Democrats Unite

The violence of the political dialogue lately has made me understand how desperate the electorate is after nearly eight years of Repugnicans and three stolen elections. I totally understand Obamamania--and I also get the frustration of voters who wanted this to be the year we broke through the glass ceiling for women.

But let's get real. It's time for Democrats to put all personal bias aside and unite behind the things we believe in: a planet we can live on, reproductive choice, workers rights, health care for all, education for poor and middle class students, fair taxes, a Constitution made whole, rescuing America from war profiteers -- if indeed there is still time.

It's already very late. It's too late for quarrels about whether race or gender is more restricting. It's too late for prognostications about a future presidency we won't know until it has unfolded. Remember so-called compassionate conservatism? It turned out to be neither compassionate nor conservative. Why anybody believes election slogans mystifies me. But we do know this: a landslide for Democrats will change the direction of this country. So let's join forces to make it happen--and let's start now.

I don't believe that passionate Hillary supporters will vote for McCain in fits of pique. I sure won't. The truth is that Obama and Clinton are so similar politically that without generational and gender differences they'd be indistinguishable. Perhaps the passion for or against these two Democrats was revved up by how very close they are in vision. Sometimes people need to disagree for the sake of disagreeing.

Obama is right to offer his applause for Hillary's tenacity. He is right to take the high road. I doubt that she will be remembered for taking the low road. In politics as in life, tenacity is all. Where is Chappaquiddick now that Teddy Kennedy has honorably served decade after decade in the Senate?

If Hillary loses the nomination, maybe she can get a life by divorcing Bill. I was always a defender of their curious marriage but having seen him try to sabotage her campaign, I wonder. Maybe she'd get a burst of energy by cutting loose. Imagine her with additional fire -- she could rescue our stalled space program with her own built-in rocket.

Comments

[btuss1]

Thank you for an important demonstration of leadership. Your clear-eyed statement of what is important in this election will go a long way towards aiding the process of unifying our party. It is essential. I do not think that we as a nation can survive a McCain presidency and still be recognizable to ourselves as a Constitutional democracy. You have made an important contribution to the Democratic Party's march toward Inauguration Day, 2009 and I salute you.

[in4success]

so much for that idea: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/22/clinton-supporters-plan-t_n_103100.html

[truthskr]

I am asking you Erica, as a third wave feminist who is so extremely disappointed by the behavior of my second wave feminists mothers, to reexamine your true motivation for supporting Hillary, and maybe acknowleging, if only to yourself, that her being a woman just wasn't enough of a reason to support her. It certainly wasn't enough for you, as a group of once powerful feminists, to spend all of your political capital on trying to force Hillary's nomination. It wasn't enough for you, a group supposedly committed to equality, to turn race-baiters and abrasive man-hating harridans (Hillary, Ferraro, and, if you're honest, yourself) screaming sexism whenever things didn't go Hillary's way.

I've always had such great admiration for my feminist mothers, but now I wonder who will ever listen to you again?

[monique]

When did anyone scream "sexism?"

They should have, but when DID they do it?!

[truthskr]

Wow. Have you even followed Clinton's rhetoric the last couple of months? They have all said (Bill, Hillary, Ferraro, etc) over and over again. Ferraro just said this last week, during her "I might not vote for Obama" hissy fit, that Obama is "terribly sexist" and that Hillary's loss is due almost entirely due to sexism, and I'm sure she wasn't at all projecting her experience (which I concede was a legitimate sexism event) onto Hillary. But then this was the same woman who stated that Obama was "very lucky to be a black man." Yeah, because we all know what a break it is to be black in our society.

[truthskr]

Hey Erica, is there ANY point at which you might publicly admit that your support of Hillary was/is displaced and that perhaps, just perhaps, Obama (despite his terribly offensive gender) is in fact the most intelligent and ethical of the two candidates? Perhaps in a few months from now, when she and her supporters are still flogging the primary to death, bring countless lawsuits against the DNC? Or maybe when McCain wins because she just refuses to accept defeat without destroying Obama so that she may try, try again in 2012?

I ask because I see that Harold Ickes is now proposing, as part of the Clinton "compromise" over FL and MI, that Obama get no delegates from MI and that Hillary just be given them all. Never mind that Ickes was one of the authors of the DNC primary rules under which FL and MI were excluded. Never mind that both Obama and Clinton both signed written agreements to adhere to the DNC rules, and then both verbally stated that MI and FL should NOT be counted. Never mind that while most of us agree that FL and MI need to be seated in a fair manner under which both candidates compromise, Hillary's idea of compromise is claiming all votes, including MI's "uncommitted" (obviously intended for Obama) votes. But hey, at least she's making every vote count (for her), right?

