I believe the talk by both candidates of Democratic unity is being disproved day by day. In part it is the Clinton's impossible and idiotic actions. Graceless in the extreme. But it is even more because of reasons which I have sketched in the following note just posted to the Obama Blog.I believe the result of the current conflict with Clinton people may lead to some of the following possible results.
1.
When Barack wins the nomination, there will be every reason to reconstitute the Democratic Party using his online contributor base as the nucleus. I believe that if Barack is tne nominee contributors within his largely cyber-organization will swell to 10 million by the election.
Attention will spread from Barack to all state races where there is a chance to help create the 65 percent majority needed to govern effectively and get Barack's program done. We will have created a national political machine.
2.
If the fight becomes more bitter -- and I do not agree with the pundits who say all will be well -- and if superdelegates continue to sit on their hands and refuse to move to Barack, the Obama movement will be less and less interested in integrating with the existing Democratic party organization. The non-Barack elements of the party will be so identified with Clinton forces that they will be seen as retrograde and part of the very established order the movement has been set up to move beyond.
In other words, the tougher the fight from now on, the less likely is rapprochement.
3.
If superdelegates consider points one and two, they may move to Barack soon enough to ensure that he will be the nominee.
(I mean in a way that will be inescapable to the denser heads in the media.)
This is about the only way I can see that the Democratic Party can survive this seismic season in anything like its present form.
This would lead to the movement among superdelegates starting very soon to get Hillary out. It would mean the integration of existing pro-Obama leaders (now uncommitted) with the Obama forces. It might also mean a de facto amnesty for Clinton folk who are willing to put their past behind them. In essence these are people who have never believed that Barack was correct in his theories about effective bipartisanship.
I am sure Mark Penn and Howard Wolfson will disagree. We shall see.
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McCain, Obama, Clinton, all have connections to the CFR, Hillary-Bilderbergers, Obama with an Illumaniti advisor. The U.N. the vehicle for the power-elites One World Order. Just say No!
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ronheri (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 121 comments)
on Tuesday, March 25, 2008 at 7:30:26 PM
McCain, Obama, Clinton, all have connections to the CFR, Hillary-Bilderbergers, Obama with an Illumaniti advisor. The U.N. the vehicle for the power-elites One World Order. Just say No!
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ronheri (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 121 comments)
on Tuesday, March 25, 2008 at 7:30:35 PM
It's do it your way or else? You'll all take your marbles and go home?
You don't want to let the rest of the primaries play out so that people can get to vote?
You just want BO and nothing else will satisfy?
Well, he may or may not make it to the nomination -- that's yet to be seen (and an all out Convention rumble may decide it). But if he doesn't you mean to say that your guys won't support the party because you're too selfish to put the needs of the country above the great BO and his ambitions?
If that's what all your dreaming (10 million contributors!) is leading you to, then maybe the party is already a gonner.
You guys have such a biased, one-track, one-note selfishness about you, and your leader is no different.
Put the interests of the country first -- that's what's most important. BO is no Messiah and he won't be riding to save us on election day with a whole new way of doing business. BO will have to get dirty (as if he isn't already) with all the other pols because that's how the game is played and he not only knows this he has done it. Read baout his career destroying opponents back in Chicago. He's as bad as the rest, so give it a rest.
Support what's best for the country, not what will make BO's already bloated ego even bigger.
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fou (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 88 comments)
on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 at 1:00:36 PM
