Unbelievable - I can't ever see treating one of BO's supporters that way at a party convention.

Not in a million years.

What is with those guys in Texas anyway??!

Will make it very difficult for many Clinton supporters to "fall in line" should he be the nominee

that's too sad. i love Sheila Jackson Lee.

but "booing" is hardly new to politicians. as long as they didn't shout insults they were within their rights. we should be able to get feedback to our elected officials. sometimes, audience response is all we've got.

but i wouldn't have chosen this way myself. while i'm troubled by Lee's support of Clinton despite her hideous campaign tactics, Lee has a lifetime of good work we should all honor.

Yeah, why don't you go ahead and send her more money?  She has lots of debts and she can't pay them with money from general election contributions. Her big donors can't give anymore for the primary, so she needs you small donors to pay those poor folks who did work for her and are waiting to be paid. Hopefully none of them lose their businesses while they are waiting to get paid.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/030 8/9259.html

pathetic.

So your example of "getting ugly" is when people point out that HRC was on the Walmart board and could have done something about their policies then?

So her constituents aren't allowed to express their displeasure at her decisions?

God forbid they criticize Queen Hillary the Inevitable.

overdue vacation to Cancun, Mexico. No TV. No newspapers. No internet. Just sunshine, torquoise oceans, and beer. I needed it big-time! Now I'm back and ready to donate some more to Hillary. I didn't spend everything I had allotted, so Hill gets the rest! BTW, the locals I talked to love Hillary! They are really rooting for her to win...

If they want to talk about the SDs vote along the line of people in the district. Then Kennedy and Kerry need to endorse Hillary, same as Bill Richardson.

They can't have it both way.

;-)

Those thugs! They should just be civil and compare what she said to 9/11 instead!

http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/3/29/6542 3/4259

Great!  Please take care of the creditors.

"A pair of Ohio companies owed more than $25,000 by Clinton for staging events for her campaign are warning others in the tight-knit event production community -- and anyone else who will listen -- to get their cash upfront when doing business with her. Her campaign, say representatives of the two companies, has stopped returning phone calls and e-mails seeking payment of outstanding invoices. One even got no response from a certified letter."
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/030 8/9259.html

talk about more of the same, it was dangerous to be friends with Bill, his friends got investigated and hounded and harasses.  To treat a woman, and someone who's of a certain age and has been a fearless pubic servant, is horrifying. It's damn scary, and it's ugly and it is being encouraged by their candidate. Has Obama ever told anyone to treat women with respect, to not scare and bully women?  This is getting to be way too much, that man must speak out, he has daughters, does he really think he needs supporters who bully older women?   This is beyond necessary, it makes me think he likes it, it's to him a sign of love.  I'm so depressed, I admire Lee, she's brilliant, and a fearless advocate for the weak.  Who in our party will stand up against this hate?  

It's just rude and there's not excuse for it.  Show some class, otherwise find your way to the exit.

As this diary says, if you support HRC, you have to send her money.

Please help her and these folks:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/030 8/9259_Page2.html
She owed Iowa's Sioux City Art Center Board of Trustees $3,500 for catering and venue costs, New Hampshire's Winnacunnet Cooperative School District $4,400 in event costs, Qwest $24,000 for phone service, various branches of the Iowa-based supermarket chain Hy-Vee $15,000 for food, beverages and catering, and $7,700 to Ohio and Massachusetts branches of the theatrical stage employees' union, for equipment costs.

In fact, about a third of the nearly 700 individual debts Clinton reported at the end of February were for various types of "event expenses," including $319,000 for catering and venue costs, $420,000 for equipment, $11,000 for photography and $9,000 for security.

The quality of your posts lead me to believe you are a founder.

52% of Democrats are now a "ragtag band".

You're like an endlessly looping self-parody.

I'd make a bet that if Hillary takes this to the convention  neither Nutter or Jackson-Lee will vote for her.  It won't happen.  They support her now while it's relatively safe.  But when the chips are down, they will save their own political a**es.  

