“Everything is going smoothly in LA.”
That’s the word from the Clinton campaign despite widespread concern about voting problems reported by the LA Times, LAist, and Calitics. Just the sort of thing I’d expect from a campaign that has been trying to win via voter suppression, changing the rules mid-election, and a reliance on the support of party insiders.
That’s the unfortunate thing about Obama’s surge. Even if he sweeps today’s primaries, institutional support for Clinton and the “didn’t count until they favored Hillary” delegates from Florida and Michigan could have us wind up in a brokered convention which will, without hyperbole, turn the convention into utter chaos. Perhaps if the Clintons had a history of using this sort of ruthlessness to accomplish any of their progressive promises I’d see it as a selling point, but right now I’m not very inspired by the option of electing our Machiavellian candidate.
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I’m just praying she doesn’t get most delegates, cause if she wins nomination every republican (hell even some democrats) will unite to vote against her. Then boom, republicans win again.
Comment by Jim — February 5, 2008 @ 8:26 pm
This primary is about taking back not only America, but the Democratic Party itself. It has fully exposed the party machine as nothing more than an oligarchic Jabba the Hut, capable of only fulfilling it’s base desires.
If Obama does in fact win the assigned delegates, and the so-called super delegates tip the nomination to Hillary Clinton, I will leave the Democratic Party forever. It will expose itself to be the Party of Lies and Deception. It will singularly crush all of the ideals I believed to be represented by Democrats, i.e. protecting the working people of this country, protecting all races and bringing them together for the common good, protecting the voiceless, stemming the abuse of corporate power. I repeat, if this literal RAPE of the democratic process takes place, the Democratic Party, with it’s presidential nominee (Hillary Clinton) will become, regardless of the rhetoric we would surely hear from her, the Party of Self-Interest and Abuse of Power.
It goes without saying, I would no longer be a Democrat, immediately register as an Independent for future elections, and give John McCain as long a look as I could stomach.
Comment by Kevin — February 6, 2008 @ 11:28 am