Mr. Alter,
The media's clarion call that it's done with a statistical dead heat between the three prospective contenders for the White House, seems too early to toss FL and MI voters out to sea. CA, FL, MI, PA, OH, MA, NY are a must........and, although I LIKE Obama, he hasn't won the most critical blue states...That's one robust reason to continue this democratic process.
Despite MILLIONS of supporters, Hillary Rodham Clinton has been vehemently vilified because it remains socially acceptable to be sexist. Corporate men dominate the airwaves; these men have held the keys to success, and invariably, they oversee most election coverage (Philadelphia Inquirer).
"Media news people, frequently operating with complete integrity and goodwill, are able to [CONVINCE} themselves that they choose and interpret the news "objectively" and on the basis of professional news values....[Not in this scenario, however.] Voter attention is focused on style and personality ("Yes We Can") --anything but the issues that are of primary concern to the concentrated private power centers that largely finance campaigns and run the government" (Noam Chomsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
Women in the media, too, have been lulled into tolerating it because it is difficult to stand up to SEXISM at the risk of losing their paychecks. It's blatant that women in the media see the disparate treatment of HRC, but have convinced the masses that this pugilist is a pariah.
Without an NIE report read, Senator Obama touts his sound decision-making (as a State Senator) for opposing the War in Iraq. With hindsight, unbeknownst to him, there were no weapons of mass destruction. His argument that he made the right choice is a fallacy: he didn't make any such decision as a U.S. Senator with the emotions of September 11th still riding high and our response to maintain strong national security. Albeit, none of these assertions are earth-moving or original arguments; what is important here is to remind voters that he does not command a bastion of foreign policy knowledge nor does his redundant, "I voted against the war" a viable argument to support his candidacy.
Unfortunately, those who purport that the frontrunner will unite people have already demonstrated that the frontrunner will unite NO one except perhaps the myopic misanthropists, who, most likely, come January 2009, will be in a seething cauldron of woeful, broken promises teeming with scintillating rhetoric.
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Obama has enjoyed an edge in the number of superdelegates who have trickled into his camp since Super Tuesday, on Feb. 5. But there have not been enough of those new arrivals to seal the deal. As a result the Democrats face a twilight zone—in which Obama cannot collect enough superdelegates to secure the nomination, and Clinton runs out of bodies to close the gap.
On May 31 some 30 party hacks on the Democratic National Committee's rules committee meet to try to sort things out. A subject sure to be discussed, yet again: whether to seat the delegates from Florida and Michigan, two states stripped of their nominating clout when they moved their primary dates up on the calendar in defiance of the national party's wishes. Clinton, who won both contests, has pushed to have those delegates seated, while Obama has objected, pointing out that he honored the party's wishes by skipping both states. Without some agreement over Michigan and Florida, the Democrats are left with the nightmare scenario of party bosses deciding the nomination behind closed doors—leaving the nominee tainted and a legacy of distrust among the supporters of the loser, whose support for the Democratic standard-bearer will be crucial to the party's chances of defeating McCain in the fall. Even at this late date there's no clear path to the cake.
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