Not the American people, they've already decided, Obama has more votes, when they count the next three states, he will still have the lead. So people wondering "why is Hillary doing this"?
Why? Because she's holding the SUPER DELEGATES HOSTAGE. She and her team are trying to bloodie up Obama to the point where the man who came in with years of experience in elected office, the head of his Harvard classes Law Review, with a dream of hope, with a gift to inspire hundreds of thousands into helping, donating, including a new generation of registered young people, yes, Hillary and her boys hope to make Barack Obama unrecognizable. She is showing the Super delegates that Obama, after she and her piglets are done with him, won't have a chance to win.
This is a woman who is trying to convince this country that she and McCain made the real hard decision in the build up to the war.... she, who with Bill have somehow decided that every year Obama spent in the Senate looking at the presidency, those years don't count... so, let me get this right, now, by her own standards, Hillary then has 0 experience in elected office. She's been planning this run since she moved to NY. Realistically, what was the real experience she had before she came to the senate to run for president??? Deciding what color the lights would be on the blue room Christmas Tree.... and her foreign experience was picking the silver for foreign dignitaries have dinner at the White House... and experience at home... I would say Mrs. Clinton was kept quite busy booking the Lincoln Bedroom.
And what was that one speech Obama made, the speech that continues to torture her??? It's the speech he made while running for office, a move many many people thought was politically stupid... but he made it anyway.. let's see, it started with, "I'm not against all war, I'm against a STUPID WAR" and then went on to predict every nasty nightmare that we are still stuck in today, killing our soldiers, the Iraqi people and draining us of money we need to secure our future. So why does this speech torture Mrs. Clinton? Because it's the speech she KNEW she should have made. Hillary is a very intelligent woman, she knew damn well what was going on and what would happen. Does she think we at the grassroots are going to forget the millions of people around the world BEGGING US not to bomb Iraq? She must know we all remember Hans Blix and Scott Ritter saying "there were no bombs". Why were they so important? Because they were the inspectors we sent in to find the bombs, the inspectors Saadam asked to come back to look more. Maybe it was the millions of Americans who marched against the war before the bombs were dropped? The million of us in DC, in NYC, all around this country... those of us who wrote letter after letter after letter begging her to come out against the war.
My 10 year old son knew there were no WMD's in Iraq, anyone with a computer and even a little interest could find the answers. So Hillary Clinton, who didn't spend 8 years in the Illinois state senate getting poor children health insurance... she spent 8 years picking out the sheets for the presidents bedroom. Maybe if Hillary had spent the years Obama spent teaching the constitution as Obama did while in his spare time worked to teach poor people to organize, how to pull them out of the institutionalized racism this country now lives with, showing them the boot straps they need to pull up themselves up with to get their lives together... He did not teach those people to act like victims... he wasn't a victim, he was teaching them self respect and a way out... he was showing them that playing the victim never really frees people, it teaches them to manipulate and how to give away your power, use it to move themselves up into places they should earn. It's so disappointing to have the biggest legacy Hillary Clinton is going to leave to her people... the women in America, the one lesson we DID NOT NEED... how to be a victim. Hell, Saturday Night Live helped her take this lesson to an artistic level.. their skit portrayed the News media as punishing her, the same news media who called her the "Clear winner", the "Only real Candidate" hardly mentioned Obamas name until Iowa... Saturday night Live helped not once but twice, 20 minutes of television that would have cost a kings ransom, free, all spanking the bad men for making poor Hillary sad.
Hillary Clinton's heart is about as soft as a porcupine, so she doesn't "get" Obama. How dare he run in '08, everyone knows that was HER year... why couldn't the grateful people of Harlem where Bill rented his office complex stop Obama?? Couldn't Charlie Rangel stop him? Everybody knew this was her year... HOW DARE HE.
So here's what's going on... if Hillary can't have it... then NO ONE CAN. So she'll pick up every trick she learned from Karl Rove... take "the gang without souls" who are running her campaign and she will continue to squeeze the balls of the SUPER DELEGATES until they give her the votes... she'll prove to them that Obama is really nothing special... this eloquent, this decent, honest, even smarter than she is, this man was not the one.
If the Democratic Party thinks this little squabble will clean up fast and then we'll all shake hands and be friends again, like in all our 'zaney' elections....they are dreaming. This line she is crossing is going to be the Iraq War of the democratic party.. and many, many of us who year after year, go to the polls to vote against someone.... never having a real choice... the choice we would pick is usually shut up by money.... but money wasn't really the issue this time. It's Bill squeezing balls who decides, it's those not so smoked full back rooms, packed with favors and deals and pardons and every secret not being told. When even Howard Dean is turning into a whore, you can say good by to us, to the democratic base and to the black vote you have always counted on. No, this year I will hold my nose and vote for McCain... because that's who Hillary is talking up.
So Superdelegates, grow some stones... stop the blood bath... announce your vote for Obama and save the party.