This is just part of the process of letting her know that her constituents, who went 90 to 10 for Obama, are watching.  

I'm glad she's loyal, that's a good trait, but she also has to survive politically.  Jackson-Lee's political career can't survive a convention fight.

Maria Cantwell has made the same calculation already.  

Booing is rude, but what did Bill Clinton say about politicians, something about getting beat up is all apart of it...

If they vote against the interests of the majority of their constituents at the convention, those boos will turn into votes against them.  Lee got a taste of that sentiment first hand - a lot of Obama supporters are worried that people like her could take the nomination away from him.

It's time for more better Democrats!

This district is ripe for a Democratic Primary Challenge!

Maybe Hillary supporters should boo Kennedy, Richardson and obama's other political supporters where their constituents support Hillary.  

No, Hillary supporters have too much class.

I'm waiting for the chickens to come home to roost for Obama and his supporters . . .

They shouldn't have booed her.  That's juvenile.  Even though I support Obama, I'd never presume to boo Hillary, Bill, Chelsea, or any of their campaign staff or surrogates, unless they said something very objectionable while I was in attendance.  

And, in agreement with an above comment, the "Judas" remark was very low class.

Things on both sides have gone too far and gotten too heated.

So, it isn't just on the blogs.  I was hoping the real world supporters would be a lot more adult, and open minded.  Guess not.

Senator Clinton.

I don't blame them, frankly.

Hillary's thugs (lawyers) were trying to disenfranchise votes for Obama at all the conventions.  They made the conventions last longer and made it like torture for all delegates even the Hillary delegates.  Sad, very sad.

I'm proud of the crowd... this is what patriotism is all about.  Would you rather everyone just sit on their butts, be quiet, and conform?  This is America.  Dissent is patriotic.  

"Please, please stop bashing Hillary and being mean to her supporters."

What a bunch of b.s. your self-gratifying "strike" was.

At least now it's clear - pro-Clinton bloggers, like Alegre here, just wanted a free pass to be nasty and viscious and expect Obama supporters to just sit back and take it.

My advice to you is to take a hefty dose of your own fucking advice.

didn't support Obama is toast.  Lee should expect a primary challenge next time from the black community, as should Nutty ... er ... Nutter.

I don't know if I'm imagining this or not, but some of the most respectful of the Clinton supporters and of the Obama supporters seem to be frequenting this site less.  I miss the back and forth without cursing, namecalling, and knee-jerk defense of one's candidate.  

I think it is up to the partisans of each to be the most critical when supporters step over the line rather than the least.  We need to "police" our own, so to speak and not just engage in yours-does-it-too-ishness when something is said or done that really should not be defended.

by Obama's supporters to any who don't yearn to touch the hem of His garment is astounding.

Iraq is headed for a complete collapse and all you see on Kos' site is "all Obama all the time". It feels more like a cult over there with each passing day.

Now Sheila Jackson Lee, one of the last Democrats with both class and backbone, gets booed by her constituents. This says much more about her constituents, and BO supporters in general, than it says about her.

People who have this belief in someone who comes riding in on a white horse to save the world are bitterly intolerant of non-believers.  That's why Lamont true believers were so nasty towards Lieberman supporters - and were even nastier after the primary.

Now any sane person would have realized that Lamont needed to get a large chunk of Lieberman Dems to have any chance of winning.  So screaming, "Sore Loserman" didn't win the Lamontacrats any love.

It seems that the Obamaramans are doing exactly the same this go round.  Booing Sheila Jackson Lee shows how juvenile and discourteous they are.  And how they will alienate enough people if Obama gets the nomination to produce a hefty loss for the Dems come November.

As an Obama supporter, I think that everyone should be civil at all times.  However, using bad behavior by one particular group of people, at one particular time, to draw an inference about the vast number of supporters is inaccurate and unfair.  Just as we will need you for the election, so too will you need us.

Family feuds are always the nastiest.  But don't attribute attitudes to all supporters because of the actions of some.  And please keep in mind that there are hurt feelings on both sides (and also among those who strongly supported Edwards).

