Hillary lost.
She lost be every imaginable measure. She lost the popular vote. She lost in pledged delegates. She lost in states won.
She ran a terrible campaign.
She lost fair and square.

It's over, it's done, and this Hillary supporter is just proud that we have a strong, intelligent Democratic president-elect.

"She had to fight Obama and the others at the same time. And in the end she won the most votes, so I offer her my congratulations for winning the nomination even though it was taken away from her."

That makes you sound like a nutter, do you know that?

And here is how you do links... set your diary or comment to HTML or Auto Format and use the code:

<a href=http://yourlinkhere&gt;text&lt;/a&gt;

I HATE reading diaries written by people who can't figure out how to link. ASK SOMEONE.

craziness

You only have to write this post about 700 more times until the next election cycle starts.  Keep it up, Nancy!

NANCY YOU ARE SO AWSOME!!!!! KEEP TELING THE TRUTH BECUZ PEOPLE NEED TO HERE WHAT REALLY HAPPENED!!!! HILARY SHOULD OF WON AND THE MEDIA HATES ALL WOMEN!!! JUST LOOK AT WHAT THEY DID TO SARA PALIN, MAKING HER LOOK ALL CRAZY AND STUPID!!!!! MAYBE THE MEDIA IS SCARED OF WOMEN BECUZ THEY NEVER DATED ANY!! LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL!!!!!!!!!!!

I feel sad for people who don't face reality.

The primary wars are over. End of story, move on.

I've NEVER heard this before.  Thanks to this I SEE THE LIGHT.  IMPEACH OBAMA NOW!

This poster. (and yes, I realize I am violating my own suggestion now). I was/am a big HRC supporter and still wish she had prevailed. But Obama will be our president now and it's (past) time to move beyond the primaries. Let's just leave this person's diaries alone and stop with the insults to her. Silence would be better treatment.

Let's get all lynchy on Governor Dean, the DNC, and the Obama-in-the-bag media!

Hillary will rize again, yo!

Clinton/Palin 2012!!!11!!!

Nancy, why did you post this? Democrats won by a big margin, and continue to spread into more wins even as we speak (I think we could still take MN and AK).

Considering that Obama snowed John McCain in just about the same way he snowed Clinton (but with a stronger closing), don't you think it's time to consider that perhaps he just ran an exceptionally and surprisingly strong campaign? The media is a fiddle to be played. Clinton didn't pick up the bow until after Super Tuesday. By that point, it was too late.

Nancy, do not be discouraged by the many here who attack you.

I too am quite happy that Senator Obama defeated Senator McCain and Democrats for the most part have been swept back into power.

I pray that President-elect Obama lead us now out of the long national nightmare that was the Bush-Cheney period, and restore America to its progressive values.  He is a brilliant and able man, and I pray he follow in the footsteps of FDR--and of Bill Clinton.

However, what you have commented upon is quite true.  Every survey of voters concerning whom the MSM favored, and quite heavily, reveals that to have been Senator Obama.

He was fawned over from the day he decided to run; he was quickly anointed by everyone from Oprah Winfrey to the punditocracy and of course, by the bloggers, whose infusion of capital into his campaign was without precedent.

Hillary did receive--officially--the highest number of primary votes.  The Obama folk insist that those official figures somehow do not include caucuses, but the official figures cannot be discounted.

And it is a fact that she, like her husband before her--the best President of my fifty-five year lifetime--was treated shabbily by both the MSM and members of the DNC.  The Clintons were betrayed by virtually everyone they helped to bring to national prominence, from Bill Richardson to several women senators.  And they were betrayed by many of the Kennedys, whom they were there for when the political winds did not favor the Kennedys.

In the end, the DNC pre-empted the will of the people, and literally stopped the voting, much as the Supreme Court stopped the voting in Florida in 2000.

Remember, the MSM, the DNC, and the bulk of the bloggers had one shared objective--stopping the Clintons from returning to power.  In that, they succeeded eminently.

