Hillary Supporters Against Obama, Where Is The Logic?

I’ve tried hard to make sense of Clinton supporters who have decided that since she will not be the nominee of the democratic party that they will side with McCain. I understand the power of a protest vote but who exactly are they protesting, Obama? What did Obama do to Hillary besides run a much better campaign?

I have searched the bloggosphere looking for specific examples from these people of particular incidents where Obama or the DNC was sexist against Hillary. I’ve yet to find ONE credible incident. Remember, I was a Hillary supporter before I was an Obama supporter. I could clearly see that the media was being much tougher on Clinton than they were with Barack. I had my own issues with Obama’s characterization of Hillary on NAFTA, I didn’t give as much weight as some did to his position on going into Iraq since he was not yet in the Senate, and I thought he diminished Hillary’s role in the white house when her husband was in office. Is that not what you are supposed to do when running for office?

Didn’t Hillary do the same things to Obama. Correct me if I am wrong but didn’t Hillary’s campaign twist Obama’s stance on abortion, saying that he ‘refuses to take a stand on choice’? Didn’t Bill Clinton inject race into the campaign? It was found that the pictures of Obama in African garb came from the Clinton campaign. The 3 A.M. commercials, saying that only she and McCain were fit to be commander in chief, the lying about the Bosnia trip…

No Hillary supporter can claim that negativity did not come from both sides. The amount of negativity that came from the Clinton side dwarfed what came out of the Obama camp. Particularly, once Obama took a respectable lead, the Clinton campaign became very negative. You don’t run a campaign by not making attempts to paint your opponent in a negative light, so I'm not here to demonize anyone. As long its not an outright lie I don’t have a problem with it.

I’m just not getting the rationale that says getting someone most opposite of our candidate, most in contrast to your views into the highest job in the land is a sensible protest. Its not sensible because Obama did not unfairly damage Hillary. Its not sensible because the DNC did not unfairly harm her either. The only culprit was the media. How does keeping Obama out of office hurt or harm the media? It just gives them another few thousand stories.

I’ve tried hard to look at Clinton’s fight for Michigan and Florida delegates to see if she was cheated or mistreated in some way. For the life of me, I can’t see how one could ask the party to change the rules that were set and agreed upon by BOTH SIDES and come out crying foul when the party doesn’t side with you.

These people are pulling at straws. I didn’t agree with the Obama maniacs who tried to paint the Clintons as a racist despite the fact that Bill did make race an issue in South Carolina. Just as I couldn’t agree with those people yelling racism, I’m just as adamant about the Clinton crazies trying to make Obama out to be a sexist. It all goes to the silliness of politics today.

You would rather vote for a man who will place the justice on the court that will overturn Roe v. Wade? Justice Stevens is 87. That is not something you can turn back even if Hillary gets in office in 2012. You would rather cast a vote for a man who voted against equal pay for women? You would cast a vote for someone the Children’s Defense Fund Action Council called the "worst senator for children"? You would rather cast a vote for a man against comprehensive sex education, funding for contraception and AIDS prevention?

Show me the logic.