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On writing in Hillary

Social Construct — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:37:37 +0000

I am sure many Clinton supporters have received the barrage of criticism from Obama supporters and other Democrats that a Hillary write-in on the ballot in November is a “waste of a vote.” Maybe they don’t get it, and it is pointless to argue against them to try to allow them to see your position. But, here’s a quote that might help:

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. -John Quincy Adams

From DONE (Democrats Over Nominating Elitists)

Social Construct — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:28:11 +0000

This is a post from DONE. [Caveat: This is not an original either for or by The Clintonista Post] Please indulge in DONE’s great logic and rhetoric!]

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The tides are certainly turning. Hillary Rodham Clinton continues to gain support, and is, in fact, out pacing Obama in current polls against McCain. Senator Clinton is still a more formidable candidate for president than the presumptuous nominee, and she’s suspended her campaign.

Rasmussen reports:

However, McCain fares better against Obama than he does against two other prominent Democrats. New York Senator Hillary Clinton leads McCain by eight points, 50% to 42%. Former Vice President Al Gore, the Democratic presidential nominee in 2000, leads McCain 50% to 43%.

These numbers help explain why Election 2008 is competitive even though events so heavily favor the Democrats — because the Republicans are on course to nominate their strongest possible general election candidate but the Democrats are not. Perhaps even more importantly, the data suggests that voters don’t see a potential McCain Administration as the third term of President Bush. [emphasis added]

It’s also important and stunning to note, that Hillary Clinton also does better than Al Gore against McCain, albeit by one percentage point. Hillary Clinton is the Democratic standard bearer and the choice of the majority of Americans, and she’s not the presumptive nominee.

Finally, people are realizing that Obama is not the strongest candidate against McCain. If you can’t out perform a candidate who has suspended her campaign and called for the Party to unite behind you, you simply can’t perform.

Apparently, the superdelegates are catching on as well. Alegre is reporting that 8 superdelegates who had declared for Senator Obama are now expressing that, given the chance, they will vote for Hillary at the Convention. Alegre got the word directly from our beloved PUMA spokesperson, Will Bower:

“A large phone banking effort to the super d’s combined with Obama’s flips and poor presumptive nominee performance, etc have yielded doubts within the super delegates, enough that 3 elected and 5 DNC members have confided that should they have the opportunity to do so, they will vote for Hillary.” [emphasis added]

This isn’t nearly over.

Which explains why Obama, Brazile, Dean and others are trying to keep Hillary off the ballot at the Convention. Hillary Rodham Clinton is clearly the strongest candidate. She finished the primary season with the momentum, winning the popular vote and the overwhelming majority of states post March 4th, even South Dakota which was projected as a win for Obama, after Obama had been declared inevitable and the deafening cries for Hillary to leave the race had reached fever pitch.

There are only two options: Hillary or McCain ‘08.

Oh, the Japanese

Social Construct — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:25:52 +0000

Kinda funny.

From Tom In Paine

Social Construct — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:52:37 +0000

How Obama Loses the Election in 30 Seconds

In the Obama campaign’s most recent bizarre moment, Barack Obama, exercising the judgement he has become famous for, decided it was a good idea to send Wesley Clark onto the Sunday talk show circuit to criticize John McCain’s war record and military service saying it was not sufficient for him to be commander-in-chief. This is something like a colander accusing a pot of having holes. It is also crosses the line into incompetence considering that Ret.Major General Barack Obama’s war record consists entirely of a successful attack on Alice Palmer to get his start in Chicago politics.Now we can add another Obama “what were they thinking moment” to go along with his other famous moments including his recent seal of disapproval which doesn’t just call his judgement into question, it shows he simply doesn’t have any. And while being a Navy fighter pilot and a POW for 4 years certainly doesn’t qualify someone to be Commander-in- Chief, being mentored for 17 years by Jeremiah Wright doesn’t exactly move you to the top of the list either.

