Party unity, Obama style!

[uberblonde]

From someone who was at Clinton's speech in NY last night:

http://www.correntewire.com/scenes_from_hillarys_rally_this_evening

Most people stayed after the speech was over and a little while later staff came in and started setting up a rope line and someone tested the microphone — I was exhausted, but I was definitely staying. At some point everyone crowded up to the rope even though Hillary had yet to be sighted. I did notice, however, that a couple of the girls who had cheered for Obama had managed to push their way right up to the front. I was standing about 4 or 5 people back. Finally both Hillary and Chelsea show up. I managed to get a few pictures — a couple of good ones of Chelsea, but the ones of Hillary are pretty blurry.

After the initial cheers subsided a bit, the two of them started shaking hands and posing for photos. That’s when the Obamabots who were standing directly in front of Hillary started chanting “Obama! Obama!” Hillary looked momentarily taken aback, but then kept going. The rest of us started chanting “Hillary! Hillary!” to try to down them out but I think most of us were taken aback as well. It’s also kind of difficult to sustain shouting at the top of your lungs when there’s a person standing three feet in front of you — especially when that person is Hillary Clinton and you’re shouting her name. So that died down, which is about when the group of them shouted “Concede, you liar! Concede!”

Wow. Just wow.

What would make a person stand in line for over two hours, then sit in an auditorium doing a whole lot of nothing waiting to hear a speech, then watch that speech surrounded by hundreds of cheering supporters of a candidate you are openly hostile towards, then sit around for another 45 minutes just so you can have an opportunity to hurl insults directly to a person’s face? What would make someone throw away almost four hours of their lives for such a purpose? Party unity?

Um, I believe the phrase you're groping for is "spoiled brats." I could be wrong, of course, but it seems close enough.

[YOY]

1. You have one week.

n/t

[busymom]

2. How sad.

Really...that just makes me feel sad.

[Windy]

3. sounds like a hit piece to me. If she had a camera, where is her evidence. I don't buy it! n/t

[leftofcool]

4. Well supporters are usually reflective of the candidate

[SemiCharmedQuark]

23. You're saying that after the circus on Saturday?

[anonymous171]

26. lol Harriet Christian.

[LakeSamish706]

5. I certainly agree with you on that... Absolutely no need for something like ...

that to have taken place. Those two should have been escorted out imediately....

[stevietheman]

6. Enough. n/t

n/t

[Spider Jerusalem]

7. Party unity, Clinton style:

Obama clinches the nomination, Hillary gives a VICTORY SPEECH.

Their actions may have been uncalled-for, but I can't say I disagree with the sentiment.

[patrice]

8. Where are the pictures? nt

[tyne]

9. They'll release the pictures of this

along with Michelle's "Whitey" tape.

*yawn*

[patrice]

25. Lionel on AAR was saying this a.m. that that's going to turn out to be "Why'd he __________?"

BUT if there is footage of Michelle on a stage with Louis Farrakahn and LF is getting an award, that will be something that could be a problem.

[alcibiades_mystery]

10. "Denver! Denver! Denver!"

Hillary supporters are a laughingstock.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

12. Don't they know that Bob Denver died two years ago?

Sheesh!

[alcibiades_mystery]

13. Take Me Home Country Roads...

Wrong Denver...

;-)

[aquart]

14. Vicious in Victory, the hallmark of the Obama campaign.

[alcibiades_mystery]

16. The King of Melodrama speaks

Wax eloquent, baby. G'head now.

:rofl:

[VolcanoJen]

17. He was gracious toward Senator Clinton, as was everyone in the XCel Center last night.

You know that. Stop pretending like you don't.

[XtraProudDem]

18. Goodbye

See ya.

[Window]

20. Detestable, still, in defeat and denial.

[Yes We Did]

11. She was lying. Plain. And. Simple.

Getting introduced as the next potus when she already knew that Obama had wrapped up the nomination?

Are you kidding me?

Enjoy your week. This "Obamabot" is going to love it when you can't say any more b.s. about us or our candidate.

[Bake]

27. We can't say shit about your candidate (actually OUR candidate, now)

But that doesn't mean YOU get a free pass ... just sayin'. The rules are no bashing DEMOCRATS. So you've got a week to gloat, then that has to end as well.

Bake

[VolcanoJen]

15. And here's another account from someone who was there last night.

http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/06/04/in-the-clinton-bunker.aspx

How fitting that, on the night Barack Obama finally claimed the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton delivered her non-concession speech from a concrete bunker. To reach the Baruch College gymnasium where Hillary spoke with such surprising defiance her supporters had to descend two flights below street level. The thick subterranean walls blocked out cell phone and BlackBerry signals, and no televisions were provided in the main event hall, thereby insulating Hillary’s cheering supporters (intentionally, some theorized) from the dispiriting events unfolding at the Xcel Center in Minneapolis.

In the bunker there exists a different reality. In the bunker, Hillary is the winner: of the popular vote, of a series of big swing states, of the authentic American vote. In the bunker, Hillary is introduced by the indefatiguable Terry McAuliffe as "the next President of the United States!" When asked about the reality outside the bunker—that Obama supporters were in a minor rage over Hillary’s speech-- McAuliffe looked at me incredulously. “Tonight was Hillary’s night!” he exclaimed. “We won tonight! We won in South Dakota! We keep winning!”

And so Hillary is embarking on yet another listening tour. She is asking her determined followers—like the one here wearing a “REAL MEN vote Hillary” pin—what she should do next. The kabuki listening tour is a hoary old Clinton device. When Bill Clinton ran for re-election as governor in 1990, he promised Arkansans not to run for president before his term had ended. Two years later, he was touring the state, asking for their “permission” to break his pledge. As luck would have it, Bill got the answer he was looking for.

And so will Hillary. Attending an event like tonight’s helps to explain how Hillary carries on in the face of it all. She spends her days surrounded by people who believe in her passionately--who "grab my hand or grip my arm, to look me in my eyes and tell me, don’t quit, keep fighting," as she put it in a campaign email tonight--and all the moreso the more hopeless her cause seems. These people will undoubtedly tell her to carry on. That much was clear from the chant of “Denver! Denver!” which came up tonight, and which drew no strong rebuke.

<snip>

Who knows when that time will come. In the press filing center tonight the weary hacks, bathed in a grim fluorescent glare, gathered round a pair of giant TV screens and watched as Obama declared himself the Democratic nominee. After that historical moment, I strolled back into the hall where Hillary had just spoken. She and Bill were still there, working the crowd, with perhaps a couple hundred committed supporters jostling to shake their hands, give them gifts, urge her not to quit. Over the PA system blared a song with the refrain, “this is our country, this is our country.” Down in the bunker, it always will be.

[Window]

21. ..

:thumbsup:

[Terran]

19. If this actually happened...

it was, at best, rude.

[Seabiscuit]

22. Pretty well describes the "spoiled brat" behavior of the Obmanoids in this forum. n/t

[helderheid]

24. Reminds me of all the times Clinton supporters did the same at Obama rallies. Classless no matter

who is doing it.