One of the talking points of the Democratic Party rewritten here is:

"The Democratic Party will end the Republican Culture of corruption and restore a government as good as the people it serves."

Does this promise apply to other Dems and Demogogues as well? I certainly hope so. Since I don't believe the "culture of"corruption" exist exclusively amongst Republicans.

Subject in point: Hillary Clinton, the Senator from New York, former First Lady, wife of Bill Clinton and now herself a Democratic Presidential candidate is well-known to all of us. What is obviously less known or maybe ignored by the public and media alike is the degree to which her pandering and deceptive practices are undermining the Democratic Party and the American voters!

I just read in today's HuffPo that Hillary now promises to take her bid for the presidential nomination all the way to the floors of the Democratic Convention, August, 2008. Senator Clinton plans to fight not only for the seating of the errant Florida and Michigan delegations, but to have all their popular votes counted in her favor. The writer quotes that she "feels strongly about this!"

She likens her role to freeing the slaves or gaining the rights for Blacks & Women to vote.

A separate report that I revisited today stated that a Clinton campaign supporter offered one million dollars to members of the Young Democrats of America as the price for two of their Superdelegate's favorable votes for Hillary at the convention. Sounds like bribery to me, what do you think?

I was disgusted. I was disgusted because I knew that this insult would go unnoticed and unchallenged in the same way as most of Hillary's deceit.

IMAGINE with me - if you will, a reversal of circumstances for the Dems Candidates: Let's imagine that Hillary has won over thirty contests; she's raised an unprecedented amount of money from over three million contributors at $200 or less. She has nearly two hundred more pledged delegates than her opponent Obama. Not only that- she's been validated as having exceeded the majority of pledged delegates required for Superdelegate allegiance
and the nomination.

Now I want you to imagine that Obama, without party or media opposition, insist on changing the rules of the game to suit himself. He declares the states that he's won matter more than the states Hillary's won(remember this is an imagined scenario!). He's reinventing the number of superdelegates necessary for a win of the nomination to boost his own sagging numbers.

Worst of all, in the face of dividing the strength of the Dems and multiplying the strength of the Republicans, he proceeds with his solipsistic strategy to 'steal away' a well-earned nomination from the other guy.

Question: If Obama really did this, how long do you imagine he would stay in the presidential race? How long? Six hours? Seven? Surely no more than that. You and I know that as soon as the media and DNC awakened the next morning, he'd be old news.

But Hillary seems to walk all over the media and the party. She would have you believe today that she is the endangered species - the victim of discrimination. For all the Grace she has been given by Senator Obama and the Dems, she returns none.

Hillary Clinton has not earned the Democratic nomination and I don't think she will ever acquiesce! In the meantime, the Democratic leadership faces complicity in the sabotage of the party by Hillary Clinton.

If the Superdelegates continue to sit on the fence for whatever good reason they hoard,then these undeclared Charter delegates will forever bear the mark of cowardice. What's called for now ladies and gentlemen, is the courage of true leadership.

Superdelegates. Choose. Please.

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