Hillary, You Didn’t Win. Now Don’t Whine

SIMONANUNHAPPYDEM - I respect your viewpoint but I have to disagree. Their are rules to the nominating process - I don't necessary agree with them all (for example, I don't understand why Iowa always gets to go first - to be fair I think it should be rotated - and I don't particularly care for caccuses) - but they are the rules. No one objected to them at the start of the nomination process. They should be followed. Everything I read says that coming out of Tuesday's primaries, Obama will not have enough delegates to take the nomination - he will still need about 30 to 40 Superdelegates to pledge for him. If they don't, then my all means, take it to the convention. But if they do, then the nominating process is over the Clinton should graciously conceed. If she doesn't and takes it all the way to the convention, her arguments are going to boil down to changing the rules so she can win. That is what the whole "popular vote" argument really is - an argument to change the rules. Neither party selects nominees by the popular vote. We don't even select the President that way - I wish we did, because then we never would have had Bush in office, but today we don't. You can't change the rules midstream. Perhaps there should be some changes next time around, but you have to live by them the way they are this time. If Obama gets enough delegates before the convention, but Clinton holds out to the convention and basically lobbies for a change in the rules so that she can be the nominee - I just don't see how that can be healthy for the party. And unlike you, I think Obama can win - if we can heal the party in time.

I gather you are for Junior. What happened to Newsweek--it is so biased now...I have subscribed for decades and am considering dropping it. Obviously someone wins, someone loses. But believe me, Hillary had plenty of help losing! Plenty of help! Including Newsweek.

Yesterday I watched Obama live on that vicious Fox News Channel, the only one to carry Obama's announcement of his resignation from that Church of Hate in Chicago. "Brilliant," said the last poster. I don't think so. As a student of the human mind I am here to tell you otherwise. He stumbled and hesitated and used the word, "uh," to make noise while he tried to assemble one thought after another. He'd talk a little bit, then hesitate, say "uh," over and over, and then move another 2 or 3 words out. When Hillary answers a question she adds, "and I'll tell you how it works," or "....why it is so." She's the brilliant one. How is it we want to be so trendy we go for a man who does not have nearly the time in the Washington Political arena....why
did we choose Obama over Edwards, Biden, Dodd, Richardson???? It certainly was not because none of those men were less qualified than Obama--they were MORE qualified. It's the race card, I am sad to say. I think America is sick of old white men running the country. Well that's just a guess, but it's my best gu((this site is a mess and I am not sure my whole message will get thru))ess. If Obama is
the Dem choice for November, then he gets my vote and I will accept him as my commander-in-chief without whining and complaining, but he was clearly not the most qualified when compared to H. Clinton, Edwards Biden, and the rest I just mentioned---even Gore or Kerry would've been better--but Gore & Kerry were too weak to fight when they were lambasted by the Republican smear campaign, which is very, very effective and still in operation, but good, sending email lies about Obama....just go to snopes.com and put in Obama's name and look at the lies. We don''t need to lie about McCain, the truth about this horrid man is enough. No lie could be worse. Well, God bless America anyway, huh?

I think this is a very insightful article. I think everyone needs to take a step away from the cliff and take some time to reflect. The Obama supporters need to stop and think how they would be feeling right now if Clinton was about to clinch the nomination by a very small margin. Don't you think you might be just a little angry right now, and perhaps a little bitter. There is nothing wrong with those feelings, especially when the race was so close. You need to give people time to vent and get over their anger - and they can't do that if they keep getting poked by Obama supporters.

And the Clinton supporters need to realize that after Tuesday the race is over. Continuing on to the convention will only widen the divide in the party. Yes, you can vent and take time to get over your anger and disappointment. Then you really need to stop and reflect what it will mean to have McCain in the White House. The simple thought that whoever becomes President will probably get to nominate two Supreme Court Justices should frighten you to your very core - and it has implications far beyond the next four years. You'll come to realize that it is in your best interests to vote for Obama. Yes, I know it will be hard. I am sure you will always feel that Clinton was the better choice, but hopefully you will eventually realize that McCain and the Republican Party will do far more damage to the things that you care about.

The argument will be over Wednesday. We will all be friends Thursday. There is rot in the White House. The Supreme Court is practically packed with rightists. It will take a strong Congress and President to start disinfecting the place.

The only thing I agree with Ms. Clift is that the Clinton campaign made a crucial mistake in not seriously competing in the caucus states.
However, if Clinton is denied the nomination it will be fundamentally not because of this mistake but because the Obama camp, with the active help of the media, used the race card in a very clever but, to me, disgusting way: every one who argued against anything Obama said or did was branded a racist. Not by the candidate, of course, he is smarter than that, but by his advisers, his camp, and by his media minions and hangers on. It is practically impossible to fight against this dishonest tactic in an honorable and clean way, and Hillary decided to ignore it instead of fighting it head on, calling a spade a spade. However, being honest does not always work, and if Clinton looses the nomination she will learn what Dukakis has learned before him, that you can not fight a swift-boating tactic by trying to ignore it. The sad thing is that in this case the swift-boating was done by one democrat, Obama, against another democrat, Clinton. The common element in the two events is that the media was totally complicit in both instances. Obama and his campaign will not get away with this same sleazy tactic in the presidential campaign against McCain. I am still hoping that the super delegates of the Democratic party are smart enough to see through what happened in this campaign and nominate Clinton, because she is the only democrat who can win against McCain. I hope that this is the only thing on their minds when making their decision. Just a side note: a couple of weeks ago, when Obama did not yet have the delegate lead that he has now, his argument, parroted by the media echo chamber, was that the super delegates can not ignore the popular vote, can not overturn the will of the people. Now, that Clinton leads in the popular vote, this argument became somehow forgotten. It seems that if Clinton wins the popular vote the super delegates are pressured to overturn the will of the people in order to anoint your favorite candidate. How convenient!

Hillary Clinton has lost, just be a decent loser, and support Obama and lets move on to win in November!

Seeing that she can't be in, she is trying to convince her followers that Obama can't win. Great team player. If you can't be the captain, let the other team win? Great leader.

Duh, the reaons the RBC gave Obama a percentage of Clinton's Michigan votes is because he took his name off the ballot and played by the RULES. Clinton did not.

NOR DID SHE THINK SHE'd NEED FLORIGAN until she started losing to Obama.

Play the game fair and square and stop agonizing and griping -- you're the losers and you have to suck it up, as they say. Just SUCK IT UP. Let's move on and beat the Republicans.

I am a woman who would have loved to back Hillary but couldn't. Barack is the better leader. He is not identical to her AT ALL! He builds consensus. He's more honest--telling hard truths that are necessary for people to understand in order to move forward, he builds consensus, not private clubs that exclude key player like her health care approach. I see him as more wise and honest--not a politicain who calculates constantly. Listen, Hillary is so "experienced" how come she acting so naive when it came to Iraq? She is so arrogant about it she won't apologize. Barack was one of the few who had enough wisdom to know its would be an immoral disaster for all involved and he had the integrity to make the right vote, even when the tide was going in the other direction. That's a leader--that's what we need.