I knew it had to happen sooner or later (from you know where):
It’s all over the press that beginning Friday, Hillary Clinton will be fundraising with the presumptive nominee, Barack Obama. For many of us, I’d say at least a few million, this is a nauseating thought. While we respect Hillary for her loyalty, we will not be joining her efforts. In fact, for me at least, Hillary’s choice to support Obama reminds me of the battered wife returning home to her batterer.
I’m trying to decide if this is sexist or not (it certainly has a slight smell of it), but now we have the start of the Hillary hold-outs basically saying that Hillary is that women beaten by her husband who runs away for a night or two, only to be lured back by her spouse to claims that he’ll never do it again, and proceeds to beat her even more than what he did before, or something like that.
Of course, it’s a bogus analogy to begin with, but that’s not stopping them from using it. (Hell, at the absolute least, even if it were true that Obama beat Hillary up like a battered wife, supporting the political party of that candidate and going back to your husband are hardly comparable things, if for no other reason than one is grounded in reasoning and pragmatism and the other is generally grounded in raw emotions. Wait, does that mean they’re saying Hillary is emotional? I thought that was sexist?).
I still have to roll my eyes at the whole “we respect Hillary and all, but we’re not going to abide by her will.” Well, then you don’t friggen respect her then.
If you’re going to piss on your party’s nominee, then fine, but don’t say you’re going to do it for Hillary or somehow in the name of Hillary or anything about Hillary and talk about how great she is and how you respect her, and then totally ignore her when she asks you to support the party’s nominee.
I also love how when Democratic leaders like Dean, et. al. come out and support Obama when he became the presumptive nominee, they were all drinking the kool-aid, but when Clinton does it…well, it’s just her being a good democrat.
Just let it go, Fleet. I honestly think that all of these sites (NoQuarter, PUMA, Hillaryis44, etc) are all run by maybe two or three people with multiple sockpuppets. And there’s evidence that at least one of those sites may be owned by the RNC. I don’t think these are true Hillary supporters, just anti-Obama fanatics who are trying to sabotage the Democrats. It’s best not to make them seem bigger than they are.
I hardly think they are big, but they are quite noisy, and I’m well aware that it has nothing to do with Hillary (I think I’ve said as much before)…they’re just using her as an excuse, which is why I think it’s only a matter of time before she fully goes under the tires.
Heh, I think the funniest thing I’ve seen so far, though, was they’re all like “millions of people support us!” but then when PUMA started or whatever, I think they were like “we had 200 people sign up in our first day!”
Color me unimpressed.
However, I sometimes just can’t resist pointing out their utter hypocrisy. I probably shouldn’t even visit their site, but in a sick sort of way there is a strange allure just to see what they’ll think of next.