Move On or somebody ought to buy some TV ad time to broadcast this to the Rules and Bylaw Committee and the remaining Superdelegates. This is great!
A singer/songwriter duo from Seattle, Wa were inspired to write and record this youtube.com video that asks - no beseeches on behalf of a nation needing salvation from a dark time - Hillary Clinton to Hang It Up.
Please forward this to superdelegates and anyone you know who might be inspired. Well worth it.
http://www.youtube.com/...
It is pretty clear now that, although Hillary Clinton is showing an admirable degree of stick-to-it-ivness that we all could use more of, it has gotten to become an issue that goes beyond the primary contest. How can the party unite if this goes all the way to the convention?
This is not about lawyering the technicalities, but about leading the nation forward through a positive inspiration about a future that has a lot of dangers, uncertainties and mind bending problems in it.
Just look at the price of gas and the housing market. The underlying problems here are profound and on a scale only the White House and Congress can really address, and then only in marginal and long term ways. The nation has got to move towards an administration with a mandate for change.
If Hillary hadn't made a series of mistakes, beginning with her calculation that she needed to vote for the Iraq resolution in order to look macho enough, and then adopting a campaign based on out-Roving Rove and using the consulting model from the '80s and '90s - instead of embracing the grass roots resurgence and the netroots that are revolutionizing both politics and the media - she could have been the nominee. But she made huge mistakes that showed she was on a different page than the Democratic activist constituencies that a nominee needs to win.
That's the bottom line. Are we seriously likely to win in November if the activist base and the organizations built up in the primary process are dissed in favor of a lawyered-into-place nominee?
At some point, there is a winner and an also-ran. Hillary Clinton, like or or not, has increased her status as a US Senator who can be a tough champion and will have that going for her in the next few years, and in the history of the US. Not bad glass ceiling crashing. She can run again in 2016 after the Obama Administration has finished doing its job. Or not.
But for now, it is time to turn towards the job of repairing the huge amount of damage the Bush Administration has done. Big Job for all of us.