If Barack Obama loses this election, Bill and Hillary Clinton will share a large chunk of the blame. Hillary drug her campaign out too long; when we finally got through the last primary she didn't want to concede. She reamed Obama for 15 months, giving the Republicans great video for the attack ads they are now running.
Some Clinton supporters, women in particular (and I was a Clinton supporter myself after Biden dropped out), got too emotionally involved in the process and they are now unable or unwilling to turn into Obama supporters. Bill inexplicably turned from one of the best orators in the Democratic Party into something of a whiner (although I do think that he was unfairly critized and taken out of context at times). Both of them carried around a sense of entitlement to this nomination. Now they're more or less forcing Obama to give them too much time in his nominating convention. What is this about negotiations regarding when and how Hillary is going to tell her supporters to get over it and vote for Obama? I can't ever recall in history that one of the losers in the primary got this much consideration in the convention.
I find it funny that these voters who are threatening to vote for McCain are citing how "badly" Obama treated Clinton during the primary. Huh??? From what I understand she didn't want to be vetted and told him so. But frankly, why would he put her on the VP short list when she went after him like a dog goes after steak, stayed in the race until long after she had a reasonable chance of winning, refused to concede until forced to, and then demanded a large role in the convention, complete with putting her name into nomination?
Of course people are free to vote for whoever they want. But I find it unlikely that someone who calls themself a Democrat would want to vote for a pro-life, pro-war misogynist like McCain. Voting for him just for revenge for imagined wrongs is... well -- just wrong.
