Letters to the Editor
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Where Is The Unseated Real President, Al Gore?
I wonder when President Al Gore is goin to come out and endorse Barak Obama? The World realises that Bush/Cheney are Imitators. Any objective thinker in America and other Nations recognises that Barak Obama is the most suited for the next President Of the United States.
Mrs. Clinton's and the Establishment Media'S tactics to prolong this Nomination has unveiled so much about the Evil Intent Of The Heart. McCain is the Power Broker's choice. The Clintons are merely intermediaries to that objective.
Non of the Establishment expected Barak Obama to get pass Super Tuesday. This is why Hillary must prolong this Nomination. Look closely at here Spirit.
Let's face it. " This Nation and the World need the Fresh New Ideas of A New Generation to Govern us. "Bush/Cheney has only expedited the Urgency.
Mr. Gore, I summon you to appear as the Voice of Change to endorse Mr Obama and move the Party forward. The Media has hindered progress long enough.
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The Impending Disunity
The big news is the loss of Mich especially to Clinton, and Florida is a disaster for her as well.
Does it even make sense to argue it's a party fuck-up that balances the playing field for the impending Superdelegate face-off? (Where is some reporting on Dean's role in this?)
Isn't that the greatest fear to the Dems at this point--and doesn't everybody know it? Couldn't it lead to the "disunity" that will throw yet another election to the GOP? Isn't anybody getting as sick of this mess as I am?
It's one thing for McCain to hold together the Bush/Rove coalition, but quite another if the Dems self-destruct because of their own partisanship. Barack is now vulnerable in a way he hasn't been before in the general election and his supporters need to acknowledge it and take a more objective look.
If their only goal is to get Barack into office, their motives are questionable. Those who say it's either Obama or McCain are on the fringe. They need to be seen for what they are: manipulators.
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The Nomination
As I've argued for months, the Democratic nomination is an empty crown if it doesn't also lead to the White House. That's why I am not so concerned with telling the super delegates how to vote. They'll fall in line with the person who will win the White House. Remember that many of these super delegates are elected officials and know a bit of something about winning. They're hoping for a presidential candidate with some coattails.
I think we will see these super delegates fall in line behind Obama. Not because "he's the popular choice" or "he has more delegates" but because he has proven himself as extremely electable and has handled some tough situations with grace and ease. His speech on race is one of the most marvelous political speech in a long time. Compare this to Romney's "must give" speech on religion, and you can see a world of difference.
I supported Clinton in the primary, and I still think she's an amazing politician. I am impressed not with her White House years, but her performance in the Senate. She, in an extremely short time, has become one of the most effective senators in the chamber. Meanwhile Obama's senatorial career has been pretty meager.
This isn't really Obama's fault. He spent the first two years as the most junior of junior senators with his party in opposition. It also takes years to build a career in the Senate, and I think his unhappiness with that body is his reason to run now instead of waiting around for four to eight years in order to gain experience. Obama's senatorial career is extremely typical, Clinton's has been amazing.
Then again, maybe what it takes to be an excellent president is a different skill set than being a U.S. senator. The senate is a country club and it involves lots of wheeling and dealing and private negotiating. The presidency is a post where you inspire and lead. With the presidency, you are in control, and you deal with the 100 people in the Senate not as an equal to an individual senator, but as an equal to the entire Senate.
Abraham Lincoln, another Illinois politician with lots of local political experience, but even less national experience than Obama is normally considered a pretty fair president. His time in the House (a single two year term) was an absolute disaster and his personal performance was pointed out as one of the reasons the Whigs not only lost Congress to a Democratic landslide, but the Presidency as well.
Lincoln's political comeback was his help in his effective organizing of the Illinois Republican party. His debate with Douglas (who was the 1850's President-in-Waiting) brought him national attention. People who bought their local paper to read Douglas's words were impressed by the eloquence of this nobody local boy. Remember too that the 1860 Republican nomination was not decided until after the convention met. I believe there were three role call votes before Lincoln secured the nomination from a rather surprised William Steward.
I don't want to see a June meeting of the super delegates. I'd rather they do their wheeling and dealing at the convention. It will make some extremely exciting television. I envision a deal where the super delegates will mainly fall in line for Obama, then allow both the Florida and Michigan delegations to be seated as is since Obama will have enough delegates to win anyway.
Then it will be onward to the White House. If the Democrats don't win the White House, then it really doesn't matter who wins the nomination.
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FL and MI and the delegate count
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if they counted both Florida and Michigan wouldn't the nomination threshold go up as well? I was under the impression that 2,025 delegates was based on the fact that neither Florida nor Michigan were going to seat any delegates. If their states counted as "0" in equation, then wouldn't adding their delegate totals just up the threshold?
does anybody know?
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Obama buys votes by paying off campaign debts of NM Gov. Richardson et al.
N.M.Gov.Richardson probably had his campaign debt paid
off by Obama money. I believe same may be true of Sen.
Dodd and Gov. of Az.. Sen. Mccaskill, and Tom Daschelle.
If Sen. Clinton had done this, she would have been
accused of vote buying.