Hear, hear, hear.

Clinton dug her own mess with this and it will probably be her last gasp. I don't think piling on a bunch of her supporters who are still trying to get used to the fact that she's not going to get the nomination isn't going to help matters and will turn this place into a pit of flame, which is just going to draw more anti-Obama trolls to come fuel it. Let's ease back on the throttle.

I am calmer now and think the best thing to do is to move on.

I hope that Clinton supporters think twice before smearing Obama with lies or false rumors. I hope this makes you think twice before being outraged at the word "bitter".

It would be cool to stop the attacks on B.O. and his supporters over this matter too. It just makes you look weak and stupid. Why would Barack Obama be responsible for Hillary's word?

This was a gaffe and it was unfortunate.

Move on?  Surely, you jest.  

This is just the beginning of a deluge of diaries placing the blame for this squarely where it belongs... on Obama and his campaign.  

Some people are beyond self-reflection.

You're a good man, Al.  My father is in tears right now, as this ripped open the well of emotion that he, like everyone else, tried to bury deep within us.  We know this could happen to Obama, but we just can't think of it.  Some of us are thinking of it, and it's ripping my old man up right now.  

He worked on RFK's campaign.

I cant tell you how upset i am.  This should have been a three day unity weekend and now i cant bear the thougth of a weekend of what i have seen today.

I hope by the morning we can stop this and start a three day holiday weekend of unity.

david

"To believe that Senator Clinton meant what many are claiming she meant is absolutely absurd.  She was a friend of mine before this campaign and will be a friend of mine after.  I have decried the gotcha games that have been played throughout this campaign and I must do so in this instance.  Instead of focusing on a comment that she now wishes she had articulated better, why don't you focus on the desire of John McCain's desire to continue George Bush's disastrous foreign policy, a policy that has not made us safer and has emboldened our enemies, or his desire to perpetuate George Bush's economic policy, a policy that has left our economy in shambles."

If Obama gets before a camera in the next hour or two and makes some statement similar to this effect, it's a total political winner for him.

Please excuse my response to you in rfahey22's diary.

The NoQuarter, Hillaryis44, and TaylorMarsh crowd is filled to the brim with hypocrites.  I'll never forget their behavior during "finger-gate," especially seeing their reactions today.

at Daily Kos?

I wonder what the reception would be like?

At least here you can post a diary like this and not be labeled a troll.

well this is a good diary , coming from you.

Just a stupid mistake by Hillary that is being way overblown, just like Obama's bitter comment. Of note, i saw david axelrod today coming out in defense of Hillary.

"Human make mistakes. "

so true, so true.

but chimpy make mistakes too.

fool me once.................................... .

...and agree with you AL

Thanks Al. I came out against Fingergate and I'm glad to see that we all want to move past the "gotcha" era of this primary and get things going to beat McCain.

You've been a great representative of Barack on this site and I'm glad to see even in the face of this gaffe, we are all coming together still.

Cheers on something I should have thought to said myself. I don't know if it's the right choice, but it's certainly the nobler one.

Yeah .. I've already commented on one of the first threads  that this was not filled with malice.

But given how many times the Hillary campaign has turned small issues into really big one's I guess it's justice served.

However I wish that she not quit campaigning because of this. There should be no excuses on  who the winner was.  I want June 3rd to play out and for her and her supporters to realized that she lost this one all on her own.  Perhaps we will have an united front come November.

... yes, let's move on.

It is hard to let this go.  

She mentioned this before in March.  LINK

The woman isn't stupid she should know better than to bring this up at all.  

I can't stop shaking my head over this.  There is just no good reason to mention this at all, ever.  

You are right that moving on is the best thing but this is really bad.

That's the spirit, Al!

It's all too easy for people to fall into the habit of scoring a point just because they can.  In reality, politics would be much healthier if we didn't all get caught up in what Bob Somerby calls "the Cult of the Offhanded Comment."

I will say this:  I always found it very, very hard to take people seriously once they bring up the "middle finger" thing.  For some reason, a primary election always involves constructing an alternate reality where the opposing candidate is a total comic-book villain.