Welcome.

You should have written Hillary's speech last night!!

Welcome back!

Many people here know me as one of Obama's most outspoken critics on this website.

HUH?!

This is the most heartfelt speech of any Clinton supporter at TPM. I'm so moved that I'm crying besnottedly into my keyboard and throwing up a little bit you-know-where.

Allsburg, I think some people actually believed you. Have you no shame?

Nevertheless, welcome to the cult... err, club.

BTW who's Armchair Gorilla?

Rec'd. Consider the last 4-5 months water under the political bridge. Now, let's all go play "demolition derby" with the Straight Talk Express. :)

O I'm so glad to read this.

It is very big of Hillary supporters to come out and say this. I appreciate it - we are on the same side!

This is going to be a great election season - I know it. I am so ready to stop the acrimony and get started kicking the fascists out of our government and we all need each other! Plus, its' going to be great and I want all of you with all of us when we do it - we all got to this point together - let's kick some fascist' ass together!!!

Thanks, Allsburg. Thanks.

(I) Hillary Clinton, your future president, reject and denounce your obvious attempt to look cool by making a false jump on the "switch-to-Obama" bandwagon. Babies drool, they're not cool. So get off the Hillary->Obama bandwagon, and instead go back to the Obama->Hillary->Obama->Gravel->Obama bandwagon where you belong.

Leading the drooling baby vote!
Leading the drooling Gravel vote!
Leading you all!

Much Love,
Hillary/Gravel 08.

I am confused. I always thought your sympathies were with Obama, although it was hard to judge from your inscrutable avatar and tongue in cheek persona. Either way, we should not hesitate to criticize our candidate of choice. There's no disloyalty in that.

Now lets go slaughter some McCaininites.

And all this time I thought you were an Obama supporter, in fact, I never thought you were anything but an Obama supporter.

Good for you, now on to McCain.

I've always loved babys...........

Oops - I've always loved babIES. Duh

Very funny allsburg, but it doesn't taste good. I'm getting dizzy watching you do victory laps.

Did you say something? I confess, I never actually read your comments. I just looked at that overwhelming adorableness and my brain went all ooba-gooba-gaba-goo! and my busted biological clock went clink, and then I just moved on to the pillow guy.

This has been an incredibly impassioned primary battle. I think everybody has probably said things they'd say differently out of the passion of the moment. I just want to say that you've really honored this site with this post.

Slay the fatted calf!

Bravo, and thank you. It takes integrity to make the shift that you have made and to acknowledge it publicly. You have my admiration.

Bravo Allsburg! Well played.

At no time did I see your fingers leave your hands!

Fraud.

Snot nosed prevaricator.

Get a job.

And stop droooling!

hahaha! Oh. so. I was right!

Unless - I am totally confused.

I'm just a progressive who became deeply, deeply committed to his candidate.

I have no doubts now that you are female.

Thank you Allsburg. I'm sorry for all the times I get heated on this site. It's easy to do.

I truely believe that as the dust settles over the next week, we Obama supporters will be better at acknowledging Clinton's strengths and hard fought battle, and the legitimate heartbreak of her close loss. I think Obama has tried hard to be gracious. Many of us supporters have been less so.

Anyway, let's all get together and kick the GOP's teeth in.

my sentiments exactly...and i am a black woman.

White Women Take the Gloves Off
A Commentary By Froma Harrop
Tuesday, June 03, 2008 Email to a FriendAdvertisement
The woman who shouted "McCain in '08" at the Democratic rules committee was speaking for a multitude. After mounting for months, female anger over the choreographed dumping on Hillary Clinton and her supporters has exploded -- and party loyalty be damned. That the women are beginning to have a good time is an especially bad sign for Barack Obama's campaign.

"Obama will NOT get my vote, and one step more," Ellen Thorp, a 59-year-old flight attendant from Houston told me. "I have been a Democrat for 38 years. As of today, I am registering as an independent. Yee Haw!"

A new Pew Research Center poll points to a surging tide of fury, especially among white women. As recently as April, this group preferred Obama over the presumptive Republican John McCain by three percentage points. By May, McCain enjoyed an eight-point lead among white women.

What's dangerous for the Democratic Party is that, for many women, the eye of the storm has moved beyond Hillary or anything she does at this point. The offense has turned personal.

They are now in their own orbit, having abandoned popular Democratic Websites that reveled in crude anti-Hillary outpourings -- and established new ones on which they trade stories of the Obama people's nastiness.

But worse than the online malice has been the affronts to their faces.

