I heard about Tim Russert's passing this afternoon as a radio person cried while I listened in my car. We lost a great voice of truth today. Meet the Press has become part of my Sunday habits in the past year, and now I wish I'd started watching earlier I would have been better informed.

I haven't been online much of today, but upon coming online tonight, didn't I know that the a#@holes over at HillaryIs44 would have a listing of negative Russert articles, while touting their restraint.

http://www.hillaryis44.org/?p=655

Anybody who continues to be associated with that site is below pond scum in my book.

Sorry for the short diary. Busy night, but I needed to vent a bit.

UPDATE: WHILE I RENOUNCE AND REJECT "HILLARYIS44" I JUST LOVE HARRIET CHRISTIAN. SOME FOLKS THINK MY S/N WAS HIJACKED. I ASSURE YOU ITS ME. I WANT TO ADOPT THE LADY! I AGREED WITH EVERY WORD SHE SAID!!!! BUT THAT WAS LAST WEEK! THIS IS THIS WEEK. SO NOW I SUPPORT BARRACK OBAMA, BECAUSE HE IS THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE. HE IS NOT MY CHOICE OF A NOMINEE. BUT HE IS OUR NOMINEE AND I WILL WORK TO SUPPORT HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Listen folks, Obama's policy's are 95 percent the same as Hillary's.  How could I not support him (even though I am pissed off)????

I have long defended the site "Hillaryis44" on MYDD.  While I admit their methods were "hardball" and the site was very negative towards Obama,  I assumed the methods of the site were "just politics."  I have donated to the site, and have sported "Hillaryis44" buttons and gave many to my friends.  Sadly, I now denounce and reject the site.  

It has become a "dead-enders" site and will attack anyone who tries to provide a reality check to them.

Please accept my apology for ever being involved in such a subversive website.  I am still praying for the dream ticket!!!   And I still love Hillary, but I will throw my full support behind our nominee!!!!!!!!!!!!!  

UPDATE...........SOME comments from Hillaryis44 about my decision:

dot48 Says:
June 8th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
sandy .. I'm resentful you'd post here and say you'll vote obama. Right now is a very hard time for us. could you just go away with your cheerleading for bambi. We are working to defeat him .. go find an Obama site to parade around on.

dot48 Says:
June 8th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
just don't talk about voting for bambi. we are trying to be sure he stays OUT of the WH. If you want to celebrate bambi go to his site.

dot48 Says:

June 8th, 2008 at 8:27 pm

sandy, for one thing .. he is the nominee unless something takes him out .. the DNC has already made sure of that. Hillary had her option of going to the convention blackmailed and shoved with threats of all sorts. She was shy 150 delegates .. yesterday 300 superdelegates bailed. So now she is about 450 delegates shy.

I hope scandal cripples him before the convention ..but I'm not holding my breath. Whoever had the tape has most likely been bought off.

basil9 Says:

June 8th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
Sandy,

We KNOW what she said and we also know what she DIDN'T say! We know what she meant by the look in her eyes, the tone of her voice, the poetry of her language, the subtlty of her gestures.

No one here needs you giving us a play-by-play of her speech.

Why don't you go over to Taylor Marsh's `new' site. They're very receptive to your message.

WE AREN'T!

curiosityhasme Says:

June 8th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
sandy1938:

In all due respect, although you have every right to your own opinion, our loyalty is so deep to HRC (allergic to koolaid) that we can in no way vote for the arm of the party that has resorted to blackmailing and distorting democracy. I dunno, perhaps the study that says biology dictates how you think and how you'll vote may be valid. There are supporters who can't divorce the treatment of almost eighteen million citizens by "our" partythe BHO camp or Big Media and intend to protest to the last dog dies.

If you feel differently, then - like the study says, it could be biological. Meanwhile, back at the ranch - this is not the sentiment that is an option to our cause, and that is why others have mentioned other pro-Obama sites. It is unrealistic for you to think your plans would be met with any other feeling but disdain.

In no way do the loyal HRC supporters intend to sit back and watch this site we respect and hold dear be overtaken as others have by BHO supporters. So, having blogged that, I have to agree that it is an afront to view "logic" that we do not subscribe to, as the sentiment here is that there is no logic that justifies support for BHO. NONE whatsoever. Sorry to be so blunt, but again, your intentions would be welcome many other places, but not here. Thank you for understanding that we will not be undermined in spirit

1950democrat Says:

June 8th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
sandy and others,

I will work twice as hard for McCain against an Obama/Clinton ticket than an Obama/anyone ticket.

