So, does this mean that we can all STOP bashing each other over the head?

[MrScorpio]

I hope so

I'm sick of all the backbiting.

I'm sick of all the B.S. of who said what and what means what.

This shit is over.

We're a family, and I really, really, REALLY HATE family infighting.

Yes, I jumped on the Obama train after Edwards dropped out. But I didn't wish ill will towards Clinton, despite all the hub-bub and crap that came out of all the campaigns.

I knew that it's all POLITICS and in the end NONE OF IT really matters.

All I cared about was that we didn't hamstring ourselves bad enough to lose in November with WHOMEVER leading OUR TICKET.

So, please. Get it out of your system if you think that you need to continue this in-fight.

It won't help us in November.

[The Magistrate]

1. It Certainly Does, Sir

By next Wednesday, people will be expected to have all this out of their systems.

Support for the nominee will be expected, and criticism of any Democrat must be constructive, and cannot be a smear or slur.

[SeaLyons]

41. so are you saying that

Hillary bashing will not be permitted?

[The Magistrate]

47. Here Are The Rules Of The Forum On The Subject, Sir

With the primary, and the cooling off period here, at an end, they will be enforced as they have always been,

Democratic Candidates and the Democratic Party

Constructive criticism of Democrats or the Democratic Party is permitted. When doing so, please keep in mind that most of our members come to this website in order to get a break from the constant attacks in the media against our candidates and our values. Highly inflammatory or divisive attacks that echo the tone or substance of our political opponents are not welcome here.

You are not permitted to use this message board to work for the defeat of the Democratic Party nominee for any political office. If you wish to work for the defeat of any Democratic candidate in any General Election, then you are welcome to use someone else's bandwidth on some other website.

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Do not post broad-brush smears against Democrats or the Democratic Party.

[dorktv]

2. I posted a thread celebrating our historic turnout.

I got one response so far.

People enjoy being negative, enough to ruin my hopes for the future.

[PoliticalAmazon]

3. Hillary continues to be a potential stealer of the election....

Approching an election theif with kumbaya is a failing strategy.

When she stops producing things to criticize, the criticism will stop.

Until then, we must do what we can to get rid of her so we can win in November.

[dorktv]

7. This is what I mean Mr.Scorpio.

[PoliticalAmazon]

8. It's "Ms. Amazon." Be accurate on that, if you can't be accurate on anything else. n/t

[dorktv]

9. I was not talking to you PA.

[PoliticalAmazon]

10. It appears that you are responding to my post. No problem. I've ....

been inspired by a totally unrelated post and vented myself. No harm, no foul.

[dorktv]

12. No, actually I was using your post to illustrate a point to Mr. Scorpio.

About how negative people are STILL being. I mean this should be a time to celebrate for the Senator Obama supporters (even if I may not agree with them, and NO I am NOT a Senator Clinton supporter) but it is endless hate filled posts against Senator Clinton.

We had record turnout, donations, volunteers (and picked up three special elections) and yet...nothing but hate tonight.

[PoliticalAmazon]

14. IMO, that's going to be how it goes until we get rid of Hillary....

She's like a piece of dirty toiletpaper stuck to our shoe. We have to find the strategy to get rid of her.

Until we have gotten rid of Hillary--and her attempt to steal the primary--we cannot move on to a positive level.

I also wish we could bask in the poistive aura of Obama. But we can't until we get rid fo Hillary.

[dorktv]

15. Oh I disagree with that but you would not listen. So why bother?

[PoliticalAmazon]

17. I will not listen because my decades of political activism in the Democratic Party...

tells me differently.

I learned this from my activist mother: study the patterns of politicians, and you can predict how they will react to a new situation.

I have studied Hillary's patterns--for going on 2 decades now. Have you?

[dorktv]

19. No because I am not even thirty yet. However I am not stupid. Nor do I feel the need

to spew such hatred.

[PoliticalAmazon]

22. You've not experienced the assassination of a valued political leader....

How precious you are.

[The Magistrate]

23. Do You Expect Someone To Be Assassinated, Ma'am?

[Name removed]

24. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[The Magistrate]

27. Nonesense, Ma'am: You Have Raised It Here, And So Are Open To The Same Charge Yourself

Neither Sen. Clinton, nor anyone in her campaign, said anything that remotely suggested even a hope for assassination, let alone an expectation of or planning towards one. She mentioned a common historical marker, indicating how late in the season primaries had been contested in the past. The real weakness of the statement as an illustration was two-fold: first, that the balloting began much later in '68, and second, that Sen. Kennedy even with the win in California was not really positioned to come close to winning without a tremendous floor fight in Chicago.

[PoliticalAmazon]

29. It's Hillary's legacy. She brought it up. It's her's to own.....

Nice try at deflecting it to me, though.

