Senator Clinton's Bitter Supporters

[EV_Ares]

ANYONE who has watched CNN's campaign coverage has encountered Lanny Davis, a former special counsel to Bill Clinton. Lately Mr Davis has tiptoed towards the edge of the deep end, but I think we finally have proof that he's gone off. The die-hard Hillary supporter has compiled a list of "Four Things Obama Campaign Couldn't Resist Doing To Anger Clinton Supporters He Needs In General Election If -- If -- He Is Nominee". Read it, you'll laugh. http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0508/The_conversation_Never_say_die_.html (I found number three especially ironic.)

Mr Davis's childish list is just the latest indication of an attitude that has poisoned the Clinton campaign from the very beginning. Mrs Clinton and her supporters saw the primary process as a coronation, not a competition, and the fact that Mr Obama ran a better campaign and emerged victorious simply isn't fair. This is theft on a grand scale, never mind that Mrs Clinton never owned the stolen property or that Mr Obama did nothing illegal to obtain it. Reason is no match for the bitterness felt by many of Mrs Clinton's supporters.

At least she is owed the vice-presidency, they are now shouting. Alas, no. But if and when Mr Obama officially spurns these entreaties by announcing a different running mate, the resentment will only increase. Another case of larceny in their eyes.

Is five months (perhaps less) enough time for Mrs Clinton's supporters to clear their heads? Only with Mrs Clinton's help. When the time is right, after Mr Obama has reached the magic number of delegates, she (and Bill) must recognise her opponent's win as fair and legitimate, and quash the inevitable cries of "if only the press wasn't biased", "if only America wasn't a sexist nation", "if only for a better deal on Florida and Michigan". Otherwise, all of the acrimony of her supporters will be aimed at Mr Obama, who, they'll say, was abetted in a crime by these outside factors. Will Mrs Clinton take the fall for her own defeat, or poison the party by placing responsibility elsewhere and thereby painting her loss as a theft?



Link: http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2008/05/those_bitter_clinton_supporter.cfm

[Perry Logan]

1. This was better than therapy. I had no idea I was so bitter.

In case you hadn't noticed, Obama people honest-to-God think they can read people's minds. I don't think they should be allowed to hold sharp objects.

[EV_Ares]

5. You sound bitter to me Perry, eom.

[populistdriven]

8. sadly he crossed the line into my ignore list weeks ago

i still like his videos though!

[Perry Logan]

9. Whatever you say. I swear I'm having ten times as much fun as the Obamites.

[Kahuna]

11. Me too.

:shrug:

[rock]

6. Psychics!

I've said it before.

[ShortnFiery]

2. With Some, "bitter" is an understatement. Terry McCullif has morphed into Capt. Spaulding of

"The Devil's Rejects."

Every time Terry McC is on my TV ---> it CREEPS ME OUT! :scared:

[CTLawGuy]

3. Lanny Davis also

defended Lieberman's independent run in 2006. Fuck him.

[Carolina]

4. K&R K&R K&R K&R K&R!!!

excellent post

[quantass]

7. k

[Window]

10. Kicked with both feet.

Rec.

[genna]

12. Lanny Davis was my favorite cool headed DEMOCRAT during the impeachment

:toast:

He never lost his cool or was anything less than amenable to persuasive argument.


He has lost his cool.
He has lost his reason.
He is red in the face.
He is angry.
He is dismissive.


I can't believe HRC surrogates think they OUGHT to be able to box BHO in and he should behave. When I've heard women say this, I've been wondering as a woman when do men EVER let a woman define what they need to say, to do, or believe.

Lanny Davis' 4 points makes me wonder when it has ever been okay from one man to another unless he is saying that BHO is less than a fully grown man. It is like waving a red flag in front of a bull.

It is b.s.

Begala and Davis have lost a lot of points just been ridiculously and thoughtlessly loyal. Do they really expect BHO to revere them after their countless dismissive comments?

UGH
:argh:

[Window]

13. I always thought he was pretty decent, too. The way they're acting,

there's no telling what Hillary promised them. They, like Hillary, Bill and a host of others, thought she was inevitable and they just can't reconcile with the thought that it is over.

[ccharles000]

14. I am not bitter.

I will be very happy to vote for Obama in the GE.

[ccharles000]

15. I am not bitter.

I will be very happy to vote for Obama in the GE.