To all the HRC supporters...

[Mooney]

I apologize to anyone I was an asshole to during this primary season. My emotions often got the best of me and if I said anything to upset or offend anybody, I apologize. That was never my intention, but I suspect that I may have fucked up an numerous occasions.

I don't expect any of you to have an easy time with whatever your next move is going to be, whether that's backing Obama, writing in Hillary Clinton, staying home and not voting, or whatever. If it was the other way around and it was me instead of you, I would want nothing more than to be left alone, allowed to make my own decision on my own time, and have that decision respected. So I'm not going to tell you what I think you should do. It's your vote, and it's not my business what you want to do with it.

That is all.

[Mooney]

1. Kicking for humility.

[Lerkfish]

2. humility is a good thing

[Marrah_G]

3. That was really nice: Thank you Mooney

[Mooney]

5. No problem.

[Lilith Velkor]

4. I appreciate it.

[dorkulon]

6. Nice.

I hope your class here will shame others into calming themselves a bit too.

[MoonRiver]

7. Thanks for affirming my right to vote as I choose.

And I will, vote, or not, as I choose.

[Mooney]

11. I'm just speaking from experience.

I have never, ever had my candidate of choice make it to the nomination (Obama wasn't my first choice, but my candidate of choice dropped out after Iowa). In 2004 I was a Deaniac, and after he came in 3rd in Iowa, the calls for him to drop out and for me to fall into line came fast and furious. It was irritating as shit, to say the very least. I have always voted straight Dem tickets since I turned 18 and I sure as hell wasn't about to stop just because someone else had gotten the nomination. So I really felt like the people insisting that I (or anybody else) take some kind of fucking loyalty oath needed to shove it up their asses. I didn't owe anyone any assurances, and you don't either. Your vote, and doing what you want with it, is the most inalienable right that you have. Nobody has the right to tell you what you should do with it.

If you're going to end up voting for Obama, it should be because he did a good job in asking you for your vote. It should not be because some anonymous person on an internet message board browbeated you into it.

[SeaLyons]

8. Nice post...

[LanternWaste]

9. I fully supported Sen. Clinton during the primaries...

I fully supported Sen. Clinton during the primaries. I fully support Pres. Obama in the here and now.

I allowed myself three hours to wallow in self-pity. Now it's time to take the fight to those who deserve it (and have no idea what's coming directly at them)-- the GOP.

Let the games commence... :thumbsup:

[ronnykmarshall]

10. Thank you.