The distant clacking of anonymous keyboards
The Hillary supporters who are bent out of shape about comments by anonymous posters on a political blog are just looking for excuses not to support Obama. Why humor them? The ones who go around posting inflammatory comments, then whining and pouting about how the Obama supporters on this site better treat them nicely or else they won't vote for Obama, aren't serious about the latter or else they wouldn't still be doing the former.
Some of you are trying very hard to treat them with kid gloves. But they just go seek out others from whom they can provoke abuse, and they'll always be able to provoke the response that they're trying so hard to provoke. And your sympathy (those of you who are treating them with kid gloves) only reinforces that behavior by validating the view that all those mean, mean people on those distant keyboards are keeping the Hillary supporters with hurt feelings from being able to support Obama.
It's bullshit. Posting inflammatory things in some threads to provoke the very responses that in other threads they say is keeping them from supporting Obama, is nothing but a bullshit game.
I wish them well. Some will go support McCain (or maybe Barr) because, like Lieberman, they think an aggressive foreign policy is more important than pretty much everything else. Others may go to Nader, to express support for progressive causes. Or they may write-in Hillary or vote for McCain simply as a form of protest.
I wish them well in whatever candidate they decide they like better than Obama. If, in the end, they decide to vote for Obama that's even better, but I wish them well in whatever direction they choose.
I just refuse to participate in their pretense that their decision will depend on the distant clacking of anonymous keyboards that provide the response they work so hard to provoke. That's just stupid.
Some of you are trying very hard to treat them with kid gloves. But they just go seek out others from whom they can provoke abuse, and they'll always be able to provoke the response that they're trying so hard to provoke. And your sympathy (those of you who are treating them with kid gloves) only reinforces that behavior by validating the view that all those mean, mean people on those distant keyboards are keeping the Hillary supporters with hurt feelings from being able to support Obama.
It's bullshit. Posting inflammatory things in some threads to provoke the very responses that in other threads they say is keeping them from supporting Obama, is nothing but a bullshit game.
I wish them well. Some will go support McCain (or maybe Barr) because, like Lieberman, they think an aggressive foreign policy is more important than pretty much everything else. Others may go to Nader, to express support for progressive causes. Or they may write-in Hillary or vote for McCain simply as a form of protest.
I wish them well in whatever candidate they decide they like better than Obama. If, in the end, they decide to vote for Obama that's even better, but I wish them well in whatever direction they choose.
I just refuse to participate in their pretense that their decision will depend on the distant clacking of anonymous keyboards that provide the response they work so hard to provoke. That's just stupid.