[kira181]

Ms. Jong is being gracious. She's saying that she'd like the Democratic Party to get together. Why should she "publicly admit" anything? What is wrong with you?

Many Hillary supporters will vote for your candidate if he wins the primary. Isn't that enough for you? This is not their religion. Contrition, repentance and, conversion are neither necessary to his election nor likely to occur.

[ATFIllinois]

"Many Hillary supporters will vote for your candidate if he wins the primary."

How about "OUR" Candidate?? If you are a true DEM, then our language needs to change. He may not have been your candidate throughout this primary season, but he is looking more and more like the nominee, so now he is becoming our candidate.

[monique]

"...terribly offensive gender?"

Were you under the impression that we were not supporting Obama becaue we were offended by his gender?!

If that were the case, I guess no women would have ever voted for a president.

No, no. See, we are thinking individuals. We would never be that silly or shallow.

We -- Hillary supporters -- just know that Hillary Clinton is friggin' great. Just as the polls show today, she would beat McCain in all the battleground states -- and in the one battleground state where Obama shows that he too would beat McCain? Well, Clinton beats McCain by a much wider margin.

So no, it is simply that many of us just know she is the better candidate. Obama is wonderful, but he is not as experienced as Clinton, and can not carry the states she can.

No, his gender has never been offensive to us. Surely to no thinking person.

[sadler05]

And how is she the better candidate?

Her campaign staffing choices were as badly vetted as Bill's attempts to create a cabinet in 1992. She had all the advantages - name recognition, money, just about "crowned" early on, the backing of just about every state Democratic machine (yes no MSM ever mentions this when talking about victories in PA, IN, RI, OH, etc.) and she still threw it away with her half-apologies, misstatements, twisting of facts so blatantly she has become somewhat of a joke. She demonstrates few of the skills I want to see in the President of the US whereas Barack has put together a dynamite campaign from scratch against amazing odds and dealt with adversity with dignity and integrity.

Again tell me why she is great. She is a good policy wonk I give you that but ......

[ATFIllinois]

So are you gonna vote for Obama in November?

[rzan]

What offends me most at this point is that Hillary is disenfranchising Obama's supporters in Michigan and Florida. She is also eliminating me, a caucus attendee, from the popular vote, which means that her claims to have more votes than Obama are without merit. This twisting of the truth has been harmful to her campaign more than anything. Obama will prevail despite Hillary's efforts. As far as many of Hillary's supporters, not you obviously, they threaten to vote for McCain if Obama should win. Many of these people are self-proclaimed feminists. McCain opposes Roe versus Wade, and also opposes equal pay for women. (He says they need more education and training). I cannot understand despising Obama so much that any feminist would vote against her own interests. He has not run a divisive campaign. I will admit that some of his supporters are pretty nasty, but we are defending our candidate.

[sco8d]

Real clear politics, check it out, it's easy.

Check out Iowa.

Check out Virginia.

Check out Colorado.

Check out Michigan.

All states Obama would win and Hillary would not, about 75 general election delegates in all.
Ohio has 20, florida has 27, Obama could lose both and still net about 25 delegates that Hillary never could. Your battle ground state argument is pointless, Obama has taken ground from the Republicans and Hillary has not.

I'll go with the guy who is winning the battles over the women who is just holding the line.

Check out Minnesota.

Check out Wisconsin.

Check out Oregon.

[nkhogan]

Erica, thanks for writing this. I think this election has revealed a fault line amongst feminists that might take some time and bridge building to heal.

Thank you for extending your hand. I have not agreed with your previous blogs and have not agreed with the reasons you've supported Clinton. You disappointed me on many occasions. But, on this occasion, I really appreciate what you've wrote.

Thank you for having the grace to realize that unity is more important than pique. Hopefully many Clinton supporters will respect and follow your leadership. There's a lot of vitriol out there on the blogs of women who adamantly refuse to vote democratic if Hillary loses the nomination. I think that is very short-sighted and I'm relieved to hear that you think so too. There is too much at stake in this election and we cannot afford another term of GWB.

[hhkeller]

Obama solved the Darfur Genocide when no one else cared
He also brokered the historic peace deal in Somalia.
This guy is a doer not a big mouth talker as some would believe.