I saw Sheila Jackson on tv tonight and she made a point that the voters of Florida and Michigan did not break any rules; to the contrary, they did exactly what they had to do in order to cast their votes.  She expressed her own anger at Howard Dean and the DNC for throwing out the Dem Party's own voters.  She was really good.

not Jeremiah Wright (although the issues are related) will prevent Obama from becoming President.  It's his defining characteristic, it's reflected in the behavior of his supporters, and it's quickly becoming a problem for many Democrats.  The general public is next.

Whites are easily shocked by what we see and hear from Pastor Wright and Trinity Church, because what we see and hear so thoroughly challenges our understanding of who we are as a nation. But black people have never, for the most part, believed in the imagery of the "shining city on a hill," for they have never had the option of looking at their nation and ignoring the mountain-sized warts still dotting its face when it comes to race. - Tim Wise

Whats bothers me she wasn't talking about the presidential race.

At least that's what I heard.

I assume the super delegates are being kept up to date on these thuggish, and often threatening behaviors among Obama supporters.  It's only the beginning of what can only get worse.  My experience with elections goes back a long way and we have never had a candidate who has caused such divisiveness. Obama could put a stop to this if he wanted to.  That he doesn't stop it gives you an ominous idea of what he will encourage if he's elected.  

In TIME magazine's March 31 issue, page 29, a man who knew Obama in Hawaii is quoted as saying about him: "He made everything out like it was racial."

Not only that, but I heard James Carville called her "Judas".

Just relax.  This is all going to seem incredibly silly when we have a nominee and John McCain is talking about a 100 years war.

Generation Obama really seems to be more about Hate than Hope.  I'm finding it increasingly difficult to see myself supporting this in a general election.  At times it borders on fanatical: to hell with reason, and destroy any who cannot see The Light.

Cash-strapped Clinton fails to pay bills
By: Kenneth P. Vogel
March 30, 2008 09:57 PM EST

Hillary Rodham Clinton's cash-strapped presidential campaign has been putting off paying hundreds of bills for months -- freeing up cash for critical media buys but also earning the campaign a reputation as something of a deadbeat in some small-business circles.

A pair of Ohio companies owed more than $25,000 by Clinton for staging events for her campaign are warning others in the tight-knit event production community -- and anyone else who will listen -- to get their cash upfront when doing business with her. Her campaign, say representatives of the two companies, has stopped returning phone calls and e-mails seeking payment of outstanding invoices. One even got no response from a certified letter.

Their cautionary tales, combined with published reports about similar difficulties faced by a New Hampshire landlord, an Iowa office cleaner and a New York caterer, highlight a less-obvious impact of Clinton's inability to keep up with the staggering fundraising pace set by her opponent for the Democratic presidential nomination, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama.

Clinton's campaign did not respond to recent, specific questions about its transactions with vendors. But Clinton spokesman Jay Carson pointed on Saturday to an earlier statement the campaign issued to Politico, asserting: "The campaign pays its bills regularly and in the normal course of business, and pays all of its bills."

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/030 8/9259.html

their true colors in those videos and shout down and boo Sheila Jackson Lee. When you couple this video with all the boo-ing of Hillary Clinton in NH and her being heckled at the St. Paddy's Day parade in Penn and the heckling of Chelsea it is very telling. For being a demographic that is so well educated and financially well off they sure act like gutter trash.  

In a district that is 90% AA, and supported Obama at 90%, Jackson-Lee sided with Hillary... and her constituents let her here it.  This is simply a case of Obama's 'hopers' these are folks at Texas Southern thrilled to have the first real shot at an AA winning the White House, and shocked that Jackson-Lee unlike every other elected official in that district supported Hillary.

It seems that Hillary's tanking poll numbers on her Like-ablity are wearing off on her supporters.

When you attempt to impede the caucus process in TX and stretch what should have been a 4 hour process into a 12-18 hour process, you can expect to be Booed off the stage. SJL had to take the brunt of Texan's angry over her attempted disenfranchisement of the process.