YES WE CAN: A Great Night for Obama
February 9, 2008
This evening, voters overwhelmingly picked Obama as their Democratic nominee choice in Louisiana, Washington, and Nebraska. This is a great night for those of us who seek real change in America. Obama narrowed the delegate gap tonight! Time to celebrate!
However, the Democratic Party will be fucked if it doesn’t do something quickly about this race: we simply cannot have a brokered convention.
I found the following NYT op article by Frank Rich interesting: Click here for article.
February 10, 2008 at 4:00 am
According to the demographics, I should be voting for Hillary Clinton: I’m a white, 60-year-old, highly educated woman from the Northeast. But I’m voting for Obama. I’ve waited all my life for a viable woman candidate for the presidency, but this is not the right woman. I want a woman of the highest ability and virtue, who would serve as a glorious role model to all young women. Hillary Clinton is not that woman.
She rode into power with her husband, and together they’ve acquired a long and seriously flawed history of self-serving and secretive financial and political dealings. The most cursory research will prove that true. She started out her political life supporting the racist Barry Goldwater. She is as comfortable with deception and trickery as George Bush. When I hear woman saying, “Oh, but that’s how you get things done in Washington,” I literally cringe.
I am passionately supporting Barack Obama. He can beat the Republicans; she cannot. Obama has attracted Independents and even Republicans to his camp, and in a general election they would vote for him, but not for Clinton. Clinton voted for the war, and has never apologized for it. Obama has spoken out against it from the beginning. Obama brings us hope–and not just that. Take a serious look at his ideas and experience.
Please, I beg of you, Sisters young and old: wait for the right woman. Then we can be proud.
Diane Wald
February 10, 2008 at 12:01 pm
You’re right: this isn’t the right woman. I’m saddened by this fact, but you’re right. Her political machine reminds me too much of what-has-always-been. I applaud your efforts in getting your story out.
February 10, 2008 at 7:53 pm
add Maine to the list for tonight…
There are now 27 delegates seperating Obama from Hillary.
February 10, 2008 at 7:54 pm
*separating
February 10, 2008 at 8:06 pm
CBS News is reporting that Obama is actually in the lead in terms of delegates:
“In the delegate chase, Obama has pulled ahead of Clinton, even when the support of uncommitted super delegates is figured in. According to CBS News estimates, Obama holds a razor-thin lead with 1,134 delegates overall to 1,131 for Clinton.”
YAY!