It's becoming increasingly apparent that the 2008 Democratic Presidential primary is between the People ( Obama ) versus the Establishment ( The Clinton's, DLC and Corporate power brokers ) and the pebble that will bring down this Goliath is the TRUTH applied liberally to an electorate that is hungry for change: Allen L Roland
If your wondering why Hillary refuses to accept the inevitability of an Obama victory ~ it's not about Hillary ~ it's about control of the Democratic party which Bill Clinton triangulated into the right wing centrist party of Joe Lieberman, etc ~ who have knowingly sided with the neocons on many crucial votes.
The DLC is a personal cash cow for the Clintons and who was it that recently demanded the party elect Hillary or they would withdraw financial support for the party ? Clinton's top donors who represent many major corporate interests. http://pol.moveon.org/democracy/o.pl?id=12391-1881637-c1cmTC&t=273
As Steven Jonas, MD writes in WHY DOES HILLARY KEEP RUNNING ~ " the DLC represents major corporate interests in the United States. These interests include those who thought that four of the major “accomplishments” of the Bill Clinton Presidency, NAFTA, the WTO expansion, the “end of welfare,” and the proclamation by him in a State of the Union message towards the end of his first term that the “the era of big government is over,” were just wonderful ideas. If Obama wins the Presidency, the leadership of the Democratic Party will move into the hands of a different group. Hardly totally anti-corporate, but much more forward-looking in terms of the Constitution, the War, global warming, and etc. The DLC will be politically dead if that happens. The Democratic Party will return, in contemporary terms, to its Roosevelt/Truman/Kennedy/Johnson (before Vietnam) roots.
The Clintons are fighting hard to prevent this from happening. Their sabotage-in-advance of the Obama campaign is not accidental... Hillary knows that Obama will get the nomination and she wants him to lose alright, but for a much larger reason than giving her a chance at the nomination in 2012, which chance would be a rather thin one. That larger reason? To maintain the control of the Democratic Party by the right-wing Democratic Leadership Council, which has effectively run the Democratic Party since the Carter Presidency ." http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/jonas/016
Against this political backdrop ~ Clinton's poll numbers continue to slide. Obama now leads her nationally by about 10 points, and a CNN poll in Pennsylvania showed him closing the once-yawning gap to just three points.
In every measure, Obama clobbers Clinton ONLINE
Should Clinton lose Pennsylvania, the defection of growing numbers of superdelegates from her to Obama could become a flood ~ instead of the present slow dribble.
But also Jimmy Carter and Al Gore have already held high-level discussions about delivering the message to Hillary that she must stand down for the good of the Democrats in November ~ and that should happen before June 1st.
As such, Obama represents a true populist movement of the people ( who desperately want change ) versus the Establishment ( the Clinton's and DLC ) who want to continue the status quo and all the financial perks that go with it.
That's the pebble of truth that could well bring down the DLC and the corporate establishment and it should all sort itself out by June 1st.
Allen L Roland http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/2008/04/13.html
