U.S. Presidential Election 2008

[Deckard]

It's her supporters that continue to amaze me...

"As members of the DNC's Rules and Bylaws panel voted in favor of the measures, some supporters of Hillary Clinton's White House bid rose from their seats and began to shout “Don’t steal my vote!” and “Let’s go, McCain!”

Several paced the back of the ballroom, yelling at the committee members and chanting “Denver! Denver!” – the site of this summer's Democratic presidential nominating convention.

When Barack Obama’s name was mentioned, boos filled the room."

Quite honestly they sound like a bunch of neanderthals. Clinton's core vote, I wonder? (We already appreciate their disdain of 'in-ter-lec-tuals', who are, by definition, elitists, and don't know how to bowl or drink beer like yer decent, working, hard-working etc etc... )

Really, if she takes this any further, she'll remove every last drop of doubt in my mind that she gives a flying fig about either the voters or the party - not that there's much doubt left already. It really does depress me that her 'at any cost' approach throughout this election campaign could be the single biggest factor that costs America not only a Democrat in the White House this year but also the chance to have had the best president in a long time, not to mention an enormous amount of restored respect from around the world (though I accept that there's a certain arrogance in assuming that the general opinion of the rest of the world matters much during a domestic election campaign, but still, it's set to be an additional casualty... )

If Obama's the nominee, her words against him will come back to haunt him and every Democrat supporter later this year, and irrespective of any reassurance from her about "falling in line with the eventual victor", her endorsement will sound hollow to the point of being met with hysterics. OK, all primary season differences can be used against the party's eventual nominee by their political opponent, but this woman has really gone overboard in supplying ammunition to the Republicans. She could have taken a more respectable approach with regards to so many things - the Obama/Muslim thing, the Reverend Wright furore, the comparison of Obama's inexperience with that of McCain - but on each and every one, she has chosen not to.