Are you ever in for a shock, America!!!!
Also see: Hillary Clinton Reclaims Delegates, Promises Floor Fight for Nomination
"Clinton urges her loyalists to back Obama" by Lisa Wangsness, Globe Staff | August 26, 2008
DENVER - The two former rivals reached a deal later yesterday on cutting short the promised roll call vote tomorrow night to limit the image of a party divided. Democratic officials involved in the negotiations said the deal would let a few states cast votes for Clinton before a move to declare Obama the nominee by acclimation, the Associated Press reported.
DON'T BUY IT, America (read on)!
But signs of discontent remained, showing that the difficult task of uniting the party after a protracted and bitter primary season remained unfinished on the first day of the Democratic convention.
A coalition of anti-Obama Clinton supporters, clad in "Clinton," "McCain," and "Nobama" buttons, marched down the 16th Street Mall at midday and held a protest and candlelight vigil in a Denver park. News reports dribbled out that former president Bill Clinton was grumbling over being asked to focus his speech tomorrow night on the more narrow subject of national security, that day's official theme, rather than on the campaign in general.
Even Clinton's most fervent supporters said they held little hope of an insurrection on the floor tomorrow, but there remains an obvious and unusual level of discomfort among delegates, who are the party's most active and committed members.
Jennifer Herrera, a 36-year-old part-time college professor and Clinton delegate from Centennial, Colo., said she believed the anger was subsiding, but hurt still lingered. "The Clinton supporters I talk to will vote for Obama, but they may not go out and work for him," she said.
A trio of Clinton delegates from Texas illustrated the divide. Jason Smith, a 40-year-old lawyer from Fort Worth, said he would happily go along with Obama; Pam Durham, a 55-year-old acupuncturist from the same city, said she would have to see how Obama treated Clinton.
"We've got a job here to do, and our job is to vote for Hillary every time her name comes up," she said. "After the convention, we'll go from there."
And the third Texan, Shirley Luther, a 59-year-old retired refinery worker from Belmont, said she would not vote for Obama because she believed he was not experienced enough and because she was disgusted with the party's handling of the disputed Michigan and Florida primaries.
"I want to protest the election system the Democrats ran, and the only way I know is my vote," she said.
More and more, I'm coming to believe a vote in a rigged election means nothing!
Try the real protests outside!
Yesterday's compromise over the roll-call vote only inflamed tension among Clinton loyalists who dearly wanted all her supporters to have the chance to cast a symbolic vote as a tribute to Clinton's achievements and as a sign that the party cared about its own rules.
"They give in, and then, of course, they subvert the process immediately afterward," said Michele Thomas, an activist from California who organized the delegate petition over the Internet. "It's David and Goliath. What more can we do?"
How about going away for starters?
Btw, this the biggest sign yet Obama gonna LOSE!!!!
Obama sought yesterday to calm any strife, saying that Bill Clinton could talk about whatever he wanted and acknowledging that he will "have to work hard" to persuade Clinton loyalists to "come on board."
Why does he have to suck Hillary's cock?
The most radical of the Clinton backers, who are mostly grass-roots activists and not delegates, have come from across the country to Denver to demonstrate their displeasure. The disaffected Democrats spent much of yesterday trying to draw attention to gender bias in the media and what they view as widespread instances of voter fraud and bullying by the Obama campaign during the primaries.
I'm so sick of their bitching, especially when it was the damn Clinton News Network!
Exhibit A: Hillary Clinton, Please Explain Husband Bill's Association With Rev. Wright
The groups, who are mostly women and mostly middle-aged but from widely varying economic backgrounds, will also join another group, 18 Million Voices Rise Hillary Rise, today with a march and rally celebrating the 88th anniversary of women's suffrage. "We want them to know we're here, we're serious, and we have millions of voters behind us," said Kim Haas, an influential pro-Clinton blogger.
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"Madame Chairman....."
Heard it here first, America!
