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According to the Gallup polls, and regardless of the political PR machines, McCain and Obama have both been hovering in the mid-40% range since the end of March. It is hardly a mandate for either candidate that they cannot pull a significant majority, but it is a sign that America continues to be divided right down the middle: if only the divide wasn’t an unbreachable chasm.
Face it, in 2004 President Bush won by just one state, a few electoral candidates and about a million votes (or 1/300th of the population). In 2000, Bush won the election barely and lost in the popular vote. The 21st century has polarized not into democrat and republican, but into liberal and conservative. Not just liberal and conservative, but the fringes of the “left wing” and “neocon right.” Those who have not chosen sides navigate the conversations of politics at their own risk.
The Campaign for Change had set a mighty goal for itself this weekend: it aimed to knock on the doors of 118,602 voters--one more than Bush's margin of victory in Ohio in 2004. But volunteers not only met the challenge--they busted through it and kept on going... This weekend, the tireless people of Ohio committed to changing this country knocked on no fewer than
173,651 doors.
That means that 1 out of every 45 registered voters got a knock on their door this weekend from an Obama supporter ready and waiting to talk about Barack's vision for the country. To outline his issues, to clarify misunderstandings, and to express what his presidency could mean personally and to the nation.
But you don't need to drive to a field office or wait for the weekend to get in on the action. Through groundbreaking technology called Neighbor2Neighbor, the campaign now has a simple program to provide you with everything you need to talk to your own neighbors--a list of addresses, flyers, and easy instructions on how to talk to voters. It's all explained in this handy video, from Nicole:
You can use Neighbor2Neighbor by clicking HERE. What's it like going door-to-door, you might ask? Don't take it from the campaign--take it from this first-hand account, recently posted in the blogosphere, from volunteer Heidi, in Northeast Ohio:
I live in a suburb of Cleveland and "white, working class" would probably be the best description. After a brief training we were sent out in pairs with our packets of turf. My canvass partner was a woman in her 60s (I'm 40 years old) and we hit it off right away...We approached the last house together... and the woman who answered the door was friendly and told us she was undecided. She didn't like John McCain but just didn't know enough about Barack Obama. We started discussing different ways the current economy had affected all of us, her positions on issues, our positions on issues and you could feel the connection forming between the three of us... At the end of conversation she said she felt like she knew a lot more about him and would most likely vote for him. I felt so happy as I tallied my canvass sheet back at the office. This is what canvassing is about - the informed voter sharing information with the less informed voter, neighbors sharing their stories with other neighbors, and all of us realizing what's at stake in this election.
I live in a suburb of Cleveland and "white, working class" would probably be the best description. After a brief training we were sent out in pairs with our packets of turf. My canvass partner was a woman in her 60s (I'm 40 years old) and we hit it off right away...
We approached the last house together... and the woman who answered the door was friendly and told us she was undecided. She didn't like John McCain but just didn't know enough about Barack Obama. We started discussing different ways the current economy had affected all of us, her positions on issues, our positions on issues and you could feel the connection forming between the three of us... At the end of conversation she said she felt like she knew a lot more about him and would most likely vote for him.
I felt so happy as I tallied my canvass sheet back at the office. This is what canvassing is about - the informed voter sharing information with the less informed voter, neighbors sharing their stories with other neighbors, and all of us realizing what's at stake in this election.
Such an expansive door-to-door effort this weekend was the perfect way to cap off Heartland Issues Week, since canvassing brought Barack's message to many small towns and rural areas that wouldn't typically get attention from past campaigns. Signs of the overwhelming field presence in the state are everywhere--below is a picture of volunteers at an office opening in tiny Mount Gilead:
Our moment is now... and it's happening everywhere.
The last two presidential elections didn't feel like this. I didn't truly identify with either candidates total views for the future. Nor did I believe that they would address the issues of the future, my future, my children's futures. In fact, in many ways I wrote off politics. Afterall, what did it matter who ran the White House? In the end aren't all politcians the same? Wasn't our future, weighed down with heavy debt, no plans for social security or health insurance or affordable educations for myself or my children in the near future...
