HRC & DNC to anti-Obama Democrats: It's time to shift or get off the pot

mloutre

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Sat Jul-19-08 04:51 PM
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HRC & DNC to anti-Obama Democrats: It's time to shift or get off the pot

Edited on Sat Jul-19-08 05:49 PM by mloutre

First of all, Senator Hillary Clinton has made her own feelings on this matter crystal clear:

HILLARY CLINTON DOESN'T SUPPORT ANY EFFORT THAT DOESN'T RALLY FOLKS BEHIND BARACK OBAMA.

She has personally rejected and denounced any position that doesn't include full support for Senator Obama, folks.

And she has had her spokespeople make this point in no uncertain terms, per their response to this Huffington Post article about one of her most obstreperous anti-Obama former Hillraisers:

A spokesperson for Sen. Clinton implicitly distanced the candidate from Lieberman's effort, telling the Huffington Post:

"Senator Clinton fully supports Senator Obama. She continues to urge all of her supporters to get behind him.

"She continues to do everything she can to rally folks behind him.

"We don't support any effort that doesn't."

And then again, there's also the Democratic National Committee -- which, granted, doesn't always speak to the same group of people who ardently supported Senator Clinton and are threatening to sabotage Senator Obama's campaign by way of demonstrating their frustration, ahem -- which, by way of demonstrating its own frustratiion, sent out this email blast (as cited by http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/07/top_democratic_official_sends.php">Greg Sargent on TPM):

In a sign that senior Democratic officials remain deeply concerned that post-primary bitterness could imperil Barack Obama's chances, two top Democratic officials have emailed a sharply-worded letter to major donors and other leading Dems confessing "fatigue and irritation" at those withholding full support from Obama and demanding that they get behind him "without conditions or demands."

"I supported Hillary Clinton and am proud and pleased that I did," reads the email, which was written by Donald Fowler, a former DNC chair and DNC member-at-large who was one of Hillary's most prominent supporters. Alice Germond, the Secretary of the DNC, is also a signatory.

"But she lost," continues the email, which was sent our way by a source. "Barack Obama won. It's over."

"It is time for all Democrats, supporters of Senator Clinton and all other contenders for the nomination, to stand with him to secure his election and the election of Democrats at all levels of competition," the email continues.

The email also laces sharply into Hillary supporters who remain embittered by the primary and are demanding things in exchange for their support.

"I must confess a bit of fatigue and irritation with people who continue to carp, complain, and criticize the results of the primary and lay down conditions for their support," it reads.

"It is time to act in a mature and resourceful fashion. It's time to put the primaries behind us. It's time to support Barack Obama without conditions or demands."

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Bottom line?

We have us a Democratic nominee for president in 2008, his name is Barack Obama, and no matter who else some of us might have wished had gotten the gig instead, he's our guy now and he's a hundred times better than any Republican we can think of no matter what.

OUR COUNTRY CANNOT AFFORD ANOTHER REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT. PERIOD. FULL STOP.

It's time to shift gears, folks. It's just like with a car -- to go forward, you have to put in D. To go backwards, you just leave it in R instead.

So let's all get off our online asterisks here, hold whatever appendages some few of us might have to hold in order to do it, put our real boots on the real ground for the next 15 weeks, and *all* of us work together to put a real live Democrat in the White House this time around, okay?

k thx bai y'all,
M. Loutre