Ugh. Sometimes I hate being so right.
Though I don't take this response as indicative of much else, I still can't help but ask: why?
Why would you refuse to support the winner of a primary that you, yourselves are competing to win? Surely there's more that's drawing you to the party besides Obama's magnetism? For instance: perhaps you share the same values that drew Obama himself to the party in the first place. Those values, incidently, are probably the same ones that drew Clinton to the party.
The political parties in the United States have no "values" the way you describe them. Precisely because control of the parties is so firmly in the hands of the people rather than the parties, ideologies within the parties are weak to nonexistent. The two parties are coalitions of ideologies so broad as to be meaningless, and positions may change radically decade to decade if not faster.
When you speak of "values" in American politics, you get responses like "ending poverty" and "strengthening the economy" that are absurdly platitudinal and devoid of true meaning.
