The Moderate Liberal

It’s over.

Barak Hussein Obama has clinched the Democratic nomination for President of the United States of America. Congratulations, Barak.

Instead of moving to heal her party, Clinton chose to immediately place intense pressure on Barak through the media and party hacks to choose her as his running mate.  Clinton speaks of  gaining “respect” for her “18 million” followers, all the while wielding them like a weapon against the party.

Meanwhile, Obama has consistently given Clinton nothing but respect, sweetie!  His June 2 speech in St Paul, MN was full of kind words and respect for Clinton. But Clinton doesn’t realize she must give it to get it.

Clinton has been, and continues to be incredibly disrespectful of Obama and his supporters.  The public pressure they are now attempting to lay on Obama is horrendously disrespectful.  All the while she is publicly crying out for the Veep spot, she has yet to even acknowledge Obama’s victory.

Unless a respectful Clinton moves immediately to heal the Democratic party, Obama will not have her as his running mate.

During this campaign I have come to understand this about Obama: he will not be bullied.

Clinton missed her moment last night to heal the party, and to make herself a serious candidate for vice president.  Instead, she choose to use the stage to issue veiled threats like she was a schoolyard bully.

Now, with each hour that passes, what Clinton will do or not do becomes less and less important.  The race is now quickly moving on without Clinton, and her influence is waning fast.

I am fully confident that Obama will do what needs to be done to win this election. Obama has shown us all that he is smart, resiliant, a strong leader, and capable of making good decisions. If Obama wants Clinton as his running mate, then it shall be so because it is good for America.  If not, and he chooses someone like Jim Web or John Edwards, then I will happily accept that decision as well.

What about those angry Clintonista’s who say they will slash and burn the Obama campaign with their votes?  Will they truly be so petty as to vote for McCain or stay home, simply because their team lost? 

First, I have to believe that deep inside, these supporters are true Democrats, and not cultish followers of Clinton. If I am wrong, and such behavior does come to pass, and the uneducated voters in West Virginia who may have trouble voting for a “black man” cause America to miss this amazing historic opportunity to elect a great leader, then I can truly say with all honesty that this will be the first time in my adult life that I am truly ashamed of my country.

Clinton has been moderating her attacks the past few days, in preparation for an inevitable withdrawal from the race. Her wise words to her supporters that they must support the eventual party nominee are tantamount to an endorsement of Obama.

If Clinton had not become so vitriolic in her attacks against Obama, educated moderate liberals may not have left her standing alone at the house party drinking beer with the bubba’s.

If you haven’t seen the hot viral video making the rounds in which Clinton advisor Kantor refers to Indiana voters in a vulgar way, then click here to see what all the fuss is about.

Kantor is disavowing that he used the term in 1992, caught on tape during the filming of a documentary called “The War Room.”  Kantor is heard calling Hoosier’s ”worthless white n*ggers.”  He now claims that the video is “doctored.” 

But so far, I have NOT heard that he has disavowed the first off-color comment that he clearly speaks: Indiana voters ”are shit!”

This controversy probably comes too late score Obama a win in Indiana. He has been under relentless “slash and burn” assault by the Clinton campaign, and it has taken a toll in polling.

If Obama can be held accountable for off color comments made by his pastor 20 years ago when Obama may or may not have been present,  it seems completely reasonable to then hold Clinton accountable for racist remarks spoken by her closest advisors.

But you know what? I’m truly sick of this crap.   I am discouraged with Clinton’s barrage of lies, of her attempts to drag a campaign of ideas into the toxic sludget that it has become.

She cannot win. She can only try to destroy Obama and hope that some how, if she can damage him enough through false associations, that the party will nominate her as a last-resort candidate.

Well, as we have seen today Ms. Clinton, this razor cuts both ways. 

“If Sen. Obama can’t win a big, swing state like Pennsylvania with his enormous spending advantage, just what will it take for him to win a big, swing state?” asked Howard Wolfson, Clinton’s chief spokesman.

To that, I would respond: 

“If Sen. Clinton can’t win big in a state where she’s had a 20 year head start, and having the name recognition that come along with being a first lady and married to an ex-President, and with her support eroding from a 25 point advantage to a stastical tie, and if she can’t raise the money to compete, how will she possibly beat McCain in November?”

