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Nicely contrived treatise as to why Hillary supporters should vote for Obama and not McCain. Too bad you're premise and conclusion are miles off base. Aside from that same tired and meaningless (if not simplistic and technically arguable) position of "she backed the war", you explain your ardent support for Obama with one word: "inspiring." To you perhaps, but not to others, and that's the inherit problem with you Obamanots. You're so enraptured by the profound emotional attachment that you feel for this "guy" that, like a recent religious convert, you condescendingly suggest that Hillary supporters just haven't been "saved" but that they should none the less rid themselves of their own feelings, though not of the same religious intensity and validity as yours. The vitriol demonstrated by the "Hate the Clintons Brigade" was too strong and too damagi9ng for the majority of Hillary supporters to get past. Certainly, they will not all vote for McCain and thereby ACTIVELY support an unthinkable consequence. No, they will simply do what most African Americans, new young voters and true and blue Obama acolytes would certainly do; they will stay home. They will not be part of what they construe as a "fixed and underhanded process." They will not "hold their noses" and vote for a candidate that was hand-picked and wholeheartedly shoved down their collective throats by Ted Kennedy, Oprah and a throng of anti- Clinton people. They will not be coerced by your attempt to affix guilt on them because of their inactivity allegedly helping John McCain. They will instead be focused on the stark fact that this anointed candidate, this "child of destiny", this media choice, this light-weight fraudulent unknown with a sordid Chicago/Daly past and a group of long time close associates that should make us all shudder, was in fact the willing recipient of a "stolen election", and not unlike a person who sees two unsavory characters fighting to the death; they will not butt-in!