Wasn't our future bleak and full of unattainable dreams? Wasn't our future destined to be comparable to filling our children's pockets with heavy rocks and sending them into the water?
In 2004 I sat at my computer and watched Barack Obama speak at the DNC. Wow... I cried. I was stunned by the force of emotion I felt. Especially after never in my voting life feeling anything of the sort!
A couple more years passed and I listened (with one ear) to what was going on. I watched my friends and neighbors struggle to survive in changing economic times. I lost my health insurance. And I watched while many of us lost our hope for the future.
Now -- here I am. It's 2008 and I'm so excited to hear Barack Obama address issues, real issues. And so angered to hear McCain/Palin skirt the issues with generalized statements that sound no different than previous candidates. If I'm going to have hope for the future, then I need to hear and see the plans that will stabilize and better our future. McCain isn't providing that. Obama is.
So I'm not standing around anymore and waiting for someone to make a change. I'm voting to secure my children's future. I'm voting to make a difference and unite our country. I'm voting for Barack Obama.
Football is huge at colleges across Ohio... and so is the hunger for a new kind of politics in the White House! Every weekend at football games, and before them at the tailgate parties, student volunteers in Ohio register hundreds of new voters. This weekend in Bowling Green, BG played Minnesota, and though the outcome of the game wasn't ideal, the voter registration drive at the tailgate was! Local Field Organizer Corrie has the story, below the picture:
Saturday night was a winning night at the BGSU football stadium even if the home team didn't win. BGSU college dems and SFBO hosted an Obama tailgate where we barbequed, registered voters, and signed up tons of supporters and future volunteers! A few even joined us the next day to canvass after the festivities! After talking about Barack and feasting on hot dogs and hamburgers the crew headed to the stadium decked out in Obama gear to show support not only for the local team but also for Barack!
Looking for a way to get involved on your campus? It can be as easy and fun as tailgating! Now is the perfect time to start making a difference--the deadline for registering voters is October 6th, and there are still plenty of unregistered students out there, waiting to let their voice be heard. Ohio has the second highest student population in the country, at around 665,000--and John Kerry lost Ohio by a mere 118,000 votes. Now more than ever, young people in Ohio have the opportunity to single-handledly turn this country around by turning the Buckeye state blue. Get started right now, by clicking HERE.
Check out this video about Students for Barack Obama and what this movement means to a whole new generation of active, engaged citizens:
Alright, I'm in.
http://cageyness.vox.com/library/post/i-hope-i-hope-i-hope.html
From 2004, on the road on the way back from Ohio and working on the Kerry campaign. Passions not completely defeated, I sent this out to friends and family. It's worth repeating!
>> Subj: Please get ACTIVELY involved! Date: 11/5/2004 10:34:49 A.M. Pacific Daylight TimeFrom: barbarabizinc@aol.com
Spread the word to everyone you know with like minds and ideals:Please get ACTIVELY involved! There's no more free ride to democracy folks! We need smart people like you to actively help!"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." -Martin Luther KingSpread the word:If you truly value your freedoms and those of others it's time to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty. Nobody can do it for you. Many of us tried with all our means and might, with all our hearts and souls this past election, but the results show, it takes the *whole* village.There are so many good choices of ways and orgs to get involved with so you can *actively* help. Sorry, tragically, just sitting around pontificating, just watching the news, and not even just voting is enough people! YOU need to do more than that. Don't forget how many *died* fighting and persevering for your right to take, in most cases, just a few minutes to vote and have your opinions heard.Tragically, most people gave more time standing in line for a movie on one Friday night than they did to this election, to our future!Here's just a few places you can learn how you can actively help:Save the Supreme Court: http://www.democrats.org/savethecourt/index.htmlMove On:http://www.moveon.org/front/Democracy for America:http://www.democracyforamerica.comAir America Radio: (a wonderful liberal radio station)http://www.airamericaradio.comAs fellow dem club member Jane says "There are good people in Washington that are fighting for what we believe in. We can help them." We MUST help them. It's time to grow up America! We are adults, not little kids and Government is not Mom and Dad taking care of everything for us. It is our personal responsibility to participate, meet our obligation to carry some of the load that ensuring Democracy must bear. If you don't actively participate, you have absolutely no right to complain about anything! To not participate *is* to participate in creating the loss. Not participating is to promote this shameful insanity the world must bear. Barbara <<
This is a good place to jump off from and start to talk about now. We have to do just a little bit more this time. Give just a little bit more effort: one more letter, one more phone call, one more flyer or knocked on door can make all the difference in the WORLD! And it will! Yes we can! Si se puede! : )
Four years ago, I was sixteen and just getting into politics and the such. I had a very limited view and not too much exposure to much of anything outside of school, drugs, and comic books. Then I started watching the news. Not sit down with my grandmother and watch, but paying attention to the world at large. I had a surrogate family that I thought knew no wrong and basically, took them at thier word on everything. So when they said Kerry was evil in a way that we should not allow and only spoke out on being a "war hero", I assumed them to be telling me the truth.
