Obama Speechwriter Jumps Ship to McCain-Palin

Wendy Button wrote speeches for Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John Edwards. But apparently no more.

Since I started writing speeches more than ten years ago, I have always believed in the Democratic Party. Not anymore. Not after the election of 2008. This transformation has been swift and complete and since I’m a woman writing in the election of 2008, “very emotional."

Button has endorsed John McCain for President. Her motivation was how the Obama campaign treated Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin and Joe the Plumber. Like many of us former Democrats Button feels the party has gone to the extreme left. As Button says "Where the Democratic Party was once proud to say it represented Middle Class America, it has now turned into a party of the elite which hates the middle class."

"I can no longer justify what this party has done and can’t dismiss the treatment of women and working people as just part of the new kind of politics. It’s wrong and someone has to say that. And also say that the Democratic Party’s talking points—that Senator John McCain is just four more years of the same and that he’s President Bush—are now just hooker lines that fit a very effective and perhaps wave-winning political argument…doesn’t mean they’re true. After all, he is the only one who’s worked in a bipartisan way on big challenges.

No doubt the Obamabots will figure out a way to trash Button. It just gets curiouser and curiosuer.