The idea of Hilllary as Obama's VP is TOTALLY OBSCENELY OFFENSIVE. He abuses her, almost destroys her -- then she gets to IRON HIS SHIRT for four or eight years? After SHE gets him elected in November, which he could never do for himselfl!

She is 60. She has an excellent and comfortable career in the Senate, is in line for another Pres run in 2012 (or 2008 if the DNC come to its senses) -- and she's supposed to give up EIGHT YEARS to propping up her abuser? Effectively the rest of her active life!

Sorry but that is not the message I want to see given to our daughters.

Hillary has said she doesn't want VP but will take it if the party wants her to help him get elected. Some people are spinning that she WANTS it. I doubt that -- but even if she did, I'm not going to be a party to lettting her tie herself up as an enabler of her abuser. I'll fight that harder than any other Obama ticket.

moononpluto Says:

June 8th, 2008 at 9:38 pm

well that just about confirms you are a troll in to sew discontent. I won't lower myself to respond to your words now but suffice to say, we all know who the real hillary supporters are here. No one asked you to not voice your opinion but you are shouting, you are being disrespectful and now downright rude.

GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!!

You know what is really sad???????   I just love those women.  I felt like Hillaryis44 was a movement.  And this is how I was treated.  

But if you look in the comments section of my previous diary, I guess on this site, I am not allowed to support Harriet Christian either.  

I remember the days when Democrats were Democrats and we all could speak our mind!  Evidently those days are gone.  

Disclaimer: I want to say that I absolutely AM NOT making any comments about posters over here.  Not even the strongest Hillary supporters do what is being done at hillaryis44.

There was some talk in one of front page threads about hillaryis44 and, while I have been there before, I hadn't been since Tuesday.  I knew that they probably hadn't ended the campaign but I was also curious as to see how exactly they were reacting.  

I mean this as no knock on Hillary supporters: Those comments scare the daylights out of me.  

This isn't going to be a lengthy diary but I am wondering about the website Hillaryis44.org. Several friends of mine have pointed to how vicious and racist tone  of the comments  that are left on this website. I honestly believed that it was a anti-clinton website in disguise but when one of my friends tried to leave a "unity" message on the website it wasn't posted.  Does anyone know anything about this website? It seems pretty sophisticated and makes one wonder if some rogue person in the Clinton camp is running the website.

I think for the good of the party, Hillaryis44 should be condemned by us democrats.  

These are some of the comments on the website:

"Let's discuss politically Dumb White People and their embarrassing ways, Progressive Barack Obama Osama Bin Laden,"

"you are forgetting that he has NO clue about the real Black experience either. Anyone who has been to Hawaii knows it is the most multi-racial and tolerant place in America. As for the Black experience, he lied about the drugs in his book and went to the church so people would seem him as Black enough

i support hillary... but i support mccain if obama is nomineee.

Ok...I also will be supporting McCain if BO is the nominee!

it's really simple why I don't support Obama.

"He is a proven liar, manipulator, and outsourcer. He wants to throw almost 1 Triilion dollars in Africa for goodness sake, even while we still have people in the USA who are uninsured, impoverished, jobless, and struggling."

"I will never vote for a black man."

THIS HAS GOT TO STOP.

Since we've had a few blogs decrying Obama supporters, and their supposed characteristics of rabid attacking, ignorance, cultism, and the like, I thought we'd take a journey to a deep, dark place-

Hillaryis44.org.

There is no Obama equal to this site- it is almost universally derided in the blogosphere, outside of places like Taylormarsh.com, and occasionally this very site indeed. Spend some time on places like FARK.com, for instance, and you can see this in full force. It was my first view of Clinton supporters; an unpleasant one, to say the least.

Now I've found sites like MyDD, and I know these people truly are in the minority. That being said, I've yet to see anyone act in this manner, even on the "great orange devil," Kos. If I e ver saw an Obama supporter act in such a manner, I would be over them so fast they wouldn't know what hit them. Being passionate is one thing... being stupid is another.