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<p>This is just the beginning and it is frightening</p>
<p>It’s the nominee’s responsibility to “unify” the party.</p>
<p>And Clyburn has no standing to talk. He played a major role in smearing the Clintons as racists during the SC primary. That was ultimately the tactic that broke the Democratic Party in two.</p>
<p>Obama played the race card because he needed 90% of the black vote for his delegate math to work. As they say in Chicago, his chickens are coming home to roost.</p>
<p>I am just curious what the callers who threatened to sabotage the election plan on doing…are we going to become the country that the world media will downpour on to see if there is going to be fighting in the streets</p>
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<p>But of course, it would be easier if his former opponent conceded that he is in fact the nominee, as you in fact do.</p>
<p>Clyburn wants to start playing the race card again. The media choir will be all over this, very soon, they will be telling us how this November election is about whether America is still racist. They wont be talking about the issues.</p>
<p>I noticed today when she spoke to AIPAC today she said we need a democratic pres., but she never said Obama as president, she did say that Obama understands the issues, but that was as far as acknowledging him as the nominee.</p>
<p>If HRC would do the right thing, concede the nomination to Sen. Obama and ask her supporters to join her in launching him straight to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., perhaps this horrible situation wouldn’t be happening. She is not helping by sulking like a 6 year old instead of being part of the unity process.<br>
Here’s an example of unifying: [MinnPost</a> - Clinton supporters wowed with warm reception at Obama rally](<a href=“http://www.minnpost.com/stories/2008/06/04/2100/clinton_supporters_wowed_with_warm_reception_at_obama_rally]MinnPost”>http://www.minnpost.com/stories/2008/06/04/2100/clinton_supporters_wowed_with_warm_reception_at_obama_rally),</p>
<p>Funny how everyone is asking for HRC’s ‘space’, ‘she needs time’, I say baloney!! Thank God she won’t be president, can’t imagine what she’d be like in a real crisis.</p>
<p>It’s already started in Massachusetts. At the state Democratic meeting last week, a woman who has been one of four state reps to the DNC for the last 28 years was voted out of office by angry female Massachusetts Democrats for endorsing Obama. </p>
<p>John Kerry is scrambling this week in Massachusetts (he’s usually never seen anywhere but his summer home) to prevent the state convention from giving a primary challenger the required 15% votes to get on the ballot against Kerry. That is all about punishing Kerry for ignoring the voters of his state.</p>
<p>It’s going to be ugly in Massachusetts. Kennedy’s out of the picture for health reasons, but Kerry and Patrick will face tough challenges at the polls.</p>
<p>The leading early contender for the Kennedy seat, Attorney General Martha Coakley (a Williams alum) is no dummie. She checked which way the Mass. breeze is blowing and endorsed Clinton two weeks ago, after the nomination was wrapped up.</p>
<p>It sound crazy, but I don’t think Massachusetts is a sure bet for the New Democratic Party in November. We’ve gotten a trial run with a neophyte hope-monger in Deval Patrick and it hasn’t been pretty. Masschusetts Dems have been there, done that.</p>
<p>Obama lost the state by 14 points over the endorsements of Kennedy, Kerry, and Deval Patrick…and that was long before Obama collapsed under the weight of his racist preacher problems down the stretch. Survey USA has a 6-point race in Massachusetts. That’s devastating for the New Democratic Party. The Dems haven’t lost Mass since Carter and Mondale in back to back elections. Even Dukakis managed to hang on here.</p>
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<p>This maybe true, but unless they are committed they will get to vote. I also don’t see these people ever pulling the lever for Obama. You have to be passed the line of being ticked to call your Cong. I just can’t see a voter like that coming on board just b/c they are a dem. I asked my MIL on Tuesday if she was now going to vote for Obama… her answer was no way in h*ll, she is now going to support McCain and actively work for him to be elected. The woman has never voted for a republican, in 50+ yrs. She is a person that has stated Bush was selected and not elected, thus he was not her president. I take her at her word that she won’t vote for Obama</p>
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<p>This is so insulting, and pathetic. The last time I checked the “rules”, you don’t become the nominee until August. If Obama feels that he has already won, he can go aheard and ignore her. Thank god I got out of this mess.</p>
