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WHEN THE MUSIC'S OVER...AN OPEN LETTER TO MRS. CLINTON 05/08/2008 at 04:50 AM


Hillary:

You fought your ass off and made yourself a hugely viable and powerful political presence in
the eight years since the Clintons last reigned. It's nothing short of tremendous. Now exercise
the most common of common sense and bow gracefully from the blinding footlights of
the Democratic race. Understand that you're beaten and don't prolong a process that
will only pull your party apart. If you stay in a race where it is mathematically impossible for
you to prevail, it casts you as little more than a shrewish, win-at-all-costs political opportunist
and NOT as a team player who puts her party's collective welfare ahead of her own political
ambition.

There's nothing wrong with wanting it that bad. There IS something wrong with wanting
it worse than anything else.

When you take in the full measure of what electing someone like Obama into office could
help repair and reshape the world over, then even you would be hard pressed not to see the
almost invincible promise that brings. The people are telling your party what they want.
Do the graceful, gracious thing and simply step aside. You are now a force to be reckoned
with and who knows what 2012 will bring. Any undo damage to your reputation would only
come as a result of you not knowing when to call it a day...and that day has dawned.


JC

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  Posted by: Amar 05/08/2008 at 08:45 AM

Well said!!

  Posted by: Amar 05/08/2008 at 08:45 AM

Well said!!

  Posted by: JeffreyWright 05/08/2008 at 09:27 AM

That's money!

Watching her cohorts squirm and squabble while they get pounded with questions from the CNN G'd-up crew is like watching someone try to justify a bank robbery because everyone else around them has money. "We're not losing, we won Indiana!" The problem being (college educated, been on the hill for a while, upper-class folk), you won it by less than 30,000 and then got trumped in NC by 250,000... what grade level math is this to see who comes out on top...?

Of course, they have to back their candidate because, surprise-surprise, who's padding their bank account, but even the simplest of questions sends Lanny Davis in a tantrum like state reminiscent of when I used to fight with my brother as a kid over who was going to get to play Street Fighter. That whiny f.ck should never be allowed back on the CNN lot!

Barack just walks out and says it like it is, while maintaining the integrity to say that he is far from a "perfect" candidate... when's the last time you heard that? After 8 years G-Dub is still coastin' along like history's going to remember him as anything other than a vindictive numb-nut that practically destroyed the greatest country on Earth.

For all the things Barack Obama is not, there is one thing he is and stands for that gets my vote and that is: REAL. Did you see him look down at his podium ONCE when he was giving what I think was basically an acceptance speech? NO. WHY? Because it comes from within... of course, he has speech writers (mad props!), but the guy knows what he wants to say and he's not looking down at the podium after every coma because his words mean something and that's the way he feels it should be! Jesus, what a concept, the leader of this country's words should actually mean something... hmmm....

Dems unite under Barack and crunch this old bald bastard! If the state the country is currently in is your idea of an in-shape superpower then you should move out of the country! If that doesn't sway your vote, just look at McCain's stepford wife and that should do the trick!

JW

  Posted by: Rachelle 05/08/2008 at 09:42 AM

I'm a shameless hillary supporter and even I agree with you Joe...save for the part about obama being able to repair the world (I'd settle for repairing the economy). LOL! Don't buy into that messiah myth... It'll take more than one man's skin color and positive disposition to change the mindset of people who want to crush America. Bush has done a century's worth of damage in roughly 6 years and Some issues go far deeper than race or gender.

Hopefully I'll see a woman running the country before I'm 80, LOL!...That said...the fat lady has indeed sung for Hillary and I'll be voting for obama come November. :)

  Posted by: Joe C. 05/08/2008 at 10:00 AM

Rachelle:

Far from messanaic, but I do think a guy with the middle name 'Hussein' can get us a foothold in places that would chop that foot off clean right now.

JC

  Posted by: Rachelle 05/08/2008 at 11:33 AM

LOL! Point taken, Joe...And Obama would get even further in those places were he to become Muslim (Ayaan Hirsi Ali has the "right" name too, but she's on the wrong side of "faith" and has a price on her head to prove it). I think Obama will do well should he be elected to the highest office...and I hope as historic as it will be that people will learn to get over his ethnicity and let him do his job.

I have no doubt that dems will come together to support obama no matter how bitter (or immature) they may be feeling right now about Hillary's lost bid for the white house.

  Posted by: Anonymous 05/09/2008 at 11:53 AM

Because we can really hope to "unite" the country with candidates with the most extremist political views...

  Posted by: Rachelle 05/09/2008 at 12:44 PM

"Unite the country" is an empty phrase, albeit an optimistic one. LOL!. It's worth a try...but There will always be opposing political and social views that keep people divided...extremist views or not. Maybe we can "hope for" more realistic efforts from the next president of the U.S....such as getting the economy back on track (keeping jobs in this country and keeping people in their homes)...maybe even ending the occupation in Iraq (or a reasonable facsimile) and regaining lost allies and credibility. Gotta start somewhere.

  Posted by: Wendy 05/09/2008 at 05:04 PM

While I would be upset with her if she drops out before one candidate actually has enough pledged candidates to get the job done, there will come a time for someone to gracefully bow out. I don't know if she will be interested in running in 2012, but I certainly hope the Democratic party will have gotten its collective head out of the sand by then. Maybe Obama's tanking in November -- and he will tank -- will teach them a lesson. But I doubt it. And mind you, I'm saying this as a life-long (and very frustrated) Democrat.

  Posted by: Wendy 05/09/2008 at 05:06 PM

Er... candidates? Meant delegates.

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