A Party Divided
May 9th, 2008 -- Posted in American Politics | 2 Comments »Well it seems like Hillary Clinton is exiting the race (hopefully) and while discussing this issue with fellow Obama supporter Swimming Freestyle, I voiced my concern that Mrs. Clinton is plotting something with her cabal behind closed doors. I understand that she is representing a certain portion of America and wants to see this through but she must draw the line somewhere because not enough attention is being paid to Senator McCain, he might get lonely after all? Given the Senator’s insensitive comment about race, I am really wondering if Mrs. Clinton has had enough because she normally would not make such a mistake. This mistake has created a miniature firestorm at the moment but I have to say the Senator is quite tenacious and desperate. She rejected a proposal to seat some of the voters from Michigan because the delegate difference between her and Obama would be negligible. This whole business with seating people from Florida and Michigan is so silly; Clinton fanatics are blaming Howard Dean when the people to blame are the democratic parties in these respective states. I was doing my end of the night browse through Digg when I found out that some Clinton supporters have gone over the edge and sent harassing emails to Superdelegates. First of all, how is this going to make one iota of a difference? The site responsible is even worse but here is a screenshot and please visit it to bear witness to its ludicrous nature:
I am really worried about the state of the Democratic Party, the candidates themselves have said that the Democratic Party will unite behind the nominee but it seems that some of the Clinton supporters are willing to have another 4 years of a Republican presidency that has already done so great for this country. This idea is beyond me but here is a great passage from an AP article at the Washington Post highlighting this distressing trend:
Clinton won more than two-thirds of the white voters without college degrees in the last three primaries _ Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Indiana _ according to exit polls conducted for The Associated Press and the television networks. When those Clinton supporters were asked who they would vote for in an Obama-McCain matchup, just fewer than half said they would support Obama. Three in 10 said they would vote for McCain and the rest said they wouldn’t vote for either.
I hope that the Obama camp, the Clinton camp and the Democratic Party are sitting behind closed doors at the moment figuring out how to bring this all together otherwise I think Senator Obama’s job is going to be much harder come the general election.