Nancy Pelosi said not too long ago that she supported Obama because he has the judgment to be President. This is of course, like a homeless person giving advice on how to fix the housing crisis. We’ve been seeing Obama’s judgement on display for the past two weeks and it hasn’t been pretty. Breaking his pledge on public campaign financing, embracing the telecom immunity bill, reversing himself on Jerusalem within 24 hours which managed to unite both Israelis and Palestinians in their contempt for him, the Johnson episode before that, flip flopping on the recent Supreme Court gun decision while trying to pretend his reversal was because of “inartful” phrasing a year ago, and that obnoxious seal. And now an attack on McCain’s military service as being insufficient to be Commander-in-chief in support of a Presidental candidate that doesn’t have any of his own.

This is another extension of the judgment Obama showed in his 17 year relationship with Wright and his insufficient and evasive explanations about it during the primary.

After being caught in a series of lies about what he actually knew and heard, he finally admitted what he knew and heard said he disagreed with every inflammatory anti-American statement Wright ever made and found them all reprehensible and despicable. But he never gave a credible explanation as to why it took him 17 years to leave the room.

He has shown a propensity for saying anything to anyone at anytime to get what he wants right at the moment or to try and make a favorable impression and worry about the consequences later and he’s been able to get away with it with the terminally gullible.Especially the journalists covering his campaign. But that’s how you get reversals and broken pledges and flip flops on Supreme Court decisions and Jerusalem and how the person who claimed he had the judgement to be Commander-in-Chief from day one didn’t leave Wright and his church until day 6,205.

Chicago journalists speculate he stayed at Trinity Church for 17 years for political reasons because it was in the district he represented and he did it to continue to get re-elected. Whatever Obama’s reasons 17 years is a long time. And his actions and what he had to say about its says everything there needs to be said about his judgement and his credibility and who and what he is as a politician. How he could even think that attacking McCain’s military service and war record as making him unfit to be the Commander-in-Chief could have any credibility in boosting his own standing to be Commander-in-Chief should be enough for the super delegates who declared for him on June 5 to undo the damage when they get to the convention and cast their votes when it really counts.

I used to be in advertising. I did print ads and TV commercials and ad campaigns for a living. I won a lot of awards doing it. Everything I did was successful. Everything. I worked for some of the top agencies in the business. And I’m still good at it

It took me less than 5 minutes to write a commercial for John McCain using this one issue, that he could run against Barack Obama from now until election day and John McCain could go fishing from now until November and win an election that would make Reagan - Mondale look like a squeaker.

I’m not bragging. I’m just trying to make a point. I didn’t do the commercial as a gift to John McCain. I did it as a gift to the Democratic Party and any superdelegates who still wants to win in November. They have seven weeks to take it. I hope they do.

Apropos

Social Construct — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:37:19 +0000

I find it apropos that the day dawning following the US Presidential elections will be November 5th. Especially with this election no matter who wins you’ll still have angry citizens.

Obama’s victory will bring anger from the McCain supporters and voters as well as the Clintonistas who’ll still be angry.

McCain’s victory will bring anger from Obamatons who believe he’s entitled to the White House and Clintonistas who will have the best “I told you so” smiles yet anger.

And with that:

“Remember, remember the fifth of November,

The gunpowder, treason and plot,

I see no reason

Why gunpowder treason

Should ever be forgot.”

The Fall and Rise of Hillary Clinton

Social Construct — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:01:10 +0000

The article on Clinton published in New York Magazine powerfully states that even in Hillary’s Democratic primary defeat she marches ever closer to becoming an American political icon. Love her or hate her, there is one very important take-away from this primary cycle: it took the almost entirety of the Democratic Party establishment/elite/leadership and the media to cause her to faulter. Now, that is a powerful individual.

Leadership is defined in the soul, and she was knocked down, forced against the wall time-after-time. No matter with whom you surround yourself, at the end of the day, each candidate running only has her or hiself from which to derive strength. Each time she rose to fight another contest, another day, I could not help but remember the words of Maya Angelou with her poem about Hillary Clinton: “Rise, Hillary rise.”

