Die hard Hillary Clinton supporters are not giving up the fight. The Washington Post tells of one small group in West Virginia that came out to support Clinton, despite the insults from Obama supporters.
Clinton's most loyal supporters — the ones still standing on street corners — have adopted their candidate's motto, even as she trails Sen. Barack Obama by an insurmountable margin in pledged delegates: to fight like hell, despite dim odds and denigration, until someone officially wins the Democratic nomination.
But on this day, the intersection of Highway 480 and German Street, where they stood, divided Shepherdstown into two factions. College kids from Shepherd University approached from the north, angry that Clinton has remained in a race she appears destined to lose. Truck drivers and farmers approached from the south, their support for Clinton fortified by her perseverance.
The two groups met at the intersection in a cacophony of honking horns and shouting that echoed across this town of about 1,000 near the Maryland border. After two hours, Luanne Smith had heard enough.
"It's become so personal, just one insult after another," Smith said. "These sides are starting to feel some hate for each other. Everybody is angry, but I'm going to keep at this as long as I can. I never want to look myself in the mirror and say, 'You quit. You didn't do your part.' "
An indication of just how badly divided the Clinton and Obama supporters are comes later in the story:
"Give up already," shouted a woman in a red jeep.
"Boo. Clinton's a loser," said a man in a blue sedan.
"What are you doing?" asked a passenger in a weathered Pontiac. "Didn't you hear Clinton already lost?"
After each insult, Smith and Kuzma glared straight ahead, venting to each other only after the drivers had pulled away.
"This just isn't very nice," Kuzma said. "These are some mean people."
"Every one of them is the same — skinny kids who've never experienced anything but college," Smith said. "The more I'm involved, the angrier I get. Every call for her to get out of the race just incenses me. It makes me crazy. Who are you? Who in the world are you to tell this woman who's done so much that it's time for her to be quiet and sit down?"
I doubt Clinton can win regardless of what happens in the few remaining races. But it also looks increasingly likely that Obama will not be able to heal the rifts his supporters have caused. It has gotten too ugly and too personal.
Welcome to Obamination! We are unified – because disent is no longer allowed. It’s a Distraction from Real Issues.
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Cognitive dissonance. Unreconciled differences.What’s not to like?
Meanwhile, deep inside his secret base in a secure, undisclosed location, Dick Cheney laughs and calls Darth Rove to tell him he has done well.
Sorry to read these somewhat plaintive cries, but they are merely discovering what we Republicans have known for years.
That Democratic ideals are ever more by each year about how they make people “feel”. “Feeling good” about (Obama, Candidate or policy X) is everything. The two sides FEEL at odds, and this is profoundly different than, for example, the Republicans who don’t like McCain, are clear about it, some will hold their nose and vote for him, some will simply refuse to, but they are NOT SO EMOTIONAL about. Nor were they over Bush and Kerry. Their opponents many times were, but Bush people by and large were not. Just another day in the arena for them.
What we on the right of course also know is….. Let’s see, you are being bitterly, visciously, vituperatively, caustically attacked by the morally superior left for being the vermin and scum of the earth and possibly psychologically deranged because of who you support for President?
Yeah, line forms at the back, baby.
Welcome to Obamination! We are unified – because disent is no longer allowed. It’s a Distraction from Real Issues
If Obamanation can take down the Clinton Machine, imagine what they can do to McCain:
"This just isn’t very nice," Kuzma said. "These are some mean people."
I have come to believe that Hillary! is trying to tank the race for Obama so that she is the presumptive nominee against a 76 year old McCain in 2012.
This can only be good for McCain and the Republican Party. As Andrew said about the Republicans, some Hillary supporters will hold their noses and vote for Obama but it’s very likely that many either won’t vote at all or will vote for McCain in order to spite the Obamessiah revolutionaries – the Dems have gotten VERY good at spite over the last eight years.
The Clintons are a moral monster that was created, fed and nurtured by Democrats for almost two decades. The Messiah is another moral monster-in-training. Both were shielded by Democrats and the MSM from the consequences of their poor judgement and bad policy decisions. The Clintons have come back to haunt the Democrat Party in a big way, and you can bet that one day He Whose Middle Name Must Not Be Mentioned will do the same.
Mwalimu, the Obamessiah is already haunting the Democratic Party – they just haven’t realized it yet.
What would Gaius blog about if it weren’t for Obama and Clinton? I can count on reading at least one post about them every day. A fount of material until November – life just doesn’t get any better than this.