The horror! Mmmmm....popcorn!
Posted on 03/17/2008 5:37:36 AM PDT by IrishMike
For months, Democrats were just thrilled with their choices. Now they can't even stand to sit together.
For the past five years, a group of friends, mostly military wives or retired government workers, have been meeting for lunch at an Italian restaurant called Amici's in a strip mall in Stafford, Va. All Democrats, they don't come just for the wood-fired pizza or $8.99 lunch buffet. They come to talk about their beloved party. But lately, the air has chilled in the Tuscan-themed room.
At the lunch after Clinton's loss in Virginia, Alicia Knight, 49, a Hillary supporter, came in late. The only spare chair was between two Obama supporters, both old friends of Knight's. "I was so angry, I didn't want to sit between them, so I sat by myself at another table," she says. "It's become like the cold war: in order to maintain the relationship, you don't talk to each other." Recently, the Clinton and Obama groups began lunching separately. "We couldn't take the bashing, the smirkiness of the Obama fans," says Linda Berkoff, 63.
It's unclear exactly when the primaries stopped being a joyous occasion for the Democrats. But as the weeks have ground on, the intensity between Democrats who disagree has calcified, the vitriol grown fiercer. According to exit polling in the Texas primary, 91 percent of Clinton supporters said they would be dissatisfied with Obama as the nominee; 87 percent of Obama fans said they would be dissatisfied with Clinton. Nationally, a quarter of those who back Clinton say they'd vote for John McCain if Obama won the nomination (while just 10 percent of Obama supporters would do the same if he lost).
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Ain’t that a shame!
The horror! Mmmmm....popcorn!
Oh my, this is just too fun. Now if we had a real candidate (sigh)
“For many Democrats, what started out as a glowing opportunity for a historic presidency has become a depressing display of division and anger trumping reason.”
HAS BECOME??? Only in the world of libtards.... can’t see the forest for the trees. Their whole world revolves around anger trumping reason, something they can’t comprehend.
LMAO
So they will be "dissatisfied" with Hillary but unwilling to vote for McCain. Who are they going to vote for? I'm satisfied if they just stay home!
The guerrilla warfare that’s being waged by the Clinton and Obama camps and the failure of party leaders to stop the infighting, have dealt the party a mortal wound.
Already there is polling evidence suggesting a significant share of the supporters of the Democrat who fails to win their party’s nomination will either not vote in the general election, or will back the Republican presidential candidate.
This will not only doom the chances of a black or woman becoming this nation’s next president, it also may cause Democrats to lose control of the U.S. Senate and see its hold on the House of Representatives weakened.
Hillary’s lunch bucket racists don’t get along with Obama’s high minded intellectuals? Who woulda thunk it?
Second hand, I heard about some women returning from a Barry rally here in KCMO a few months ago. They were simply GLOWING and exclaiming how great it was that they had so many good choices.
Yep, a ball breaking feminist Marxist, and America hating black grievance mongering Marxist.
Great choices, if you’re a Dhimmirat.
This is what happens when your whole basis for being is satisfying groups. What happens when there is only one prize, and two of your groups want it? This.
Dr. Martin Luther King was a Republican.
Former President of the Senate (Democrat) Robert Byrd was a member of the KKK.
Dems kept that information from blacks... if Hillary cheats Obama out of this, let's remind blacks of the truth.
That is the real tragedy here. I have been critical of those who kept saying last year that the GOP had a minuscule chance of winning the WH in ‘08, and that we therefore had to choose someone “middle of the road”. In fact, I kept saying that any reasonable candidate, even someone rather strongly conservative such as Hunter, would be very competitive and likely win, though I was pulling for Thompson for the most part.
Unfortunately, there have been huge numbers of Republicans who were so convinced of the Demodogs’ strength that they decided to vote based on “most electable.” ... thus McCain.
Opportunity lost for conservative change.
Darn it all!
The longer this lasts, the better. Obama’s weaknesses will be revealed in due time.
I know some of them.
They will NOT vote for Hitlery. They’ll either vote Green or stay home.
Hee hee hee.
}:-)4
Speaking of overhearing libtard conversations, I have heard women here gabbing about who to vote for, and listening to their empty-headed “reasoning” makes me put my head in my hands and pray for help above. Their truly are ALOT of people with nothing at all of substance between their ears. And, lest anyone think I am a misogynist, I am a female. (And, there are just as many men in this category as well)
I asked someone a while back whom they were supporting for president.
The woman said “Hillary” without thinking too much (of course).
I said that our family was on the “giving” end of socialism, so we couldn’t support her.
Her answer, “Oh, I don’t like socialism, either.”
She seemed confused when my face turned incredulous.
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