DanS.

DENVER — Democrats were on edge Tuesday as they waited to hear Hillary Rodham Clinton's prime-time speech on party unity, with some of her supporters saying they don't know what to do and others provoking confrontations.

Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter backed Clinton in the primary, but said he still isn't clear if he's supposed to vote for her in Wednesday's roll call of the states due to what he called a lack of clarity from either the Clinton or Obama camps about the roll-call process.

"Just tell me what you want me to do," he said in an Associated Press interview, throwing up his hands and rolling his eyes.

He said he doesn't think the process really matters, because in the end Obama will be the nominee no matter what and the party will rally behind him.

In a separate interview, former Democratic Party Chairman Don Fowler, a Clinton supporter, said he remained uneasy about the attitudes of some Clinton delegates.

"It seems to be a little more of a problem than I anticipated," Fowler said. "There is some risk involved. ... All you need is 200 people in that crowd to boo and stuff like that and it will be replayed 900 times. And that's not what you want out of this."

The hand-wringing played out as Clinton paid a morning visit to the Pepsi Center with daughter Chelsea to check out the podium where she was to deliver her evening speech.

There were already signs of strain in the morning at a meeting of Democratic women.

Businesswoman Sheila Johnson, who is the owner of the Washington Mystics basketball team and an African-American, was imploring the crowd not to let voters get distracted by Obama's mixed race heritage or his unusual name when a man wearing a "Hillary" button called out from the crowd.

"Hussein! Hussein!" yelled the man, a reference to Obama's middle name. Many in the crowd leapt to their feet, shaking noisy tambourines at him and drowning him out.

The man, Igor Zhivotovksy from New York City, said later he is a strong Clinton backer who thinks she was cheated out of the nomination — and he doesn't like Obama.

"We just finished getting rid of a guy named Hussein in Iraq and why are we trying to elect someone with the same name?" said Zhivotovsky. "Everybody thinks if you're against Obama you're racist."


http://www.comcast.net/articles/news...5/CVN.Clinton/

Comicsartist

"We just finished getting rid of a guy named Hussein in Iraq and why are we trying to elect someone with the same name?" said Zhivotovsky. "Everybody thinks if you're against Obama you're racist."


No, we just think if you make idiotic statements like the one above, you're racist.


What a dickwad.

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DanS.

Yeah....I'm telling you man. I REALLY don't think that there will be any "catharsis" for Hillary supporters through this convention. I think that the holdouts already have their mind made up and their only goal is to sabatoge Obama.

EvilMonkey

Michael, how about making decision on your own instead of waiting to be told what to do, isn't that why you were elected? Just a thought.

Comicsartist

If you want my guess, I would say that the majority of 'die-hard' Clinton backers are doing nothing more than hiding their true colors behind this facade of feeling cheated.

All one has to do is take a hard look at what McCain supports and what Obama supports. If these 'die-hard' Clinton backers want the country to move forward for them, be it with policy or election reform, they would undoubtedly vote Obama over McCain.

Besides, Obama has won. There is nothing Clinton can do to change it.

Obama-more pledged Supers.

Obama-more delegates and more votes, regardless of if you count Michigan and Florida or not.

These idiots, like the one quoted in my last post, need to either move on or admit their true agenda.

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Heretic

And it's worse for the fact they're being led to do so from the top down [yeah, that's right, I still say Hillary is agging this on].

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Vicariously I

I wonder how many people in the spirit of Operation Chaos are going to be at the DNC in the guise of a Hillary supporter shouting out shit like the ass in the above post for the sake of disrupting the convention?

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Vicariously I

Double post some how.

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Mithrall

I wonder if they checked for snipers.