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<p>But, alas…he’s not the nominee. He doesn’t have enough pledged delegates. Superdelegates are unpledged until they actually cast a vote at the convention. Then, there will be a nominee.</p>
<p>But, if it the New Democratic Party believes it makes sense to call Clinton crazy (along with racist), they should by all means knock themselves out.</p>
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<p>My wife is a yellow dog Democrat. She voted in every election and voted for every Democrat on the ballot since she was old enough to vote. She’s deciding between writing in “Clinton” or sitting out the November election. She started out wanting Obama as VP and ended up not being willing to vote for him. She’s mad as hell about being called a racist. She feels betrayed, literally to the point of tears, by the Democratic Party.</p>
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<p>No kidding. He’s mighty insecure.</p>
<p>The problem is that he staggered across the finish line, getting clobbered in primary after primary after primary down the stretch with demographics that are crippling to his general election chances. He wants Clinton to bail him out.</p>
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<p>I don’t agree with Carter often, but his statement to the Guardian was on the mark…it would be disastrous if he selected her. Her negs are 50+. And Hillary supporters will not be happy with her being in the 2nd position… all that means to them is he has to die(I am not wishing for it), but Hillary supporters like my MIL want McCain to win, serve 1 term and then they get Hillary in 12. Obama winning would place her running for Pres in 16 and she would be older than McCain now and no chance. In other words they will hold their nose pulling the lever for McCain, just to get the chance for her to get it in 12.</p>
<p>Clinton machine at work…very smart and shrewd</p>
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<p>I’ve talked to my Congressman’s campaign office manager several times. It’s no big deal. You pick up the phone and tell 'em what you think. It told him that he needed to endorse the candidate who won his district by an overwhelming margin in the Massachusetts primary and that, if he didn’t, the voters in his district would hold him accountable. He knows that I have voted for him everytime he’s run and that, with his failure to endorse Clinton (he still hasn’t endorsed), I will vote against him in every future election until he loses or one of us dies.</p>
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<p>I also feel that way…I consider myself an independent, that leans republican, but republicans are also being called racists for not seeing Obama as the second coming. It seems to me, that if you don’t support him than you are racist. I am white, but the only difference between him and me is I have an extra X gene and less pigment than him. I am not for him b/c of his platforms and his inexperience. I find it comical that he is not like the typical politician, and he is going to change Washington, but as he states that he has already proven he plays the game. Even now saying to AIPAC that he never said he would talk to Iran without preconditions, but the debate on film footage shows him doing it.</p>
<p>I just meant that everyone has busy lives, this had to be similiar to a thorn in your side where you need to address it, to vent and to make sure that they get it</p>
<p>Don’t worry. I’m sure Caroline Kennedy will pick an excellent VP for the New Democratic Party. Heck, why not Caroline Kennedy! She’s almost as experienced as Obama.</p>
<p>A whole lotta fratricide (sororicide?) going on among the Democrats. I don’t understand this death wish in an election year that should belong to the party best positioned to beat the Republicans.</p>
<p>It’s pretty easy to understand actually. It’s a fight for the Democratic Party between the ultra left Moveon, Pelosi, Kerry, Daschle, Dean, Obama wing (blacks, college students, and Starbucks latte liberals) and a more centrist working class big tent party. The reason the DNC despises the Clintons is that they are viewed as “sell-outs” for being too moderate (see DLC).</p>
<p>The ultra-liberal wing has seized control of the party and a lot of traditional Democrats are now faced with making some decisions about where to go in the future.</p>
<p>Commentary from Seattle: </p>
<p>[It’s</a> time for Clinton to bow out](<a href=“http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/365743_erbeonline05.html]It’s”>http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/365743_erbeonline05.html) </p>
<p>And commentary from New York: </p>
<p>[How</a> Clinton’s Supporters Might Be Obama’s Next Big Problem – Daily Intel – New York News Blog – New York Magazine](<a href=“How Clinton’s Supporters Might Be Obama’s Next Big Problem”>How Clinton’s Supporters Might Be Obama’s Next Big Problem)</p>