Like most people, I have multiple email accounts. Oh stop it! You all know you do the same thing for the same reasons. Well, like a lot of unemployed people these days, I have time on my hands so I have started my own personal letter writing campaign to the Clinton Camp. I average about 5 daily - yeah I'm still pretty pissed about the war vote thing.
At this point, the race has gotten ridiculous and the media is cranking full tilt to try anything to keep this race alive. IT IS OVER PEOPLE! SHE WILL NOT CATCH OBAMA IN THE COUNT! Even if by some miracle (think mega million lottery winning odds here) she did jump 20 percentage points in PA she cannot pull off a win without sweeping every contest left. Never gonna happen.
So, I would urge other Obama supporters to urge Clinton to "respectfully" drop out of the race for the good of America. Don't insult (although the G. W. reference was a tad mean) don't spew hatred or racial garbage, don't be a troll, in other words. Use your words and your intelligence and your passion to make your opinion known. If enough people clog her incoming email with this "suggestion" she may well decide after April 22nd, she would prefer to be a lesser politician still sitting in the Senate as opposed to an unemployed politician sitting on the side.
YES WE CAN!!!!!!!
To Senator Clinton and Her Campaign:
As an American voter deeply distressed about my family's future and America's future, I am begging Senator Clinton to please remove herself from the race.
I would beg you Senator to search your conscience deeply, as a mother, as a woman and as a human being. How, in good conscience can you have so vigorously supported this war? And why, as a woman, a mother and a human being, am I supposed to somehow jump on your bandwagon as the champion of the people after you sent my brothers, sisters, and neighbors to die in Iraq. Not to mention, half of my neighborhood is on the auction block thanks to this economic distater of a war. At this rate, our people won't have an America to even come home to.
But you never said the war was wrong. You never admitted your vote was careless, reckless and inhumane. Someone who can't admit to making mistakes is someone who can't learn from them. We have already suffered too long under a deaf (and dumb) President unable to accept responsibility for his behavior, his decisions and his actions. Yes, you seem to have adopted his approach well.
America needs salvation right now, not another George Bush in a pantsuit!
Futhermore, Senator Clinton for you to remain in the race when clearly you cannot win the popular vote or the delegate count is selfish, petty and well, ELITIST! It seems like your endgame here is to either pull off a Superdelegate Coup (doubtful, laughable, but nice try) or more likely, to kamikaze your campaign to the ground in an attempt to sabotage the ultimate nominee. Now, Senator at one time I had tremendous respect for you and I certainly hope that neither of these approaches is the case as it would illustrate that you are unsuitable for public office in ANY capacity and I would like to believe that you still have a tremendous amount to offer our country - but not as President.
Senator Clinton, please, as an American, I am asking you to please do what is right for AMERICA. For once, just one time in your life, please put the greater good of the people above your own personal quest. PLEASE! America is running out of time.
Respectfully,Theresa HenningRegistered Voter
ps. More young Americans died in Iraq yesterday in one of the ugliest attacks yet. Just thought you would want to know, even though I am sure none of those were your family or friends
To fight back or not to fight back. For whatever it' s worth, I think the campaign should stay on message, they just need to address her pettiness more directly rather than being drawn into this childish romp in the mud. Take the moral high ground and then challenge her to do the same. If in fact, she is the "real" candidate for change she should welcome a debate on her intellect. After all, it is (supposedly) her strongest selling point. For example:
#1 - On the whole Tony Rezko thing: Clinton camp is keeping this in the news. Obama needs to remind her and her following that she herself fell victim to this (Norman Hsu) just last summer thus she knows all to well the potential pitfalls, even under the best intentions, when it comes to poltiical fundraising. Remind the public that just like every other candidate that has been unwittingly snared by this pitfall that you immediately "righted" the situation with the money.
THEN- hit her with a backhanded compliment like : Honestly Senator, I fully expected and was very much looking forward to a much more intellectual debate on the crucial issues. Quite frankly I am shocked that you have lowered yourself to these petty attacks that only distract from the crucial issues at hand. America deserves better and we know you are capable of a higher standard than this. Or, something like it. Apply liberally (no pun intended) in her face whenever she goes negative. Bonus points if you can do this live at a debate and make her cry.
#2 - On the whole "Who ya gonna call at 3 am thing": Well thank you very much Hillary, we already got a little taste of how YOU would respond given your verbal response to the situation going on between Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador. She refers to Chavez government as a dictatorship (which it's not- more of her dazzling world experience at work) and then hints at further escalation by pulling the Republican tried and true "they are supporting terrorists" crap. THIS is the candidate of change. Geez, sometimes it feels like the two party stand off is already underway.
Get with it Team Obama, you guys have been stellar up to now and these should be paper tigers for you at this point. Don't get rattled by the Ohio/Texas thing - remember, you whittled away at her lead there not the other way around.
