Many Democrats feel that the negative campaign being waged by Hillary Clinton is damaging to the party, and risks costing the party the support of African Americans and affluent liberals. Some of those who disapprove of Clinton, including former Clinton supporters, are expressing their displeasure with contributions to Obama. The Washington Post reports:
There are signs that the anger voiced by some African Americans is beginning to extend to the Democratic donor base. Campaign finance records released this week show that a growing number of Clinton’s early supporters migrated to Obama in March, after he achieved 11 straight victories. Of those who had previously made maximum contributions to Clinton, 73 wrote their first checks to Obama in March. The reverse was not true: Of those who had made large contributions to Obama last year, none wrote checks to Clinton in March.
“I think she is destroying the Democratic Party,” said New York lawyer Daniel Berger, who had backed Clinton with the maximum allowable donation of $2,300. “That there’s no way for her to win this election except by destroying [Obama], I just don’t like it. So in my own little way, I’m trying to send her a message.”
The message came in the form of a $2,300 contribution to Obama.
Maybe they’re switching candidates because Hillary seems to have gone off the deep end. I’m very concerned about Presidential candidates who imagine and apparently lie about surviving “sniper fire” when they actually haven’t. Do we really want someone to be our commander in chief that can’t tell fantasy from reality on the battlefield? It makes one wonder what other kind of military attacks or maneuvers that Hillary might “imagine” if she somehow scratches her way back into the White House
I think it is far more a matter of her dishonesty than that she can’t tell fantasy from reality.
I’m not worried that she will get us into trouble militarily by her imagination. I am worried that she will lie as Bush did to push her policies.
That’s a good point. Either way, she’s potentially dangerous as commander in chief.