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Hate and Division among Democrats | 41 comments (41 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Hate and Division among Democrats (4.00 / 2)

steven this is your worst diary ever

i have two points

you arent talking about the democratic party....99% of the democratic party dont give a shit and dont participate in blogs , esp the winger blogs where all this nonsense is taking place....out on the street, people dont give a fuck...they just want to vote, pay their bills, hang out with their kids, stay above water...all this fighting is out of their zone of who gives a rats ass....most dont know the difference between a superdelegate and a pledged delegate....really.....nobody gives a flying crap....its much more important to people who is going to win american idol...sometimes i wish i lived in that world of peaceful ignorance.

second there was and is enough hatred to go around.....i dont really give a fuck who started it....but ive seen it from both campaigns, from the so called surrogates, from the activists, and all over the blogs....i never went to a hillary clinton blog until i got so disgusted by the tone and filth on the obama blogs that i went over to see if it was really as bad....they are THE SAME!!!!! sexism, racism, and now we get to see ageism for the next few months.....yippeeee....no one can take the high road....i wish i could find a blog that didnt participate in the demonization of any candidate but so far i havent found one....if you know of one let me know.

Edible panties taste like crap.

by anna in philly (jrsygir1@aol.com) on Fri May 9th, 2008 at 12:24:50 PM EST

Re: Hate and Division among Democrats (none / 1)

Anna, I'm sorry you think so. I believe that regardless of the nasty blog comments on pro-Obama sites, the reason this campaign and the various supporters of the candidates became so antagonistic was the fault of the Clinton campaign. Everything I discussed above actually happened. And you can't tell me it's restricted to the blogosphere, not when exit polls indicate as much as a third of Clinton voters in the primaries say they will refuse to vote for Obama in the general if he is the nominee, and 20% or so of Obama supporters say they will refuse to vote for Hillary.

Would campaign supporters for Obama and Clinton have been nasty to each other even if both candidates had run typical campaigns? Yes, but not nearly this nasty. And the only reason I can see for why that happened was the decision of the Clinton camp to go all negative on Obama, including the consistent and disgusting racist appeals they made to white voters. I don't think Obama was 1/10oth as harsh in his negative campaigning against Clinton as she was to him. And by all accounts the super-delegates are coming to that same conclusion.

John McCain hates my wife because she's a "gook."

by Steven D on Fri May 9th, 2008 at 02:03:31 PM EST
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Re: Hate and Division among Democrats (none / 1)

Can you point me to one case of sexism perpetrated by a pro-Obama blogger? I don't mean in the comments or the diaries, but on the front-page.

I haven't seen one case of it in any of the blogs I read in the entirety of the campaign.

Moreover, never once has the Obama campaign made any negative reference to Clinton's gender, her associations with women's groups, or diminished her supporters because they're heavily female.

There also in absolutely no equivalency between what I write, the people at Daily Kos write, the people at Open Left write, and what is written at NoQuarter, Hillaryis44, TalkLeft, and Taylor Marsh.

by BooMan on Fri May 9th, 2008 at 02:12:50 PM EST
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Re: Hate and Division among Democrats (none / 0)

But Booman, didn't you know? There's no real difference between ~~Al Gore and GW Bush~~ ~~John Kerry and GW Bush~~ Hillary Clinton and Barrack Obama!

When I asked this a few threads ago, all I got back was the "periodically" thing, something about "the claws coming out", and Michelle apparently saying something nasty about Monica Lewinsky. Really horrible stuff, let me tell you...

Kill because somebody was killed. Get killed because he killed. Do you think peace will ever come like that?

by Egarwaen on Fri May 9th, 2008 at 03:03:06 PM EST
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Re: Hate and Division among Democrats (none / 1)

The arguments thrown out about the sexism from the Obama campaign have been so lame. Don't care about Tweety. Don't care about Shuster. Anne from Philly has had a few days to come up with some facts to back up her argument. We're still waiting.

by Bob In Pacifica on Fri May 9th, 2008 at 03:44:22 PM EST
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Re: Hate and Division among Democrats (none / 1)

I haven't been reading every blog, or every comment on every blog, but the stuff from the Clinton supporters has been more over the top, IMO.
As just one example: a superdelegate from a red state responded to a deluge of emails he has received over the last 24 hours from Clinton supporters:
"I am horrified by this effort to threaten votes for McCain if super delegates don't vote for Sen. Clinton. I have received hundreds of emails from both sides - but I can say without exception that I have not received a single email from an Obama supporter that threatened a vote for McCain if I didn't support Sen. Obama. You really ought to be ashamed."

by CarolynC on Fri May 9th, 2008 at 02:59:47 PM EST
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