Dear House Speaker Pelosi,
I would like to thank you for your opinion on the Super-Delegates issue, and reinforce my support as you come under question by Clinton donors.
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Years ago, California buried the the Bloodsworth-Thompsons: what a horrible show they ran. David Gefen has elaborated on this early in the campaign: America, and California does not want 'Designing Women' for President any more than it wants 'Designing Men' for President [or Vice President]. Quite frankly, the power of the Bloodsworth-Thompsons was an illusion, as ill-fated and short-lived as their television show.
If America wanted a woman for President, they should have chosen someone like Senator Barbara Boxer. Boxer is not a credit to women, she's a credit to the Senate--intellectual depth, someone who stands up for their principles. Like Obama, she wagered her political fortune on taking a stand against the war; she wagered what she believed in against political opportunism. In the Senate, Boxer has been a vocal voice against the rise of executive power, against the deterioration of environmental standards, for womans rights, for gun control--if Hillary Clinton had the record of Barbara Boxer, she would be a great candidate. (Why Barabara Boxer didn't run on Barbara Boxer's record, I don't know.)
But Hillary Clinton is no Barbara Boxer. Barack Obama's record is more Barbara Boxer than Hillary Clinton's record is Barbara Boxer. It's disappointing that Barbara Boxer did not run for President, but I suppose that a consolation is that she will remain a strong voice in the Senate.
Were Hillary Clinton possessed of Barbara Boxer's record, perhaps this would be a race, something about the difference between a black man and a white woman. But Hillary Clinton does not posses Barbara Boxer's record. Senator Obama is does. Therefore, this race is not about gender. It is about issues.
In response to the veiled economic threats of the Clinton donors: Quite frankly, I don't think that the economic support for the Democratic Party will be coming from the Clinton loyalists. I don't even see that their support is strong in any part of California--"If Barack Obama were a state he would be California." And if the Clinton donors do carry out their threat to abandon the Democratic cause, there are far more donors in California that will make up for their absence. I know them, as you do.