I am African American, female, middle aged and feeling quite disenfranchised despite what the media and the DNC would like the world to think. I am the voice that is only partially heard. When I turned 18, I could not wait to vote. I chose without question to become a Democrat. Without question is what now puzzles me. I was 18, black and raised to believe that Democrats were good for black people. Being so young, it never occurred to me to ask “exactly what does that mean? Break it down for me.” Nor did it occur to me to ask “what about women?” As time went on, life got busier and I had less time to ponder these issues.

Enter 2008. Talk about eyes wide open. Talk about stepping from the dark into the light. Wow! It has suddenly occurred to me that my eyes had opened years ago, but it was as if this one morning I stepped into the hot sun in middle of July without sunglasses and the sunlight was blinding. We have all had experienced that effect at one time or another.

The DNC, the media, men, potty trained women were in full force bashing my candidate. They were not only bashing her, they were doing their best to tear Hillary Rodham Clinton to shreds. That great American boys’ club was committing every type of assassination possible on Senator Clinton.

It tore at me like a knife going through my soul because I admired the woman so. I hated it because Hillary Clinton was a good candidate and is a good person. She is strong, smart, a leader, experienced, tough, a top dog multitasker, funny and not to mention the most qualified to become our next president of this great nation.

But this was not to be because the Democratic Party leaders, Howard Dean, Nancy Pelosi, Donna Brazile, Ted Kennedy and others, some of which were elected to an office and some of which who never was elected anywhere made backroom deals, schemed, scammed, directed the media who was all too willing to participate in a war against one of their own. This in itself is a sin most unforgivable and one I will soon not let the Democratic Party forget.

Well here is how I believe this happened. Back in 2000, the Republicans stole the race from the Democrats. The Democrats decide that its payback time so someone in their infinite wisdom said “hey 25% of Democrats are black, let’s get us a black nominee.” Now mind you by this time, the country is financially, socially, spiritually and economically in shambles so the Democratic Party knows that they must get someone they know they can control (backdoor deals) so they find a man who has no concscience, someone they can control, a puppet. It can’t be another Clintons because the Clintons don’t do puppets. So where does the Democratic Party go to find this puppet. Chicago, a city that is referred to as the Chicago Way for its corruption.

Now that Chicago is in the sights of the Democratic Party, they realize it must be a new comer, someone who thinks he’s smart and greedy enough to jump the line to get to the top, someone without conscience, but someone who can play the game, b.s. the planet and come off to those who don’t know any better as charismatic. Enter Barack Obama.

Fast forward, BO is the Democratic puppet. His speeches are political fodder. He is a man without conscience who thinks he knows how to play the game and he is a consummate b.s. artist. The perfect face for the greedy self-serving Democratic Party. The perfect puppet for the Democrat’s good cop/bad cop routine.

How on earth could a party I so respected and admired turn out to be so devious, arrogant, condescending. How could they put a black face on the next election and think that this black woman would be so thankful for that black face I would never deign to question it? Yes, I would love to see a black president in my lifetime, but how dare they tote this black face as the first black president. Most Americans are unaware of the fact that America has already had a black president, well you could say several since a few of our presidents had “black blood”. Forgive me for putting it in those terms, but it is what it is.

Well, if no one questions that, the Democratic Party assumes that we will not question much else. Please, please, please! I am, we are so much better than that. So they used the BO puppet to convince people of their sincerity which is b.s. and threw America, its people to the dogs. They refused to listen to us and those of us who shouted from the raptors that our voices were not being heard and our votes respected, they tried to silence us.

It will not happen. We will not be silenced. I am up in arms that my vote was disenfranchised. I am up in arms that my candidate who, of course, if the better candidate, the more experienced of the two, a fighter of men, women and children, the disabled, the sick, the elderly and so on was not chosen.

For the first time in my life, I am looking at the Republican Party as to what they can bring to the table because I am finding that I have less and less in common with the Democratic Party.