A manifesto of the Rebellion of defecting Democrats against the Party Elites

Social Construct — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:59:54 +0000

Having been subjected to a series of institutionalized violations, the violated have the privilege, in the name of Self Preservation, and a sacred Duty, for the Future, to suspend the partisan ties that bind, which had long linked them a confederacy of scoundrels, and to disregard rote appeals for Unity, issued on terms not beneficial to those mishandled and thus intended to eliminate all Consequences of said abuse, thereby issuing also a carte blanche for continued humiliation.

Rather than capitulate to harmful and useless loyalties, we cleave yet to the spirit of just rebellion, that every missionary relationship, Coalition, and Institution so codified must not seek its own corporeal solvency, but must constantly uphold in earnest the welfare of its members and the values thereof; and when found in ongoing defiance of its mission, for short term gain and long term catastrophe, in ignorance of its Original principles, its denizens must rebel, exercising the painful imperative to save themselves from themselves, and to affirm their true worth, true value and Values.

We will not be dehumanized or dissuaded any longer. We are not resigned to continue playing second-fiddle in this wretched band, left with no option but to break from a Party establishment heretofore unapologetic and complicit in the accreditation and brokerage of disenfranchisement, voter fraud, vote suppression, bigotry and misogyny, and voter intimidation; similarly, moving to reject overtures soliciting unconditional acceptance of Mr. Obama’s lack of experience, lack of character, lack of transparency, lack of ideas, and lack of sound judgment, and to demand consequences for these and other implicit violations of the national Democratic trust and tradition.

While we pledge to support down ballot Democrats, we submit as a consequence of the Democrats’ corrupted primary and policies that we cannot, will not, must not ever, in conscience of our commitment to justice and democracy now and forever, support Mr. Obama’s nomination for President of the United States of America under the auspices of the Democratic National Committee, as his candidacy represents the desecration of the Party’s core virtues and values and thus threatens the long-term viability of our party and our nation.

We are not beholden to uphold individuals or identities, which change from season to season, but to protect and preserve the Idea, which yields neither to time nor to a man.

Centrist, moderate, muscular Democrats and Independents, declared to defy the Democratic Party; to support in this election only down ballot Democrats and the Republican nominee; and not to validate the extremes of the Left by voting for Mr. Obama; and forced into expatriation, dictate that Strength, Security, Citizenship, Competency, and Responsibility must remain at the core of our creed; that our Party must esteem the common man, common woman, and their virtues; that Our success is judged not by the self-masturbatory appetites of the Elite but by the health and wellness and will of the Middle; that any prejudice demands our officials’ collective denunciation; that principles of democracy are more sacred than rules; that thus the Party is obliged to voters and not vice versa and must err on the side of democracy and enfranchisement in all places, and at all times.

In spurning our political brothers and sisters, we know what is coming. But we remain unbossed, unbowed, and unafraid to confront the bullying a just rebellion predictably unleashes. Wedges and fear disguised as harmony and loyalty will order us to submit, demanding that the old fractious and abusive relationship be honored, and consequently the molester escapes unscathed, all of history having proven that victors Unity intends only to mute the molested, briefly delaying Their misery, having been conditioned to a lie, that protest is hopeless and that it is preferable to accept the status quo.

We will be accused of shortsightedness, Selfishness, of cutting off the nose to spite the face, though by rights we are starving out a cancer, as our exodus intends not to sink the Democratic Party but to salvage it. Those falling in line excuse the cruel assault of the Elite and the bigoted; therefore, to vote for Mr. Obama is to approve the deployment of bigotry as a tactic to derail future candidates, to ensure that extremists will dictate to centrist Democrats forevermore. If we, knowing better, fail to stand up Now, we guarantee our extinction and that of the Party proper, our sole legacy being surrender and the abandonment of common sense, common decency, and the common man.

We mean no ill, but move now for the greater good. We rebel without enmity, being motivated not by hatred, but by affection for what was and faith for what will be. We embark also with fading anger, with rising ease and resignation, having never been eager to divide ourselves from our Family, having tried first to understand while being willfully misunderstood, and having first begged for compromise while being crippled. We have urged for equity in application of rules and bylaws. We have begged for full representation. We have called for fairness in reporting and appealed for an end to double standards.