[nottoworry]

Way to go, Erica. Thanks for writing this.

nottoworry

[in4success]

Hillary supporters need to understand the reason we Obama supporters are so opposed to Hillary's campaign is that Increasingly, Clinton is operating in a virtual reality programmed by her pollster Mark Penn during his downtime from working for the butchers of Colombia. Adhering to Penn’s fatal calculus, Clinton has endeavored to re-segregate the Democratic Party electorate into demographic segments and then pitted them against each other. The Clinton campaign has intentionally inflamed these simmering antagonisms: black versus Hispanic, black versus white, black versus older women, white collar versus blue collar, young versus old, under-educated versus college grad.

Another example. Hillary came to Oregon last week. She didn’t draw 75,000 people for a speech on the banks of the Willamette River in Portland, as Obama did. Instead she headed to Beaverton, the posh suburb of Portland that is home to Nike, where she held a press conference in an empty subdivision of new upscale homes that had sat unsold for the past year. Most of the people who voted for her in West Virginia don’t earn enough in ten years of hard labor to pay for one of these houses. She communed with the developer, commiserating over the hard times of the real estate industry.

[Boadicea]

Thanks for writing this, Erica. As a 55 yr old white woman who supported both candidates until Penn's kitchen sink strategy went into effect, I concur. Let's come together.

Let's start the healing by stopping the lies that are still coming directly out of Hillary's mouth.

[kira181]

Now, do you see what you just did there? You couldn't just say "Thanks, I concur"? How can this party come together if you can't stop the knee-jerk Hillary-shots? It's like some offshoot of Tourette Syndrome. Stop it.

[onceler]

No. You can't just go around telling people what to say or not. Those of us who didn't support her candidacy have every right to say so and why. There are no unfair shots in the post - Clinton is going around saying she is winning the popular vote in this contest. That is a blatant lie. She going around citing Karl Rove's recent mumblings as evidence of her strength as a candidate. She's threatening the legitimacy of Obama's nomination by claiming essentially that FA / MI, which she and her campaign signed off on from the get-go, and which her adviser actually helped vote into effect in the first place, mean that Obama can't really win, and can't possibly win those states either. People aren't just going to sit back and shut up as she does this, whether her supporters like that or not.

[zbearlady]

PART 1:

Hillary says that by staying in the race, she is not dividing the Democratic party, nor diverting votes to McCain? She also adamantly states she'll campaign & fight hard for the Democratic nominee, so as to assure a victory over the Republicans in the fall?

Yet, everytime she gives voice to allowing the Michigan & Florida votes, she not-so-subtly implies that Obama is the one standing in the way of these voter's rights. While playing into the paranoia of 'unfairness' & 'undemocratic vote-counting', she's creating division & outrage in their minds -implying that she's the only one championing for them -not Obama- chipping away & souring their opinions about his character & integrity. Subsequently, come the general election -when she is long gone- the fall-out from such underhanded insinuations may well result in Obama being seen as the man who supposedly stood in the way of the voter's rights to be heard.

As most of us already know, this mess was not Obama's doing. Those states broke the primary rules, the voters knew their votes wouldn't be counted, the candidates ceased their campaigning (Obama wasn't even on Mich. ballot) & Hillary agreed to it all! Yet now that she has all but lost the race & is desperate to 'steal' votes wherever she can, she's conveniently spinning it all as if this whole mess is somehow Obama's fault?

So, how is that not being divisive? And how does that not have a long-term negative impact on the Democratic

[zbearlady]

PART 2:

In addition: By insisting on staying in the race when there's no possible math metric that even Hillary can fabricate or rationalize, and even when pressured (by superdelegates, etc) not to smear Obama with any further lies and/or dirty tactics, she's still doing damage everytime she drums into the minds of her supporters the myth that she's the better candidate to win against the Republicans in November.

While Obama proves again & again that he has gathered great enthusiasm & support among the middle-class 'white' vote, how many times has Hillary hypnotically repeated the thoroughly unsubstantiated statement that she's the only one capable of winning those 'hard-work­ing-white-­American votes against McCain -even though the popular vote, the pledged delegates, the swarm of superdelegates & even the polls completely defy the reasoning of that argument?

Hillary, whatever your personal, ego-motivated, self-serving agenda may be -to drag this race out 'into oblivion'...don't you have the integrity...or even a shred of moral decency left to see that you are now in a position where you are actually doing far more damage than good? If you truly do care about the good of the people -as well as the Democratic party- then surely you can see that continuing this race will only create more divisiveness & unwarranted prejudice against Barack Obama -in turn, giving McCain more momentum in November.