Looking back, I've never felt so naive.
As the Bush campaign moved foward and the high school years crept by, we all started payign attention more. This is our world soon, we need to know what's going on, right? Friends started joining the military, people were starting thier college carreers and yet, everything still seemed to be getting worse. Why? "Why the hell is this happening still?", I asked myself. Then I decided to do some research.
It seems that when you're allowed to do your own research and make up your own mind, you generally come to the best conclusions. I looked back at the past twenty years of politics over a course of two weeks and what I found opened my eyes more than a Bible ever could. How the country grew more than it ever had during the Clinton administration, and how Bush Sr., Reagan, and pretty much every Republican all the way back to Nixon, had set the stage for Bush's antics. I met people from Europe, Australia, and even Canada who thought America was imploding, how we were the new international joke. The country I loved and pledged myself to, a joke in the eyes of the world? I asked myself how can we change it and who could spearhead this revolution? I prayed for 2008 to get here so I could do something about it. And finally, 2008 arrived.
By this time, I had pretty much ruled out a Republican candidate, seeing it as more of the same. Word of candidates came from everywhere, but when the dust settled, it was Hillary and Barack that stood above the others. When they came ot Austin, I heard them both. And loved them both. I figured whoever wins the candidacy, the Presidency would never be the same. And maybe that's what we needed. A change, something different to suit this new world. Something to show the doubters in the world and here at home that everybody in this country, be they Black, Hispanic, White, a woman, or anything else, has the chance to become what they want, and that this great country is not only run by rich, white men with connections in DC. I didnt attend the caucuses because I couldnt pledge myself to one or the other, but instead would vote as soon as possible to the official candidate.
Time went by and Obama eventually won. And last night, I heard possibly the most life-altering speech I've ever heard. More-so than the "I Have a Dream" speech, more than the script of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclimation. Maybe it's because I saw it live, maybe because it really was that good. Either way, after the Obama's speech last night, I believe we can finally find hope. Maybe the world can find hope in these times where we seem to be spiraling towards the Apocalypse.
In short, I want to thank Bush for opening my eyes at the sins he's committed. And I want to thank the Obama fmaily, the Biden family, and the Clinton family for giving my an epiphany on how this country should be run. With dedication to it's people. With hope and optimism. With sincerity, with a promise to bring us back to the country we once were, and to take back our country from people who are out of touch with reality and do not know how hard it is for struggling high-school grads who can barely make rent to try and get back into school so he can go make a change in this world. Most of all, I want to thank these families for not backing down in the face of the press and standing for what they believe is right. For trying to bring themselves out from where they began. Because when all is said and done, that is truly the American dream.
Joe Klein has a discussion of columnist David Brooks' analysis of "the Surge":
http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/06/surge_protection.html
Also, a brief piece on top McCain strategist Charlie Black's gaffe about how a terror attack would help McCain (said during an interview in Fortune magazine).
