I see people calling you a troll, telling you you are not helpful, telling you to shut up.........
Sorry Senator Clinton but............
That was your title, and that is your link.
You know, yours is the second post I read when I tuned into DailyKos today. I've read the threads over at DU about how happy people were with Hillary's speech, but at the same time DUers were saying that she should have ACTED this way all along. Some DUers are trying to figure out where this version of Hillary has been hidden all along, after all the attempts to undermine candidates within her own party and the Party itself -- is this the real Hillary? or is this Hillary by poll numbers and focus group? Where was this Hillary Tuesday night? Where was this Hillary when the muslim rumors were floated, and the coke wink-nudges, and the 'working class american' dog-whistling? Where was this Hillary when her campaign was fudging math and deciding which Americans counted and which did not based on whether or not they voted for her?
I still don't know who the real Hillary is. I want her to be the good Hillary, the uniter Hillary. One nice speech does not make her the uniter Hillary. Her actions from Tuesday through the rest of her life will make her the uniter Hillary.
I saw those questions at DU. I wasn't sure what to expect here at Daily Kos. I wasn't surprised to see the responses you received on your thread, but it made me sad. As I wrote within your thread, the negative response to your thread reminded me all too well of why the Clintons thought they could get away with racial dogwhistling. If everything can be made alright with a speech, then why bother changing one's actions? Blacks will forgive, forget and turn out like clockwork no matter what you do......... no need for analysis or, again, changing one's actions. You got the result you wanted.
That continues to be offensive to me; but here I am this Saturday early afternoon at Daily Kos, and I see exactly what the Clintons were talking about, and it gives me an uncomfortable feeling inside my chest.
I'm not going to tell you to shut up, Hack, and that you're not helping and call you a troll just because you wrote this:
We appreciate your endorsement but we remember so well how for the past 13 months you savaged a fine man who was too kind to answer you in kind. The media is praising you as usual but we cannot trust you.
Amazing. You're a troll and you need to shut up and you're not helping and you need to get over it -- and that's supposed to be the proof of it.
Maybe you are a Republican blueturfer, or a concern troll. Right now, I don't care, because those two sentences speak to me, and speak for me. I cannot get over this, and I cannot get over what Hillary and her campaign did this year. I cannot get over the mismanagement. I cannot get over the amount of projection that the Clinton campaign forced on Obama during this season.
I cannot get over what Bill Clinton said of Obama in Nevada, without a shred of proof, in front of the national press, that Obama was engaging in voter disenfranchisement. I cannot get over it.
I do not trust the Clintons. I used to, I used to defend them through hell and highwater, and that's why my heart is shattered.
Instead of 'getting over it' ................. as Hillary and Bill assumed blacks will 'get over' the racial dog-whistling, therefore making everything they did permissible and acceptable (the ends justifying the means) .............. why shouldn't we refuse to be taken back by a alcoholic lover who abused us, just because they went on a sober bender and bought us flowers and puppy eyes? The alcoholic needs to prove him or herself beyond the alcoholic's selfish need to be accepted and forgiven without any real action to change themselves. Going back to that abuser just re-begins the vicious cycle of victim and victimizer, with the 'victim' actually encouraging and promoting the abuse in some sort of sick co-dependency.
We shouldn't be in co-dependent relationships with our political leaders.
Hillary Clinton's campaign abused us. Or at least, Hillary Clinton's campaign abused me (since I cannot speak for everyone). I can accept Hillary without fawning over her and pretending that everything is alright and this is the Real Hillary just because it's the Nice Hillary. Hillary Clinton is not trustworthy, to me.
I will trust her, when I see action from her and not speeches made several days after they should have been made.
I will wait and see what actions come from the Clintons and their camp. I will be the first to cheer loudly if they really do fight to unite instead of work undercover to undermine. But I, for myself, need to see those actions. So I thank you, Hack, you 'troll', for putting up that diary. You spoke for me on that one. I hope that doesn't make me a 'troll' here, either.
*Edit 1: Title, per homogenius. Apparently, a 'call out' is refering to someone by name, and praise is as unacceptable as denunciation. That doesn't make sense to me, but ok. Thank you, homo; the thread title is changed to remove FormerHack's name from it.