They’ve decided to wait just in case another reverend Wright or even better, the real reverend Wright comes out and creates a new disaster for their Presidential candidate. Seemingly unimpressed by the fact that Senator Obama’s campaign increased its net lead in delegates and popular vote in spite of the reverend wright issue.
Man, this is really starting to get on my tits.
The nomination process should’ve finished a couple of months ago, all that’s happened since is the Democratic Presidential nominee has been roughed up some more, but obviously not quite enough to ensure his opponent gets a last roll of the dice in 2012 against an incontinent...sorry, incumbent John McCain.
I really don’t care whether the party’s super-plums believe in her great Machiavellian scheme or not, there’s only one possible winner and all that the continuation of this process will do is offer some more free riding time to McCain and a little more DNC Presidential candidate bashing.
I have a suggestion for those ‘undeclared’ superstars:
Rather than sweating over how they can give this to Obama (he‘s only won more states, more delegates, more of the vote etc.) they need to flip this on its head and consider under what possible circumstance they think they could give the nomination to Clinton. If they do manage to conjure up a rationale for it, then they need to visualize just how they would ‘sell’ that rationale and while they’re at it give a thought to how much mileage they think the GOP would get from it.
If it’s the ‘electability’ thing that’s bothering them, they shouldn't let it; he’s electable, he’s proved that by being where he is today. Also, attach no value to the idea of disgruntled Clinton supporters, it’s a fabrication. Did you see the Indiana polling on that yesterday? Clinton voters were saying in big numbers that they would vote for McCain against Obama in the general but equally big numbers of Clinton voters said they’d vote for McCain against Clinton in the general too?!?!?! Now that’s what I call chaos!
The issue is nonsense. You will be hard pushed to find a political reason why a true Democrat supporting Clinton would prefer McCain over Obama. Of course there's the race issue, but frankly no amount of Clinton coddling will make a racist vote for a black candidate, let those people vote for the white republican, they will be in good company.
Of course there are those Clinton supporters who have worked tirelessly on her behalf and whose opinions of Obama will have been polarized over time. But, however loud they are these guys are a small minority, they are also true democrats and as such will find it extremely difficult voting for a republican come November, saying you will is one thing but doing it is something entirely different. But again, good luck to them if they feel that bitter about it all.
So what the fuck are you not at all great super-delegates waiting for?
Obama and his supporters deserve immense credit for what they have achieved over the past 6 months and I believe their victory on Tuesday was historic.
They’ve been fighting on so many fronts;
- a strong candidacy from a seasoned politician in Hillary.
- Bill Clinton probably the most popular democratic president in forty years and the machine responsible for electing him to the presidency. twice!
- John McCain, Bush and the incumbent GOP.
- The unconstitutional and illegal ‘chaos’ effect.
- A narcissistic friend or two.
- A media desperate to spin this out as long as possible for the extra advertising cash
- And of course a good old dose of institutional racism.
But, of course he’s ‘unelectable’ right?
I know it’s tough to lose and it’s way easier being a good winner than a good loser but, let’s face it Obama supporters have had by far the biggest mountain to climb, what they have achieved is nothing short of miraculous. No doubt there’s a lot more uphill climbing to be done but they stand on the cusp of actually getting their man elected. I would trust them to be good winners and as such the most likely to reunite whatever needs reuniting.
For a moment of such historical significance for the party and the nation, this week has been weirdly bereft of celebration, I mean I was elated last night, but it was tempered, one has to be careful, no one dare get carried away and that’s pretty much down to the party leadership and those mysteriously ’undeclared’ super-party people.
I’m sorry to say it but I don't feel that Howard Dean has helped the cause and has made a pig’s ear of this so far. Florida and Michigan should’ve been put to bed an eon ago. Both states knew they were breaching DNC rules and that their delegates would NOT be seated. However, instead of saying fuck off, you broke the rules, as soon as it got tough all we heard were conciliatory tones ‘we’re looking for ways to seat them’ etc, but what the fuck!
Dean’s atrocious handling of this issue has left Obama totally exposed, not only has he had to fight on all fronts, but somehow he’s been painted as the reason that Florida and Michigan are not going to have their delegations sat...nice work!
I noticed Dean’s latest angle for deflecting attention from the obvious damage caused by this issue, has been to point out that they’re running a couple of commercials knocking McCain.
Oh well that’s alright then, that’s just fantastic! Dean and the crew have got our backs, these guys aren’t prepared to just sit around while they sit around deciding on who to back and how to handle the Florida/Michigan debacle. No, not this lot, they’re right up there on the front line taking the fight to McCain.
Well what a load of bollocks!
Dean and co need to get off their smug asses and deal with this. They could end it tomorrow, only needs 200 of the dodgy super-stallers that are left to come out from hiding and endorse Obama, then it’s over. It would be nice to see a 100 or so of Clinton’s switching too, making it definitive for Obama and giving him a mandate that's strong enough to carry him through the general.
Please start to make up for the very many unnecessary ills he has had to face. He has climbed a mountain to get to where he is and he’s earned it.
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