They base their reasons on claims of sexism... they feel like something was "stolen" from Hillary (regardless of the fact that Barack has followed the rules set out by the DNC). They are blind to the fact that Hillary's campaign strategists were incompetent (Mark Penn reportedly didn't know that the California primary was proportional and not winner-take-all) and didn't have a plan for after Super Tuesday.
They hate Barack Obama for winning. And somehow they have conflated all of the sexism they ever experienced in their lives with this presidential campaign.
If you want to see some of the out-of-control vitriol being spewed toward him, go to Hillary supporter site Hillaryis44.org, where they even use sexist tactics against Michelle Obama by calling her "lantern jawed." (Plug your nose before you go in. This has become a hate site.)
Some misguided Hillary supporters have thought it appropriate to play the race card against Obama in Puerto Rico.
So, for those Hillary supporters who think that John McCain would better serve their interests, I urge them to read the following post written by commentator Paul Rogat Loeb.
From Polstate.com:
Dear Hillary,
Remember when John McCain slimed your daughter?
Reasons abound why you should do all you can to defeat John McCain--but for you, it should be personal. Maybe you've forgotten in the heat of the Democratic contest. But remember McCain's cruel joke about your daughter, when Chelsea was 18 and vulnerable? This alone should give you every reason to stand against McCain -- and nothing to boost his chances:
McCain made the joke at a 1998 Republican Senate fundraiser. "Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly?" he asked. "Because her father is Janet Reno." Chelsea was a lovely young woman then, and is even lovelier now. But when you're 18, an attack like that can be deeply wounding. It's outrageous for McCain to slime an innocent young woman who'd done nothing to offend him -- just to throw red meat to a Republican crowd.
Sure, McCain apologized after a flurry of media coverage, but talk of that sort is cheap. It's like his using the excuse that he'd had a long day, after telling his own wife at a 1992 campaign event: "At least I don't plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you c$%t." That was his public response to her teasing him about his thinning hair. But the Chelsea "joke" was from a prepared text, not accidental. It's a window into McCain's cruel side. Your lovely daughter was the target of his abuse.
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The VP said that joke not McCain. Fact check...
Actually, you're wrong. Here's the news story...
http://www.salon.com/news/1998/06/25newsb.html
You want to know what? I am a Hillary supporter. I am a young, black woman who has been actively involved in politics my whole life, working on campaigns and intrning in DC. I am routinely ridiculed for supporting Hillary. I see the leaders of the party I believed in behaving disrespectfully to a woman I've admired for a long time.
I'm tired of being mocked and belittled by Obama supporters, who take my vote, as a young liberal woman, for granted. I'm tired of being threatened with McCain's possible anti-choice Supreme Court candidates for the temerity to think that Clinton is the better candidate and being told 'you'll come around.' How condescending. You may not think so, but there has been a lot of sexism in this race and unlike any intimations of racism, it has not been called out for what it is, it has been allowed to continue unchecked.
I never thought the party could be so cruel and vicious to one of its own, a woman who has worked tirelessly for the benefit of the party for years. I am mad as hell, not because Obama is winning, but because his campaign seems predicated on abuse and personal insults to Hillary Clinton.
I won't vote for McCain, but maybe I'll stay home. The party has made it clear that it doesn't care about me or my vote. If Obama is so wonderful, maybe he and his supporters can do it by themselves. And FYI, I didn't leave the party, the party left me.
Hey there anonymous, how exactly has the party been disrespectful to Hillary? and how as the Obama campaign been predicated on insults to Senator Clinton. I think if anything it was the Clintons who started this but you want to know something, if the situations were reversed, I would be willing to bet that the majority of the Obama people would not be willing to vote McCain or stay at home, maybe that should tell you something about the kind of people that support the Senator.
Dear Anonymous,
Sorry for the hard feelings, but you knew this was going to be a competition... right?
And you knew that only one person could win... right?
Didn't you ever play sports? you don't stomp off the field when you lose.
The coach has to take everyone into the locker room afterward and say "how did we screw this up?"
The least you could do is shake hands and say "good game"
Clinton supporters say that the Obama campaign is sexist, but give absolutely no proof of this to be true.
Logic, please.
Hillary's campaign will never die. She's planning on having her own inauguration.
Check out this funny Monty Python spoof.
http://www.236.com/blog/w/election08/flesh_wound_6683.php
You don't shake hands and say 'good game' with a team that insinuates your victories are due to Republicans and racists.
You don't shake hands and say 'good game' with a team that kicks you when you're down and sends it's supporters to brawl with yours in the sand.
You don't shake hands and say 'good game' with a team that games the system and is the darling of the referees.
You don't shake hands and say 'good game' with a team that tells you that you'll join it and support it eventually, with no thought to what you might think or feel about that.
If this is the future of the Democratic party, I don't want any part of it.
you act like Hillary has run a clean campaign.
I could show you instance after instance of gutter tactics from Hillary's campaign.
but I guess those are ok, because its your candidate.
Also, please don't conflate blog and internet postings with the Obama campaign.
Hillary's 'attacks' have been about electability. She's hit hard, but it hasn't been about personal issues. I read all the memos coming out of the campaigns, and David Axelrod and David Plouffe seem to revel in nastiness way more than the Clinton campaign.
But more to your point: who would want to support someone who attracts such awful, self-righteous people?
there have been no personal attacks coming from the Obama campaign.
I challenge you to provide one.
Barack Obama has used the sexist attack by the Media and Good old boy Politicians against Hillary to his advantage. Did he speak out against Sexism NO. only 3 day ago did he make the first comment. he "Commends Senator Clinton for breaking the glass ceiling for all Women even his Daughters" Obama only made this comment because he knows he needs the female vote to win in November and now he is playing nice. Women everywhere are MAD. That ceiling is not broken after this campaign, another layer has been added, Women have been put back a generation. Change what change Obama has shown that he will say and do any thing to be president. He changes his opinion like he changes his pants. What he thinks the American people want to hear is what his view is today. The most recent example is the back and forth mud slinging between Obama and McCain. First Obama in a town meeting states "Iran, Cuba ect... are just little countries they are not a big threat" Then yesterday Obama said " Iran is a huge threat" One news commentator made sense last night, (God bless him) when he said " If I am holding a sawed off shot gun to one side of your head and a 22 pistol to the other side, one is smaller but they can both kill you" I guess I am Clinging to my guns and my religion by repeating that....God Bless America..... Well let me take a minute to go open my chicken house door so my chickens can come home to rooooooooooost. Take you Blinders off about Obama.
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