Hillary, Time Is Running Out

(not on your candidacy, on your legacy)

As we used to write in our old souvenir books in school, "Yours 'til the kitchen sinks." Your kitchen sink sunk. It didn't work. Nothing you threw at your opponent did anything other than push up your negatives. And his, too, but not as much as yours.

Let me remind you of words you surely know, but seem to have forgotten, from Lincoln's first Inaugural Address, in times more difficult than these. March 4, 1861. "We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."

I appeal to your better angels and to ours. You're not going to win this. It doesn't matter what you are telling yourself, or what the people around you are telling you. The math is not there and it will never be there, and the delegates you are counting on will never, repeat, never overturn the entire primary process to deliver to you a backroom deal. But I would not suggest, as others have, that you drop out of the primary contests. See them through. It is your right, which you have earned, and which your supporters deserve. Use the remaining time, though, to elevate the discourse, to articulate an America of your dreams, to deliver rhetoric we can be moved by, and act upon, inspired by you.

The thought that if your opponent stumbles with something he said on the campaign trail, (or someone else said) and you gather together your resources, and rush out your surrogates, and your television commercials, and you, yourself, deliver caustic remarks about it, the thought that you will win with this approach has been injurious to you personally, and it hasn't worked for your campaign.

You do still have time, not a great deal of time, but some time, to inspire us to change direction on the range of onerous policies we have been living with during the current administration. What you need to do is say to yourself, "I will lose nobly, and my supporters, my opponent, my opponent's supporters, and those who are undecided, will be carried upward by my language and my vision for this country I love." Find your better angels.

Comments

[noodlebit]

Hear, here! What a great message to HRC. "Take the high road out, and leave us (re-) inspired regarding the Clintons. For myself, I know I've lost any thread of respect for Bill Clinton. He's turned into a blithering red-faced finger-pointing idiot. And all that time I had hoped to see her as President, only to see the REAL Clintons exposed.

[LewisR]

She might not win it all, but it's hilarious reading all you Huffers making excuses for big bad 'Bam. Can't ya just say that she won this one and great for her? Then go win the next one. But all this whining here at Obama Central is just sad.

[Repub4Obama]

I'm not whining, so don't use the word "all". Generalizations are the tools of unplanned thoughts.

I'm actually quite proud of my candidate, who has been able to bring a 20% lead down to a 9.2% result. Quite a nice showing, considering that the state is perfect for Clinton.

And as a side-note, Obama was able to do in PA what the US was able to do to the USSR, that brought about it's collapse: he outspent her and bankrupted her campaign. Even with her $2.5 million last night, her campaign is still roughly $4 million in debt. And at a collection rate of $1.5 million a day into Obama's existing $41 million, I think he'll do just fine.

[justobserve]

The voters have done their part to elect the winner, Obama. It is now up to superdelegates to show their gut to end this proplonged and nasty nomination process. A candidate has proved he is electable despite his so-called inexperience, his being a black and non-female person against a well-known female ex co-president/ex first lady/senator. He also has been rated more trustworthy and less negative. So what are superdelegates waiting for? When the winner is not a winner? Because he is a black person to these superdelegates or because they are in with the Clintons to sink Democrat this year for her coming back in 2012?
Whatever criteria that the Clintons spin, Obama had won despite all that. Period!
The question superdelegates have to ask themselves now is:
"TO SIT OUT THIS NEGATIVE RACE AND DESTROY THE PARTY'S CHANCE TO WIN IN NOVEMBER IN THE PROCESS, WILL I OVERTURN THE PEOPLE'S VOTES AT THE END?"
If the answer is "No" then they have to ACT NOW so that Obama can find a suitable VP to accommodate Clinton's supporters' wish to have a woman in high office.
If Clinton really "love this country so much", she will work hard with her supporters to make the party's win in November a landslide instead of wasting donations to fight a losing battle against her own fellow party member and ensure a lost of the party in November.

[julieeiluj]

You old farts are all so full of it. Does a hatred for women in power come along with your inevitable prostate problems and erectile dysfunction?

[LABC]

??????????????? He states an opinion that anyone with a pulse would have to agree with and he is full of "hatred"? I hope Hillary does listen to her better angels and closes out these primaries with inspiration and elevation of the message. But I do not hold my breath...

[Repub4Obama]

Even if we buy your argument that he's an old fart and I do not: The older white men I've met would much rather have a white woman than a "colored man" any day.

However, and as a whole, I almost agree with your sentiment that it will be nice when the "greatest generation" is put to rest, and we can romanticize their achievements without being reminded of their bigotry.

[thymetwo]

The MSM keeps perpetuating the myth that Clinton can win. My guess is that it is really good for the ratings, but the facts are delegate count is what the nomination is based on if she wants to change the rules she can't do it this year so Obama is winning and MUST win. To overturn the will of the people will destroy the party. Clinton has already throw a great percentage of the democratic base "under the bus" to win in PA, do you really think they would back her if she manipulated the process beyond all reason?

[Researchguy66]

Just yesterday, 2.3 million Democratic primary votes were cast in Pennsylvania, outnumbering Republican primary votes by more than 3 to 1. And this after a HUGE increase in Democratic voter registration, both from new registrants and from Republicans joining the Democratic Party.

Were Hillary to drop out today, I can guarantee any such progress in Indiana, West Virginia, Kentucky and quite possibly North Carolina would stop dead in its tracks.

Whether you like what she's doing or not, HRC is helping to build a very strong Democratic base for November.

[gba]

She might win the popular vote

[katefranklin]

The image that haunts me is one of Hillary proving her theory to be true. She has declared her opponent to be unelectable. She is now setting out to "prove" her knowledge of how the political game is played by ensuring he is exactly that. If Obama wins the general election, it would be a lasting and final disproof of the Clinton legacy.

[heather11483]

Word.