Hey Obama supporters, did you read Markos' post on Geraldine Ferraro's comments?
If you have not and you are still slamming Hillary supporters for not "uniting behind our nominee" just yet, I have a few thoughts to contribute to the discussion.
I was going to simply post a comment in the article saying that it didn't seem to me that any Obama supporters really were saying "sit down, shut up and get to the back of the bus." But after reading the comments to the post, it appears that many people are in fact saying that with conviction.
What the hell is the matter with you people? I am a huge Obama supporter, I was a delegate for him at my district convention, but I have no great illusion that he is some grand savior of the Democratic Party and will restore all that was damaged by President Bush.
I went through a period of time, along with many of my friends, in the opinion that I would never even consider voting for Hillary Clinton because I didn't find her to be a very good campaigner and thought she was hurting the Democratic Party in many horrible ways.
Then I remembered that what really hurts the Democratic Party is a President John McCain. John McCain cannot, under any circumstances, be the next President of the United States. There is far too much at stake. The Democratic "wave" that seems imminent at this juncture will be irrelevant without a Democrat in the White House, even if Democrats do get 60 Senate seats and 20 more seats in the House. I'd much rather be really good at passing progressive legislation than be really good at blocking McCain's proposals because we have 60 seats.
I overcame my feelings but assuring myself that I didn't want to be responsible for ensuring a fifth conservative on the Supreme Court, to be responsible for continued inaction on climate change, on energy policy, on meaningful health care legislation, on net neutrality, on election reform, on, you know, every issue that I even remotely care about. That's what President John McCain promises.
Reading comments such as
"Clinton Supporters Count Too" what a pathetic name. Sounds insecure and defensive.
Apparently not to 2026. They seem to have lost their arithmetic faculties somewhere along the way.
Geraldine Ferraro: Doing her part to advance the stereotype that women get too emotionally invested to make a rational decision...
Or that bitter has-beens aren't the best judges of what's right.
in the post on Kos' post on Ferraro lead me to believe that, all else equal, if McCain beats Obama in November, it will be the fault of Obama supporters not uniting the party, the antithesis of what Barack Obama stands for (incidentally, those are just the first four comments on the article0. Which leads me to ask those of you with so much disdain for Hillary supporters: since it doesn't appear to be for his vision, values and potential, why do you support Barack Obama?
UPDATE: I also just remembered Hillary's comments from either today or yesterday. She mentioned in a speech that in the heat of a primary, it is easy for supporters to be consumed by emotion and make claims that they shouldn't always follow-through on, something to that effect. Her intention was to remind everyone that we must be united as a party to defeat John McCain. If even Hillary is willing to start uniting everyone behind Obama, I think the least Obama supporters can do is welcome a fellow Democrat.