Clinton has taken Kentucky and Obama is right there in Oregon.
The Democratic race for nomination is still very much alive ??? and most likely to be decided by superdelegates ??? as CNN points out clearly
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/20/primary.wrap/index.html
If you???re tired of waiting around for those super delegates to make a decision already, go to LobbyDelegates.com and push them to support Clinton or Obama
If you haven't done so yet, please write a message to each of your state's superdelegates at http://www.lobbydelegates.com
Obama Supporters:
Sending a note to current Obama supporters lets them know it's appreciated, sending a note to current Clinton supporters can hopefully sway them to change their vote to Obama, and sending a note to the uncommitted folks will hopefully sway them to vote for Obama. It's that easy...
Clinton Supporters too ???. !
It takes a moment, but what's a few minutes now worth to get Clinton in office?! Those are really worth !
Sending a note to current Clinton supporters lets them know it's appreciated, sending a note to current Obama supporters can hopefully sway them to change their vote to Clinton, and sending a note to the uncommitted folks will hopefully sway them to vote for Clinton. It's that easy...
THE LAST WORD
Anna Quindlen
The Highest Road
It can still be a victory lap even if you don't win. Hillary Clinton should be thinking about her legacy, and how best to use it.
- Share:
-
Email To A Friend
Please fill in the following information and we'll email this link.
On his last night as president of the United States, Bill Clinton issued a pardon for a man named Marc Rich. Later Clinton would write a long op-ed piece on the reasons, but the reason seemed obvious to observers: the fugitive financier was what just plain folks call stinking rich, and his ex-wife had given nearly a half-million dollars to Clinton's presidential library. Even the president's customary allies did not find it in their hearts to jusify his action. Yet in some way the pardon was an apt coda to an administration that seemed to veer from constructive to self-destructive so often that the American people developed whiplash.
The Family and Medical Leave Act, and Monica Lewinsky. The elimination of the deficit, and the Rich pardon. The supremely eloquent speaker, and the man who said, "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is." Bill giveth, Bill taketh away, mainly from his own reputation. A presidency with an ace domestic agenda somehow became a dizzying slip-and-slide that made you want to scream:
Legacy, legacy, legacy, legacy, legacy.
It never seemed likely that the highly disciplined Hillary Rodham Clinton would require the same message. But now it's her turn.
In recent weeks Senator Clinton has gone down a dark road from a Democratic perspective. Whether embracing a bogus gas-tax break, vowing to "totally obliterate" Iran if it goes after Israel or noting that hardworking white folks like her better than her black opponent, she seemed to be running a tutorial in Karl Rove 101, the Republican primer of diversion, aggression and division. Behind all this was clearly a means/ends argument: she would do what she needed to do to win, and then later do the right thing. The problem is that usually by the end, you've become the means.
The question now is not when this race will be over, but who exactly Senator Clinton will be when it is done. She is a historic figure, no question, smashing the glass ceiling for future female candidates. For years advocates have worried about whether women could be seen as tough enough, whether men would vote for them, whether their only support would be among the left wing. Senator Clinton neatly disposed of all those questions. In the same way that the sight of the woman cop on the beat makes bystanders accept all women in police work, she took an aberration and made it normative just by showing up, day after day after day.
- 1
- 2
- Next Page »
- Share:
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