Huffington Post claims that although McCain almost immediately disavowed Black's comments, he has made similar comments himself in the past. Can anyone independently verify this?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/24/mccain-in-04-bin-laden-th_n_108939.html
Since I switched to supporting Mister Obama, I began reading “Dreams from My Father,” in an effort to get to know his background. I’ve already read “The Audacity of Hope,” when it first came out. I loved it, it’s what inspired my early support for him.
I have a strange relationship with Obama. I watched his rise through the U.S. Senate primaries in Illinois in 2004. I didn’t support him in the primaries, but I do distinctly remember watching his acceptance speech the night he became the Democratic U.S. Senate nominee. He talked of bringing the state together, the north and the south, and yes, I was inspired. Because of this early awareness of Obama, before the rest of the country took note, I feel like I somehow have more of a understanding of where he came from. He’s real to me, not Presidential. I’ve only ever known Hillary Clinton in a grand scale, the White House or U.S. Senate defiantly pictured in the background. But it’s different with Obama.
That was the title of a story by Judy Rudoren, née Wilgoren, published in the NY Times on June 21, 2004. In it she breaks down the cost of certain items of Kerry's Father's Day weekend in 2004. She mentions the cost of some scallops at a restaurant ($36); the cost of kite-surfing equipment ($2,500); the size of his campaign plane, etc. To what end, you say. She compares Kerry's Nantucket weekend with Bush's Crawford TX ranch:
"It was reminiscent of President Bill Clinton's vacations in borrowed houses on nearby Martha's Vineyard, and a sharp contrast to President Bush's frequent brush-clearing forays on his sweltering ranch in Crawford, Tex."
This from a writer who grew up in a tony suburb of Boston, attended Yale, and worked in a cushy big-city newspaper job in Chicago. and who I'm sure lives in a house worth more than the 1.4 mil mentioned as the average price of a house in Nantucket. Who has to be so different that she combined her and her husband's surnames, and whom, I have no doubt, shops at Whole Foods.
Today, almost four years later, another NY Times writer puts out a piece on how the Democratic candidate is rich and belongs to the moneyed class. Maureen Dowd, who I'm certain, is no stranger to Louis Vuitton and Prada, and lives in a multi-million dollar Georgetown townhome in DC, wrote what amounts to a 'why-doesn't-Obama-eat-Velveeta-and-Hamburger-Helper-like-those-Rubes-in-the-sticks-do' piece. Here's the passage that is most representative of this offense:
"At Joe’s Junction gas station in Indianapolis, Obama did his best to shoo away the pesky elitist label. Accused by an Indianapolis reporter of looking like a GQ cover, he said he has only four pairs of shoes and buys 'five of the same suit and then I patch them up and wear them repeatedly.' But his campaign refused to reveal the brand, presumably because it’s not J. C. Penney."
What is it with these well-off Ivy League educated reporters and labeling Democrats who've been successful in life as elitist? Where do they get off exactly? Thanks Ms. I-plunk-down-5-large-for-a-designer-dress Dowd, for letting us know that Barak doesn't shop at JCPenny (I think she meant Wal-Mart, as even JCPenny is getting too expensive for most Americans).
I should hope Barack doesn't shop at JCPenny. Here you have, in Barack, a guy who grew up in a single-parent household, who’s mother was on food stamps at one point, and who’s become a successful upper-middle class individual, who's written a couple of best-selling books, and you're telling me Ms. I-own-a-luxury-townhouse-in-the-most-expensive-neighborhood-in-DC Dowd, that he's not allowed to wear an expensive suit. Isn’t he the very embodiment of the American dream, the kind of person who most Americans hope their own children become. I wonder if Ms Dowd even knows how to spell foreclosure, something many Americans are acquainting themselves with.
What do her working-class-Irish-by-proxy roots tell her about that? "But if they don't have homes, where will they park their Priuses, which I'm sure every working-class American owns."
Yet she doesn't mention how McCain, an Admiral's son, got into the Naval Academy, or that his wife is very rich, and that he doesn't exactly wear JCPenny suits either. No doubt she's waiting until the nomination is over so she can write her McCain hagiography, and how he's all salt-of-the-Earth.
