My reason for donating to the DNC is Dean's 50 state strategy.  But no more until this mess is settled.

I agree.  It's generally safer to vet your candidates well and give to them, but I still believe it takes a larger organization (DNC, DFA, etc.) to make structural changes on a broad scale.

I would like to register my disappointment in the ugly turn the Democratic party has taken these past few weeks. I dmit freely to being an Obama supporter, though Dodd was my first choice.

    The only reason I turned to Obama after Iowa was because of the race-baiting tactics from the Clinton's campaign between July 2007 and Jan. 4, 2008.

    That entire time, the party leaders were silent. They stood by why a fellow Senator and Democrat used right-wing talking points, to denigrate a candidate. As a black female, as a Muslim woman, Sen. Clinton's antics were something I expect from someone like George Allen or Trent Lott.

    I had hoped that after news reports mentioned that Bill Clinton has been "talked to" about his Southern Strategy, that we had seen the last of the race-baiting from the Clinton's. I was wrong.

    Geraldine Ferraro's comments from last month and these past few days were not only out of bounds as Democrats,
    but also as a functioning member of society. It pains me that the party I was raised in accepts these sorts of remarks.

    I've sat here for the past 3 days, wondering when a party leader would step in an speak up on behalf of the most loyal bloc of the Democratic party. There was nothing. I sat here the last day searching elected officials websites and local papers throughout this country, looking for something from some elected offical denouncing Ferraro's remarks, chastising the Clinton's for not taking a harder stance on her outdated and factually incorrect statements. The silence is deafening.

    I receive a lot of requests for money from you guys. When I had money, I gave freely. I volunteer my time and energy to get Democrats elected. I make phone calls, I blog, I email. This is all going to stop as of today. Because today, I am not proud to call myself a Democrat. Today, I am ashamed, as a black person in the United States, to associate with a party where racist statements are simply "disagreed" with.