Saturday, April 12, 2008

Sen. Clinton Will Destroy The Party Before Seeing Obama As President

I am of the belief that Sen. Hillary Clinton would rather see Sen. John McCain get elected as President of the United States, than lose to Sen. Barack Obama and return to the Senate.

The evidence that points towards this is overwhelming; delegate math, negative campaigning, and of course her response to Sen. Obama's comments about voters in "small towns" in PA. Here is an excerpt of what Sen. Obama said:

"You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years. ... And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

Sen. Obama was not "looking down" on anybody. He was pointing out a real truth that has plagued, not just small towns in PA, but also towns in Ohio (remember NAFTA?) and other states that have lost jobs because of the current administration and lunatic policies (NAFTA) that Sen. Clinton supported.

Sen. Clinton responded with, "that's not my experience" in response to Sen. Obama's remarks. Oh really? Well, what is it then? You cannot tell me that people who have seen jobs leave their towns are happy and enthusiastic. You cannot tell me that people in PA or Ohio who have seen plants shut down have not either privately or publicly displayed some level of bitterness.

Mrs. Clinton used this as opportunity to make it seem as though Sen. Obama was "looking down on people".

"They take refuge in their faith and their community, and their family, and the things they can count on.", Mr. Obama said. That, to me, clearly does not sound like someone is looking down on another person or persons.

It is tragic, that Sen. Clinton on the brink of failure - failure to get the nomination - will stoop so low, after squandering a double digit lead in the PA polls, and suggest that her "opponent" is so insensitive that he would suggest such a thing.

These are the politics of a desperate candidate, who, after having her own ethics called into question, will attempt to create an image for her opponent that would be unappealing to the voters of PA.

Once again, as with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright issue, the media picked up on this - something which really had no fuel - and gave into the Clinton machine. And sadly, we have another fight; never mind the issues - the main issues - but now we have merely a comment made and then the media and Sen. Clinton hit the airwaves with their spin.

Tragic.

And yet, "it still moves". The Obama campaign will survive. Sen. Clinton does not want a position in an Obama White House, that is why she will (a) fight to the death and (b) do whatever she can to destroy Sen. Obama, thereby letting McCain win. If I can't have it, nobody in the party can...

I would rather have a President who speaks realities about my predicament, than one who lies and lies..and lies...and lies and characterizes these lies as words that were "misspoken" even though she was often reading from prepared remarks!

This is why the Democratic election is so remarkably unprecedented. Not so much because you have a woman and an African-American, but because the African-American candidate - his demeanor and his way of deflecting, and tolerating, is so representative of what many people go through day-to-day.

Sen. Clinton's energy does not come from her belief that she is "more qualified" To be sure, they are probably equally qualified at this point. But her energy and obsession is fueled by the myth that she, and her economic background (earning $109 million over a 6-7 year period) is better and that even if she lies and lies and lies, she is still entitled to win, because of who she is, and of course, who her candidate is....

She reminds me of a disgruntled baseball pitcher, whose team has no shot at the World Series.

The next batter she faces happens to be the opposing team's pitcher, who interestingly, has a pretty impressive batting average. The pitcher who is batting could very well see his team go to the World Series. As the pitcher on the mound, what does she do? Does she walk him? No. Does she throw a change-up? No. She hits the opposing pitcher who happens to be the opposing team's ace. End result? He cannot pitch in the world series.

Every time she says something, she is hitting the Democratic Party!

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