The entirety of our appeals having been thoroughly and consistently rejected, we could have chosen to validate with our votes an underqualified, inadequate candidate antithetical to our values, and to the America we know, signaling that we did not care enough to turn back a tyranny of corruption; But, no, we choose instead to hold to the reasoned decision to oppose Mr. Obama, the pundit class, the elites, and our friends and family deluded, refusing to mortgage our Principles for a transient electoral compromise. The responsibility is ours, and Our Future is worth fighting for.

Thus,

Be it so RESOLVED than we cannot, in good concord, call ourselves Democrats again until the Party elite and leadership return to its common senses and values, nominating only muscular Democrats who are:

( 1 ) Committed to protecting US citizens, territory, and borders from war, terrorism, energy dependence, and hostile regimes, having the temperament to meet these known and other unknown threats to our National Security, and having demonstrated both the ability to recognize diplomatic challenges and the toughness to confront them competently;

( 2 ) Patriots whose actions and chosen associations reflect a belief in the relative greatness, goodness, and generosity of America and its people, also prioritizing the happiness, well-being, and success of American soldiers and veterans;

( 3 ) Reflective of American Values, having demonstrated affinity for faith, family, scholarship and heritage and thus showing the ability to win the respect of those vested in the working and middle classes and to build broad electoral and governing coalitions spanning class, cultures, and creed;

( 4 ) Committed in word and deed to Fiscal Responsibility, by the elimination of the national debt; by the creation and maintenance of sustainable budget surpluses; by rejecting borrow-and-spend neoconservatism; and by government accountability on reckless spending, inefficiency, waste and corruption;

( 5 ) Movement progressives committed to defending American citizens from all Environmental Security threats; to requiring Health Protection for all Americans, including policies promoting Disease Prevention, building healthful communities, and establishing wholesome live-work conditions and public infrastructure;

( 7 ) Sworn to protect the Prosperity of the American Civilization, safeguarding workers, students, and families by exacting technological research and innovation, strategic regulation of commerce and trade, energy independence, and quality education at all levels;

( 8 ) Intolerant of threats to our Civic Virtues of freedom, equity, and democracy, among them the bigotries of disenfranchisement, discrimination, misogyny, and racism.

Be it also RESOLVED that we will not join or rejoin the Democratic Party until it enacts sweeping reforms – in and of its rules, bylaws, agenda, platform, processes, primaries, and conventions – that reflect of our common sense and values, and that we reject any thing and anyone unreflective as illegitimate;

Be it therefore RESOLVED that though we will vote for down ballot Democrats and work for their election, we singularly and specifically reject Mr. Obama’s candidacy,declining membership in his coalition, and are henceforth declared in rebellion of and expatriate from His Party;

Be it forcefully RESOLVED that we oppose Mr. Obama’s candidacy on grounds including but not limited to differences of ideology, principle, character, judgment, policy, and qualifications and not due to spite, anger, or revenge;

Be it RESOLVED that we accept as a compromise candidate and transition President the Republican nominee, himself a credentialed, centrist-conservative, competent Patriot;

Be it finally RESOLVED and most forcefully DECLARED that we have come to this crossroads of our own accords, minds, and discretions, and that Hillary Rodham Clinton bears no responsibility whatsoever for our or anyone’s decision to oppose Mr. Obama’s general election candidacy; moreover, that while we respect her loyalty to the Democratic Party and her support for Mr. Obama, she does not hold us hostage nor can she or anyone force her decisions and choices upon us.

I mean really people.

Social Construct — Wed, 28 May 2008 06:36:42 +0000

Other than Obama cannot win in November. He might have the lead in delegate math, but as I stated in my Real Clear Politics article months ago, we need to focus on victory math. If Democrats want the White House, we need to embrace pragmatism. Also, please check out how caucuses are horrible (not only because they’ve propelled Obama to asymmetric delegate-popular vote representation).

Back!

Social Construct — Thu, 22 May 2008 22:59:20 +0000

Sorry everyone, I’ve been away on vacation. While I am passionate about the nomination process, sometimes a break is needed.

BRING IT!

PS…

Social Construct — Thu, 15 May 2008 05:23:36 +0000

It is not over.