Thursday, May 29, 2008

Democratic Dissillusionment

I read some article on Hillary's 5 big mistakes in running her presidential nomination campaing, and am continually perplexed as to why she persists. But on hearing her send an 8 page memo explaining why she should be the candidate I thought, if you just look at the damage this would do to every card carrying democrat that wanted their voice to be heard in favor of Obama, the long term tradeoff has to be to ask Hillary to queitly pack up and go home.
It would be crazy for Obama to drop out of the race, it would be quite rational for Hillary to do so. Flipside again Hillary is being irrational.
It seems all her arguements are based on her greater chance of winning. If winning party nomination is based on winning in the general campaign rather than being best representative of party ideals, which for the people whose income depends on winning the big prize makes sense, and so this may go on to explain why for all extents and purposes two party democracies have increasingly converged to offer no real choice at all.
So I would simply implore the Superdelegates to realise that they should respect that by the rules Obama wins and the rules if need be need to be changed next time round, not this time. Otherwise Obama could have adopted the same strategy that in light of the rules was quite stupid.
Furthermore, Obama represents a more democratic candidate anyway, publicly funded over the internet rather than big cheque writers, grassroots campaining, all of that. just go eat some icecream cake hillary.

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