If there is any sincerity regarding your true support of the Democratic party, then please bow out gracefully -now!

[TheKnownTruth]

Amen !!!!!

[mikey683]

A lot of us are disgusted with the democratic party. The using of Republican tactics by the left wing of the party to get their way. Don't think MI &* FL will vote your way? Shut down their primary. Want to shut up other democrats who disagree with you? Smear them all as racist. Sound familiar? Substitute the word racist with unpatriotic and wham! Republican. This primary has been anything but "democratic".

[Binxy]

No one "shut down the primary" elections in MI and FL but the Democratic party in conjunction with all of the candidates for the Democratic nomination --HRC and Obama signed the Four State Pledge knowing it said the delegates from the MI and FL elections would not be seated at the Convention. To imply otherwise is to be disingenuous.

[SethBLiNK]

Florida and Michigan were handled terribly, but everybody agreed to it until Hillary won. She has never worked together with the party to solve this problem only as an advocate for herself.

[sco8d]

"shut down their primary" What are you talking about? The DNC made the ruling on MI and FL before the primaries began. Hillary was a shoe in at that time and no one knew who Obama was and if they did none of them gave him a chance. The "left wing" of the Democratic party IS the Democratic party. Is there a right wing of the Democratic party? FYI they are called Republicans (and Joe Lieberman) if you think like them maybe you are in the wrong party.

[PhDiva]

Erica, beyond this election, we need a discussion of racism in the feminist movement. As an African American feminist, I have been horrified by the racism that has been spouted by many white feminists.

[Yohomegirl]

I am a Southern, white female who has always loved books, and was fed civil rights books at an early age by my godmother who came through the sixties. I have witnessed much racism in the name of feminism lately here in the South. I scratched the surface of a neighbor who was supporting Hillary by mentioning race to her and she jumped on the "They" wagon. They this and they that. The 'they' she was referring to was African americans. J. California Cooper, Ernest Gaines and others should be REQUIRED reading for all students, maybe more so in the South than in other areas. I traveled to Kentucky with three strangers this past weekend who when we got to our hosts house to eat and sleep vetoed the arrangement because it was in a working class black neighborhood. I was struck dumb. Maybe I am lucky but being a woman has never slowed me down for a minute. I guess I could take time out of my life to sit down and bitch and moan about it, but I don't feel the need, I would rather dead head my flowers.

[Yohomegirl]

My demographics: White, female, 44 years of age. Southern raised on civil rights books. I would like to kick your statement up a notch, at least for what I've witnessed in the South. I support Obama. I have spoken to white women who support Hillary and they have spouted Limbaug-ish statements to me about why they support Hillary; the Muslim thing, Rev Wright, etc. I accidently suggested to one woman that perhaps her bias was race and she jumped up and started spouting about 'they. They this and they that. The they was black americans. Scratch the surface of some feminists and you find something different.

[Emmaboverry]

As a white, older female, I am horrified at the Clintons' playing the gender card with one hand while race-baiting with the other. I feel both ashamed and discredited by my membership in the very HRC demographic to roll out this low road to victory. I don't understand how any African-American person can trust us so-called "white liberals" when the likes of Ferrarro and Clinton have so openly pandered to racial fear and hatred while blithely suggesting Obama's campaign has been sexist!

The foundation of the liberal movement is the civil rights movement--a movement that helped put the Clintons in the White House, a movement that issued in the modern version of the women's movement(which has done more for white women than for any other group), a movement heard around the world(in Ireland, for instance).

It is particularly offensive when one finds the enemy where one thought to find the friend.

[LISABONA]

Emmaboverry, I'm sure,you read "Madam Bovery's" memoir.I can understant from where you took "movement" and disappointment,but would be better to address your, "horror", fairly toward the right group who , from the begining used any words of anybody, to turn it in a racist remarc for their convenience. Stop bashing the wrong person. Looks like,you want a medal from the O campaign, keep working,maybe you will get it.

[LISABONA]

Ph Diva, the same, I 'm horrified also to see the same racism,even more than the white feminism on black feminism.Don't deny that, it's true. I can add also the remarcs full of hate which realmente scares me. Would be nice,if those who disagree,to express their disagreement in a civil manner, whitout using profanities.Almost every time when you read a remarc,you can tell,who they are supporting.I'm sorry,it's not my intension to offend nobody.

