comment #1

nola says ...

What did he personally do to her? Please.

The fall is going to be very interesting. Let these so called "feminists" vote for McCain and watch what happens.

Apparently even if Barack picks another woman to be on the ticket some will not be happy. They want Hillary (even though that would be a doomed ticket. Wait until the GOP get a hold of the list of donors to his foundation/library. it will make the Carlyle group seem like kids play)

comment #2

p.Vice says ...

I just turned on CNN. This is more like OJ coverage than anything resembling politics.

comment #3

CinemaPhreek says ...

Besides the fact that it's anonymous and hence likely some very lowly foot soldier, Wells shows breathtaking naivete of the political scene (I know, nothing new) when it comes as such a surprise to him that such supporters exist in any campaign.

You don't pay these people much (if at all) so everyone knows that there will be a few die-hards that are a bit loopy. Unfortunately, news outlets know these people exist so soon as it becomes time to paint a candidate as out of the mainstream/wacky they seek them out for the money quote.

Had Clinton actually won the popular vote (and not by using tortured algebra to do it) and had kept her superdelegate superiority , you'd be reading Obama worker's remarks about how another black man was cheated by the white establishment.

comment #4

Mgmax says ...

Yeah, well, there's a lot about this election where people have taken relatively modest partisan differences, and the normal rough and tumble of elections, and blown it way out of proportion with ugly demagogic language.

comment #5

cjKennedy says ...

The guy just gave 6 months of his life to a losing cause, do you expect him to laugh it off?

What would you be saying right now if things had broken a slightly different way?

Since both candidates are so similar politically, people's attachments are emotional. This wasn't politics, it was a sport. Look at you, you were on the 'winning team' and you still can't resist twisting the knife a little bit.

comment #6

Redmond says ...

For what he "did" to Hillary? The Kool-Aid is drunk mightily at the Clinton camp. But, at least this die-hard, says he/she'll vote for Obama which sort of takes the piss out of comments that "working class" voters will suddenly switch parties and vote red.
However, did anyone catch The Daily Show where an openly gay Clinton supporter said he'll vote for John McCain before he votes for Obama? Now that was the depth of insanity.

comment #7

Sean says ...

What Obama "did to" Hillary was contest her nomination in the biggest shoo-in-the-Democrat Presidential election in a long time. Most would tell you that it was hers to lose, and she lost it.

comment #8

D.Z. says ...

cj: "The guy just gave 6 months of his life to a losing cause, do you expect him to laugh it off?"

That's the risk you have to take when you volunteer. For all the guy knew, Hillary could have lost to Edwards or Kucinich. There's no reason to hold a grudge, when there are bigger things at stake than winning a popularity contest. Anyway, Jeff, thought you'd want to check out
http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20080606/pl_bloomberg/ax9lrscsqihg
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comment #9

goodvibe61 says ...

It cracks me up to see so many people who are backing Obama say all this stuff about the Clinton supporters.

Human beings are selfish. They are base. They are corrupted. Etc., etc. It goes on and on. For something like this campaign, which has gone on for months and months, almost everyone involved in the day to day operations DOES take what's going on personally. To think that everyone who was supporting one candidate is just going to jump over to the other, with zero issues about it, is living the most naive kind of life you can possibly imagine.

You'll hear the Obama backers screaming to the hills now shit like, "What do you mean women aren't coming right over to us now that HIllary has conceded? And other hysterical shit like that. Or this BS coming from Jeff right now, "Well, Hillary's heart just isn't in this, it's really a funeral".

What the hell are people thinking? That individuals are going to run their day to day lives based on some kind of idealism instead of their base natures?

Um, Hello?? Let's see...I have to go now... I'm due back on planet Earth.

comment #10

D.Z. says ...

goodvibe: "What the hell are people thinking? That individuals are going to run their day to day lives based on some kind of idealism instead of their base natures?"

In general, you could argue they'd opt for the latter motivation. But in this economy, they'll hold their noses for Obama and like it.

comment #11

cjKennedy says ...

DZ, it cracks me up how you quote other commenters as though your follow up actually addresses their point, when in fact it's just a springboard for whatever nonsense happens to be rattling around in your damaged little mind at the moment.

What's even more amusing is that I fall for it every. goddamn. time.