BREAKING! "Hope" Candidate Supporter In Pennsylvania Calls Hillary "Pollyanna"

[McCamy Taylor]

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Now I think have seen everything. I was reading the New York Times, when I got whip lash. Here is what I saw.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/us/politics/13campaign.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&hp&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1208070551-lt2S8FQSgBRIGB/1QqRRLg

Mr. Gray also said Mr. Obama was right that voters were bitter, although he said he would have used the word angry. He pointed to a recent poll that found 81 percent of voters believed the country was on the wrong track. He said Mrs. Clinton sounded like “a Pollyanna” in saying that workers were optimistic.

“I don’t know who she’s been talking to,” Mr. Gray said.

Thinking maybe I had misremembered, the way Hillary misremembered that sniper fire, I turned and asked my husband. "Who is the hope candidate?"

"Obama," he replied.

"Not anymore. Now, Hillary is the "Pollyanna". That must make Obama the Despair candidate. Or at least the harsh cruel reality candidate. Those don't usually do so well in American politics."

After all these months of trying so hard not to look angry or scary, why would Sen. Obama want to go and spoil it now? Especially after the Republicans have tried so hard to paint him as the spiritual successor of Elijah Mohamed. See my journal about the Right Wing Media smears against Obama here:

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/McCamy%20Taylor/163

I'm mad as hell and I'm not gonna take it any more is cute when it's Peter Finch on a movie screen. It's a little scary when it's the man with his finger on the red button. They called Hillary "Sybil" because she got pissed off about some health care flyers. My advise. Don't. Go. There.

Just apologize. Say the words got taken out of context. Say you feel their pain and you are going to bring happy days again. That was FDR's theme song. If you give it up to Hillary, she is never going to let it go.

PS I don't believe this. While I was writing this another thread was posted by our beloved Skinner recommending that Obama chuck out Hope and embrace Bitterness in hopes that people will forget the last part of what he said. That way when Hillary seizes hope for herself, the press can laugh at her and play her (and McCain) as being out of touch with America which is obviously poised on the edge of disaster and in desperate need of a violent social upheaval. Naw. He didn't actually say that. I am projecting how this is going to start sounding once FOX gets ahold of the new improved politicized fightin' Obama.

Oh yeah, when Obama talks about bitterness, they are going to forget that he said people in small town Pennsylvania wouldn't vote for him, because they didn't like strangers. They are going to forget all about it.

I can just hear Hillary singing Happy Days Are Here Again on the nomination floor at Denver. FDR won on the 3rd ballot. It could happen again. Just keep telling Obama to stop doing what has made him a winner.

[ecstatic]

1. I think your misUSE of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is shameful nt

[McCamy Taylor]

5. I think you people trying to derail a Hope campaign is shameful.

Are you Obama supporters? He is the best hope we have for winning this fall. His "Morning in America II" is going to beat McCain. But not if a bunch of looney people start going on about how this is the end of life as we know it in America.

[PetraPooh]

17. If the current reality is recognized, why would anyone need Hope.

I think you don't realize that one has to exist in order for the need of the other; therefore Obama is clearly right along with his message. He has never been the "Optimistic" choice, he has always said things are screwed up, and we need someone who will actually change things; ie provide hope and change.

On the other hand Hillary is saying everything is just hunky dory, so why change it.

You are clearly misunderstanding the whole Hope and CHANGE of his compaign.

[leftofcool]

2. Obama can not apologize for sticking foot in mouth

and insulting voters because it is too late. He should have done it right after he said it.

[cali]

3. oh, c'mon

the OP is silly. Who cares if one of Obama's supporters calls Hillary "Pollyanna"?

[McCamy Taylor]

7. One won't matter but go look at Skinner's thread

[cali]

9. I've read it. try not making assumptions.

[joshcryer]

11. Personally I would find it a compliment, but people seem to not know the story!

[thunder rising]

13. No apology requested nor needed. Pollyanna is a good nickname for the cackler

[dkf]

4. I'm telling you. Ms. Let Them Eat Cake is in serious trouble.

George H.W. Bush lost his re-election because he had no clue what was happening to the American People.

Ms. Everyone is happy happy happy is out of touch.

[bridgit]

6. "Pollyanna" pretty much everyone knows she ain't...

[A-Schwarzenegger]

8. Hillary supporters are the biggest hopers in the world.

Hold onto it, hold on.

[susankh4]

10. Pollyanna?

This is becoming a pure study in female stereotypes/archetypes. Isn't it?

[ima_sinnic]

15. hillary IS a stereotype

she has come to embody all those things we are not supposed to say about women if we want to appear "PC" (a favorite right-wing catch-all phrase). as far as I'm concerned, she is not advancing the cause of women, she is setting it back. what's with the rambo/john wayne/rocky bullshit? what's with the pantsuits? SHE's the one who appears to believe that femininity is something to be shunned and ashamed of (I hate pantsuits and wouldn't be caught dead in one. They are SOOO 1980s and SOOO rejecting, not of society's standard of womanhood, but of one's own concept of femininity. Skirts are 10 times more comfortable and look 100 times better and more confident of one's self)--she thinks that the prop of pantsuits somehow makes her look "tough" and "businesslike" because she doesn't have those qualities inwardly -- is she of the opinion that women are "weak"?

what's with the warmongering bloodthirst, signing off on any and all of GWB's mass murdering oil-grabbing schemes? what's with the scheming, calculated Karl Rove double-speak, smears and general destruction of a person who is supposed to be, not her enemy per se, but simply her rival in the same party? where's her party loyalty, for that matter? she is coming across as sneaky, bitchy, wily, conniving, untrustworthy, unimaginative, a wannabe man.

so sue me already--*gasp*--I played your stupid gender card back at you. I'd say the same about, say Karl Rove, GWB, and any phony empty-suit republican--they are all liars, schemers, and puffing themselves up with phony props like cowboy suits and military uniforms. As a woman, I'd much more identify with her if she were gracious and played fair. If she doesn't want to be stereotyped, she should stop acting in stereotypical ways that are a disgrace, not only to women, but to Democrats and to the entire human race.

[joshcryer]

12. Hillary should embrace this.

[McCamy Taylor]

14. I dont want to have to write "Barack Obama and the Great Surge of Bitterness"

because we know that it will not have a happy ending.

I like the thread that says "He said some dumb shit" That sums it up. Just say "I'm sorry" and move on.

[Major Hogwash]

16. No one is asking you to.

But, I'm curious, are you going to be bitter if Hillary is not the nominee?