You sound bitter.

I don't endorse the boos. And please note, they were corrected, and followed by cheers.

But I also think you're being inconsistent.

Hillary can keep campaigning as long as she wants. But as long as she *is* campaigning, you can't really ask Obama supporters to turn the other cheek, or act as though the race is over. When she withdraws, we'll stop grumbling about her.

As the Clinton campaign has become less negative, the volume of grumbling on TPM has gone down. On the rec list, I see only two posts that are hostile to Hillary. That number used to run in the range of 6-8.

So basically you're saying you would stay home out of spite because you don't like what some Obama supporters are saying?

What a great way to show your support for all that Clinton and Obama BOTH want for the country in the future.

You'd be willing to screw us all, including yourself, because you want the satisfaction of sticking it to a minority of Obama supporters. And I assure you they are a minority.

Aren't we, as rational adults, supposed to base our vote on the candidate? This is just more guilt by association.

Please stop acting so childish. I understand the disappointment of backing your candidate so fiercely and seeing her lose. But honestly, take some time to heal the impact of the loss. Then let's move ahead and do what's best for the nation.

No, no, no. Cherry, this is not the way to go. Do not allow those bitter, pathetic "winners" to dictate what you do in the future. They are not all like those who booed. They are not all like "sean669." Ignore them or mock them (something I occasionally like to do!;^}) but in November, you know as well as I it is more important to elect Obama over McCain. This is bigger than those classless Obama supporters. Most are not like that. Most are like Ben Hocking. This is good. Be above it all. Move on. Prepare for the fall and be happy and proud when we elect Barack Obama!

Hang in there. This pettiness will pass soon enough.

Cheers.

I understand where you're coming from. I did not like seeing Clinton lead her followers in booing Obama at her rallies, but that was just the nature of the game at the time. Now that the race is (almost, very nearly?) over, things are different, and it's time to act like gracious winners. I was pretty surprised to see those people still booing Clinton when Edwards was bending over backwards to be conciliatory.

I thought it was sort of creepy and embarrassing when Hillary got booed yesterday, but you've got to allow people the opportunity to let off a little steam every once in awhile. Many of us are heavily invested in Obama's campaign, and the only thing standing between us and a nominee is the hopelessly stubborn Senator Clinton. She's costing us time and money, and she's hurting the party. And it's really hard to listen to her talk about how "the people of West Virginia want this race to continue" when none of us really gives a shit what a bunch of 80-year-old inbred hillbillies want. (Don't worry--there isn't a single computer in West Virginia, so I'm not offending anyone by saying that.)

Hillary is in the way. She's holding up the race against John McCain, and she's hurting our chances to keep him out of the White House. Threats like yours only prove what a destructive force she's become. She has no chance of securing the nomination, she knows it, and she doesn't care, and neither do you. She's the princess, and the princess always gets what she wants. And she's convinced her supporters to join her on her suicide mission to hell.

Think about it: THREE of the candidates who were running against Obama have now endorsed him. None have endorsed Hillary. The last Democratic nominee for president has endorsed Obama. Ted Kennedy, the lion of the Democratic Party, has come out and endorsed him. NARAL has endorsed him. Take a look at this list:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Barack_Obama_presidential_campaign_endorsements

The list is a mile long, and it completely eclipses Hillary's list--in both length and in substantive endorsements. Every major newspaper and television network has called the race for Obama. Even Hillary's staff is admitting that her chances are close to impossible. It's completely and utterly over, and still Hillary presses on with that phony smile pasted to her face and her claim that she will be the nominatee endlessly repeating from her yap. And it ain't gonna happen.

And you sit there and, like a spoiled child having a tantrum, threaten that you'll withhold your vote if you don't get your way? Grow the hell up, kiddo. What you're contemplating is suicide. If John McCain gets into the White House, he'll make the Bush years look like a fucking church picnic. Grow the hell up, and get with the program. Hillary fought hard, but it's over. It's time to remind yourself that you're a Democrat.

I wish those had been "partisan boos" but I am afraid they came from the heart of most of the boo-ers.

More evidence that it has been Hillary's supporters and thier arrogant assumption of victory, followed by her campaign's willingness to play the race card along with the kitchen cink, that made so many Obama supporters skeptical.

Now that the former underdogs have prevailed, and the overdogs are subdued, they whimper like victims, so quickly forgetting their own willful ways back when they assumed Hillary was inevitable.

Again, I wish those HAD been political partisan boos. They were more than that.

I can empathize with you and I understand what you're feeling. Supporters on both sides have lost sight of what our purpose is, to change the direction in which this country is going.

There are few times in the history of this country ( or any country) when most of the people apprehend the danger and are willing to act. This election is profoundly important to this country, some people recognize it vaguely, some people see it clearly but what is important is that we act as democrats to provide the people with the best leadership we can to regain our country for all people.

The democratic party is the best hope we have to halt the damage and repair what we can and change the direction from self-destruction to a constructive, hopeful future. It isn't a perfect party, no party is, but this is the system we have chosen and we must set aside the bitter partisanship, think beyond this convention and do our best for the good of the nation.

We cannot continue on the path we have been on for the last eight years, if we do we will destroy ourselves - we must, must, look to the future to salvage whatever is left of our dignity and move forward, because if we don't, our children and their children are doomed. I truly believe that our only way out of this immoral swamp we've been dwelling in is to help the democratic party pull us out of it.

It doesn't matter what either candidate's supporters are saying and doing now, I find you can tolerate just about anything if you know there will be an end to it - and there will be, this is not important, what is important is our future and what we can do to make it better for the next generation and that is why I am voting democratic. Ask yourself where you want this country to be four years from now and don't dwell on where you are now.

The booing wasn't pretty, but neither has been Hillary's campaign of late. She has wholly brought such feelings on herself.

I had felt no animosity toward her, and in fact, had seriously considered voting for her awhile back. Her ugly campaign tactics since the Texas and Ohio primaries have changed all that.

Vote for Obama in November. Who cares what we clowns on TPM say in the heat of passionate debate. If McCain gets in office because people are mad at Obama supporters, everyone loses. Obama supporters, Clinton supporters, and ironically the majority of McCain supporters who do not even realize how they've been screwed by Bush will suffer from putting another republican administration at the helm.

The hate will stop once Hillary stops stabbing Obama in the back. Its kind of hard to hold the hand of someone who still has a knife in the other hand.