[The Magistrate]

32. You Set The Standard, Ma'am, And Must Live By Your Own Judgements Of Others

If you feel the mere mention of a thing equals hoping for its occurance, or expecting it or planning for it, you cannot apply that only to others, but must shoulder the burden yourself as well.

So please bear with my repeating of the question you have glaringly failed to answer: are you expecting anyone to be assassinated before the Demver convention?

[PoliticalAmazon]

34. Oh, blow me. Hillary set the standard, a standard lower than Bush/Rove...

you're cloying sycophantry to Hillary is noted, and it is disgusting and repulsive.

[The Magistrate]

36. That Would Be A Little Difficult Physically, Ma'am, And Hardly Constitutes An Arguement

Indeed, it cannot even be taken seriously as abuse....

[PoliticalAmazon]

37. Unfortunately, male terms are the most evocative of challenge...

If I said "Massage my ovaries" it wouldn't quite have the same impact, would it?

So take "blow me" how it is intended...an aggressive dismissal of an inferior opponent.

[The Magistrate]

38. You Think That Had An Impact, Ma'am, And Established Your Superiority?

"The mind wobbles...."

[PoliticalAmazon]

40. You know, all puffed up like that, you're kinda' cute....

and I wouldn't worry about the mind wobbliness. Many of our geriatric population experiences some wobbling of the mind. I think it adds to your air of mystery and debonairiness.

[Marrah_G]

44. Magistrate:

How is it that you can even make arguing with invisible people entertaining? This sub-thread (or the half I can see of it) has me giggling and my asst is looking at me oddly.

[The Magistrate]

46. Thank You, Ma'am: The Person Seems To Think That Her Saying 'Blow Me' Establishes Her As My Superior

It does, of course, bring an end to any serious engagement in argument, for it is a simultaneous confession of intellectual bankruptcy and declaration of surrender when anyone breaks into such ludicrous postures....

[dorktv]

30. And the irony is that the person who got the nom that year never even won a primary.

how is that for annoying?

[dorktv]

26. *sighs* This is so over the top it makes Dorothy want to come home.

[MrScorpio]

16. Please, I don't need any of that crap

I hope that you can let it go

[dorktv]

20. Have a beer dear...

:beer:

I swear, I am getting weird in my old age of 28.

[murielm99]

39. Mr Scorpio, I am a Clinton supporter, but I am happy to

celebrate with you tonight, because I am a Democrat.

This is an historic occasion for us.

[The Magistrate]

13. There Is No Potential, Ma'am, For Sen. Clinton To 'Steal' The Election

The dangerous thing about arguing by hyperbole is that people come to forget they are employing a rhetorical device, and come to mistake their own exaggerations for effect for flat statements of fact.

The at large delegates committed to Sen. Obama are not going to change their minds. Even if a sufficient number of them should, that would not be 'stealing', that would be the professional judgement of professional politicians concerning what was best for the Party, acting not only within Party rules, but fulfilling the role their Party office was designed to perform.

Vitriol directed at 'getting rid of' Sen. Clinton now will do great harm to the Party's prospects in November. Remember that roughly half the Party rank and file voted for each of these two candidates: deliberating alienating supporters of either is hardly a wise course at this point. Politics is a game of addition, not subtraction.

[dorktv]

18. Kudos to you for being so cool. Have a beer on me

:beer: Well if you drink that is.

[blogslut]

4. There will be a wind down period

As is evidenced by a quick perusal of the topics on GD-P

[Arrowhead2k1]

5. As long as I keep hearing DENVER! DENVER! DENVER!

No.

[PoliticalAmazon]

11. Thank you. n/t

[tyedyeto]

6. There's a week of bashing left as per Skinner's thread today n/t

[cboy4]

21. MrScorpio, do you see how vicious the Obama supporters

are in victory?

This is the equivalent of Red Sox fans burning down Boston after their World Series victory over the Rockies last fall.

It's astonishing.

I guess we can all be thankful Obama didn't lose, because most likely .. DU supporters would be out carjacking people and smashing store windows. :scared:

[MrScorpio]

25. I wish is for all sides to stop this crap

Bad is bad

[The Magistrate]

28. You Are Not Alone In That Wish, Sir

It is the majority sentiment among members of this forum, as well as within the Democratic Party itself.

[SeaLyons]

43. seems odd that the ones bashing....

are the ones that should be jubilant today.

[dorktv]

31. I second Mr. Scorpio.

[cboy4]

33. I know....it's like the effing twilight zone around here.

The Obama kids finally get to open their presents, and then bitch they didn't get as many gifts as they asked for.

And of course, it's all Hillary's fault.

[dorktv]

35. seems the tide is dying down though. That is good.

[Marrah_G]

42. Not only can we, but hopefully we actually will!

[vaberella]

45. Agreed...the focus should be all around November and winning the House

nothing else.