Lifelong Republican Mayor of Camp Hill, PA Switches Parties to Vote Obama

[Hope And Change]

Lifelong Republican Mayor of Camp Hill, PA Switches Parties to Vote Obama


By Sam Graham-Felsen - Mar 20th, 2008 at 6:47 pm EDT


The Patriot-News reports...

Camp Hill mayor switches parties to vote for Obama

Camp Hill Mayor Lou Thieblemont switched his lifelong Republican registration this week so he can vote for Democratic Sen. Barack Obama in Pennsylvania's April 22 primary.

"I'm sick and tired of the politics of fear in this country. He's the only one who doesn't do that," Thieblemont said of Obama. "He's the only candidate who's said he'd talk to our enemies and try to get some common ground."
A retired airline pilot, Thieblemont, 62, said he doesn't believe the Bush administration's claims that the United States is safer now. "We're all alone in the world. We have basically lost all our friends in the world with comments like 'bring it on.'"

http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/samgrahamfelsen/gGBHKJ

[polichick]

1. YES WE CAN!

[Bullet1987]

2. Too bad this will go unnoticed thanks to the race-baiting media

[Yael]

4. Camp Hill is a suburb of Harrisburg

It won't go unnoticed where it counts!

[blm]

8. Patriot News is the biggest paper in that area which is the Capitol of Pennsylvania.

People who underestimate this event do so at their own risk of looking ....dumb.

[Yael]

3. Central PA is just starting to speak out....

[SunsetDreams]

5. Awesome, thank you for posting!

Obama08

[roguevalley]

7. I'm glad. I hate the notion that if you don't live in Pittsburgh and

Philadelphia, you are a redneck.

[JimGinPA]

6. Nice!

K&R

[Divernan]

9. Camp Hill is a main "bedroom community" for the state capitol

The population there are often 3rd or 4th generation state employees, who are extremely savy, knowledgeable and cynical about politicians. I think this is a terrific development.

I also note that the airline pilots association are backing Obama because of their feeling that McCain let them down re some legislative issues. They also know McCain's rep as a spoiled military brat who partied his way through Annapolis and used his father's and grandfather's status as Admirals to generally get by with murder and to jump over many qualified men to get into flight school. He was never a particularly good pilot.

[BumRushDaShow]

10. Camp Hill is also the HQ for Highmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield here in PA.

Interesting... Seems a number of die-hard pukes are fed up with Bushco and are going for Obama. I have been running into some myself, and all I can do is:

:wow:

[donheld]

14. Book Of The Month Club is also there n/t

[goclark]

11. What a man he is with such gracious remarks

That shows that there are many more in America who want
to display "the content of their character."

:hug:

[cooolandrew]

12. Republicans have becomevery wise from their last 8 years I have regained so much respect for their

..voters.

[krkaufman]

13. And given McCain's reaction to his staffer's forwarding that Obama video ...

... McCain's certainly looking more gracious and Presidential than the filth that is the Clinton campaign.

[DerekJ]

15. K & R

:kick:

[grantcart]

16. Didn't see this before great news

[anonymous171]

17. YES WE CAN! Obama '08

Great news! :kick:
Many republicans have realized what Neocon rule has done to the country and also the Republican party. They are no longer the party of "fiscal responsibility" or "defenders of the constitution." That's probably why Ron Paul got so much support, so many repugs were sick and tired of neocon "borrow and spend, perpetual war" policies.

[EFerrari]

18. Baby! He's going to pull it off! I can't believe it.

:woohoo:

[ima_sinnic]

19. but but but--everybody KNOWS that PA is billary's, that NOBODY in PA

will vote for Obama ;)

YES WE CAN!

Just say NO to bush-clinton-bush-clinton!!!

[Voice for Peace]

20. K&R

Nice to wake up to good news this morning!

[Scurrilous]

21. K & R

:thumbsup:

[immoderate]

22. Way to go, Mayor Thieblemont!

Campaigns should be run on common sense and truth, not drama!

--IMM