I am an Obama supporter, have even filed at this point to be an Obama delegate, in Kentucky. However, I have voted for the democratic nominee in every election since I was old enough to vote. For the record, in the general that has been Dukakis, Clinton, Clinton, Gore and Kerry. I will be the first to admit the candidate I supported in the primary(other than 1996 when Bill Clinton was a fait accompli) has never won the nomination. Same for the record disclosure:Jackson 88, Tsongas 92, Clinton 96, Bradley 00, Edwards 04.
While I find much of her rhetoric lately distasteful, discounting wins by Barack Obama as meaningless, disparaging the Democratic (and other) voters in those states, while pressing to add delegates that were punitively stripped for states knowingly violatig party rules, Hillary Clinton would be miles better for this country than a McCain administration would be on a number of fronts.
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