{"id":298,"date":"2016-05-18T17:53:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T17:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/2016\/05\/18\/remember-when-clinton-supporters-were-outraged-swore-theyd-vote-for-mccain-rather-than-obama\/"},"modified":"2016-05-18T17:53:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T17:53:00","slug":"remember-when-clinton-supporters-were-outraged-swore-theyd-vote-for-mccain-rather-than-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/2016\/05\/18\/remember-when-clinton-supporters-were-outraged-swore-theyd-vote-for-mccain-rather-than-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember when Clinton supporters were outraged, swore they&#8217;d vote for McCain rather than Obama?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m seeing a lot of posts in my Facebook newsfeed from friends lamenting the anger of Bernie Sanders supporters, decrying thrown chairs in Nevada (though there are NO videos or photos of such an action), and whining that Sanders supporters are being sore losers and need to think about &#8220;party unity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It all brings back memories of eight years ago, when loyal Clinton supporters refused to accept Hillary Clinton&#8217;s defeat in the 2008 Democratic primary. They often responded: \u201cParty unity, my ass!\u201d, hence the nickname PUMAs. And they were ANGRY. And loud. And sometimes, downright mean:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/POLITICS\/08\/26\/clinton.backers\/\">Angry Clinton supporters toast McCain, roast Obama<\/a>: &#8220;I&#8217;m a registered Republican for the first time in my voting life. No Obama for me. I&#8217;m voting for John McCain.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2008\/05\/06\/exit-polls-half-of-clintons-supporters-wont-back-obama\/\">Exit polls: Half of Clinton&#8217;s supporters won&#8217;t back Obama<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/27\/hillary-supporters-split\/?_r=0\">Hillary Supporters Split<\/a>&nbsp;&#8220;I feel that I\u2019m going against her wishes, but I\u2019m still waiting for Barack Obama to sell me, to give me a reason to want him in the presidency. We\u2019re still not convinced.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2008\/06\/angry-clinton-s\/\">Angry Clinton Supporters Start Rallying for McCain Online<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VeGPzk8Oca8\">Video of Angry Hillary Clinton supporter disparaging Barack Obama<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/they-were-hillary-clintons-die-hard-loyalists-heres-where-they-are-now\/2015\/05\/02\/82025cf2-e92a-11e4-aae1-d642717d8afa_story.html\">They were Hillary Clinton\u2019s die-hard loyalists. Here\u2019s where they are now.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nAnd the pot calls the kettle black. Or, as Shakespeare said in Troilus and Cressida in 1603 or so: &#8220;The raven chides blackness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(no, it&#8217;s not a racist term &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_pot_calling_the_kettle_black\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here&#8217;s more about the origin<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m seeing a lot of posts in my Facebook newsfeed from friends lamenting the anger of Bernie Sanders supporters, decrying thrown chairs in Nevada (though there are NO videos or photos of such an action), and whining that Sanders supporters are being sore losers and need to think about &#8220;party unity.&#8221; It all brings back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}