Hillary's eighteen million voters were given nothing by the DNC in return.  She was never even considered for the Vice-presidency.  And in the end, both she and Bill were expected to tirelessly campaign for Obama-Biden, and indeed they did so, quite relentlessly.

It is a fact that without receiving virtually all of those eighteen million HRC voters, Senator Obama could never have come to power, and certainly without a landslide win.

And it is a great irony now that so many of the bloggers with so much Clinton invective must now witness many on President-elect Obama's transition team having resumes with very heavy Clinton credentials.  These include, of course, Rahm Emmanuel and John Podesta.

As I believe that President-elect Obama is indeed, in the end, both a brilliant and pragmatic politician, he himself will now ignore all that Clinton invective, even among his core supporters.

The Clinton-Gore years were light years beyond the Bush-Cheney years.  They may well have been our last Golden Age.  Certainly they remain well-remembered by much of the electorate old enough to remember, as being largely years of peace and prosperity.

In 1994, the GOP, bitter at having lost to both Bill Clinton and Ross Perot in 1992, swept into congressional power with a "Contract for America."  Not long afterwards, it became known as a "Contract ON Amedrica," and Bill Clinton was riding high while Newt Gingrich's Congress was running very low.

In 1998, the GOP, having tried Bill Clinton foolishly on articles of impeachment--against the will of the electorate--thought that they would increase their numbers in the Congress.  Instead, the electorate actually incresed the number of pro-Clinton representatives.

By 2000, Bill Clinton had the longest reign of high approval ratings since JFK.

And so much so, that when Bush-Cheney surreptitiously came to power in 2000, they thought it best to ignore the popular vote majority.  For Bush-Cheney, the only allegiance that mattered was to their core supporters, who detested the Clintons.  The MSM initially adored the junior Bush.  He was "folksy," and "manly," and his machismo after 9/11 was ridiculously applauded--never mind the consequences of that blind following.

Today, George Walker Bush has the lowest approval ratings of any President in the Modern Era.  His own GOP ran away from him, from the very outset of the 2008 campaign.

So, while many bloggers here may just as foolishly believe that Barack Obama has never needed the Clintons, or that he could possibly have triumphed without their supporters, I suggest they study recent history.

Attempting to put down the Clintons or underestimate them or their supporters has only the severest of political consequences.

I believe that nobody more knows this than President-elect Barack Obama, which is why so many among his transition team come very much from the former team Clinton.

I would suggest that he offer Bill Clinton the Secretary of State job.  One need not go with also-rans like John Kerry and Bill Richardson, even if those two did kiss up to Barack.  Why not go with the Platinum Success of the Clinton years, and pick the man himself?  Nobody is better known or loved throughout the world than is Bill Clinton, and against The Big Dog, both Kerry and Richardson look like anemic choices indeed.  (Of course this assumes that Bill Clinton even wants a cabinet job; his Clinton Global Initiative guarantees that he is front and center on the world stage through his remaining cognizant years.)

And I would suggest that President-elect Barack Obama choose Hillary Clinton--and consider no one else--for the job of overhauling the nation's health care system.  He has as much as admitted on the campaign trail with her that nobody knows more about it than she.  The fact that she failed in her efforts the first time round in 1993 and 1994 only proves that she has learned herself how NOT to go about that overhauling.

My guess is that President elect Barack Obama has decided that it is best to go by the way of FDR.  In choosing the most outstanding among us to help lead us out of our worst crisis since the Great Depression, he will be viewed as a true visionary, and not a crass politician with old scores to settle.

Clinton haters be warned: use Bill and Hillary, and use them well, or suffer the perils which recent history has consistently shown inevitably happens when they are overlooked or outright ignored.

I believe that President-elect Obama ceased to be just an accomplished politician the day his transition team was launched.  I believe he is already thinking of his legacy.  And he'll go for the Platinum Bill and Hillary, in one way or another, regardless of any protests, to help secure him that great legacy.

