Are Democrats turning their back on Obama?

Right Up Front ^ | 107/14/2008 | R Hargraves

[KatyLoraleyVidales]

I wrote about this very topic a few weeks ago as it related to some polling that had been released. But it wasn't until my own personal experience with Democrats within my own family that it became more personal to me, and its impact on this year's election more evident and probable. Many Democrats do not like and will not vote for Barack Obama.

This fact was on display on my two most recent visits to my childhood home while visiting my parents and family. I am blessed to have a very politically diverse family. I have an ardently Republican uncle and a strident Democrat uncle. One aunt is so rabidly anti-war no amount of success would convince her it was worth undergoing and another who by most standards is an evangelical voter. My own parents are conservatives although they were not politically active until I became active in high school. My grandparents are so immersed in Democratic politics that I feared they would collapse in shock when they found out I was the chairman of my university's College Republican chapter.

With so many Democrats in my family I was surprised to hear that none of them will be voting for Barack Obama this November, and at least one will vote for John McCain instead. These are not just fairweather Democrats. Indeed, if they were they would surely be supporting Barack in a year that should be a "sure thing" for Democrats. But instead they stand firm in their belief that Barack Obama is an undeserving, inexperienced politically ambitious amateur who is getting a little too big for his britches. My uncle insists he will stay home and is disgusted with the party he grew up in since his childhood in Ohio...

[tessalu]

The New Yorker Magazine pretty accurately describes the feelings of Americans about Barack and Michelle Obama. Most people feel that Obama is not interested in what is best for America. They are hardcore racists.

[hunter112]

Just for the heck of it, my lady and I took a quick trip to see if we could find some. I figured, we live near NYC, mostly liberals around our area, they'd be oblivious to this.

Well, you can't find a one of them. So, if you're still at work, and happen to have a place to stop by that might sell these, give it a shot. By the end of the week, you might make fifty bucks a piece for them if the NYer doesn't do a second printing...