[AshevilleVoice]

Amen to that.

As a Sots Irish Appalachian woman, who used to consider feminism a rational and insightful movement, I have been horrified by the racism that has been spouted by many white feminists, too.

It is bad enough hearing it from those with limited education, and cultural isolation. I don't excuse it but I can understand it. But hearing the race baiting comments from well educated, culturally privileged, sophisticated women is intolerable.

[Norman Cressy - Huffpost Blogger]

I WILL VOTE FOR THE NOMINEE. BUT I SURE WISH THE SUPERDELEGATES WOULD CHEW ON SOME REAL LIFE INFORMATION.
latest poll numbers-Clinton wins florida by 6%, Obama loses it by 10%
I have a HYPOTHETICAL question for you all: IF IN FACT HIILLARY WOULD WIN THE ELECTION, AND BARACK MIGHT WIN THE ELECTION, WHO WOULD YOU WANT TO BE THE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE?

www.electoral-vote.com

May 22

Electoral Votes: Obama 242 McCain 285 Ties 11
May 22

Electoral Votes: Clinton 310 McCain 211 Ties 17

[SMP]

your spouting something that is too earily to tell......this is the year the electorial map will be changed... your figures do not add up to the truth come November

[southsideirish]

Here. Here. Norman, you aren't being honest. Not by a long shot. Those poll numbers are all prior to a general and you know it. Take some time to consider, and you'll realize at the threat of an on coming conflict with Iran --which only this morning, Zbigniew Brzezinksi has said will lead us into another 20 years of war with 4 countries: Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan, leaving us utterly isolated in the world, and pushing China into "superpowerdom"-- this morning's news of a prediction of gasoline becoming 5 to 6 dollars a gallon this summer; and an ever declining standard of leaving thanks to the economy and devaluing of the dollar, is all too much for us to think that we will be leaving the future of this country into the hands of a Republican.

[Binxy]

I would want the candidate who followed the rules and won according to them, Obama.

[Emmaboverry]

Superdels are probably chewing on THIS(even if the supposedly sexist media isn't biting) Obama has opened up an 8 point lead over McCain nationally and a 26 percentage point lead over Clinton in the demo race(latest Zogby). The gallup says much the same and shows a definite erosion of Clinton's base down to her having nothing much left to hold over O's head but 50 plus white women. And that group(which I am in) can not singlehandedly elect him.

Unfortunately MSM has bought HRC's own standards of electability, based on old news about three states. The sexist media has been awfully chivalrous towards her.

[in4success]

i'd like you to chew on this: Florida has been wired for sound by the GOP and their subordinates since 2000 using layers of civil servants recruited from the right, wing-nut, pat roberston christian fundies and evangelicals and the diebold voting machines that contain GOP proprietary software able to produce results in one county that had al gore showing a (NEGATIVE SIXTEEN THOUSAND VOTES).

this is not a computer error -- it is a human error: there was no trap:

"if al gore's votes are equal to or less than zero add (a believable number -- we'll say 346)" therefore, when the algorithm placed the gore votes in the bush column gore's total went below zero.

my point? THE STATE OF FLORIDA WILL GO REPUBLICAN EVEN IF THEY HAVE AN OLD SHOE RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT AND THE DEMOCRATS HAVE AS THEIR CANDIDATE GOD HERSELF!

period -- watch the documentary: HACKING DEMOCRACY

FLORIDA IS INFINITELY RED!

period.

[sco8d]

I saw that and you are right. That is why Obama has a better chance in november. If you look at all the states I listed in previous posts that could and should go for Obama you net about 25 delegates without both FL and OH. Both states had shady votes in the past couple elections and all these other smaller states are insurance against Republican corruption.

Hillary can't put these states in play and is dependant on FL and OH to win, in other words it would be easy to steal the election from her, Obama, not so easy.

[hhkeller]

Obama will probably lose in the general election because he hasn't accompished anything as a senator.
Is there a list of his accomplishments anywhere?

[tatt00me]

Hillary likely lost the primary because of spouting experience that when investigated was incredibly light. Comparable to Obama'a actually. Is there a list of her accomplishments anywhere?

McCain has vast amounts of experience in the Senate. So you're saying he should win based on this fact? Or that Bill Clinton should have lost when he based his entire campaign on the illusion that he was a political outsider?

Sometimes you people with your handy one-liners amaze. Learn something other than what these campaigns spit out. All the information is out there waiting to be had.

