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ELECTION 2008 Obama speechwriter defects to McCain 'I didn't leave the Democratic Party; the Democratic Party left me'A long-time Democratic speechwriter who claims to have written for both Barack and Michelle Obama has announced she is leaving the Democratic Party and endorsing John McCain for president. Wendy Button, a frequent columnist for the Huffington Post, where she is credited with writing speeches for Democratic Sens. John Edwards, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and John Kerry and for Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, made the announcement in a blog post called "So Long, Democrats" on The Daily Beast.Button's reasons for defecting from the Democrats...

URGENT: Speechwriter for Obama Quits, Voting McCain. Cites Obama Tearing Down Two Female Candidates and Working Class People. Now Unemployed, Wrote for Huffin gton Post. http://butasforme.com/2008/10/31/urgent-speechwriter-for-obama-quits-voting-mccain-because-obama-part-of-tearing-down-two-female-candidates-and-working-class-people/ http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-10-28/so-long-obama/

The former Democratic speechwriter, who came out for McCain on The Daily Beast this week, responds to the death threats and hostile comments that ensued with a plea for civility.

Tina Brown is a New Labour/Democrat limousine liberal but, unlike the Obots running the snore-sheet monodailies, she's an editor first. And so, after the Buckley endorsement of Obama, she now presents Wendy Button, an Obama-Edwards-Clinton speechwriter who's voting for McCain: Not only has this party belittled working people in this campaign from Joe the Plumber to the bitter comments, it has also been part of tearing down two female candidates. At first, certain Democrats and the press called Senator Clinton “dishonest.” They went after her cleavage. They said her experience as First Lady consisted of having tea parties. There was...

Imagine if a speechwriter for John McCain had switched sides and announced she was going to vote for Barack Obama. Would she not be featured bigtime in the mainstream media complete with new thrills running up Chris Matthews leg? Well, this did happen except that it was an Obama speechwriter, Wendy Button, who became disillusioned with The One and switched supporting McCain. Here are the highlights of Wendy Button's explanation of why she made the switch: Since I started writing speeches more than ten years ago, I have always believed in the Democratic Party. Not anymore. Not after the election...