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Insurgent Kentucky Democrat Address To Clinton Supporters |
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Posted by -Chuck
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Friday, 11 July 2008 |
Get over it; Get in line
From Time :
For many Clinton supporters, the chance to elect an African-American President represents the culmination of a cause they have been fighting for all their lives. Yet almost half of Clinton supporters tell pollsters that they will not vote for Obama. And Clinton's big-money backers are deflecting money and energy away from their party's presumptive nominee.
What is their problem? News reports suggest that disgruntled Clinton supporters are angry about alleged sexism in the coverage of her campaign, while other Democrats are upset at Obama's recent moves toward the center." I understand where you're coming from. I was an early, loud, and proud Clinton supporter. I'd forgiven the vote for the Iraq war. I bought the line about "If we'd known then..." Perhaps by choice. I dunno.
But then I am reminded of a great quote by my hero, George Galloway:
MP's [Members of Parliment] now regularly come up to me and say 'If we'd known then what we know now we wouldn't have voted for the war.' In which case I say 'You're either too stupid to be an MP, or you're too wicked to be an MP, because millions of British people, even before they knew what they know now, knew that this was a bad idea." Barack Obama was always my first choice for the VP, but I always planned to get behind the nominee...whomever it may be. I always just assumed Clinton anyway. I wanted the first, "First Husband" to be Bill Clinton. Nothing would drive the Neocon's more insane in my view. So some of it was purely revenge on the political right-wing.
I am deeply saddened by Obama's recent change of heart on some of his most core-issues, and I'm not completely sold that he is the best person for the job. That being said: Stop whining.
Barack Obama, like it or not, is the Democratic party nominee for President. Get on the bus. Don't stay home, don't vote McCain or Nader. The time has passed for a protest vote. There are a lot of problems with the nominating process, I'll give you that. But now isn't the time to address it. We can do that later.
Many of you held your nose and voted for Kerry. Surely this is an easier pill to swallow. We don't need McBush in the White House, and that is exactly what some Clinton supporters are risking.
Another 4 years of the party of Jesse Helms and George W. Bush might literally destroy what's left of our society.
The risk is too high. Get in line.
-Chuck
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