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• Monday, May 12, 2008 08:54 AM

  Would Obama quit if he were Clinton?

  Hillary Clinton holds all the possible hope for change I see in this election. So why is everyone so set on getting rid of her? It almost feels like we are being set up as a country, like the military-industrial complex has chosen the leader to follow Bush. It feels to me like Obama is the choice of all the folks, especially established white men, who I would like to see lose their power for a while so we could undo the incredible tangle they have made of things.

  If Obama was just about 100 delegates behind, in a race where he had won ALL the states which are necessary to win the general election in November; would he quit? I think not.

  How many of us recall when Al Gore quit and how through the years we have all wondered what might have happened if he had held his position and not accepted defeat before it was assured? I know I do. I also know how desperately I wished Gore had fought harder and longer for the sake of thousands of lives lost and all the wealth that has been plundered by G. Bush and his cronies. We laid down when we should have stood on our hind legs and said "the Court may not decide who the next president will be."

  So now we find ourselves in a similar place. If Clinton accepts the defeat that so many men are rushing to hand her, including Shapiro, will we have similar regrets. Undoubtedly. Obama will never be able to handle the Washington crew. He will be isolated and rendered impotent by the very political insiders who are working to make sure he, and not Clinton, is the nominee. Then they will proceed to continue to fleece and fuck the last bits of wealth, resources, and power this country has remaining. Obama will be neither strong enough, nor knowledgeable enough, nor experienced enough to accomplish anything to repair the destruction that has been wrought on the society and its laws and people.

  But wisdom gained from the past has never held much interest for the American mind nor media. Head for the hills, get your gardens in, learn how to hunt, and make sure you have good fences. The disaster which will be the result of the selling of Obama as the solution will be painful, and potentially violent. And, as an additional benefit for the GOP, the economic and environmental tragedy will all be Obama's fault.

  Death with dignity? We better all know how to walk that walk since Obama will accompany us to our demise if he is chosen as the Dems nominee.

  Maybe like me, Clinton is facing the reality of what will come if she quits and isn't going to acquiesce to that level of destruction for face-saving. Or maybe, also like me, she thinks that something might intervene before the barrel goes over the cliff.

  My fingers are crossed.

  —Angela from the Center Read Angela from the Center's other letters
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