I’ve been saying for awhile that Clinton supporters need to move and get behind Obama.  Finally, some of Senator Clinton’s supporters are saying just that.  It’s long overdue.

So, Hillary Clinton’s supporters don’t get their way and now they’re going to work tooth and nail to put John McCain in office.  It doesn’t matter than John McCain stands against everything Hillary Clinton stands for, so now they’re acting like a bunch of pissy little children.  I certainly don’t believe these people speak for the majority of Clinton supporters, but they doesn’t make them less of the assholes they are.

I have to say I just don’t understand Jeff Jarvis’ point of view on the Florida/Michigan compromise. As he has from the beginning of this whole mess Mr. Jarvis, and many others, say the voters of these states have been disenfranchised.  I’m sorry, I just can’t buy that lame sort of reasoning.  By definition, disenfranchising means depriving people of their right to vote.  No one in Florida and Michigan were deprived their right to vote; no one was standing at the voting booth to beat them back.  Both of these states knew the rules going into the primary season.  Both states were told their primaries were in violation of party rules and what the consequences were.  We can all debate the stupidity of the primary schedule; I mean, I think it’s archaic and asinine that two tiny little states have so much control over when primaries happen.  However, that’s how it is, and Republicans are no different.

Mr. Jarvis seems to think this compromise means the Dems will lost the election in November. I say bullshit on that.  Sure, having Florida and Michigan votes counting for half their norm is difficult, but again I say they knew the rules from the beginning, so now they need accept the consequences and the compromose.  Instead of party officials in those states blathering about disenfranchisement, they need to starting rallying their states’ voters and get behind the eventual nominee.  It’s time to move on.  If Mr. Jarvis is correct and Dems lose in November because of this overblown dust-up then we deserve to lose.  I want President Bush out of office and I don’t want McCain stepping in, so that means I’m ready to vote for whomever the eventual nominee will be.  Right now it looks like that’s going to be my candidate of choice, Barak Obama; however, even if it was Hillary Clinton I would be voting her with no misgivings.  We need to remember that and stop acting like losers before the election has even happened, and I wish Hillary Clinton’s supporters would keep that in mind when they start talking staying home in November.

I’m sorry, but I can’t bring myself to have much sympathy for Hillary Clinton at this moment.  Senator Clinton put herself in the position of having to defend what has to be one of the most stupid political mistakes in recent history.  As I said before, she should know better.

Hillary Clinton’s supporters are really starting to piss me off.  They are actually threatening to put McCain in office if they don’t get their way.  Their way being Hillary as VP.  I’m sorry but that’s just fuckign stupid.  Are they really going to doom this country to what would effectively be a third Bush term?  Talk about sour grapes.  Talk about pathetic. 

Let me start off by admitting I don’t think Hillary Clinton was saying she thought someone might try to assassinate Barak Obama when she invoked the name of Robert Kennedy.  All of the candidates are at risk for something like that.  However, what in hell possessed her to say something like this?  She’s a pro and should know how this would be taken by the press.  She should know better.  That being said, I think she’s fair game.  If she can attack Obama for his “bitter” remarks, she should get the same treatment for her Kennedy remark.  What comes around, goes around.

The idea of Obama paying off Hillary Clinton’s mounting debt through fundraisers and other support has been travelling around the ‘net all week and I’ve resisted saying anything until I could get my thoughts in order.  Part of me wants to say “No!” but for the sake of party unity I think this would be the mature thing to do.  No matter who takes this nomination, the nominee will need the support of the person on the losing side.  If anything can be done to repair the rift that has erupted among Democrats on both sides I say do it.

All that being said, I do not believe Senator Obama should look to Senator Clinton as his Vice-President choice.  I may have touted this in the past, but too much has happened for this to be viable any longer.  Senator Obama has been campaigning on a platform of change, and as good a Democrat and politician as Hillary Clinton is, she does equal change.  She is old guard and always will be.

I guess this is turning into an anti-Hillary day.  According to Senator Clinton, economists who don’t agree with her gas tax holiday BS are “elite.”  My God, Senator Clinton has official endorsed Republican talking points!  Moreover, where does Senator Clinton get off calling anyone elitist?  She’s as elitist as they come!

So she’s saying she won’t put her lot with economist?  The people who are actually trained in economic theory are not welcome around her?  It’s like she’s become another Republican candidate!  The real sad part here is Senator Clinton should know better.  This gas tax holiday is completely bogus.

This is an interesting, if frightening, article detailing supposed discussions within the Clinton campaign that could force the seating of the Michigan and Florida delegates, who were sanctioned by the party for having their primaries early (a violation of party rules).  If I can digress for a moment.  While I will be the first to say there are issues with how primaries/caucuses are carried out, especailly since two tiny little states who are not reprsentative of the nation are givent too much power, the voters of Florida and Michigan were not disenfranchised.  The citizens of those states weren’t prevented for casting their votes, and while it’s certainly not their fault their delgates won’t count, both of these states knew the consequences and were warned in advance.  It’s a little late to cry wolf.  The rules may suck, but that’s how it is.

That being said, if Hillary Clinton chooses this “nuclear” option she will, as this article points out, face a lot of backfire.  Obama suppoters will find it very difficult to vote for Hillary Clinton if she takes this nomination through back-door politics reminiscient of bygone era party politics.  She keeps touting how she has won the big states that “count,” but Obama also won a lot of other states, and by a wide margin, and if she loses those voters we’ll end up with four more years of the Bush II disaster.

Moreover, think of the damage done to the party in general.  While I don’t think this would split the party in two, I do think it would create a greater schism between the two obvious factions within the party:  centrists and left-leaners.  Obama has done an admirable job of engerizing young voters; can Senator Clinton keep them?  Being a fickle group of people, I worry about it.  Then there’s the African American vote.  If Seantor Clinton takes this nomination without actually winning the election she risks alienating an important voting bloc within the Democratic Party.  Is Senator Clinton’s need to win so great that she’s willing to destroy her opponent and the party she supposedly supports in order to do so?  If she take this nomination what will be left to help in November?  It’s a shame there’s no one within her campaign asking these questions.