Can we please lay off Hillary for the time being?

[dorkulon]

Seriously, some of you people are making me ashamed to be an Obama supporter. I wish she'd have conceded tonight, but she didn't. There are mixed signals, but it seems the consensus is she'll pull out tomorrow or the next day or so. That's soon enough. In the meantime, is it really the smartest thing to do to trash her repeatedly, further hardening the feelings of voters Obama needs to win in November? How exactly are you helping your candidate here?

I hope the Hillary people at DU understand that this is just another anonymous internet forum, and that it is simply not fair to attribute the words of everyone who supports a candidate to that candidate. Obama has conducted himself with grace and decency, and that shouldn't be forgotten just because some jerks on the internets pissed you off.

[ruby slippers]

1. yeah, Dan Abrams and company are doing a good enough job of bashing

her right now anyway. Tune in to his "detached" comment....

[AtomicKitten]

2. Sure thing -- when she FINALLY does the right thing and concedes.

Til then, all bets are off.

[RandomKoolzip]

3. In a hundred years, no one's gonna give a shit what we say to each other here.

HEll, in TEN MINUTES, no one gives a shit. And if you REALLY DO give a shit, and you're an adult, you'll accept reality.

[scheming daemons]

4. I'll lay off her when she concedes. Until then, she's the enemy....as much as McCain.

[Condem]

5. Sorry, dork

A fuckin shabby speech. I gave her the benefit of the doubt, too. Fool me twice, I guess.

[babylonsister]

6. Do you understand what happened today, and why we're so

disappointed by Clinton? The Dem party has been cow-towing to her for months, and she just continued it.

IMO, she sucks.

[dorkulon]

8. I'm not too happy with her either.

I think she should have dropped out a while ago, but clearly she won't be rushed. I just think that the constant raging attacks are detrimental to Obama in the long run, and are just kind of un-classy.

She is going to quit, and when she does, we don't want to have done so much damage that we can't bring her voters in. I, for one, want to win this thing.

[vaberella]

7. Let them gloat. Tomorrow they should be over it.

The focus shouldn't be on Obama or Clinton right now. Right now we need to focus to make sure our nominee makes it through and make sure we aren't caught off guard by GOP strategies. I'm starting to think there is something serious going on here and I think we neeed to see how the enemy is so we can focus on us as a people in this suffering nation.

[seabeyond]

21. it isnt gloat. it is pissed she didnt even have the class tonight to do right

finally, with loss. still she could not put party in front of herself. it isnt gloating. it is true disgust

[Botany]

9. I want to lay off .... I really do but her speech tonight was so classless

She did not win the popular vote ... she is spreading a lie that makes some
people think she won "it" but was robbed by the sexist power structure.

She failed to admit that she had lost and Barack had won when she had the
spotlight.

I so wanted to make nice and move on but she was introduced as "the next
President of the United States."

So now she is like a cockroach that needs stomped.

[Skip Intro]

10. Good luck with that.

[MercutioATC]

11. Her speech was much more than her not conceding...

...it was a shameful, self-aggrandizing, untruthful continuation of her dirty little campaign.

It was also a direct refusal to honor her promise to support the Democratic nominee.

[rwheeler31]

12. Why can't she care

[Diane R]

13. Nope. Not gonna lay off her....until she goes away, or grows up.

[WillyToad]

14. Hatred cannot be turned off like a light switch...

It is a security blanket for many, apparently. The "We hate the Clintons" threads havent even slowed down today. They are hellbent on driving away, permenantly, any of Hillarys supporters that have trickled back to support Obama. Without Hillary's supporters, Obama will lose.

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[mzteris]

22. who's

"them"?

[WillyToad]

16. self delete

[cliffordu]

17. Why? She won't get off my fucking television!!!!

She's the presumptive nominee of dumbfuckistan.

[WillyToad]

18. And without her supporters, Obama loses

So keep up your bid to drive them away from him, OK?

[cliffordu]

23. YOU KEEP SAYING THAT. I DON'T BELIEVE IT!!

AND:

I don't give a shit about anyone who refuses to vote for Obama in November.

No one needs to kiss your little asses. There's been plenty of vituperation to go around, so suck it up, pull up your pantsuit and lets get it on with McCain....

Or go someplace else.

