Clinton Denied

By ChasingAmerica - Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 at 11:07 AM

Yes, there have been bruised feelings on both sides. Yes, each side desperately wants their candidate to win. But ultimately, this race is not about Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama or John McCain. This election is about you, the American people, and whether we will have a president and a party that can lead us toward a brighter future.

               -presumptive Democratic nominee Senator Barack Hussein Obama

The numbers:

Indiana - Clinton: 51%   (638,274), Obama: 49%   (615, 862)

North Carolina - Obama: 56%   (890,695), Clinton: 42%   (657,920)

Right now, Clinton is posturing.  She loaned her own campaign 6.4 million dollars last month.

You have to wonder what it means when she's the only one financing a process that's supposed to represent her existing support among the many.

Obama has both run a brilliant campaign and shown to be extremely resilient. After the hellish weeks he suffered at the hands of the spinners and outright liars, Obama's 14 percentage-point-win in North Carolina should even impress those in Clinton's camp - though they wouldn't dare admit it.

And Hillary Clinton supporters have to be proud that she gave it her all, a gas tax holiday promise and everything.  Her strategy of dividing and conquering the electorate, rather than uniting them, succeeded to an extent in Indiana, but only by a tiny, tiny margin. 

By the way Obama had been beaten up these past weeks, the media told us that he should have been limping out of both Indiana and North Carolina contests.  His loss to Clinton in Indiana, according to many, should have been sizable.

But it wasn't.

Obama made a nuanced argument on the gas tax issue - and a number of both Indianans and North Carolinians agreed with him.

Obama combated the dead-wrong efforts of those who tried to make the words and philosophies of Reverend Jeremiah Wright his own - and Indianans and Carolinians showed their support with something as simple as a vote.

That's both the incredible and incredibly simple thing about democracy: the vote. 

By wielding the vote, the people of Indiana and North Carolina have given Clinton an opportunity to gracefully slide in behind Obama to give him the push he'll need, the push the Democratic Party will need, and the push the American people-at-large will need to fend off the ill-advised policy proposals and stale politics of John McCain and the Republican Party.

Reports are now that even if Michigan and Florida delegates are seated, Obama will still lead in the popular vote and pledged delegate count.

Clinton can't win for losing.  But the Democratic Party and Democratic voters are the winners if we all realize that McCain has to be defeated come the general election.

Republicans and conservatives didn't all like McCain, but they all support him wholeheartedly now.   Because the Republican Party know of the real issues this election year - a failing economy, an ill-fated and misguided war, a conservative tilting Supreme Court; civil rights, particularly women's rights being eradicated and the promise of them being stripped away further; and a crumbling education system thanks to the "No Child Left Behind Act".

The list goes on further, but I'd never get done if I continued to write it. 

And the Republican Party is going to do everything in its power to distract away from these issues.

Both Clinton supporters and Obama supporters need to coalesce around presumptive nominee Obama to show the Republican Party that we know what's really at stake this election year - now more than ever before.

 

Read ChasingAmerica’s Last Article: Northern Exposure: The Obvious Truth About the Deceptive Palin

 

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