I'm so sick of Clinton vs. Obama. Praying for an Edwards Super Tuesday Surprise!

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Tue Jan-29-08 06:25 PM
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I'm so sick of Clinton vs. Obama. Praying for an Edwards Super Tuesday Surprise!

I respect and admire both Senator Clinton and Senator Obama.

And for a while, I battled which will be my second choice candidate.

Now that I've solidified my support for John Edwards and said I'll support him till the bitter end, that combined with the negative tone of the two 100 million dollar candidates is really turning me off. I certainly will support the nominee, and think both Senators' are good candidates and good people. But I'm so sick and tired of this Clinton vs. Obama.

It's not just DU. Sure, I get tired of the Clinton people vs. Obama people.

But it's everything.

It's the cocaine use. The race baiting. The dirty tactics. The snubbed handshake. The bashes at working on the board of Wal-Mart. The bashes towards Obama for taking money from Rezko. The fact that Bill Clinton has to be used as an attack dog. The Jesse Jackson comment.

And my god, so much more.

Barack Obama said he wouldn't run a textbook Washington campaign, and he'd promote the politics of hope. Well, he has ran a textbook Washington campaign. And he's promoting the politics of hope still in his rhetoric, but that's only followed him and his campaigns vicious and sometimes unfair attacks on Senator Clinton.

Hillary Clinton promised in 2007, she wouldn't attack her opponents and instead would talk about the issues. Well, she is talking about the issues. And more than Barack. But she's coming after Obama full force, and using Bill Clinton whose as tenacious as they come to advance those attacks because he can be more effective and he's more trusted by Democrats within the party.

It's just getting ugly, and nasty.

And the media is orgasming over it. DU is going back and forth with "He started it" and "She started it" like high school kids who just got into a fight and the teachers asking who started the whole thing. So much finger pointing. And the Clinton and Obama campaigns are engaging in the same low and nasty politics because neither campaign can find a clear path to the nomination, so they're blooding each other up hoping to knock each other out.

And where's the third man in this race? First off, YES there are THREE people in this race.

John Edwards is going from town to town, state to state promoting his message and presenting solutions.

He isn't trying to draw blood. He isn't getting caught up in the media promoted battle of the Democratic candidates. He isn't focusing on handshakes or anything insane like that.

He's simply out talking to voters, making his case, and touching the hearts and souls of people who need a voice in Washington.

So I'm praying for a miracle on Super Tuesday.

I'm sick of the Obama campaign. And sick of the Clinton campaign.

I respect both too much to sit by and continue to watch the shit hit the fan.

I'm voting for the grown-up in the mix. And I'm praying that Senator Edwards pulls out a Super Miracle next Tuesday night.