this sounds ridonkulous.  but you made me cry.  thank you for this diary.

Yeah.  That other diary was REALLY helpful.  

As an Obama supporter, I can't tell you how much fun that was to watch again.

Rip the ole scab off.  That's the ticket!

A better use of that wasted time would be to read the Democratic Party Platform. This is the stuff that should actually matter to Democrats.

Check out the diary with a link to it here:
http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/8/8/25216 /58617

And utterly brilliant. Thank you.

pretty good picture of HRC.  That diary was just nuts.

It's kind of sad that McCain was the only one to give a public townhall today and two non-candidates crushed him for media coverage.  Some will say it's a bad thing that McCain is fairly irrelevant as to whether Obama becomes president, but I happen to believe otherwise.

Hear hear, well said.

this one complaining about a diary that was construed as anti-Hillary rather than anti-misogyny-meme.  You can complain about Maryscott's language (it's always been like that, and mine's no better, as you know), but many of us feel the same way about the way the misogyny argument has kept coming up in diaries by some of the posters here as a means of keeping the primary season melodrama alive.  

Wouldn't it be better if instead of talking so much about Hillary as such a victim, we could focus on victory in November?  Maryscott's diary may have continued that discussion, and in that sense was unnecessary, but it only continued the same on-going dialogue that we have had a lot of here.

You know, I posted a long, heart-felt post in a previous meta-diary explaining why I was disgusted with some of the diaries making the rec list, and how I was trying hard to restrain myself from jumping in and writing my own diaries.  So here comes MaryScott, who doesn't realize how vicious things have become here (how many GBCW diaries do we need to notice that?) and she jumps in with the same kind of material, and WHOA!  The same people that have been calling for freedom of speech for dissidents against Obama (trolls like Catfish) are suddenly outraged!  

So, I can't say I'm impressed with your outrage.  We all should have moved on a long time ago.  I think tonight, with the news of Obama's dramatic sudden concession to Bill, (the same man who can't  bring himself to say Obama is ready to be president), the post-Hillary partisans have been particularly feisty and hostile.

Rec'd hootie mon and cleaned up the troll droppings as well!

She didn't have more votes. She didn't. Period. This has been de-bunked so many times, it's stopped being ironically funny.

No one was challenging her candidacy in court. No one was demanding her birth certificate. NO ONE said ONE WORD about her church, her pastor, or her religious beliefs. No one told her she wasn't invited to a debate (unlike Nader, Paul, and Gravel). No one said "Girls can't be commander-in-chief." In fact, other candidates - and the other party - took her VERY seriously or they wouldn't have fought so hard against her.

I'll go you one better. She was treated better than Harriet Miers. When Miers was suggested as a SCOTUS pick - all outrageousness aside - what do you think the media talked about? Her qualifications, or even the lack of them? No. They spent days reporting about changes to her make-up, her hairstyle, and her choice of wardrobe. However you feel about Miers personally or her qualifications to be SCOTUS, neither Roberts nor Alito were scrutinized for their haircuts or choice of tie.

And how many women spoke out about that? ZERO. But crying sexism seems to be a selective practice and I for one believe it's wrong ALL the time, not just when it's my side of aisle.

BTW Hootie, phantom rec for ya'

my time wasting diary...

"One just imagines how much energy is wasted during these rants."

Maybe it's catharsis...  ;-)

Thanks Hootie, my thoughts exactly, except I 'd even go further and say it was an excuse to release disgusting vitriol and racist words under the guise of defending Obama.  That diary was disgusting and it should be deleted.  You can tell when its a troll diary, the histrionics, hyperbole, and abundant use of curse words makes the diarists outrage just a little too faux, in my opinion.  

The other diary was awful and I told them so, but this just makes the issue take two spots on the rec list instead of one. This should have been a comment, not a diary, and the last time we had people responding to diaries with diaries instead of comments was the Prayer-gate battle. I hope we can agree that that wasn't productive.

I'm with you here, but this was a waste of space and will at best do nothing. At worst, you're stoking the fires.

Thank you for respecting Hillary's Supporters (like me) and for writing something actually intelligent and reasoned. This place has become a less popular version of the DKOS vacuum.

The lingering acrimony puzzles me. I would have been happy with any nominee from the Democratic array. Each brings something of value to the table.

The GOP is spinning out of orbit and in some way W's autistic attempt to expand the scope of the executive has paradoxically diminished it, particularly in the international arena but also in the realm of sound stewardship of the economy as referee of excess.

And it is also of some interest to me to see people such as Gore, Jimmy Carter and others find valuable ways to have impacts without the hindrance of elected office.

Ms Clinton, Mr. Edwards and all the others have valuable contributions to make and occasions to rise to as we all deal with the aftermath of 8 years of pillage, looting and damage as well as neglect of problems that have only gotten exponentially worse.

To be overly anguished by a particular contenders loss seems to me to give them short shrift for all the other potential they may realize in as yet unknown circumstances.

I believe deeply in the value of contribution potential in each one as the scope of the post Bush mess will want input in many arena's beyond this diminished and encumbered Executive office.