I Want It To Be OVER...

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varangianguard | 05/09/2008 - 10:04 |  You've got that right.

Sometimes, karmic balance is a bitch.

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Lalita Amos | 05/09/2008 - 09:29 |  Wascally Wabbits

The Clintons are fighting for the party they built over the last 16 years and not just a presidential nomination. Bill Clinton labored to put key people on the DNC (some of the same people who are now defecting from Camp Clinton) and to shape the platform of the Democratic Party so that it was consonant with his world view.

Neither will go quietly into that good night.

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Lalita L. Amos, CRC
http://www.totalteamsolutions.com
http://totalteam.blogspot.com

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varangianguard | 05/09/2008 - 08:27 |  Reminds me of a Bugs Bunny line.

"You don't know me very well".

Senator Clinton does face facts. They just happen to be her facts (Bosnia landing anyone?).

That quirk to her internal make up worries me most about her. If she became President and began making decisions based on her versions of the facts, and is surrounded by her normal coterie of loyalists (re: yes people), then we'll get actions based upon incorrect assumptions. Not based out of ignorance, but out of misplaced certainty. Wasn't eight years of that enough already?

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Lalita Amos | 05/09/2008 - 01:14 |  Exit: Stage Left

It's becoming increasingly apparent that Senator Clinton is not going to be the nominee--even if she plays "Did I say that?" about the early agreement not to campaign in Michigan and Florida (or the fact that those states knew, coming into the primary season that they were not going to have their delegates seated if they violated DNCC rules) and blows out all of the remaining primaries.

What I think she should be doing now, is crafting an exit strategy that allows her to save face and begin bringing the party together. Being smug about reports that many of her followers would refuse to vote for Senator Obama just won't cut it. The best she can do is become an Obama supporter and active (though sensible) surrogate for the campaign. Then, after the election is over, she can go back to an enhanced position in the Senate and help put through elements of the platform upon which they agree. I'm not sure that VP is even open to her at this point--she's insisted that Senator Obama is unprepared to be POTUS and it would disengenuous of her to be his Number One...and it was apparent long ago that she couldn't extend that spot to him after her caustic comments about him.

What I am over at this point, is with the gotcha politics of smear that she's been engaged in for the last several months. "He's a Christian, as far as I know"..."You don't pick your family, but you do pick your pastor" (obviously, though her husband is laughingly called the "first Black president" neither she nor the Hubster in Chief, know all that much about the Black church). She's done much of the dirty work for the GOP (maybe she can be John McCain's Number One...).

As I talked with Black voters in the week leading up to our primary, I heard--over and over--from voters who had switched their allegiance from Senator Clinton to Obama. The antics of the Clinton camp caused a dramatic sea change in the expected votes of Black Americans who were considered to be spit between Clinton and Obama. People in the Black community looked harder at Senator Clinton and found her lacking.

This was her election to lose. She just needs to face the facts: She's lost.

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Lalita L. Amos, CRC
http://www.totalteamsolutions.com
http://totalteam.blogspot.com

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