Well it looks like your're hearing it all over the place now. I just heard this garbage on ABC. To Hillary supporters, all I can tell you is that this is just a full-force blitz by Obama supporters to suppress the turnout in PA (thus preventing a blowout) and the rest of the remaining contests. Here's an incredible example of what some groups are trying to do. A group headed by Michael Fisher and calling itself the "afrosphere's" Committee to Unite the Democratic Party has started an online petition calling for Hillary to "concede defeat and support the democratic presidential ticket". Among some of the reasons they list on their web page:
(1) The Democratic Party base has spoken. The delegate count shows that Senator Hillary Clinton cannot win the nomination on the strength of earned delegates, based on the will of the voters.
That's funny considering that Obama can't win on the strength of earned delegates either.
(3) This divisiveness is regrettable because, via the presidential candidacy of Senator Obama, the vast majority of African-Americans stand united with millions of white Americans and Americans of all colors, genders, ethnicities and religious backgrounds, erasing divisions to implement a program of Democratic change.
This is also curious as Hillary also has support across the spectrum including a majority of the Latino population, the Gay community, millions of poor working-class and blue collar voters, as well as people of all religious backgrounds.
(6) Mrs. Clinton must wholeheartedly support the winner of the nomination, who has earned the most delegates, and devote herself honestly and enthusiastically to defeating Republican electoral hopes in 2008, not attacking Democratic politicians and Democratic constituencies.
This is down right hypocritical considering the next reason.
(7) Should the Democratic Party leadership nullify the people's votes by giving Mrs. Clinton the nomination, despite the popular will as represented by earned delegates, we would then call upon African-American voters and all Democratic Party constituencies and supporters to withhold their support from a Hillary Clinton candidacy in November. We have survived eight years under President Bush and, if compelled to do so, we will survive four years under a President McCain. However, we cannot and will NOT survive the nullification of our most hard-won right - our votes.
OK, first of all, tell that to the people of MI and FL. Another thing is...really?!? You would really support McCain by not voting for Hillay? Considering this group says it's part of the "afrosphere", I'm going to assume that MLK Day is important to them as it is to me as well. Why would you then go ahead and support a candidate who
opposed the creation of this special day? The man who
McCain idolized,
Ronald Reagan, also opposed the creation of the holiday. In fact, the holiday was not recognized in McCain's state of
Arizona until the year 2000. Would you really vote against a Democrat who has a record of helping African-American causes and vote
for a candidate who admits to the mistake above and supported the display of the
confederate flag atop the SC Statehouse in 2000 due to political pressure. All I can say is, be careful what you wish for.
The
national polls still show the race just about even. For all those people yelling about "the rules", I want to see if they bring up the rules if the momentum shifts and the super-delegates decide to vote for Hillary, which
the rules state they can do if they feel she would be a better candidate against McCain. The best way for us to be unified as Dems is to let the process continue and have every state be heard.
I hate sports analogies, since they remind me of Chris Matthews. However, (here it goes) can you imagine everybody calling for the Red Sox to quit in 2000, for the good of baseball, because they were down 3 games? What a series we would have missed.
You can e-mail the editor of the petition, Francis L. Holland, at
francislholland@yahoo.comLabels: African-American issues, Clueless Pundits, Comment, Election 2008, Hillary, Media, MLK
