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Clinton ran a “great campaign.” And Bill was an asset to her among those old enough to remember the “peace and proseperity” of the nineties. What happened was a lot of “chicanery” and divisiveness on the part of the Obama campaign.

Obama garnered many of his delegates from “caucus states” – an archaic voting system that is hardly “fair” in our 21st cent. Also many of these were “open” and I witnessed first hand in our caucus site that many of the caucus goers were “faux democrats.” (BTW, I live in a “red” state that has not voted for a democratic presidential nominee since 1964 – the year after JFK was assassinated, so undoubtedly a “sympathy vote.”) I also know just in our county alone on super Tue. that pure chaos reigned on the night of the caucus. A friend who was an Obama supporter said that they waited outside in icy rain and snow for over an hour. When they arrived inside they were simply asked which candidate they were for and asked if they were a registered voter. No proof of identification was required and there were no records to even make sure they lived in the area or even in the state. (Please note Kansas City, Mo. is just a few blocks away and they had a “Primary” all day long on “super Tue.”)

Multiply the above thousands of times in “caucus” states and you have a “recipe” for a very unfair and unjust system. Also many of the “caucus” states that Obama won a large portion of his delegates from are “red” states like mine that will not go “blue” in November, especially now that McCain is the presumptive nominee on the republican side.

Taylor I agree that Hillary being a “woman” had a lot to do with the “misogynistic” statements propagated by the MSM but I think ultimately appealing to “misogynistic thinking” was the “vehicle” the press and Obama supporters used against Clinton. Many in the MSM have disliked and hated Hillary Clinton even when she was “first lady.” She did not cater to them and many in the MSM have held that against her. The Obama campaign knew that history and used it to their advantage.

Next we have the “tacit” collusion with the MSM by the current leadership in the democratic party. They hate all things Clinton because Bill Clinton did what no other democratic president has been able to do since FDR – serve more than one term in the White House and leave office with over a 60% approval rating from the American people. This should be a matter of pride for anyone who calls themselves a “democrat” but methinks there are a lot of envious high-ranking party members who let their jealousy and enormous egos take precedence over pride in others’ accomplishments.

I believe it was the aforementionned coupled with offers of monetary reward and in some cases threats to their careers or even their personhood that has motivated many super-delegates to drift Obama’s way, even as he was suffering devastating losses in the last several primaries or finishing not as well as predicted or some new and even more “embarrassing gaffe or story” was released to the press.

Obama’s “guilt by association” is very troubling to me and many Clinton supporters. When you add in his “gross lack of experience” and what experience there is, is not particularly noteworthy and how his campaign has lied about and distorted the record of one of the most popular democratic presidents in recent history; how his supporters have trashed Hillary Clinton, her family, and her supporters; it will be a “cold day in hell” before many of we Clinton supporters will fall in line for Obama. Hillary Clinton gave an eloquent speech today, endorsing Obama but I and many other Clinton supporters do not have a career in the democratic party to worry about. Our vote is our own and is given to the candidate who truly earns it. We will not be manipulated out of some “false sense” of loyalty to a “party” which no longer seems to need us or care about us.