Posted on 08/19/2008 9:46:17 PM PDT by kristinn
A massive e-mail and Internet campaign is under way aimed at derailing the nomination of Barack Obama and making Hillary Clinton the party’s standard bearer next week at the Democratic National Convention in Denver.
“It’s downright nasty,” said Memphis, Tenn., superdelegate and city council member Myron Lowery, who has shared dozens of the messages he’s received with The (Memphis) Commercial Appeal newspaper.
“I think it’s divisive for the ‘Support Hillary’ campaign to continue at this time. She made the decision to fully support Mr. Obama,” said Lowery, who initially supported Clinton but later switched his allegiance to Obama. “I don’t know why they’re not taking their cue from Hillary and falling in line.”
Lowery said he does not believe Clinton herself is behind the effort, but that it’s “her supporters, acting on their own because they’re proud of what they have done for her.”
Most of the messages Lowery has received from across the country come from Hillary supporters making the case that she won more voters’ votes in the primaries, she won bigger states, that Obama won states that won’t vote Democratic in November, and that she is the only “electable” Democrat.
I want more popcorn. Things could get interesting in Denver.
since the Clintons never give up, I won’t believe Barack is the nominee until after the roll call vote that the Clintons wanted.
“he does not believe Clinton herself is behind the effort”
FOOL!
Probably the same 60 deadbeats who showed up for the PUMA conference.
If thats the definition of massive...
I wish her well. No matter how you feel about her, when you compare with Obama there is no doubt that Hillary is the better candidate. I can understand why her supporters feel the way they do, and there are more than a few who will want to make a statement, to get their message out. Sure, Hillary on the face of it says she is supporting Obama, and some assume that her followers should as well. But for some who were her supporters, this is bigger than even Hillary. I salute them.
Did Lowery just fall off the turnip truck?
I believe this DNC convention calls tailgate parties all over the U.S. Pull out big screens to the driveways and parking lots. Party till it hurts!!!
ping!
ROTFLMAO!
Truly the single most naive statement I have EVER read!!!
“We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California,” she cackled.
Well said!
Sure, alienate an entire constituency of the Party, and expect the Dittoheads will still support her after the convention. There’s a winning strategy.
Yes she did.
Better for who?!? Better to defeat John McCain?!?
{{{shaking my head in disbelief at the clinton love that exists even here on this Conservative forum. Unfreaken', unbelievable! }}}
Hey, stop it, that is very demeaning to “Wicked”!
And to flying monkeys!
“I think it’s a terrible tactic,” said Memphis delegate, Baptist minister and Shelby County, Tenn., Democratic Party Chairman Keith Norman. “We had hoped that this kind of politics, especially from within the party, would have been abandoned.”
A pledged Obama delegate, Norman noted that some of the attacks are overtly racist and that in one instance Obama was likened to “the Anti-Christ.”
Now that statement makes me wonder.
Either they really are doing Hillarys bidding or.... They are going to claim that it was operation chaos people posing as Hillary supporters saying abominable things.
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