Thursday, 27 March 2008

• What is it about Hillary Clinton's Supporters?

  It is hard to like a lot of Hillary Clinton's supporters. I am not sure that I have ever encountered such a shrill group of angry, arrogant, paranoid buffons outside of the Christian far-right. It is a more apt comparison than one might think. Clinton's supporters are evangelically sure of the righteousness of their cause and their distaste for those who offend them (Barack Obama's supporters in this case). Their defenses of Mrs. Clinton often border on hysterics and many slide into nonsense. Many Clinton supporters now purport that as many as 30% of Obama's votes are from Republicans attempting to give John Mccain an easier candidate to beat; this despite the fact that most national polls show Obama running stronger against Mccain than Clinton. But I suppose that those same people are lying to pollsters too --there's that "vast right wing conspiracy", again. A large number of Mrs. Clinton's supporters seem to come from the older, 70's style liberal wing of the Democratic party. These are the 1960's hippie baby-boomers that elected Carter and didn't become Reagan Democrats. We know about the angry right. Here is the angry left.

  There is another religious comparison that rings true. I have seen, again and again, supporters of Mrs. Clinton wonder aloud how so many people could be "taken" by Obama's "words". There exists the implication that Obama's supporters are suffering from the same mass delusion that atheists assert Christians to be suffering from. Obama made a pointed remark a few weeks ago that Clinton's camp is not attacking him, but directly attacking those who vote for him -- over 13 million ordinary Americans. It rings true and leaves you to wonder how much Mrs. Clinton and her supporters truly believe in the democratic process.

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