Clinton’s campaign is in debt, possibly showing why she has become so negative. There’s nothing left in her arsenal against Obama. As usual, as Obama gets close to the goal line, Clinton tries to move it back another 10 yards.

Clinton has been outspent 3 to 1 in Pennsylvania, and her campaign is in deep debt. She has been lashing out that Obama must beat her by a huge margin to show that he can spend more and win.

I would argue the converse: if Clinton can’t raise money and if a 20 year political lead can evaporate so quickly, how can she explain to super delegates that she should be the nominee? 

The truth is that Clinton has had a 20 year head start in Pennsylvania.  She had this “firewall” all locked up with a 20 point lead.  Of course Obama needed to spend more in Pennsylvania in order to define himself. And as people have come to know him, Clinton’s lead has evaporated. 

Obama is the better choice. He is truly the candidate of change. 

I expect Pennsylvanians will echo this sentiment tomorrow, after which Clinton must resign.

Clinton is still at it. Twisting a sentence out of context from a Barak Obama speech about a bitter white middle class, she once again shows why she absolutely leave this race.  She is out of material, now only able to invent non-issues out of non-comments.  Is this all she’s got?  Is this Clinton’s main issue?  Because it appears that her main contribution is not to discussing ideas, but rather to tear apart the Democratic party.

Clinton the divider will seize upon any opportunity to destroy a perceived enemy, right down to spewing lies and inventing non-existent issues. What Clinton is trying to do is destroy Obama, at any cost. In the process she is destroying her own already-failed candidacy, and the Democratic party. 

This is why party elders must take her out, now.  John Edwards, get involved!  Al Gore and Jimmy Carter, step up!  Howard Dean, wake the hell up!

The truth is, the middle class is bitter.  And Hillary Clinton, already a confirmed elitist, is not our champion.

Meanwhile, John McCain rises in the polls.

The Clinton camp just can’t get their lies straight.  It would be funny, were it not so serious.  Here’s just the latest instance of the Clinton’s getting caught with their pants down; in this case it was Bill again.

Read here how Bill Clinton is caught telling lies about the lies his wife was telling on the campaign trail.

Moments ago, John Edwards said in Las Vegas that he would not accept the Vice Presidential spot on either an Obama or Clinton presidential ticket. 

I’ve always thought John Edwards would make a fantastic Attorney General, or Supreme Court Justice. It is easy to see one of those positions in Mr. Edward’s future.

Still unspoken is Edward’s endorsement.  John, for the good of America, please put an end to Clinton’s campaign and lets get on with the business of retaking America. Its clear that Obama’s campaign has more in common with your goals than Clinton’s.  Please endorse Obama soon.

The Clinton camp is continuing to say that “won” Texas. The truth is, according to Associated Press, Obama has won Texas.  The results of Texas’ two-step primary/caucus system only became recently known. Although Clinton initially claimed victory in Texas because the results of the primary were known quickly, in fact she has lost in total number of delegates: 99 for Obama, and 94 for Clinton.

It must be a terrible shock for Clinton, whose husband once said that she had to win in Texas, or her campaign was over. We will take Mr. Clinton at his word.

This is simply more proof, as if we needed any, that Clinton must resign for the good of the party and the nation. 

Elizabeth Edwards, aparently tired of not seeing the issues discussed that are important to her and millions of other Americans, has decided to directly take on Rebuplican candidate John McCain’s health care proposal (or lack thereof).  Read it here.

Elizabeth’s action begs the question: where the hell is John Edwards?  Why hasn’t he come out and endorsed Obama, so that the Democratic Party can move on with the business of defeating McCain? Yes, Hillary has every right to continue… blah, blah.  But while she is delaying the inevitable, Rush Limbaugh’s “Operation Chaos” campaign is clearly in full swing.

Elizabeth, respectfully, if you want to hear more substantitive debates in the presidential political discourse then please ask John to  throw his support and 18 delegates to Obama. Tell John to demand Hillary to step out of the race.  If you must, then also tell John, ‘No sex’ until he endorses Obama!

John Edwards did the right thing three months ago by stepping out of the contest and making a serious horse race out of what might have been a coronation.

Its now time for John Edwards to do the right thing again by endorsing Obama.  Do right by us, John! You always have.