What is it with these people. You'd think they, of all people, would be backing the progressive candidate. But I guess these reporters are rich snobs first, and Liberals second, and really they're financially better off under Republicans anyway, am I right.
I grew up in a political family in New York. I helped my mother run for local office several times. Sometimes successfully, sometimes not. What I was most proud of in these campaigns was that my mother refused to be something that she was not. She believed, perhaps naively, that one person could make a difference, and instilled that belief in me. She also believed that politics was only a place where people of good morale character came together to wrestle with the problems of the day - and this is what made her either the best or the worst politician I have ever seen! By the end of her first term, even her own party was conspiring against her as they saw her as a threat to the status quo. What was ironic - on the refrigerator in our kitchen since the first campaign had been the following quote - "Don't wrestle with pigs, the pigs love it and you just get dirty!". If only she had headed the simple piece of advice.I was thinking of that quote today as I read through more of the 'expert' analysis of the 2008 campaign. For the past couple of weeks Senator Obama and his campaign have allowed Senator Clinton and her campaign to frame the debate. Sometimes this is unavoidable in the course of events but I believe that enough is enough!
Most recently former President Clinton made some comments that implied that only his wife and Senator McCain are Patriotic enough to be President. Now, I won't get into the ridiculousness of the comment because I believe that has been discussed ad nauseam. What I want to address is what I believe to be a grave mistake on behalf of the Obama campaign by responding to it at all. Remember - don't wrestle with pigs!
I would like to recommend and alternate strategy when dealing with anything from the Clinton campaign in the future - ignore it! They are irrelevant to the process now. After-all - they have in fact lost. They exist in the race because of three potential reasons:
First, let's talk about what Hillary might actually believe her chances to be. Forget for a moment the numbers and let's say that Senator Clinton and Obama are just about equal in delegates and votes closing in on Denver. Hillary would need to convince super delegates that she is the most electable in a general election. But this argument has gotten the Democratic party in trouble for a very long time. The question must be who should represent the Democratic Party to the country and the world? That is not a simple question because it is not just about who can beat McCain - it's who shares Democratic party values and ideals. One could argue that Senator Clinton is a formidable opponent to Senator McCain in the fall in the same way that folks argued that Senator Kerry was a formidable opponent to President Bush. We know how those contents came out.Second - It has been suggested that Hillary is bloodying up Barack so ensure a loss in the fall to McCain. While this strategy is not beyond the scope of possibility I prefer to give Senator Clinton the benefit of the doubt. Not only would this be beyond the pale and a political death sentence but if Senator Obama losses the White House to some extent based upon Senator Clinton's primary strategy - she will share some of that blame. She will not be able to quicly charge back in on a white horse after running a vicious campaign where she attached Senator Obama, the presumptive frontrunner, and say "I told you so" and "Follow me now to victory"!Now I want to address the third reason - I know it seems "out there" so please indulge me a moment. If Senator Clinton is willing to throw the kitchen sink at Senator Obama, a member of her own party, with whom she basically agrees on major policy then you have to ask; Does Senator Clinton actually agree with the policy she is putting forward? Does Senator Clinton actually stand for the platform of the Democratic party? Here's why I am asking these questions...For nearly a month now Senator Clinton and her campaign have been suggesting that Senator Obama has not passed the Commander In Chief test, that he's not ready to answer that 3am phone call, that he does not have the experience to be President, that he is not patriotic enough...At the same time Senator Clinton and her campaign have talked about her 35 years of experience, her time in the senate, her time in the white house. On the stump, Senator Clinton loves to say that "It took a Clinton to clean up after the first Bush and might take a Clinton to clean up after the second Bush".So this leads me to ask, Senator Clinton, if you had a lifetime of experience, before your husband became President, as First Lady, as Senator. Hillary, if you feel that you possess superior leadership and judgement - why did you not run for President in 2004 when the country might have needed someone of your skills most? Certainly that was a time when your lifetime of experience and fight-to-the-death campaigning style would have made it's most impact? We might all have been saved a second Bush term!
