Dear Clinton Supporters.
UNTIYUNITYUNITYUNITY -
Are you voting for Obama yet?
You're not. Oh, some of you are?
And some aren't?
Ugh. Fine. (Sigh). I guess we gotta treat you like individual humans beings with emotions and stuff? Durn.
I'm no good at that.
Reason #5,173 Barack > Daily Kos: Message Coordination. What we have here is a failure to coordinate message among the people on this site.
All the Obama fans need to get in a room and decide how best to secure your unflinching loyalty, and well, we aren't quite sure how to do that. One week it's HEY SCREW YOU GUYS WE DONT NEED YOUR VOTE THIS IS BLACKMAIL and the next is Obama is exactly like Hillary except he's black (untrue), and then it's, y0 doodz, we was playing, we love Hillary all along, love us too, and then of course there's that all-time classic:
OBAMA '08 : YOU'RE A GIRL! YOU NEED ABORTIONS! YOU HAVE NO CHOICE!
Man, whatever happened to Hope? It sucks to have the genitals on the inside and constantly get blackmailed with Roe like you're some skanky babykilling automaton, I bet. There's just a tremendous amount of dissonance on DKos, and the problem with it is... very few of the "Clinton Supporters Should" diaries seem to actually... care much about said Clinton supporters. They're candidate support diaries, and the message changes because they're not sure which approach supports their candidate. Is it fair to feel like that? I guess, but it's not effective.
I put the shoe on the other foot and wonder what I would have done if Obama had lost the primary, and while I don't think she's the devil incarnate, she sure hasn't fought Bush as hard as she's fought Obama. But I would have voted for her, even after 3AM/Cling-gate/Obama Seal Of Approval Gate because, I don't know if you've read the news, but this county is going down the god damn tubes and can't afford another Republican selling chunks of America behind the scenes. Hell I even wrote my first diary in the heat of the primary yelling telling people a joint ticket was inevitable (and correctly anticipating the Hillary as VP stuff, by the way). But there isn't an internet diary in the world that would keep me from feeling bad about it for a week or two had he lost.
Which, I guess, leads me to this. Can we cut out the flood of HILLARY CONCEDED BE LIKE CLASSY, CLASSY HILLARY WHO WE LOVED ALL ALONG AND WORK FOR OBAMA diaries that are are going to hit this site tomorrow night (and clash horribly with the flood of DINGDONG THE WITCH IS DEAD diaries that'll go up with it)? I'm already getting a headache from all the Clinton Supporters Read This diaries, and I'm sure the ones to come are very eloquent but... just stop. As a practical matter, hardworking white women over 50 don't have time to sip lattes and read all the blogs.
I keed. Hi, hardworking white woman over 50 who supports Obama. You're not just a quirky statistic to me. I love you.
Seriously, I wanna talk about Obama and McCain. I wanna talk about a sane foreign policy that isn't built on securing resources and bases of operations in the Mid-East. I wanna talk about the drastic action needed to get us off the teat of Saudi Oil. I wanna talk about restoring our constitutional rights.
The rest will handle itself with time and patience, not overnight. If a diary could make the Clinton blogosphere do stuff, I'd mention amnesiaproletariat.com in every diary and put a DONATE link on the front page. No need to rub anyone's corns, no need to get Barack to add Angry Mouse to the ticket, no fretting, no crying, no begging, no blustering.
Just follow the candidate, everybody. Work hard, but be cool.