Unity At Last?
June 5th, 2008 -- Posted in American Politics | 4 Comments »You know I always thought these 5 hours I have over people on the East Coast of America would give me an advantage in terms of breaking news but apparently I was asleep when the media released the story that Senator Clinton is definitely conceding the Democratic Nomination tomorrow and endorsing Senator Obama. Quite a few bloggers have said that the she should have made her concession before Senator Obama made his victory speech on Tuesday Night.
I whole-heartedly agree with that sentiment because if you listen to the speech she made in New York, she gave hope to her supporters when there should have been none:
Instead of offering congratulations, Clinton - who was introduced to her supporters in New York after Tuesday’s primaries as “the next president of the United States” - said she would explore her options and make no immediate decisions about her future.
Instead after Senator Clinton gives her concession/suspension speech on Friday, we are going to have some Hillary supporters feeling confused and even more angry and some ,maybe even constructing conspiratorial theories that Senator Clinton was “strong-armed’ into conceding this week when she might have been able to take the fight to the convention floor.
There are signs that some of the Hillary base is going to remain with Senator Obama but I will still go by my earlier assertion that Senator Clinton will need to make one hell of a speech in order to douse of the flames of the Hillary base. From NewsDay.com in New York:
“It’s very emotional,” said Dolores Sedacca, the former mayor of East Williston and a campaigner for Clinton. “Of course, the Democratic candidate is going to have my support, but I have to be honest and say that I wish it was a woman, and that woman would be Hillary Clinton. I think that no matter what, she would make one of the best presidents this country would ever see.”
Regardless of this eventual Unity, there will still always be Hillary supporters and sites who might as well call themselves McCainis44.org. Hillaryis44.org is refusing to back-down and is continuing to attack Senator Obama’s character as demonstrated by their latest post:
I think this really gives credence to that McCain Memo where they state that they have been “…testing new lines of attack through independent pro-Clinton communities on the internet.” This rezko story is old news and the Senator has apologized for his lack of judgement, and since neither candidate is perfect, I hope that this story and the Rev. Wright saga will stay buried in the months to come. (Yes I can dream 
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