Hillary Clinton has gone too far
March 30th 2008 04:29
It's too bad, really. I would have loved to see America with a woman president. Hopefully, it will still happen while I am alive to see it. Such a presidency could represent a very important shift in American politics and society. But alas, the time is not now, and Hillary Clinton is not the woman. Funny thing is, I think that if she did become president she would ultimately have been a better one than her husband proved to be.
Hillary Clinton at one point seemed almost an inevitability, then along came the best presidential candidate in decades. Barack Obama is uniquely positioned to take the helm at a time when someone like him is very needed. Someone who hasn't taken a dime from corporations and doesn't owe them anything. Who can inspire people to seek change after years of unnecessary despair brought out by a dismal presidency in the person of George W. Bush.
The truth of the math is that neither Hillary Clinton nor Barack Obama can win enough delegates in the remaining primaries to win the nomination outright. The ultimate decision will come down to the super-delegates. But more than that, for Hillary Clinton to get the nomination at this point also requires the political destruction of Barack Obama. The Clinton campaign must damage him to the point of non-electability. That doesn't look very likely. But in the mean time the only one being helped is John McCain. He is able to solidify the neo-cons and to work on fooling enough independents that he can have a chance of winning. Of course it isn't likely he will win, but the danger is there, especially since it can be expected that there will be vote manipulation coming from the right.
By the way, I like the idea of super delegates. They serve as a firewall against idiocy, like Rush Limbaugh telling his brain-dead ditto heads to register Democratic so they can vote for Hillary. The super delegates are a counterweight to the ill-informed. And they will be voting in the majority for Obama. They aren't there to go against such a wave, they know better than to do that.
But back to the Clinton campaign. The under-handed tricks they have been pulling are far more suited to the expected-to-be despicable Republican machine. We as progressives need to demand better from the Democratic party. Hillary Clinton has shown herself to be more interested in getting elected to president at any cost than with doing what is best for the country. It is a shame, indeed. She would do well to recognize that Barack Obama is the man for the time, and get behind him. Scorched earth politics will do nothing but help McCain, which is pretty much the same as electing Bush again. There are real concerns as to whether the country as we know it could stand under such continued assault. So it is imperative that sane America get behind Barack Obama as soon as possible.
Obama represents a candidacy not tainted by corporate money or undue influence. That is such a foreign concept in Washington right now that those who hold the reigns of power are very, very afraid of an Obama presidency. It has the potential to provide a paradigm shift. We in America are indeed at a crucial turning point. The economic ravages of decades of Reaganomics are deepening. The failed policies of corporate empire have made enemies of former friends and threaten the stability of the entire world. Hillary Clinton needs to realize the importance that an Obama win will represent. The time is now.
Hillary Clinton at one point seemed almost an inevitability, then along came the best presidential candidate in decades. Barack Obama is uniquely positioned to take the helm at a time when someone like him is very needed. Someone who hasn't taken a dime from corporations and doesn't owe them anything. Who can inspire people to seek change after years of unnecessary despair brought out by a dismal presidency in the person of George W. Bush.
The truth of the math is that neither Hillary Clinton nor Barack Obama can win enough delegates in the remaining primaries to win the nomination outright. The ultimate decision will come down to the super-delegates. But more than that, for Hillary Clinton to get the nomination at this point also requires the political destruction of Barack Obama. The Clinton campaign must damage him to the point of non-electability. That doesn't look very likely. But in the mean time the only one being helped is John McCain. He is able to solidify the neo-cons and to work on fooling enough independents that he can have a chance of winning. Of course it isn't likely he will win, but the danger is there, especially since it can be expected that there will be vote manipulation coming from the right.
By the way, I like the idea of super delegates. They serve as a firewall against idiocy, like Rush Limbaugh telling his brain-dead ditto heads to register Democratic so they can vote for Hillary. The super delegates are a counterweight to the ill-informed. And they will be voting in the majority for Obama. They aren't there to go against such a wave, they know better than to do that.
But back to the Clinton campaign. The under-handed tricks they have been pulling are far more suited to the expected-to-be despicable Republican machine. We as progressives need to demand better from the Democratic party. Hillary Clinton has shown herself to be more interested in getting elected to president at any cost than with doing what is best for the country. It is a shame, indeed. She would do well to recognize that Barack Obama is the man for the time, and get behind him. Scorched earth politics will do nothing but help McCain, which is pretty much the same as electing Bush again. There are real concerns as to whether the country as we know it could stand under such continued assault. So it is imperative that sane America get behind Barack Obama as soon as possible.
Obama represents a candidacy not tainted by corporate money or undue influence. That is such a foreign concept in Washington right now that those who hold the reigns of power are very, very afraid of an Obama presidency. It has the potential to provide a paradigm shift. We in America are indeed at a crucial turning point. The economic ravages of decades of Reaganomics are deepening. The failed policies of corporate empire have made enemies of former friends and threaten the stability of the entire world. Hillary Clinton needs to realize the importance that an Obama win will represent. The time is now.
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