re: #213 Amory Blaine

Hate Springs Eternal

I wanted to see what I thought about Clinton back in 2008. The first political site I got on was Daily Kos, and so I went back to my first comments. It looks like I joined in June, 2008, so too late for me to have put down what I actually thought, but I did find this, which I wrote in July:

Waiting for everyone to get over it

Actually your article points to another reason he has to wait as long as possible: If for some reason, he decided that Clinton was his best choice, he couldn’t announce it right now, he’ll have to wait until both sides cool down a bit.

I have been supporting Obama since he announced his candidacy, and I really didn’t care for some of the things that Clinton said, but it really is time to get over the primary, for the sake of letting go and getting around to the real job of electing a Democratic president.

The diary was wondering why Obama hadn’t announced his VP yet.

I would hope that I wasn’t doing what Krugman described. The two things I remember not liking about the way Clinton’s campaign was run was Bill’s comment about Obama’s supporters in South Carolina, and the campaign trying to get Michigan and Florida reinstated. But, without concrete proof, I can’t make any statement about how I acted toward Hillary. I have slept since then.