on the court for a generation.

Jon King

(1,910 posts)
7. It will all change
Sat Sep 17, 2016, 07:49 AM
Sep 2016

Trumps birtherism comments and fake press conference yesterday has fired up Dems, on the fence people and the media. Many protest voters will begin to change their minds knowing he is too dangerous to be elected. The polls will move back towards Hillary over the next 7 days. All Hillary supporters need to seize this opportunity.

radius777

(3,624 posts)
21. Birtherism is the cut above Trump's eye
Sun Sep 18, 2016, 12:35 AM
Sep 2016

and Dems/H would be wise to keep punching it all the way to election day. There is no downside to it and it helps to re-assemble the Obama coalition, and if she is able to do this, game over.

Teflon Don may be immune to most things (including his 2nd Amendment comments against Hillary) but he is not immune to this, and he knows it.

This is because Trump can't win a media faceoff with Obama. While the media loves Trump for ratings, it loves Obama more, and can't afford to offend the Obama coalition which is a far younger, diverse and more desired (profitable) demographic, and the future of America, whereas Trump represents the final gasps of a bygone era.

TNNurse

(6,911 posts)
8. I read a post on FB
Sat Sep 17, 2016, 07:54 AM
Sep 2016

from a man who admitted that "standing up" and refusing to vote for Humphrey (because McCarthy did not get the nomination) and thus "helping" elect Nixon was one of the BIGGEST REGRETS OF HIS LIFE.

If you want to vote for third party candidate, you need to be active in a plan for the next election....in four years, but it is TOO LATE AND TOO IMPORTANT for this one.

Your "integrity" could endanger us all.

Thank you Lunabell for saying this.

 

randome

(34,845 posts)
10. I often said I didn't particularly LIKE her but I've warmed up to her now.
Sat Sep 17, 2016, 08:39 AM
Sep 2016

Part of my lag may have been my inherent male-centered viewpoint and not taking into account all the things she's been through in politics for the past 30 years.

She's no Obama (could there ever be another?), but she will do us proud, I have no doubt.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Aspire to inspire.[/center][/font][hr]

Demsrule86

(68,348 posts)
11. Given that the courts are at stake
Sat Sep 17, 2016, 08:48 AM
Sep 2016

and policy issues...we should all support Hillary Clinton. But their is a more pressing reason. Donald Trump is the most dangerous candidate of my lifetime-perhaps anyone's lifetime. He literally could bring about nuclear war. He has said, "if we have nukes why can't we use them?" Also, his has totalitarian, fascist instincts. Donald Trump is the sort who runs once and stays for life. I know comparisons to HItler might seem overblown...but I don't think so.

barbtries

(28,702 posts)
12. Bernie had my support until
Sat Sep 17, 2016, 08:51 AM
Sep 2016

it was mathematically impossible for him to win, but i always knew that i would support hillary if she was the nominee. a friend at work, like you, walked up to my desk just yesterday and finally said, "I'm with her."

We're going to canvas together when it gets a bit cooler here in NC. i think we can turn the state blue.

Demsrule86

(68,348 posts)
13. Oh and thanks for the post
Sat Sep 17, 2016, 08:57 AM
Sep 2016

Some of my daughter's friends (she supported Sen. Sanders in the primary) have said basically that they can vote for Stein because of course Hillary will win . Well we live in Ohio which is always in play. So my daughter is involved in a YSU campus effort to help elect Hillary. They have been registering young voters and warning about the dire consequences for the country should Trump win. Both my daughters are working to help elect Hillary and are using social media to reach out to young voters. I am very proud of my girls. I am a usually healthy woman who just had a health scare..ended up in the hospital for four days, but I am out now and feeling better. I will rejoin the effort on Monday with renewed vigor. Boy one day, you are going along normally and then some health knocks you flat on your back...so much empathy for Hillary she is older than me and just kept going through her illness! I still think it is very likely Hillary will win but, we must fight really hard to make sure the Trump and his deplorables are kicked to the curb in a massive loss so their white supremacist movement is crushed once and for all. Thanks for the post...very nice.

Response to Lunabell (Original post)

still_one

(91,948 posts)
16. What is refreshing is bullshit like this won't be tolerated here for the most important election of
Sat Sep 17, 2016, 11:04 PM
Sep 2016

our life time

Don't let the door hit you on the way out

remaineruk

(156 posts)
23. Could you clarify. I don't understand your salient point
Sun Sep 18, 2016, 06:36 AM
Sep 2016

As the UK has just gone though the biggest vote in the last 40 years I have some inight re MSM manipulation of the masses driven by RW loonies.

It was the lack of positive stores and reaching to the hearts and minds of everyday people regarding what was in the best interests of the UK that lost the remain vote

Every day communities were othered. Political parties have been fractured. Racist attacks have increased dramatically. RW crypto facism is on the rise in the UK. Reacting to posts I think have inspiring stories is not BS. I am sorry you think so and I find the comment bullying. I am hoping you don't go down the same route as us. Pulling together will help you

still_one

(91,948 posts)
24. I wasn't responding to you: "Response to Post removed (Reply #15)"
Sun Sep 18, 2016, 07:58 AM
Sep 2016

Based on your comment I can only assume that you missed viewed who I was responding to, and my response to that person, who is identified as "Post removed now", NOT YOU. It was a well deserved removal since it was a blatant TOS violation, which is why the post was removed.

still_one

(91,948 posts)
26. No problem, that is what I assumed. We are on the same side, and definitely have the
Sun Sep 18, 2016, 08:09 AM
Sep 2016

same concerns

You can't always rely on the vertical lines, the "response to ________" is the one.

Believe me, I have made that mistake myself more than once

Take care

vlyons

(10,252 posts)
27. Thank you! We need people like you
Sun Sep 18, 2016, 09:12 AM
Sep 2016

to help us reform the Dem party from being a corporate party into The People's Party.

N_E_1 for Tennis

(9,593 posts)
28. Couldn't have stated it any better...
Sun Sep 18, 2016, 09:38 AM
Sep 2016

Thanks, Lunabell.
But I'll keep all the Bernie stickers on my truck probably for a very long time.

One reason is its old and I think that's all that's keeping it together. Lol.

lastlib

(22,981 posts)
29. Everything we have won since Hoover is at stake!!
Sun Sep 18, 2016, 09:57 AM
Sep 2016

The entire New Deal, the Civil Rights era gains, ACA--ALL of it is GONE if Trumpolini become the next president. To give the GOPee total control of ALL THREE branches of the government is something we CANNOT allow to happen, folks!! Get out there and work your butts off for Hillary as if your life depends on it--because IT DOES!!!

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