as previously discussed.... i'm sad to admit that i no longer see a path to the nomination for hillary. (unless something happens with michigan and florida.)
HOWEVER...i pledged myself as a delegate and i continue to support her....so i attended.
allow me to digress for just a moment: i watched several of the morning talk shows this morning and everyone seems to be reaching the same conclusion: while there appears to be less and less of a chance for hillary to win the nomination, there is no reason for her to drop out just yet.
i can go round and round in my head debating this idea but i like the conclusion that as long as hillary is winning states...why not stay in? if she loses indiana or north carolina... then drop out.
but the pundits also agree (once again reading my blog, i see) that it's all fine and dandy with everyone staying in the race as long as the rhetoric is quashed.
i see no problem with letting every thing run its course. one person even made a huckabee analogy...which i'm loathe to repeat but will. hillary can stay in the race until the race is truly over...but it all must remain dignified.
every one's approval rating will survive if we can keep this whole process adult (as in grown-up, not triple-X).
having said all of this.... the fucking obamaphiles are a bunch of fucking children!
i was all geared up for my senate district convention yesterday. i had a voicemail of hillary's recorded voice asking for my support again. a shitload of emails reminding/encouraging me. and i even listened in on a conference call with bill (live and in person) on thursday!
so i was ready...
and we got there and it was orderly... and we gathered - us hillary supporters from precinct 39 - and signed in and made calls to ensure all of us were present to sign in. and all 19 were there.
and mayor bill white spoke (state senate district 13 is a major fucking district, my friends. feel free to touch me and bow at my feet) and our state senator rodney ellis made some remarks.
and everything was going well...
our hillary supporters met with the obama supporters from precinct 39 and we knew how things would work out. we had 3 delegates to send to state... obama would get 2 (he had 27 precinct delegates) and hillary would get 1 (we had 19, as i said).
and much like our precinct voting... no ugliness. no name-calling.... manners. civility. union.
we agreed on 2 obama delegates and 1 hillary. 2 hillary alternates and 1 obama. very fair.
we then broke up into our hillary group and obama group.... nominated our delegates and alternates. again - very fair. i was proposed as an alternate but ceded to others who have been involved longer.
and then the entire district met again and agreed to the compromise and introduced our delegates to each other.
and the obama delegates thanked us. they thanked the hillary delegates for keeping the process civil and for making everything move smoothly without any ugliness.
we watched other precincts fight... get ugly. there was never any of that with our group.
and i will be honest, my lovelies. i fought back tears. i was touched when they thanked us. and we thanked them....
and i'll tell you why....
the entire day started off well. democrats coming together to help nominate who we hope will be the next president of the united states.
the party leaders spoke to our common beliefs and values and ideologies as democrats. and reminded us that we all want the same thing... and we are together... no matter what... we are democrats.
if hillary is the nominee... we ALL need to back hillary. if obama is the nominee... we ALL need to back obama.
and there was thunderous applause.
and then sheila jackson lee took the stage. for those of you unfamiliar with ms. lee - she is a united states congresswoman from my district. she is an african american. and she is one of hillary's national co-chairs.
she took the stage and the obama flock booed her. not lightly... booed her overwhelmingly.
my fellow delegates looked at me... we all adore sheila. you see her every year in red at the state of the union... right on the aisle.
"are they booing her?" they asked.
it was shameful. democrats booing another democrat because she backs someone else.
but ms. lee took it in stride. clearly someone apologized to her on stage or said something about the booing...but without holding the microphone far enough away from her mouth you heard her say, "hey...if you can't take the heat, you need to get out of the kitchen."
you go, girl.
and she waited... and she told the crowd: "it's okay. i'll wait for you. i am here to serve you. i can wait." and they booed. and she said again, "it's okay. i will wait for you. i serve you. i can wait."
woman's got my vote.... that's all i'm saying. (oh - and i got to shake her hand... she was very nice.)
i met some other women who told me that sheila jackson lee has actually received death threats because of her support of obama and that the african american community is actually looking for a way to unseat her because of their feelings of betrayal.
heartbreaking.... after all her years of service.
but it leads me to a bigger point: the obama supporters can't conceive of anyone other than their messiah being president. you're a traitor... a moron if you support anyone else.
while looking through photos the other week, i found this photo with an obama shirt that shows the faces of barack and hillary with the words "bros before hoes" under it. i was livid.
the shirt perfectly illustrates the chauvinistic and insulting nature of some obama supporters.
not to mention the gall and fanaticism.
as the convention went on yesterday and the results of the credentials committee were voted on... you had clear-obama supporters on the stage arguing against the "majority report" findings of the committee and offering their "minority report."
this is all legal and the way it works.
but the committee looks at challenges to delegates and decides...these are valid and these are not... probably because it's the wrong district or they voted twice... many reasons. and then they're disqualified.
but the woman with the mic kept saying "we move that senator obama gets BACK his five delegates!" like we stole them... not that they're fraudulent.
and then they steamrolled forward with votes... ignoring points of order and other motions on the floor.
and nothing was explained until it was time that clinton delegates were being discounted. then we got the full explanation of "lawyers from both camps have looked over these rolls for the past three days and those findings are reflected in the majority report."
but up until then.... NO! hillary's team was fucking over the obama delegates. we were the cheaters!
and we were outnumbered. and they were cheering and screaming when voting "yay" or "nay" before we moved to a non-screaming vote but a standing vote...
but they still screamed. and the woman on stage was jumping up and down and cheering people on to stand up for obama.
and then a motion was made to call for "no cheerleading" on the stage but by the time the chair finally moved to act on the motion... the obama delegates were all seated as the crowd chanted "yes we can! yes we can!" after each vote.
"yes we cheat" is more like it, i told my fellow delegates.
and there was such ugliness in the unfairness of it all... and how vile the hillary supporters are for standing up for what the committee found as legitimate and yet how egotistical the obama supporters are in their belief that all things are good as long as they benefit obama.
but we hillary supporters had to sit back and watch as the democratic process was fist-fucked up the ass without the benefit of elbow grease or even a little crisco.
i know people who went into the convention yesterday ready and willing to support obama come november but now feel disgusted by what they experienced via the obama delegates inside that TSU gymnasium.
i am a democrat... i will vote for obama come november.
but i feel less and less willing to donate and volunteer for his campaign. the ego of the candidate and his followers just continues to turn me off.
and i hope hillary stays in it.
i still say it's probably time for us to accept the facts... but fuck the obama supporters! you're assholes.
we are supposed to all be democrats. standing together against the GOP and mccain.
shame on you for your behavior. for your ego. for your small-mindedness.
you made me ashamed of my party yesterday. and i'm not sure i can forgive you for that.
don't ever make me ashamed of my party.
al gore '08!
e.
p.s. i'm still hoping to be an at-large delegate to the state convention... but my chances are slim. there were nearly 4,000 individuals at our convention yesterday. but one woman said me and this other guy had a good chance because we were both white men under 35 in a heavily older, african american district.
i added: "i also got that whole fag thing going for me."
i think i shocked some people. but oh well.
it's true.
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