Why some Hillary supporters can't forgive Obama.
Don't get me wrong. There are many Hillary supporters who have now come round and taken Hillary's advice that they, as Democrats, should do the right thing and support Barack Obama. Even Taylor Marsh has now said she will fight for a Democratic victory.
However, every so often I come across a quote from a bitter Clinton supporter that highlights the sense of entitlement that underscored Hillary's entire campaign and is the source of much of her supporters continual rage.
I read this on No Quarter:
Where does one even begin to deal with a mindset as skewered as that? Hillary asks that the nation "honours her request" to serve as president, whilst Obama follows "his ego-centred desire for power" which robs Hillary of "her turn" - "her time".I will never forgive Obama for taking Hillary’s turn, her “time!” This great woman has worked her whole life, for 40 years, as a champion of all people, to improve lives, to defend the rights of all of us. She asked this country if we would honor her request to continue to work for us as our President. And 18 MILLION of us said, YES!
If Obama would have waited, our country would have been assured Democratic Presidents for at least 16 years! He could have learned from Hillary how to put the lives of the citizens of our country first rather than follow his ego-centered desire for power.
Everything which we ever argued about the baffling sense of entitlement which permeated - and eventually poisoned - the entire Clinton campaign is perfectly illustrated in those few sentences.
It was "her time" and Obama has selfishly spoiled the party. That's democracy according to some of Hillary's more bitter supporters.
Unbelievable.
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4 comments:
doesn't that make your head spin?? I wished I could kick her kind out of the country but then, we'd be polluting the rest of the world.. as IF her royal highness was next in line.. hellloww woman, it is a democracy!
ok..I'm almost having a Lewis Black melt down..good morning to me too!! lol
Ingrid
Ingrid,
It actually took my breath away when I read it. I don't understand how anyone claiming to be a feminist can say that they intend to vote for a man who wants to overturn Roe Vs Wade. And yet that is actually the position they are advocating.
There was an interesting piece on NPR this afternoon in which one these "McCainocrats" was interviewed.
The logic is that the Supreme Court has the votes to overturn Roe any time they wish, so McCain can do no more harm to that cause by being elected.
Along with it, of course, is that Obama will repeal the Bush tax cuts, which is somehow spun as a tax increase, and this means that the economy will be "destroyed". Hillary's stated pledge to repeal those very same tax cuts, however, would somehow have been done "more cautiously", and thus would not endanger the economy.
Thus we have a putative "Democrat" who believes in the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy and who trusts a Republican Administration to safeguard the rights of women.
But she "protested against the Vietnam War", so we know which side she's on, right? I guess that's why she said that McCain was a better choice to "keep us safe" in a world where "people are out to kill us".
In short, she sounds an awful lot like any other Republican, many of whom protested against the Vietnam War when they faced being drafted.
I smell Astroturf.
Thus we have a putative "Democrat" who believes in the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy and who trusts a Republican Administration to safeguard the rights of women.
But she "protested against the Vietnam War", so we know which side she's on, right? I guess that's why she said that McCain was a better choice to "keep us safe" in a world where "people are out to kill us".
It makes me despair, Todd. These people aren't Democrats at all.
Probably never were, but simply wanted to see the first ever female president. And let's face it, Hillary was always a fairly right wing Democrat with her promises to obliterate Iran. So maybe McCain is their perfect candidate.
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