She lost because she voted in favor of the resolution giving Bush the authority to go to war.

Its really that plain and simple. Had she not made that mistake- compounded by spending the next few years as a hawk- there would have been no opening for Obama and he may not have even run. I also doubt he could have run if Gore had chosen to enter the ring.

Regardless, the still bitter Hillary supporters such as the diarist are pathetic. All their points during the primaries were proven to be wrong... Obama couldn't win.. he could never win Pennsylvania or Ohio.. Hillary people would never vote for him.. ALL PROVEN WRONG.

Sometimes I go to Hillaryis44 for shits and giggles... THE PEOPLE THERE ARE INSANE and live in a parallel universe much like the diarist.. Truly sad...

Sometimes I think of Alegre.. she started out so reasonable and then progressively got crazier and crazies.. or I think of Georgep astroturfer emeritus who was here blogging day and night and then one day- when the Hillary campaign stopped paying him- he dissapeared.. much like he dissapeared for a few days after the Iowa caucus only to come back a few days later one he was back in the payroll..

I appreciate you raising these issues.  I assume most people here, like myself, had never heard about any of this before.

We Clinton supporters were not proven wrong.  

There is a President-elect Obama BECAUSE the great majority of the eighteen million Hillary Clinton voters chose him over Senator John McCain.  

Hillary Clinton DID win the OFFICIAL popular vote in the primaries.  

Those eighteen million voters did not disappear in the fall; they ended up in the Obama column because Bill and Hillary Clinton--the greatest American President and First Lady since Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt--tirelessly and relentlessly campaigned for him, bringing their scores of followers over to the Obama column.

No one denies the superb campaign run by Barack Obama, and all progressives are hoping for an era that turns away from Bush-Cheney policies.

But whereas no one else denies the love that you core supporters of Barack Obama felt and continue to for him, neither should you deny the love we have felt and continue to feel for the Clintons.

Eighteen million votes cast for her more than proves that this Clinton love is quite real.

Deny that the Clintons are an integral part of the Democratic Party--I would argue every bit as an integral as the Obama part--at yours and the Party's own peril.

The Clintons have received nothing from the party they brought back from decades in the wilderness just eight years ago.  They have campaigned vigorously for Democratic candidates across the board, in spite of that fact.

It is time that the invective stop; it is time to have the maturity to realize that fact.

I believe that President-elect Barack Obama most certainly does realize that fact--even if some remaining, very politicaly immature followers, do not.

We have a great president-elect in Barack Obama.  Let's leave the primary wars behind. If you want to try to reform the primary process for next time to increase transparency and the rights of all to have their voices heard equally, more power to you, but let's not re-hash what has taken place.

What we have here is a basic lack of respect- starting with the diarist and spreading through to a number of the comments - In the spirit of our new President-elect Obama, I would like to see "all you all" able to give and receive much deserved kudos to the Clintons and to Obama without having to throw in some negative crap about the "others".  Hillary was a formidable candidate and is an exceptional Senator. Bill was an exceptional President. Barack has touched something in so many people all over the world - he is amazing and I am so very excited at what his Presidency represents for us all. This is no time to be rehashing all of the crap that was spewed during the primaries.  Now we look forward....

Listen Nancy, unless you can prove that Michigan and Florida moved their primaries up to benefit Obama long before he was a serious candidate, you and all the other PUMAs' sour grapes about the DNC are nothing but hot air.
Furthermore, trying to claim that the media was in the tank for Obama is even more of a joke- we spent weeks on Rev Wright, Bill Ayers and Rezko, we spent months discussing his present votes in Illinois and his inexperience and blah, blah, blah, blah.
The primary turned out to be good for Obama and great for the Democratic party, as we are now blessed with an intelligent, thoughtful, and well educated president elect.
It's time for you and your PUMA friends to move on, because this is simply irrelevant now.

