From when I've talked to you, you were a strong advocate of your candidate but you were rational and cared beyond that.  Hillary has a great future, I am guessing she will be pushing through the Senate a Health Care Reform Bill that has mandated coverage.  She will be responsible for driving a progressive agenda.  (if she isn't veep).

As a former county chair for Edwards, getting to where you are going isn't easy.

Take care.

We oughtta go out for a jog; some cadences and a doubletime pace'll do me some good, I'm getting all pudgy around the midsection with this baby around.

Thanks for the diary.  Rec'd.

awesome diary and you earned a rec from the X man.

If it's any consolation, I've had to go through this process for every race I've been involved in, until now.

Welcome.

You have been rec'ed.  Be well.

You represent the vast majority of people who have voted for Hillary Clinton much more closely than some of the folks people around here think of as a typical Hillary supporter.

It's really not that complicated in a certain way.  If Hillary Clinton was important because of the issues she represents to you, Barack Obama is going to be light years closer to those issues than John McCain.  Genuinely.  

Not only that but we're talking about a real shot at electing an African American to the presidency.  It will be so great to elect a woman (my daughter, you'll see) but how can we let that distract us from what we can accomplish right now?  The White House itself was built primarily by the hands of black slaves.  That's how much we've changed.  In spite of how messed up we are, picture those slaves being given a vision of Barack Obama walking into that office as president.  What the hell could they even make of that from how they understood the world?

He's done it by being incredibly smart and talented and putting a lot of faith in the American people.  He doesn't talk down to people.  He does 'manipulate' people.  But he does it very overtly and with no subterfuge.  He's been saying, 'let's get inspired, let's fix things.'  That's pretty much it.  

People complain that he appeals too much to emotions.  But they all appeal to emotions, fear being one of the most common.  He appeals to emotions that relate to doing good work.  No kidding.  I've been in the room with him, I believe it because I know it.

I think it has been easy for Clinton supporters to misunderstand a lot of this because he's actually taking away something they wanted.  But we can definitely get what we need with him.

Anyway, nice diary.  Let's go change the world.

Peace.

Good stuff.

I spelled your user ID incorrectly while telling people in a different diary that hasn't made the rec list yet to come read this one.

I apologize for that but not for telling people to read this diary.

I find it a strange thing for a supposed Hillary supporter to be claiming an end in favor of the opposing candidate, when the election isn't over, their supposed preferred candidate now OFFICALLY has the maority popular vote and that's before Puerto Rico votes tomorrow and the Super Delegates decide who to endorse.

Yes, a strange thing.

But, you are I'm sure going to be happy when it is Hillary that takes back the White House in November.

Great diary.  Best point - all the new troops! We need to look to the future!

As a former Edwards supporter, it can be difficult to let go.  And I was likely no where near as emotionally invested in Edwards when he dropped out as you are given how early in the process he got knocked out.  Anyway, thanks for putting the country ahead of any ill will towards idiot anonymous internet posters.

Thank you, sir.  I already know how great a patriot you are (thanks to the writings of ragekage) and you have just show how good a person you are.  Hillary Clinton's public service is not done and with her help we will make this country great again with fully Democratic government in January.

Let's go out and have a few beers.  I'm buy'n.

It's time to start in on "Grampy" John Sidney McCain III

It's a good day.

"give me a hand and I'll climb aboard."

here's one...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2QZIuFPr To

Thank you so much for writing this. I am a Democrat but I'm not a Clinton or Obama partisan. I voted for one of them, but I like both for different reasons. Although people like me constitute a tiny minority of people who comment here, I think I'm part of the silent majority of Democrats who just want this 8 year Republican nightmare to end and not be renewed for another 4. Now my hope for this country absolutely depends on those that support Hillary and today watching an ugly but necessary compromise (compromises are like sausages, I should know better then to watch one being made), my heart was sinking as I saw the rage that resulted from the decision of the RBC.

I'm a gay man and I think about what it would mean to me if a highly qualified gay man or lesbian were to come so close to winning the presidency (and she would have won the GE in a cakewalk if she had won the nomination, but just my opinion) but ultimately not make it. My heart really goes out to you. Thank you so much.

