Letters to the Editor
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Are you kidding me?
I'm at a lost for words. The irony and Orwellian aspects of this statement is overwhelming.
The mere support of Clinton is portrayed with derisiveness and contempt by Obama supporters. As if we all weren't railing against the same flagrant abusives by Bush and the republicans together, and now Clinton has been conflated to this level by people like Kos, Olbermann and his supporters.
And fyi, in this post, I am generalizing my portrayal of Obama supporters. This generalization is based on the thousands of posts I've read from Obama supporters on dozens of sites and my key impressions of them as a whole. However I realize that this is not true of all.
The ideology of this movement is no better than the right wing, and the language and hyperbole that is used by these hypersensitive Obama supporters undermines their ability to think rationally.
Hillary never claimed the moral high ground, and yet Obama's campaign has been just as sexist as she has been racist (coded language). His surrogates have been horrible, just like hers at a certain point. His words have been divisive and negative (how else did he knock her off as frontrunner? He constantly questioned her principles and ethics) as hers has been. And yet there are different rules for him.
The divisiveness has come from the projections of ideological insecurities from Obama supporters. "She's" not saying the right words that hit us in the gut, therefore she is Bush-lite. Leaping logic and jumping to conclusions is the type of emotional knee-jerk reactions that got the right-wing into trouble. And now that slippery slope has begun for us.
Obama started off in 2007 saying that she was too "divisive" and that she generally "lacked the principles" to build consensus like he did. His supporters are now seeing what they want to see and draw that conclusion in whatever happens.
How is this a campaign of hope? How is this a campaign of building people together? The people that are most drawn to his "hopeful" message are also the most judgmental and sensitive supporters. See the irony?
Obama supporters think Obama is better, more ethical, and just so great. And anyone else is just not acceptable and is just "attacking" Obama. But he doesn't attack, nope. It's delusional thinking. And everybody needs to calm down.