Get out of the race, Hillary.
My reasons for this aren't to do with her platform, or with any kind of support for Barack Obama, but Hillary should drop out, now.
See, first her Husband puts me and others like me out of work and now, did you notice how much of her non-payment was to event staff? She's stiffing people exactly like me. She's loathsome for that.
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You raised $35 million dollars in February. You couldn't take time out of celebrating that to have someone write a check for a couple of hundred bucks to pay off an existing debt to a school district or town for a service provided a month before?
How can you expect to be entrusted to run any level of government when you show such disrespect towards the funds it needs to function?
Hillary Clinton spent yesterday in Beverly Hills at a fundraiser. Look for Mark Penn and the other snake oil salesmen running her campaign to be paid before these people will.
Absolutely.
The thing is, she's running on hubris. It's really souring me on the Democratic party. Well, I guess that's not entirely true; it's not all her. Here's a nutshell on why her race is destroying the party:
First, the nuts-and-bolts of it. Howard Dean was a truly exciting candidate, primarily for the way in which he ran his campaign. By focusing on smaller contributions, from many people, and cell-operations, like meet ups, he came up with one of the most effective, and democratic campaigns seen this young century. He was sabotaged by the Democratic brass, and they ran him out. When their man, Kerry, proved he couldn't win an election, even if it was handed to him, they made Dean the chairman of the DNC. It seemed like they were conceding that Dean was the face of the future for the party. Now, in this election, Obama is running a campaign very similar in spirit to Dean's. Once again, it's working. Once again, the Democratic brass is trotting out one of the "party faithful" to shove down our throats, and never mind the fact that she has NO chance (as in ZERO) of getting the nomination cleanly, and democratically. They're talking about anti-democratic measure in the extreme (like not counting elections, and going with out-moded "superdelegates" ) just to keep her in the race, and all it's doing is hurting the democrats overall chances in the general election. Meanwhile, the "little people" like schools and tech workers are getting screwed. So, why is she going along with it? The only answer that makes any sense to me, given that she's not only a divisive character, but a proven liar, is pure hubris. The same kind of hubris that made her believe in a "vast right wing conspiracy" in the past, and the same kind of hubris thatfreakin' TSARS were guilty of: "I know my people better than they know themselves". They so much as keep Clinton on the ticket, and McCain is your next president. Mark my words, in ten years they will be talking about the democrats' "march to irrelevancy" and Hillary will be the face on that chapter.
I try to hold back with my emotions because I don't want to sound like some mindless groupie, like we've been accused of. But I've seen the passion in college and 18 yr old college students. I've worked alongside elderly housewives who've never been politically active. I've caucused with long-time Republicans who've soured on the Bush administration.
If Obama is denied the nomination, we'll lose all these people and go back to the cynicism that's been so rampant. These people will get the message that they don't matter, and they'll be right. Obama isn't a savior, he's as flawed as any politician. But he gives hope for some change, much like RFK and JFK, for the death of Washington "business as usual". He wouldn't still be in this race if he ran the same kind of campaign as Clinton, and I believe Clinton is still in the race because the brass is afraid of Obama. Simply, they'll be out of a job if he wins.
I just hope Obama can prevail and keep from happening the thing I fear the most.