I hope you will still support Hillary when she brings her case to Denver. We must uphold the integrity of the Democratic Party. Power corrupts and i realized that our party being power deprived for 14 years are becoming what we once despised them to be.

Superb diary - rec'd.

Rec'd. This is the way to do it.

You read my mind.

Recommended for a great personal diary. However personally I plan to support HRC till she decides otherwise and endorses Obama formally. I would also like to see Senator Obama making some moves to alleviate some of my concerns regarding his foreign, S&T and defense policies.

Thanks for putting your thoughts out there.

I may well be one of those Obamanauts who has gone too far at times, and if so I hope you can un-grudge me at some point.

One thing that happened for me this week is just that.  linfar had perviously been someone I grudged against, but then she posts a diary about endangered wolves and I find we have common ground.

It will be interesting to see who we all are without the extreme tensions.  I expect to be proved wrong again and find that some who I have wrestled (or knife-fought) with are - like linfar - good folks regardless.  Those that remain opposed to the direction of the party will break down into two groups - truly permanently upset Supporters of Sen. Clinton, and "Supporters".  It may not be possible to tell the two apart...

-best

-chris

The nastiness has come from both sides, unfortunately emotional over zealous supporters sometimes spew divisive hurtful comments, fortunately the candidates have not stooped to the level as some of their supporters.  Let us remember as both candidates have said, there is more uniting us than seperating us..even after this emotional roller coaster primary...we still have very similar goals and principles and know McCain does not represent them in the slightest.

Kudo's to you and all the others trying to bring us together.  

Reverend AL Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are race-bators. Would the honest and outspoken Barkley now include Obama in that category? If he was truly honest, observant and extremely brave the answer would be yes.

Every true sports fan respects a hard foul, but ending a player's career is a different story.

The Clintons have been thorouly and personally destroyed, mostly in the AA community.

Hillary wasn't fouled hard; she was thrown hard to the ground while going for a lay-up. She can expect zero support from the AA community in the future after a lifetime of supporting AA's and taking heat for doing so.

Every campaign plays hardball, but Clinton never went after Obama personally. Never said he will say or do anything, never said he is divisive. She went after him, quite mildly in my opinion, on experience and issues.

She has more votes with far less money. She looks, according to polls, like a much better general election candidate, but it won't matter. Obama has from the beginning put out the narrative that he hopes that the SD's don't overturn the "will of the people" (read: or me and my supporters will sit this one out or leave the party completely).

That and that alone will prevent the SD's from doing what they were always intended to do: choose the best candidate to run in the fall.

I don't know if the enormous anti-Republican wave will be big enough to put Obama in the Whitehouse, I only know that I will be watching the show from the sidelines. It will be like watching the Clippers versus the Timberwolves in the finals.

Have the morally and intellectually bankrupted and incompetent Republicans obscured the fact that the Democrats are nominating the least qualified candidate in its history?

Will the true and easy to document story of how two Democratic titans were personally trashed come out? You can count on it.

My political memories go all the way back to Harry Truman's 1948 campaign (I was only four years old, but my parents worked on his campaign), so I have a lot of perspective to draw on. Since I've been old enough to vote, I can count on two fingers the number of times I've seen my preferred candidate get the Democratic nomination - and those were Bill Clinton in 1996 and Al Gore in 2000. The difference this time is that, in past primaries, it usually became clear pretty early that my candidate wasn't going to make it, so I moved on fairly easily. The only other time I got as emotionally invested as this year was 1968 with Gene McCarthy. But this time Hillary got my heart and soul, and, by God, we came so close! I truly believe that our party is about the nominate the less qualified candidate - but believe me, folks, Obama is light years more qualified than McCain. I'm going to take some time to grieve, but, as soon as Hillary says it's over, I'll be writing my first check to Barack. See you on the metaphorical barricades!

"You'll have to indulge me one last perk though - the sig line stays until Hillary says it goes. Onward..."

No problem.That's fair enough.

Best of all, We dodged some  Bubba trouble - at least that's what Vanity Fair calls it.