Lets set it straight now: John McCain and Barack Obama were my favorites to win the Republican and Democratic nominations respectively. However, I was ready to accept the possibility of a Hillary Clinton nomination. Unlike some other bloggers, and unlike some of my friends, I wouldn’t have gagged if she had won the nomination, although I had to catch my gag reflex a couple times toward the end of the nomination season. With Ron Paul, I think his economic policies go too far in limiting government, though I’d also be willing to see what a libertarian-minded president would do.
Eventually, Obama and McCain did become the nominees of their parties. Clinton took a week to concede, and Paul took several weeks longer. However, that doesn’t mean their supporters are giving up. Paul supporters have crashed state conventions (and forced the postponement of the Nevada convention), and both Clinton and Paul supporters have started netroots operations to try and get their candidates nominated at the national conventions.
I’ve been perfectly willing to go along with these efforts, even if I thought them misguided and a bit of a waste of time. I’m sorry, but neither candidate is going to get the nod at the conventions, no matter what effort is put into it. Call it blatant corruption within the parties if you want, but I think both McCain and Obama won fair and square.
So, it’s been a source of amusement to hear about the thousands of tickets Paul supporters have bought to the mini-convention Paul will have the Thursday of the Republican convention. Or “yet another secret you didn’t know about Barack Obama” that Clinton truthers have “dug up.”
Yet, sometimes people go too far, and it stops being funny.
I read several blogs – left, right, and center. On one of the blogs I visit, a regular member – who’s one of the Clinton supporters still hoping she’ll be nominated next month, and mentions this in nearly every comment – is now buying on to yet another Obama smear.
The accusations come from one Larry Sinclair. First Sinclair starts off claiming he did coke and had oral sex with Obama. Later on Sinclair expanded the allegations to claiming three gay men at Trinty United Church of Christ – one choir pastor and two members – were murdered before they could come out and say they had gay sex with Obama. It’s strongly implied (though never directly stated) that Obama is behind these murders. Unfortunately for Mr. Sinclair, he has a long rapsheet to his name.
Now I can respect that these groups are working so hard to try and topple the presumptive nominees. I think they’re misguided efforts, but they have every right to do them. Yet, sometimes the accusations get too ridiculous and disgusting for words. This whole murder thing is one of them.
Obviously, someone is watching a little too much drama television lately.
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