Letters to the Editor
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Yeah, it's time to get behind Hillary's nomination! Now!
Obama supporter for Hillary
I'm a strong Obama supporter who by now desperately wishes there were a graceful way for him to concede the race to Clinton. Since he's not going to lose the primary race, he can't concede defeat, unfortunately. So how about a cancer scare for a close family member that later proves to be a false alarm? Yep, that's what I'm hoping for.
Why? Because Clinton has definitively proven that a shamelessly unprincipled campaign of lies, innuendo and fear-mongering can defeat Obama, at least this year, when he is still too exotic and unfamiliar to many voters. Many voters will think to themselves that, as Clinton put it, "as far as I know" he's not a Muslim Al Qaeda mole, but who knows, maybe he just might be.
It is by now also abundantly clear, from polls and from comments on Salon and elsewhere, that the Clinton campaign is a personality cult, and many of her followers would sell their daughters into sexual slavery before they would vote for the man who toppled their cult leader. Nevermind that there's no difference on policy between Obama and Clinton. That's another reason why he can't win. Obama supporters like myself, in contrast, will vote for Clinton, as much as I have grown to loathe her and her cult, because policy is more important than personality. So Clinton will have a somewhat better chance against McCain than Obama.
Though I loathe Clinton, by the way, I will crawl naked through broken glass to get to the polls to vote for her becuase she, or any Democrat, will stop the Republican assault on progressive taxation, which is slowly but surely turning this entire country into what will be a Rio de Jeneiro-like dystopia, populated by a few superrich hiding behind walls from the ultrapoor masses, within a couple of decades if it is not stopped. That's the most important issue facing the nation and I'll vote for anyone who will stop that.
To be sure, her fear-mongering campaign (which appears to be based on the assumption that Obama will win the nomination this year, but with her help will go down to defeat against McCain, paving the way for her return four years from now) has pretty much assured that neither Democrat can win this year.
Thus, I've concluded, it's best to give the nomination to Hillary this year, so that she can run, and lose, and the Clinton's quarter-century reign over the Democratic Party can end now, and the Clintons can get the f*** out of our faces forever.
-- markthomp