Was it because Bill was too busy playing golf with Bush 41? Was it because your unfavorables were as high then as they are now? Was it because you thought your 2002 Iraq war authorization vote was too fresh in the minds of people?Or was it because your moments are choreographed and poll driven and not based upon when the time calls for them. Your husband had the right timing in 1992. He was a little known governor but he pressed on and I know a great many of us were better off for it.
Senator Obama also understands timing. "I am running because of what Dr. King called “the fierce urgency of now.” I am running because I do believe there’s such a thing as being too late."Senator Clinton is four years too late. And now she is 30 days too late in suspending her campaign. She is hurting the party but, ironically, she is not hurting Senator Obama. I am of the firm belief that Barack gets stronger and better from all of this - as long as he learns from it. Senator Obama, will you continue to wrestle with the pigs?
I'm excited about getting involved in politics once again! I was extremely active in the elections of 2004; and although I have graduated from highschool and changed many of my political views since that time, the involvement in political procedures itself was one of the great experiences of my life.
Over the last four years, I have established my own residence and started a family of my own, with a new little girl on the way in June! I want Madison Rae to grow up in the United States of America, not the Divided States of Democrats and Republicans; where her views are respected as a citizen, even when less than agreeable to others.
Because of Barack Obama's stance on change and unity, I have decided to support him in the 2008 Presidential elections, and I am excited about the chance to become not just an American, but an involved American once again.
Way back in 2004, I was working for a union. Part of my job was to create and manage a handful of websites. One of the websites was an online election center where we graded the policy positions of candidates running for state and national offices. We sent out probably 5,000 emails to candidates, and when they responded, I copy/pasted them into the database and gave them a grade. Usually some staffer sent us some boilerplate text that they didn't even bother to customize to our questions or our audience.
Once in a while, though, someone would call. Usually it was some crackpot who had no resources, no staff, no money, and no chance of winning whichever office he was running for (I say he only because I don't remember any of the crackpots being women).
One day, a guy in Illinois running for U.S. Senate called. Based on the fact that he picked up the phone to call me, I assumed he didn't have enough resources to hire any staff that could call me or send me an email. I assumed (like the fool I am) that he was a nobody on a fast train going nowhere. I was basing this assumption, of course, on the fact that everyone else who called was definitely on a fast train to nowhere.
• Based on popular vote: Clinton, 65; Obama, 61
• Projected from caucuses: Clinton 30; Obama 37
• Superdelegates: Clinton 12; Obama 10; uncommitted 13
• Unofficial total: Clinton 107; Obama 108
*Projections were printed in the Houston Chronicle, a leading Texan paper
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in an earlier blog, "the most delegates wins," i noted that this has been a delegate race since super tuesday. as it stands, obama has won the popular vote and delegate race nationally. even by winning a state, the delegate distribution is only helpful to clinton when the victories are marked by large margins as we have seen with OBAMA time and time again. tuesday was a wash for senator clinton thanks to vermont and texas who wisely gave obama the delegate lead, solidifying his advantage over clinton.
it is now mathematically improbable for clinton to beat obama on popular vote and pledged delegates. remember poor huckabee? she would have to average more than a 20 point lead in every state henceforth.
"let's get real." as she says. even in new york she only beat obama by 17 points... and she obviously had the advantage in new york.
the substantial margin of victory for OBAMA in wyoming has already shown clinton has little chances of catching up. however, it doesn't mean she won't throw punches with her eyes wide shut.
moreover, i believe that with the last two weeks of tactics on the part of clinton, she is in the pocket of big business and the establishment for a reason. undoubtedly, hillary clinton is more like joe lieberman than barack obama is like kenneth star. hillary has essentially, endorsed john mccain this past week speaking highly of his experience (which, by the way, trumps her own). senator clinton raped senator obama's record of leadership and left nothing but one great anti-war speech.
