Howard Dean
I remember back in 2004 when I went to caucus for Dean I didn’t think Kerry was that strong of a candidate, I really didn’t care for him once he was picked as our nominee until I saw several videos of Dean endorsing him and supporting him 100%. It made me check that box on voting day with confidence, that I was voting for Kerry because he represented me. Not that I ever had major doubts about Kerry, or ever harbored bad feelings towards him but I really needed Dean’s support of him to get me energized. This is what scares me about this current nomination fight, I don’t feel like either candidate is going to campaign for the other. Sure they talk about it but what if we all know that it’s not sincere?
If Clinton loses the nomination all we’re going to hear about for the next year is how the super delegates didn’t go with the will of the people. I don’t feel like she’s going to campaign for Obama, she’ll probably keep campaigning for herself. Her supporters will feel like Obama stole the election from her and about half of the democrats won’t want anything to do with him. If it’s not the popular vote then ‘big states’ or ‘battleground states’, regardless of the fact that those aren’t how we pick our nominee. Clinton’s making people feel like she can change the rules halfway through the game, and there’s a large number of people that feel like it’s popular vote with Florida and Michigan or nothing. The same would be true if Obama lost the nomination via the super delegates, I would feel like the nomination was stolen from him. While I won’t vote for Clinton if this exact situation happened I’ll campaign daily against McCain, that’s not something that’s going to change because of a little whining between candidates.
I could see Obama campaigning for Clinton though, mostly because if he was seen as the unifier of the party he could get the white house right after her for 8 years. It’s the justification for articles like this from the huffington post that call on Obama to drop out of the race. Not because he can’t win in November but because Clinton is hell bent on getting this nomination by any means, and if she can’t have it no one can. It’s like when you were little and your sister was having a bad day so she destroys your birthday cake, if she can’t be happy why should anyone else? Clinton’s not going to grow up, and sadly I think she will destroy this party.
In keeping up with the latest rhetoric being played on CNN I wrote a few notes down about what the candidates said. Obama attacked this “experience” card by saying if everyone else is so much more experienced why hasn’t anything been done? Unfortunately the larger point about this was made in that Bill Maher video I just posted. We’ve spent 8 years doing nothing, absolutely nothing. If you guys haven’t seen it at 3PM on FOX Obama is getting interviewed. I saw a part of it but I highly suggest You watch it, but then watch the whole thing. Hopefully this idea resonates with people, they tried to trip him up with this Petraus BS and they didn’t, I think he handled that well.
Clinton tells the crowd that she never thought she’d run for office, I’m taken back by this, with the way she talks it sounds like this has been a childhood dream. Bill Clinton, after telling the crowd he would normally be watching basketball, said that the nomination will go to the person who wants it the most. Hillary later called out “If it were easy enough to walk into Washington and just say “Let’s Change”, yes because I’m following Obama like a blind rat and never looked at his voting record or the bills that he’s written. I love how she claims she’s stood up to special interests, yes because back in 1993 when you tried to get our country on a national health care plan you totally didn’t take money from the health insurance lobbyists and then just suddenly stop trying. Oh wait…that was you.
The rest of their talks seem to be on the same page though, trade agreements are unbalanced, the price of gas is just as crazy as our dependency on it. Clinton says “jobs jobs jobs jobs” and it reminds me of Steve Baulmer Developers, developers…, but she’s got a point. For 8 years we’ve focused on overseas jobs, it’s time we started looking back at home. Obama has this same message, we need more job competition in the country. We need a balanced budget, the republicans don’t have that.
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