Obama: 'Be Nice to Clinton Supporters.'
Obama: 'Be Nice to Clinton Supporters.' | The Trail | washingtonpost.com
By Matthew MoskIs he kidding? We've put up with months of abuse and his surrogates say we're insignificant. We warned his supporters they would eventually need us. I may not vote for McCain, but it's going to take a lot more than this to get my vote.
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Sen. Barack Obama showed every sign of confidence that he has secured the Democratic nomination during a high-dollar fundraiser at a posh club here last night.
Obama predicted a victory in Oregon, and said he believed the resulting delegate haul would "put us over the top."
"We will be able to say we have won a majority," he said. "But we have a lot of work to do ahead of us."
For the past several days, Obama has been moving closer to declaring himself the party's nominee, even as Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has been campaigning aggressively to soak up delegates in the few remaining primaries. At an event in the timber-country town of Roseburg, Ore., he twice slipped into past tense when referring to Clinton's bid and the primaries.
Already, top fundraisers for Clinton and Obama have begun private talks aimed at merging the two candidates' teams.
At the fundraiser, he told a boisterous crowd of about 300 supporters that a win in November would require a unified Democratic Party, adding: "That means all of you have to be nice to Clinton supporters."
Labels: Election 2008, Obama, Obama supporters
posted by Marc1A at 5/18/2008 03:13:00 PM
2 Comments:
There is a graphic in your right column that says "Hillary speaks for me." The other day, Hillary said this:
"I'm going to work my heart out for whoever our nominee is. Obviously, I'm still hoping to be that nominee, but I'm going to do everything I can to make sure that anyone who supported me ... understands what a grave error it would be not to vote for Sen. Obama."
Does Hillary still speak for you?
(By the way, I truly am sorry that you feel abused by Senator Obama's supporters. I really am.)
May 18, 2008 11:27 PM
Len, FYI, Hillary Speaks For Me is a title of a website.
In fact, I can say she does speak for me on nearly every issue. However, I'm sure you would agree that it would be absurd to say you agree with a preferred candidate on every single thing he/she says. You don't agree with every exact thing Obama has said, do you? I remember most Dems in 2004 ridiculing people who agreed with everything Bush said by calling them sheep. I'm sure you are more of an independent thinker.
Anyway, I'm still not sure if I will be voting for Obama if he does win the nomination. Country over party in this case and I'm not sure if he's right for the country. I think Mr. Obama will have to show me more than he has during this campaign.
By the way...your concern is touching but I don't think most Obama supporters really care about their behavior toward fellow Dems and I think any future attempts to reach out to Clinton supporters this late in the game are both disingenuous and useless.
May 19, 2008 4:30 PM
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