[SethBLiNK]

Here's his most recent accomplishment...

He won the democratic nomination. He did it without going negative, without going into debt, without relying on a famous relative or spouse and against amazing odds. He did it by believing the best of the American Voter and treating us like adults and through great planning and execution.

Does that sound like someobody you'd like to see in the White House?

[onceler]

hm, well since you're asking, he sponsored the first bill originally to tie troop deployments and funding in Iraq to a withdrawal timetable. that bill eventually made it to Bush having passed both houses, but he vetoed and there weren't enough votes to over-ride. Obama co-sponsored a bill with Tom Coburn, a very conservative Repug, to create a database searchable by the public which keeps track of every federal dollar spent on earmarks and the like - so that one's also an example of that 'reach across the aisle' ability Obama has shown both in the Ill. Senate and in the US Senate, which the Repubs. keep claiming he's never done. he's also co-sponsored legislation to locate and neutralize 'loose nukes' from the breakup of the USSR and illicit trading, sponsored bills to remove tax credits being given to oil & gas companies, to expand medicaid to proved increased prenatal and natal care, to increase couple's ability to obtain contraception, to improve research on pediatrics and diabetes. he's sponsored a host of various veteren's benefits packages, helped get relief at the Walter Reid facility, and if you want many more examples, read here - http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/2/20/201332/807/36/458633

there's a lot of research there. but notice, despite her head-start in the Senate, Obama has succeeded in getting quite a bit more legislation passed than Clinton has. can anyone name the Clinton / ________ Act of 200_?

[Stevie57]

I agree one hundred percent. Hillary can not be blamed for the fact that many Appalachian votes were race related; although it has to be said that she has done sweet F/A to discourage the tenor of these supporters, or even to cast them as morally abhorrent.

Barack can not be blamed for the sexism of the media, and indeed it seems unlikely that he could be married to Michelle and think that women were in any way inferior.

Whether we buy or question the media spin that Hillary is the white, blue collar worker’s heroine (and frankly I have my doubts), it is clear that a large part of her support is intellectual and feminist women. I can not conceive that this electorate, so passionate for women’s rights, would allow John McCain to colour the next 10 years of the Supreme Court with conservatism. At the moment there is a lot of anger because of a lost dream; but by November the choice between an untried, but obviously sincere, intellectual and energetic young Senator and a befuddled, dishonest and hypocritical anachronism should sway all right thinking women to the Obama cause.

[k6007]

David said something on the, Clinton friendly, CNN post-election show. (paraphrase) It would serve hillary well if she would denounce racist voting, by saying 'if you are voting for me, just because you won't vote for a Black man, I don't want your vote'.

What is the chances she would do this?

[SMP]

None...but he also said she should announce that SHE knows Obama doesnt share Rev Wrights views and that he IS a Christan..not Muslim....and..the clincher....That Obama IS ready to lead on day one. David Gergen was very sincere in stating the above. He knows that it is gonna take alot of her promoting Obama to her supporters. He also later stated that Hillary is in part responsible for how her supporters see Obama and it is her responsibility to set it to rights. But I dont look for that from her. unfortunately, her selfishness will again prevail.

[Bulbul]

You totally understand Obamamania ?
Do you really Erica, understand the viciousness of the Media and the hyperventilating bloggers ?
How do you rationalize that ?


I am a Hillary supporter and always said would vote for the Nominee..whoever that may be...

But the backlash building up for months of mistreatment against Hillary, is brewing rapidly and what I heard from the callers on NPR yesterday was scary...

Let us hope we do come together..and overcome the wreckless behavior of the MEDIA..

[PhDiva]

I understand your support of Hillary. I don't understand your support of her race-baiting tactics.

[elsrks]

You speak of backlash-- is it possible that the purposeful and negative dirty tactics employed by the Clinton Machinery precipitated a response from people that was (perhaps) understandable ??--
I (as one responder)-- was appalled by her transparent manipulation (using gender, class and race politics) and overt lies and use of smear and denigration of a fellow Democrat.
If you can step back for a moment and try to see it from "our' point of view--?? Many of us began this campaign just favoring one candidate-- now millions are adamant supporters of Obama because of HRC/surrogates despicable and DISGRACEFUL behavior!
It is time for her to admit defeat.. where is she going with this 'fight'??? It is furthering the emotional divide in our party which is going to make it more difficult for us all to come together for the REAL fight against MacCain!!!