*Sigh*

Y’know, when I see comments like this:

But we can’t not vote, either.

Actually, you’re pretty much wrong.

If Obama can’t win against the trainwreck that is Mavericky McStraightTalk, then it’s the fault of him, his campaign, and the Democratic Party to engage people like me.

I’m getting tired of being played by the Democrats the way the Christian conservatives keep getting played by the Republicans, having our collective hopes dangled in front of us with the implicit threat of “If you vote for the other guys, this all goes away”.

I don’t owe him my vote just because he’s got a “(D)” after his name, and the Obamabots are not helping anything. At all. I haven’t made up my mind what I’m going to do in November. But Obama and the Democrats have about four and a half months to convince me (or at the very, very least, stop pissing me off).

I can’t even bother to pull out my itsy bitsy teensy weensy violin.

Why?

What Carmen said.

Let me ask a few questions:

When was the last time a national Democratic political candidate was ever threatened with loosing an election because that candidate failed to adequately engage people of color?

Has it ever occured to some people that statements like this:

“I’m getting tired of being played by the Democrats the way the Christian conservatives keep getting played by the Republicans, having our collective hopes dangled in front of us with the implicit threat of ‘If you vote for the other guys, this all goes away’”

have been a staple of people of color’s voting concerns since time immemorial?

Where have you people been all this time? The Democratic party has been giving some folks a ride for quite some time now.

I have to ask: what about people like me? Not all of us are Obama supporters, yet still, with every passing day, it becomes more clear to me that people like me don’t matter and never have. Progressive people of color could have used your help and your outrage a long time ago. We’ve been there for you, yet you always seem to forget about us. Hmm…kinda sounds like the Democratic Party, doesn’t it?

Pot meet kettle.

While I’m at it. New Rule! No one that uses terms like Billary, Obamabot, Obamatron, Shillary, Baracky or any of the hundreds of other stupid fucking terms that have sprung up lately to refer to Senator Hillary Clinton or Senator Barack Obama shall be taken seriously for a second. If, while trying to make some sort of political statement, you use any term other than their given name and earned title, you will forever be deemed inconsequential and childish; and no one with any sense should take you seriously. I love snark and all, but you people sound like the 8th graders that used to call me “Elliott” in an ET voice back in the day. So yeah, grow the hell up and use grown up snark, will ya?