Comments on McDermott to Clinton Delegates: "Cut Your Losses"

Some people just like to be petulant.

Seriously, they live for the drama, the Sturm und Drang, the conflict.

It makes it easier for them not to pay attention to how their life would be even worse under McCain and his tripling of the US deficit and expansion of exporting US jobs to his comrades in Red China.

Short-sighted? Sure.

But nobody said they had grown up.

Fucking great fucking way fucking to fucking unite fucking the fucking fucking fucking party fucking Will fucking in fucking Seattle!

the stakes are so big here in terms of the Supreme Court

Look, fuck everything else. If ole man McCain wins, Bader-Ginsberg & Stevens won't be able to hold out any longer and then we're really fucked.

Two words: lifetime appointments.

Baghdad Jim comes correct. Hillary is not the nominee. Folks need to fucking get over it. Especially the delegates. She lost. Move on.

I think this is all horribly inflated. I can't imagine that there are more than a handful of Clinton delegates who won't support Obama. After all, they are the most Democraty Democrats. Who cares if they want a chance to cast the vote they promised to make?

That's how conventions and caucuses work. I don't see the obsessive need for fake unanimity during the first ballot; it just makes the convention seem even more contrived.

@2: I understand your displeasure, but people generally don't make up their minds on who to vote for based on comments in a liberal blog. If they say they do, they're likely unstable, trolling, or both. The job of uniting the party isn't Will in Seattle's, thank Jeebus. It's Hillary's and Obama's. She's speaking tonight, he on Thursday. Then this whole damn issue will be behind us.

JC, you really need to work on your anger - are you sure you don't have Alzheimer's like John McCain?

Do people not realize I'm making fun of PC when I do that?

@8: Guess not.

@8: Er... seemed pretty clear to me.

No, not unless she posts first.

Then it's obvious.

I didn't think it was possible for a man in a suit to be as badly dressed as that. I've seen people in greasy sweatshirts that looked tidier than that. Come on, McDermott, REPRESENT.

Jim McDermott:

And Barack is a fine man and has the character to be a good transitional president. To transform this country.

Transitional president? I thought McCain was supposed to be the "transitional" president, the single-term interregnum between the two Clinton epochs. So then McDermott refers to Obama's ability to "transform" the country, as if he realized he used with wrong word with "transitional."

But then what the hell is this?

And I think that unfortunately the Democratic party, we always try to do too many things at once. We try to break the racial barrier at the same time we’re breaking the gender barrier.

Do we really want to be presenting Obama and Hillary's candidacies as affirmative action projects?

I'd feel a lot more comfortable if, the next time Jim McDermott wants to open his mouth for public consumption, he thinks twice and decides instead just to smile and look good.

I've been thinking that for almost twenty years, Cressona. McDermott is a kindly dipshit.

Yeah, but he's OUR kindly dipshit!

@15: and it's time for him to retire. he's brought home next to no pork for his district (mine), because it would be UNSEEMLY, i guess. with the 7th's solid liberal majority & tax base, he could have been the most powerful man in the congress by now.

@16, right... and he could look more like a side of bacon (Norm comes to mind)... but there's more ethics than pork in our guy Jim... so, you want pork, move to Bremerton. ^..^