in fact, she has reached an all-new low. she is going down with a fight and she's willing to implode the party to ensure she has the opportunity to rerun in 2012. in 2004, the media began reporting that some within the party believed that the kerry/edwards campaign was being sabotaged in order to pave the way to the 08 clinton campaign. at that time, i believed it. and i am confident of it now.
i choose to believe that the democratic party is incapable of the utter incompetence inherent in pushing forth the poorly devised, inconsistent messaging and lack of structure that crippled kerry/edwards. let's "get real" as hillary clinton would advise. kerry was defeated by an otherwise easy candidate to beat at that time. many of you might not understand my marketing perspective. the best and most entertaining way for me to explain is to highly recommend that you watch the 2006 documentary, "so goes the nation." this documentary brought to life many of my complaints about the kerry compaign and points i made late last year when i forecasted OBAMA FOR AMERICA making a strong showing. http://imdb.com/title/tt0432337/
clinton is counting on americans being niave, uneducated, or simply complacent. unfortunately, some of us have looked past the fact that most of the clinton/obama policy proposals are 95% highly similar. unfortunately, some of us have delve into the details of both resumes and see a record of admirable, effective, consistent leadership from obama. unfortunately, some of us consider character.
if there was any doubt, as i have always tried to leave her the benefit of my doubt... she demolished all doubt. in one of my blogs, i wrote if she failed to gain significant pledged delegates and even the playing field on march 4, then clinton should step aside to express her love for america is greater than her own self-ambition... she should recognize that a transformative voice we have been waiting for has surfaced and finally millions of americans finally agree that our nation must move forward into the 21st century and the time for change is now.
the only thing clinton accomplished on march 4 and by her continued attacks has been splitting the democratic party and allowing mccain to get a head start with the resources that have become available to him as the official party nominee. clinton must pull something pretty underhanded to make america's most electable candidate begin loosing by more than 20 points. but, if anyone can manage debauchery, i trust that candidate would be senator clinton.
therefore, while superdelegates will likely vote with the popular vote and the candidate with the most pledged delagates won... let's not assume that clinton is incapable of something so shocking as allowing the florida supreme court to decide the president of the united states in spite of who really won the most votes that year.
unless revotes are allowed in florida and michigan, superdelegates will be needed to nominate obama. as i said, it is mathematically improbable for clinton to win fairly from pledged delegates because she couldn't win by 20+ points even in new york and she lost in wyoming already. this is one reason clinton is gearing up to seat michigan and florida without revotes.
clinton understands revote results would inevitably diminish margins within both states in OBAMA's favor and weaken her ability to prolong the contest. after all, obama was not even listed on the michigan ballot. by not agreeing to revotes, she prevents OBAMA from meeting the minimum requirement (assuming she wins or splits pennsylvania) to win the nomination before the convention... when the superdelegates could then award him the nomination. why does it matter to her? mccain has gained a head start with the resources that have become available to him as the official party nominee. OBAMA can not gain the resources of the democratic party until he meets that minimum delegate requirement, and therefore, is named the offical party nominee.
based on her current plan of attack and positions on the issues at hand, what truly frightens me has been that clinton would rather sabotage america's most electable candidate and retain the open door to rerun in 2012 than to see her life's ambition slip by... to be the first female president.
she took her gloves off last friday. she is now throwing punches with her eyes wide shut.
god save the democratic party.
let's take no chances; let's not underestimate our opponent.
contact your state's superdelegates immediately. i found the resource for identifying the known superdelegates from the democratic party's web site (http://dnc.org/a/convention_2008/delegate/).
CLICK HERE:
http://s3.amazonaws.com/apache.3cdn.net/03932e1b8eb6b12c62_cdm6bnnf7.pdf
godspeed.
~ j
Well, a couple of days ago, someone on the blogs said they had found this Obama ad on an African-American blog where Obama used footage of Bill Clinton talking about "chosing someone who "tells you to think and hope over someone who tells you to fear..." in an October 2004 speech, and Obama ads his own statement at the end of it. If Obama attributes the speech, including date and location, he should use that ad now.
EMK
