IT IS TIME.
It is time to get off the sidelines and implore our respective superdelegates to either drop their previous endorsements of Hillary Clinton or to openly commit to Barack Obama. The following is the text of a letter I am sending to my Senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell in Washington State who both endorsed Clinton before our caucuses showed overwhelming support for Obama.
Please feel free to plagiarize as you wish, but in any case do consider writing your own representatives this week and letting them know that we will not stand for the voters' stated preference to be overturned by party insiders.
Dear Senators,
PLEASE CONSIDER REVOKING YOUR ENDORSEMENT OF HILLARY CLINTON.
Please consider the wishes of your constituents, and the best interests of the Democratic Party and the nation as a whole when casting your vote as Superdelegate to the Democratic convention this August.
Senator Clinton has shown herself to be a candidate whose tactics are not worthy of your support. Examples of her behavior and that of her campaign include, but are not limited to:
--Campaign strategist Mark Penn invoking the past "cocaine" use by Barack Obama when young,
--Bill Clinton inflaming racial tensions when invoking Jesse Jackson in dismissing the results out of the South Carolina Primary,
--Her insistence on seating the delegates from Florida and Michigan in opposition to the rules she herself agreed to before the primary season began,
--Her and her surrogates’ insistence that winning the nomination via the superdelegate vote in spite of the voters’ wishes would be somehow acceptable,
--Her recent implication that John McCain would be a better president than fellow democrat Barack Obama, and
--Her constant and unrelenting use of smears, lies, and fearmongering in order to campaign against Obama in recent contests, in the very spirit of Karl Rove and George W. Bush.
We as voters have to decide what kind of nation we want to live in. Are we going to openly support a candidate who disrespects the ideals of democracy and fair play in order to win at all costs? Are we going to tolerate outright racebaiting and fearmongering against one of our own? Are we going to nominate a candidate who has shown herself to be have as little conscience as the Republicans in office just because of party loyalty?
Myself and many millions of others are going to say NO, we want our country and especially our political party to be better than that. Barack Obama has given us a golden opportunity to BETTER ourselves, our party, and our nation, and I strongly encourage you to join us in achieving this worthy goal.
Sincerely,
oscarsmom
Seattle, WA