I spoke to my mother briefly tonight, just small talk, and mentioned the political atmosphere of the last 24 hrs. She just said she loved me, and that she wanted to get off the phone, and gave it to my dad. She is a Hillary supporter, my dad and I are Obama folks. As my dad and I talked, I started to feel really bad about all the negative feelings that have emerged over the last few months. I particularly started to feel seriously guilty towards my mom.

Had I just denied my 65 year-old mom the chance to see a woman become president for perhaps the only time in her adult life? I don't think that a woman president is that far off at all, but I certainly wouldn't go around assuming that, if I had spent the last 65 years watching a parade of men take the chair in the Oval Office, and feel like there is nothing to be done to change that. And along comes Hillary, and the dream is alive, and then it is crushed in this brutal primary we've all gone through.

I guess for the first time in this election season, I walked for a moment in the other side's shoes, and I really didn't like how my side looked. And as much as my Obama activism has meant to me over the last several months, it suddenly didn't hold a candle to realizing I may have participated in stealing my mother's dreams away from her. All of a sudden, all I wanted to do was give my mom a female president, and do all it took to make that happen.

This is a damn tough time to be a Democrat.

I don't like the bashing, and I'm ready for it to stop.  It's abusive to her supporters to have to watch her endlessly get beaten up for having poor character.  

I am adamant about this.  It's wholesale abuse of 50% of the Democratic party.

We play the full nine, all four quarters, all three periods and use every weapon at our disposal.

Playing on mixed teams (eg, martial arts) the early rules called for girls ALWAYS to play clean even when the guys used that double-standard to their advantage. (I'm looking at YOU, Mr. Jiujitsu-san.)

New Game, New Rules: I play clean and don't take dives or throw elbows but if another player threw one at me, I'd wait for the flashy Air Jordan impression and the tongue hanging out of the mouth before retaliated.

My mom had to fill in "coaching" little league and knew so little about the sport, her main contribution was in accessorizing our uniforms to classic French perfection. (She was the ultimate Frenchy Pants.) "No dangly earrings, ladies -- they'll get caught in your hair!"

Her evolution became self-evident: "You at SS, wear a side pony-tail to your right and it will silken your double-plays!"

She emerged saying that if I didn't brush Mom back on Mother's Day for crowding the plate, then both of us had learned nothing. (Her line, and damn it feels good to repeat it today!)

She never saw France win the World's Cup, and would have been devastated by the Sarkozy election but would have been thrilled to be part of Hillary's vow to stay in it till 2209 or an official naming of a candidate.

Anyone looking for a place to park their DNC money should look no farther.  Protecting our reproductive rights is paramount in these hostile times, especially when some in our party seem to think anti-choice dems that dilute the platform are acceptable.

What I see is they do now award AAs the same respect.

I personally think he'll be pretty ineffectual.  He's clueless about implementation of policies.

But I think I've truly adjusted to my new "home" as a real Independent.

I'm going to scour for good people, regardless of their label, in all parties.

This is sort of fun.

Enuf of supporting this Democratic Party.  I honestly don't want any connection to a lot of the Democrats who played dirty.

Pelosi......who misinformed the public about SDs and their role.
Kennedy.......who trashed the Clintons
Brazile.......who talked
Dean........who weasled
Kerry........who was downright snotty
Richardson........who made it all about poor him
Anderson......who just is a 2nd rate idiot
Clyburn......who acted like a clown to stir up racial tension.

I'm not going to support this gang.

I will support good, solid Dems.  I loved Feinsteins statement.  "Let Hillary decide."  Respectful.  And believe me, I disagree with her positions quite often.  But I think she's got a good head.  Boxer?  Kept quiet, anyway.

I really liked Mayor Nutter.  I think he should be encouraged to go national.  His speech about how he selected Hillary as an SD still makes me shiver.  His eye wasn't on electability.  He looked at qualificatons and skill and said, "I don't care if I'm the last man standing.  My choice stands for something."

That's the kind of person I'd like to see supported to go forth in politics.

He just finds someone new to usher him out of his current job -- even if it comes down to altering the score or looking for a rule to tweak -- and onwards and upwards to his next slate of undeliverable big promises.

As I said before, and only half-tongue in cheek, his hardest recorded fight was for that waffle.

No wonder neither he nor his backers and supporters can fairly deal with someone like Sen. Clinton, who shows up, plays hard and follows through.

Dean, Pelosi, Brazile, Kerry, Kennedy, Dodd, Richardson, are some of them...and the list goes on, and gets bigger.

The DNC, and the Obama folks really belive the party will unite in November.  I believe they are wrong.   They are clueless.  Even if Hillary asks me to support Obama, I just can't.    

During the question and answer session with Anne Lewis, Terry McAuliffe, and others, a boy who I would guess was 12 or 13 stood up and told his story. He had on a Hillary Clinton t-shirt and he was nervous, but really wanted to share. He told the group of mostly women about how he wears his Hillary t-shirt to school a lot and a lot of the other boys at school make fun of him and say things like "Hillary sucks," etc, and then he paused for a second, his voice caught a little bit, and he said, "But I still stand strong with Hillary."

'Nuff said!

No one would come in on Mother's Day to a site whose host supports Clinton.

Inspiration alone has no value.  Inspiration must lead to an outcome.  

This is why people say " I was inspired to_______ (fill in the blank).  Inspiration should take you beyond your comfort and beyond what your normal obligations.  

I really do think she's a leader.

I'm following.  She says.....let all the voters vote.

I'm in.

And then I think she'll give me a key to my own emotions.

I think I've found my own solution, really.

I'm really Independent, now.

I no longer can support this Democratic party.

"In a contest between myself and John McCain," he said, "there is going to be a very clear choice on policy that I don't think is going to have to do with ideology and who theoretically is more liberal or who's more conservative. I think it is going to have to do with who has a plan to provide relief to people when it comes to their gas prices, who has a real plan to make sure that everybody has health insurance, who's got a real plan to deal with college affordability."

So what good things has he done in his district that could outweigh what he did to all of us?