SD's, Your Role, Should You Decide To Accept It...

I have reached the absolute end.

I was open to the idea of Mrs. Clinton having all the room in the world to make a graceful exit from the stage but after her comments today, I am finished.

I always understood the idea behind Super Delegates was to have a method in place meant to keep the Democratic Party from damaging itself, from self destructing. From where I stand, this protracted and ugly fight is damaging us and continues to do so.

It is now clear Hillary Clinton has no legitimate path to the Democratic nomination and moreover, it appears that from here on out, it is her intention to make sure the presumed nominee is so beat up as to make the uniting of the party as difficult and unlikely as possible.

So tonight I wrote a letter to my Senators, Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell. They are both Hillary Clinton supporters and Super Delegates, and I made my feelings known regarding this continuing debacle.

   

Dear Senator _______,

I am so offended by Senator Clinton today. I have been willing to allow this race to go on no matter how destructive I think it has been to our party, because up to now these sort of observations have been made by Hillarys surrogates.

Clinton cited an Associated Press article "that found how Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me."

But no more. This is outrageous. If she were a Republican or for that matter even a television host we would be angry, offended and calling for her to step down or be fired. But because its "The Clintons" we, and I am going out a a limb here and saying YOU, as a Super Delegate are allowing this sort of corrosive politics to continue unabated to our detriment.

Stop this now. This primary campaign season is over. As a super Delegate you are supposed to keep the party from destroying itself and I expect you to honor that role.

      Sincerely,

It is time to ask those Supers who are still supporting this disaster to stop it. It is time to begin the healing of the wounds of this primary season. It is now time to cast a clear set of collective eyes toward the McSame Campaign and begin to call him on the free ride he is getting because of this endless Clinton campaign.

I am certain if the tables were turned the hue and cry for Mr. Obama to withdraw would be deafening, and no less should be accorded Mrs. Clinton despite her long standing association with the party.

I encourage all to write a letter to your Democratic Representatives, Govenors and Senators who are either uncommitted or committed to the Clinton campaign and kindly but firmly ask them to end this divisive and destructive campaign now.

For our Country and its future.

•  Your best tip??

  Just write

  by Seattlite on Fri May 09, 2008 at 12:40:42 AM PDT

•  Okay . . .

  It's been a long year, and I'm going to get flamed for this, but I'm going to let this one slide.

  Why? Because I heard the remarks. And it seemed like she was trying to say "hard working white Americans." She forgot to say the 'white' part and tried to throw it in there on the fly. It came out bad. REALLY bad. But I'm going to give her this one.

  It's a gaffe, certainly. But I think it's an honest misspeak and not racist code.

  Besides, she's said WAY too many blatently stupid, unfair, untrue, ridiculous things in this campaign for me to dwell on this one.

  (And yes, I realize she'd be up Obama's ass for anything like this. But that's why we're the good guys.)

  by EvilAsh on Fri May 09, 2008 at 12:46:28 AM PDT

  •  I recognize this but ...

    I am generally a thoughtful and clear thinking person. This is done and if she even keep making "little" mistakes that play into the narrative her campaign has had so far, the damage continues unabated.

    It is over and it is still up to the SD's to grow a spine and end this. Find a face saving scheme if you will BUT END IT.

    by Seattlite on Fri May 09, 2008 at 12:50:01 AM PDT

    •  For some reason this reminds me of something . .

      Oh yeah.

      Politicians and the boogeyman have something in common.

      Ignore them long enough and they WILL go away.

      by EvilAsh on Fri May 09, 2008 at 12:53:03 AM PDT

    •  she may have slipped

      but clearly their campaign strategy has been to amplify the "WHITE working class" and deliberately pit the white v. black vote. geoff and howard said explicitly on their conference call the day after indiana/nc

      by ye ye ye on Fri May 09, 2008 at 04:50:29 AM PDT

  •  Giving Hillary a pass -- she's tired

    I'm sure it was a misspeak.  

    At least she didn't say she had the votes of "Hard working Bosnia snipers."  

    by ruscle on Fri May 09, 2008 at 01:32:24 AM PDT

  •  No pass for Hillary's racist remark.

    She's had all her surrogates out echoing the same "white" vote crap. The NYT who endorsed her, even has called Hillary out in an editorial.

    But we believe just as strongly that Mrs. Clinton will be making a terrible mistake — for herself, her party and for the nation — if she continues to press her candidacy through negative campaigning with disturbing racial undertones.

    by peraspera on Fri May 09, 2008 at 02:23:57 AM PDT

  •  Oh, come on

    "hard working" didn't come out of the mouths of the surrogates all day, but the message was the same.  

    Remember, they were citing an AP article from 3 days before the primary, knowing full well from exit poll data that he did respectably with whites in IN and NC, especially IN.  As well as John Kerry did in 2004, as cited by Kos earlier in the day.  

    So the message was racially divisive -- it just was.  She was saying that people won't vote for Obama because he's black.  Of course that is true of some of the electorate.  It is equally true that there are people who will never vote for a woman, and certainly not one named Clinton.  

    So it wasn't a gaffe -- it was part of an orchestrated plan of attack to convince superdelegates that the Democratic party should be as racially divisive as the republican party.  

    Why aren't we hearing that she lost half of her already paltry support with blacks since OH?  Why isn't that part of the narrative.  

    No pass.  Sorry, not this time.

    by 57andFemale on Fri May 09, 2008 at 02:42:10 AM PDT

•  FYI Cantwell is a member of the

  "Pelosi Club" that has said it will vote wih whoever gets the most pledged delegates, so at this point she is a Clinton delegate in name only.

  Haven't heard any wavering from Patty Murray, and frankly I don't expect to.  I expect that she will remain a Hillary delegate to the very end.

  by NWTerriD on Fri May 09, 2008 at 01:25:41 AM PDT

•  AAAAAAARRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!

  Fuck the superdelegate theory. It is not working.

  by woodstock007 on Fri May 09, 2008 at 01:38:51 AM PDT

•  Done

  And I will continue to do so daily, either by letter, email or phone call, until the supers, who are now complicit in the implosion of the Demcoratic party, do their job and stop the destruction.  

  I will contact the DNC and my worthless congressman Rahm Emmanual, until enough supers step forward and become part of the solution instead of part of the problem.  

  by 57andFemale on Fri May 09, 2008 at 02:33:10 AM PDT