Reality bites. Very hard, apparently.
As Clinton's window continues to narrow, the bitterness and ugliness of some her backers has reached unprecedented levels. The rec list at MyDD is filled with vile diatribes, a number of which accuse Obama of being a racist:
Barack Obama is the George Wallace of the Left - This diary was the top-rated diary at My DD for most of the last day. It concludes with this line:
I could no more vote for Obama than I could vote for George Wallace, and the reasons are much the same.
The rest of the piece is equally as inspiring.
Also on the rec list most of yesterday and this morning was this fine piece of work by linfar, a steady spewer of Obama-hate going back months:
Typical White People
linfar includes this inspirational passage:
And I will not support a racist no matter what their color. You cannot tell me that all white people are racists and expect my vote. Hillary Clinton understands that.
Sense a pattern here?
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And our old friend, Universal chimes in with another wonderful diary outlining the nefarious plot to give the nomination to Obama, a plan certainly meant to doom the Democratic Party, according to Universal:
Obama backers: Please, save your breath
And, like the other two rec list pieces, Universal's also suggests that Obama is the stealth candidate of black racists:
This is a struggle for the very soul of our party. This is a coup in the making, and like many coups, all sorts of shadowy figures are involved. Like Rezko, or Wright, or Meeks, or Odinga, or Ayers, or Farrakhan...
That's right. A mixture of black power advocates and 1960s radicals is trying to take over our nation!
This off-the-rails, rec list rant wanders all over the park, concluding with:
But when Barack Obama becomes Barack Mondale, you'll realize you have no one to blame but yourselves. We're already in that spot now, and no one knows just how large the backlash can grow, particularly if stoked.
So I have to wonder...
Do these writers and all who have recommended their diaries and kept them on the MyDD rec list believe that people like Bill Richardson, Ted Kennedy, Claire McCaskill, Chris Dodd, Russ Feingold, Amy Kloubuchar, Dick Durbin, John Kerry, John Lewis and other liberal and progressive Democrats are either too stupid to see these nefarious plots, or are these folks simply racists, too?
The bashing of any Democrat who dares endorse Obama has now become routine -- and comical. In fact, it is often claimed in these pieces that the only reason some of these folks have endorsed Obama over Clinton is because of racial pressure from Obama's camp.
I guess it has never occurred to these writers and their recommenders that many Dems think Obama would make a better candidate versus McCain than Clinton and that many also believe he'd make a better president than Clinton.
While many at MyDD rail against Daily Kos as the "Great Orange Satan," one has to wonder how MyDD is any better. The vile posts at MyDD (echoed at other so-called progressive blogs such as TalkLeft, Taylor Marsh and NoQuarter) spew the kind of venom and hatred one usually finds at the worst of the loony rightwing blogs.
I can understand some bitterness at having a favored candidate appear to be increasingly on the verge of losing the race -- that is a normal part of every hotly-contested presidential primary -- but the bitterness on display at MyDD is in a class by itself.
The demonizing of every elected Democrat who has endorsed Obama and the suggestions that Obama is a racist or is a Manchurian candidate for black power or racist puppetmasters marks those writers as seriously delusional and filled with hate.
No, you are not a Democrat if you make those kinds of off-the-wall accusations against good Democrats. You have become an unhinged fanatic.
(Cross-posted at MyDD.)