[WillyToad]

30. You know it is true, you are hellbent on ruining it for Obama...

Because your bruised little ego is ultimately all you care about, and you arent democrat enough to let go of it. Oh, and by the way, show me a single thread where I have stated that I support Hillary......sorry, doesnt exist.

Hate, it's what's for dinner.

[cliffordu]

38. I DONT CARE about anyone trying to blackmail other democrats.

My ego ain't bruised.

Either support the candidate, or we can say buh bye!!

[Critters2]

32. You do understand that you win an election by getting the most votes, right?

Alienating people may make you feel good, but it also loses elections.

[bhikkhu]

28. BS.

[Webster Green]

39. Go vote for McCain, you fucking dip-shit..

What a bunch of crybaby fucking losers! :crazy:

[Raine]

42. That goes both ways if Hillary ever expects to run for office again

she needs Obama's supporters, she needs to think about that.

[cliffordu]

43. WORD.

:thumbsup:

[Condem]

20. I just threw up on myself, clifford

Fuckin funny! Good work, man.

[cliffordu]

26. Aw, shucks,

anything I can do to help....

:rofl:

[99th_Monkey]

19. Personally, I'm giving her until Friday; after that fuck her.

all she'd be doing by persisting in her petulance beyond Friday is an openly deliberate crusade to hurt Obama's
chances in the General. That's where I draw the line.

[book_worm]

24. do you read what her supporters have been saying around here?

The poor Hillary people at DU. Give me a break.

[dorkulon]

So why not be classier than them? /nt

[book_worm]

33. Why don't you include them in your criticism of Obama supporters?

Instead of pampering them and telling them to ignore all the bad Obama supporters why don't you point out that it takes two to fight and a little grace on their part and their candidate would go a long way.

[dorkulon]

36. Because we won.

It's a moot point after today. Of course they've been just as bad, maybe worse. It just doesn't matter anymore, and if I have to be the bigger person, then that's what I'll do. The election is more important than my personal grievances.

[rebel with a cause]

31. You blood pressure gets lower and your attention becomes more focused

If you ignore, ignore, ignore. My list is quite well rounded, with plenty of freepers and others.

[rebel with a cause]

25. Fine with me

but if it is freepers or hillary supporters, there was a lot of attacks going on earlier the other way. I did not comment back but my ingore list is getting pretty long.

[bhikkhu]

27. You do understand...

we have a presumptive nominee now. The last of the primaries is done, and in a historic first, I think, the final state put Obama over the top. A flood of SD's have endorsed him and by morning he is off to the races. All of this was predictable by anyone reading or following any news source.

Tonight McCain gave the lamest ever victory speech by a repug.

Tonight Obama gave one of his best speeches ever, rallying the party behind him as the presumptive nominee.

And what did Hillary do? What might she have done? How has she behaved as a candidate and a party leader? WTF...I have defended her plenty during this campaign, avoided criticism as much as possible, alerted dozens if not hundreds of times on obnoxious remarks and posts, but at this point she is off the chart, finished. What she has left is damage control, and I doubt she will handle that any better than she has handled the campaign. Her little sideshow may not end, but its no longer relevant.

[RiverStone]

29. She has a narcissistic personality disorder...

And with world peace on the line, she needs to get off the stage so we can begin to unite and beat McBush. Ironically, many of us have shown extraordinary patience over the past - but now is the time to move on already!!!

[stillcool]

34. After tonight? No way.

It has nothing to do with "supporters". It has to do with the words and actions of Hillary Clinton. I am sick of her using the Democratic Party as a tool for her delusions of grandeur.

[iamthebandfanman]

35. youre right

we should take obamas example and be above this stuff.

at the same time, her supporters show none of that courtesy either...so its hard to bite your tongue.

[smiley_glad_hands]

37. If they won't vote for Obama, then they don't deserve to be Democrats.

She should have conceded and her whiny supporters can go vote mcsame already.

[Raine]

40. NO, she needs to go away

and after her nasty speech there is no way I'm laying off her now or ever. :argh:

[HeraldSquare212]

41. There was consensus she would pull out after WVa, too

[ladjf]

44. Clinton is playing a very dangerous game that may well result

in the election of McCain. We don't need to give her any breaks. We need to get her off the public
stage as soon as possible. Nader influenced the outcome in 2000 with a lot less fire power than Clinton has.

No one can stop her from running as an independent but she could be stopped from claiming to be a Democrat.