Enough is Enough: Hillary Clinton must withdraw from the race now
I’ve made no secret of the fact that I support Senator Barack Obama for president – and over the past couple of months I’ve fairly chided Hillary Clinton for continuing to pursue the Democratic nomination for president as a lost cause and as something which is doing more damage to the Democratic party and its chances of winning the White House in November. But at one point in time – as I’ve openly admitted – I was once a supporter of the junior senator from New York’s bid to become president; mostly because of the female factor – but those reasons were slowly replaced by the promise of something else, that being Barack Obama, and by Super Tuesday, all the way back in February, I had changed my mind.
The race has essentially been over since then. Senator Obama went on to win 11 straight contests in a row and had crafted a mathematical lead which was nearly statistically impossible for Hillary Clinton to overcome – yet she hung in there anyway. Okay. Fine.
But unless you’ve been hiding under a rock – Hillary Clinton today invoked in an on camera interview (more here) the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy back in June of 1968 as a reason for her to stay in the race – as if to raise, however opaquely, the specter of something similar happening to Barack Obama.
This is simply too much.
I wrote here the other day that the Kennedy family has been an important part of my own family’s life – and to hear these words uttered like this in such a way, in such a political climate, with such a callous and insensitive and dismissive tone, says only one thing to me: Hillary, it’s time for you to go. You are unfit to be President of the United States of America.
It is now time for every uncommitted super-delegate out there to put the Clinton campaign out of its misery and it is time for Hillary Clinton to withdraw to some dark corner and hope that the collective attention deficit disorder of this nation will somehow forget about this, and her.
Keith Olbermann of MSNBC had this Special Comment on tonight’s broadcast of Countdown. All I can add is this – Thank You, Keith.
1hapes
wrote on 24 May 2008 at 1:19
As someone pointed out to me, Hilary’s campaign is a gajillion dollars in debt, and she HAS to stay in the race to pay it off…
CNN says 57 to go for Obama, I think he’ll get that soon enough.
2nina aoki
wrote on 24 May 2008 at 18:24
Hapes,
Oh sure — the campaign is in debt. Mostly to Mark Penn. The money isn’t the issue for her — she just wants to be president, at all costs. And if she can’t be president, no Democrat can.
Thanks,
nina
3Lazy Ichi
wrote on 25 May 2008 at 0:40
Since Lazy Geisha has declined a spot on the ticket as running mate, I think Obama will offer the VP slot to former El Presidente Bill Clinton.
That neutralizes Hillary and takes care of her debt problem, and adds a popular former president to the ticket (as well as stickin’ it to her also).
Well, I’m just sayin’ …
Namaste LazyG, Namaste.
4Anastasia
wrote on 25 May 2008 at 9:59
I’ve been spending many nights, or early mornings watching the ABC News (which airs here at 4am), to follow up on the latest developments, due to the weird time zones, and my impression of Hillary is that she is a megalomaniac. Now, my latest obsession is finding out who Obama will pick as his running mate, because I’m sure he won’t pick Hillary. What has been interesting, is Hillary’s bitchiness and her ’supposed’ sympathy for people, when she’s made part of her fortune (in the past) by being a board member for Walmart, a company that prefers cheap labor while it earns billions, and doesn’t provide any medical insurance for its staff.
It’s like she chooses a reason to get people on board. First it was the Bosnia bullshit, then when it became clear that she didn’t have the stats, she then said that she ‘owed’ it to the ’sisterhood’ to keep on going. Sisterhood lol. Now it’s the Robert Kennedy assassination. She sits on the outer reaches of the universe where feminism is concerned, staying with her husband for the prestige after their marital crap was aired around the world, and it wasn’t a one time thing either. When she announced she’d be running, I laughed because I thought, ‘this is a woman who was willing to tolerate serial infidelity in exchange power and money (book deals, etc),’ and I thought that she presented a pathetic example (for her daughter), the ’stand by your sex fiend husband,’ to all women around the world…she has overdone it.
5nina aoki
wrote on 25 May 2008 at 11:58
Lazy Ichi,
lol! Hmmm, that might work.
What pisses me off is shit like this:
Clinton supporter Cynthia Ruccia is part of a grassroots movement comprised of many people who say that if Clinton isn’t the nominee, they’ll try to stop her Democratic opponent Sen. Barack Obama from being elected president.
Are these idiots for real? They cry ’sexism’ but then they’ll say that they’ll work to stop Obama. Oh, so what? So John McCain can become president and appoint psychos to the Supreme Court? Don’t come crying to me when abortion and birth control is outlawed. Stupid bitches.
ugh!
Yes… namaste indeed.
nina
6nina aoki
wrote on 25 May 2008 at 12:02
Hi Ana,
Well, as I pointed out to Lazy Ichi above — Hillary has been successful, in some cases, or managing to mobilize women to feel bad for her and to look at this in terms of us vs. them (women vs. men) — which it isn’t at all.
She’s taken the last refuge of a skank — her vagina.
If you watch that video clip I posted, it tells the very sad story of someone who could have made history (and believe me, I’m all for women running the world) — but who lost it all because of her own greedy ambitions.
She’s basically looking at this as if she can’t be president now, no Democrat can. She’ll try and torpedo Obama so she can try again in 2012. Sad, sad, sad.
We don’t have that long…
nina
7Lazy Ichi
wrote on 25 May 2008 at 12:34
I think this nailed it. Reason number 42 is always the reason you have it or you don’t. And she doesn’t.
When the election rolls around, everyone will be on board. The Republicans have made such a mess of things that the only question is how bad will it be for them in November.
McCain will go down in the history books as a rejection of Bush III.
So. Here’s the challenge. Who are the women that are viable presidential candidates in the future?
8libhomo
wrote on 25 May 2008 at 14:48
Obama already has won an absolute majority of the legitimate delegates. He is the legitimate nominee.
9nina aoki
wrote on 25 May 2008 at 19:22
Lazy Ichi,
Oh I more or less agree with that too. I think when it comes down to a choice between Obama or McCain, Democrats and most independents will fall in line behind Obama.
Tho did you see this?
Here’s the best line:
On another front, Axelrod slammed Clinton for suggesting she leads Obama in the popular vote.
Clinton has been making that argument, based on figures that include Florida and Michigan, even though Obama took his name off the ballot in Michigan and neither candidate campaigned in Florida. The Democratic Party discounted both states’ primaries before they took place.
“It would take some very tortured math and tortured logic to say that she’s ahead in the popular vote,” Axelrod told ABC.
He added, “This isn’t ‘American Idol,’ OK? This is a nominating process. We have rules. We elect delegates state by state.”
Seriously, she needs to be put out of her misery at this point. The superdelegates need to deal with this.
nina
10nina aoki
wrote on 25 May 2008 at 19:24
libhomo,
That’s pretty much how I see it!
nina