HRC lost in the caucus states and didn't win by enough in the primary states.

She ran in the 2 rogue primaries (FL & MI).

The press did everything they could to help HRC (the overkill on Wright, the underperformance in the OH & PA primaries). But still Obama won the pledged delegate count.

I should really help my health and not read your diaries anymore.

I sympathise with you but you must know that dwelling on past wrongs is pretty unproductive.  

It was HIllary herself that said, don't go there.

Look we 18 million voters for her, we haven't disappeared.  Obama won and now he is going to be president.  But he knows he is presiding over a coalition.  There are the true believers that he won in the primary and there are an equal amount that voted for somebody else.

Plus he knows that without the economic meltdown, this race might have been much closer.  Millions of people voted for him, not out of love, but out of desperation.

He's smart and he knows.

He knows that he has to deliver or else.  So I think that he will temper his arrogance with an intense focus on the Democratic agenda and he will be added and supported in that endeavor by the Clintons and the Kennedys and Pelosi and Reid and by all the best and brightest on the DEM side and even some worthy leaders from the GOP.

It's the results, baby.  That's what we should all be focused on.

This is becoming a real tin hat narrative.

This is a joke.

Lt. Chauvin is living and well in the body of Nancy Kallitechnis (AKA Dr. Lynette Long @ NQUSA).

during the primaries.  Good times, good times.

A diary like this probably would stoked some angry feelings a few months ago, but now, it's just funny.  Apparently, time stood still for some people.  

Listen, I'm as THERE as ANYONE. I could not have supported Hillary any MORE than I did. I hated the SHAM roll call, I hated the DNC, and I HATED OBAMA.

BUT

Now here we are......Now what?

I cannot go through 8 more years of HATING AND ANGER. I spent 8 angry years railing at W. That's why I LOVED HILLARY. She is the ANTI-W. But she was out-duped. Is that Fair? NO. Is it Real? YES.

It's like the game of "Survivor" - the one that Outwits, Outplays, and Outlasts - that is the one who wins Survivor. Does the winner do it fairly? NO. Do they do it by using people? YES.

That is what Obama did. He first and foremost got the $$$$$ once that happened, it all fell into place including the media's "love affair" with him.

But here we are and I, for one, CAN-NOT and WILL-NOT spend another 8 years HATING the President especially when he has MY agenda at heart.

There's too much at stake: Gay rights, Women's rights, Global Warming, Jobs, the Economy, Stem cell research, Healthcare....

Hillary will always have a special place in my heart. While her options to become President appear to have dwindled, I will never say "NEVER". Because ANYTHING can happen. The country elected an inexperienced, brilliant, well-spoken 47 year old black man with the middle name Hussein. I would be the first to say "NEVER" and I was wrong.

Hillary is okay with things. She is enlightened. She is aware, secure and fine with things - you can SEE IT  in her face, you can HEAR IT in her voice. For a "Loser", Hillary Clinton was a "Winner" coming out of the Convention. She is the ultimate team player and she came out a much stronger person then she would have been had she quit when the pundits and Obama's surrogates wanted her to.

I'm not concerned about a position for her in Obama's administration. If she wants a spot - she has earned it and I am sure she will get it. If she prefers to stay in the Senate, then that is what she will do. I personally would love to see her at SENATE MAJORITY LEADER - I want to see her as much as possible, on TV, on the weekends and I want her to get as MANY BILLS AS POSSIBLE PUSHED thru in the next 2 years. From Women's rights to Gay rights to Healthcare to Global Warming.

For the First time in many many many years - WE - the Democrats have been given an opportunity and we cannot squander it and spend the next years pissed off because our candidate did not win.

Let bygones be bygones and at the very least give Barack Obama a chance. He won't be able to do everything, but he'll do alot and if he doesn't - vote him out - but at least give him a chance.