Tara Wooters, a 39-year-old mother from Portland, Ore., told me that wearing a Hillary sticker around town has become an act of defiance. She recalls one young man telling her, "I'd rather vote for a black man than a menopausal woman."

"We don't hurl insulting, berating remarks at Obama supporters, or at Obama himself or his family," Debbie Head, a 40-year-old from Austin, Texas, complained to me.

Remember Peggy Agar? The women do. They can't stop talking about the Detroit TV reporter who asked Obama a serious question at a Chrysler factory -- "How are you going to help American autoworkers?" -- to which he answered, "Hold on a second, sweetie."

The women are angry at the ludicrous charges of racism leveled against Clinton by the Obama camp -- amplified in the supposedly respectable media -- and projected onto themselves.

Jean B. Grillo, an "over 50" writer in lower Manhattan, was pretty straightforward: "I am so tired as a white, ultra-liberal, McGovern-voting, civil-rights marching, anti-war fighting highly educated professional woman who totally supports Hillary Clinton to be attacked and vilified as racist and or dumb."

Shauna Morris, a 44-year-old lawyer from Largo, Fla., told me, "I am upper-middle class, and I still can't stand him -- and it has nothing to do with race, believe me."

The women talk of being taken for granted by a party leadership that never spoke out on some of the outrageous Hillary bashing -- and despite the close race, joined the early rush to crown Obama.

"Many of us feel slighted," said Lynn Eyrich Harvey, 76, from Los Gatos, Calif. "We feel that years of supporting the party is unimportant, that we are to sit down and shut up -- but be sure to vote Democratic in November."

Passions can change, one supposes, but the women I hear from do not see the rampant sexism, particularly toward older women, as isolated gaffes but as a systemic dismissal of them -- an enormous voting bloc that has been reliably Democratic.

"How Obama's campaign has treated Hillary will not be forgotten," Janet Rogers, 55, who runs a Bed and Breakfast in Medina, Ohio, wrote me. "I will vote for McCain if Hillary is not the nominee. My husband and friends all feel the same way."

Indeed. McCain in '08 has suddenly become a more likely prospect.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/political_commentary/commentary_by_froma_harrop/white_women_take_the_gloves_off

Allsburg, with your precious avatar, you can be whomever you want to be, and change your position every diaper change, if you want to.
I loved this thread. I love the chaos of good snark. And you did it, you sweet lil' one.

Happy to have missed the rants! Happy to be back in time to say this is one helluva party, come on in! BYOB

FUNNIEST. THREAD. EVER!!!!

Allsberg! We welcome your enthusiasm and (based on your picture) we hope to also welcome your electoral assistance in the 2026 mid-terms when you're old enough to vote!

Almost a year ago I was a Hillary Clinton supporter (seriously), but learned more about Barack Obama and and switched over to him.

Now I'm switching back to Hillary Clinton.
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OK. Now I'm switching back to Barack Obama again.

Hmm... You're right. I forgot how fun that is. :)

Best thread all day!

The Josh cameo had me doubled over!

Billy made it especially funny... appreciate it!

sorry for being an ass last couple of weeks.

You don't have to forgive me, my wife never does either. I'll be better, soon. The laughter sure helps!

Gonna take the kids to a baseball game now--with all my heckler friends by first base. I'm begining to wonder why the third baseman keeps overthrowing first...hmmm.

Allsburg = evil genius

Hillary has a HUGE job to do on Saturday. While you may have had a change of heart, I sincerely doubt that the folks chanting "DENVER DENVER DENVER" will have their come to jesus as easily.

If she does it right then I don't see any way that Obama won't be our next President. But she needs to make sure that there are as few "I's" in her speech as possible. It's not about her any more - and I think she'll have a hard time grasping that. She's not going to be VP. I'm actually a little disheartened about that because I think we might win by the largest landslide in history with her on the ticket. Bill is just too much of a liability - which is both shocking and sad but there are too many skeletons in his Presidential library closets. I would like to see her as the next AG.

But congrats to you for coming around. I honestly believe that Obama has a chance to change America and the World in such a way that we just might have a chance to exist for another couple hundred years. And if he follows through on his promises we just might all get the pleasure of seeing George W. and his League of Evil tried and convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity. What is the punishment for that again?

I think many of us in the heat of the battle have said things we didn't really mean, just because we wanted to WIN.

Life is too short to waste time on foolish regrets.

I for one am delighted that we have had a long-ish primary season. How many of us have changed our opinions several times as we watched the story unfold?

Life is too short to waste time on foolish regrets.

I for one am delighted that we have had a long-ish primary season. How many of us have changed our opinions several times as we watched the story unfold?