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Will Bower

Posted: January 21, 2010 07:13 PM

An Open Letter to Secretary Clinton: Save Us from Obama

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Madame Secretary Clinton,

It's time for you to save your party -- and your country -- from Barack Obama.

You have been doing a remarkable job as Secretary of State, but now we need you as the new head of the Democratic Party ... and as our next President of the United States.

I know that it would be virtually unprecedented for a party nomination to be handed to a challenger over an incumbent, but it was unprecedented in 2008 when the party apparatus selected their then preferred candidate over the will and popular vote of the Democratic majority.

You were the rightful candidate then, you are the rightful head of the Democratic Party today, and you would be taking your rightful place as the nominee and president you were meant to become.

Every warning and critique you gave us in regard to Barack Obama has come to fruition. You were correct in every debate, in every political advertisement, and in every interview.

We are where we are today because too many refused to listen to you.

Only Smart Power can save us now, and you are the perfect person to bring us that much needed commodity. Just log into Facebook and you'll see the numerous "Hillary Clinton for 2012" groups springing to new life. A multitude of your supporters are ready to bring about the change that was falsely promised by your opponent in 2008. You got more votes than he did in 2008, and you can get more votes than him again in 2012.

One might warn you that this would only serve to divide the party, leaving the presidency open to takeover by the opposition. Because of your steadfastness during this past primary season, you were given that same warning then, but your party went on to victory all the same.

We tried it their way then. Now, it's time to try it your way.

In the upcoming midterm elections of 2010, your party will pay the price for its lack of vision. There is little to stop that now. Once that happens, more of a balance will be restored, and both your party and your country will be ready to move forward once again -- with you at the helm -- to a truly better future.

Thank you, Madame Secretary. We'll be standing by.

 
 
 
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10:38 AM on 02/08/2010
.We're hearing the same vapid crap about Hillary, that we heard when she won the popular vote against Obama, in spite of the immense support he was receiving from media and the estabslishment. I say. ignore this nonsense. Hillary must be approached with the goal of changing her mind about not running. Her discouragement is to be expected, considering the way she was treated by Obama and other members of her own party. Let's get this thing going. Hillary has what it takes. We've got to follow through with this.

HILLARY FOR PRESIDENT 2012
04:12 PM on 01/28/2010
As a longtime Clinton supporter and believer that she is best qualified for the job, I think the best course for the Democrats is to give Obama 8 years followed by 8 years of Clinton.

If we divide now, Clinton supporters vs. Obama supporters, then a Republican will win and the Supreme Court will complete it's transformation into a judicial conservative activist platform rather than a collection of judges that can put politics aside and vote on the Constitution. And it will last for the rest of our lives.
05:48 PM on 01/28/2010
Do you really think Hillary Clinton should take office at the age of 68 to work until the age of 76 so the we can have an incompetent President for 8 years instead of 4?

The ironic thing is, if Obama had not been such a greedy narcissist and waited for 2016 to run, he may have developed some qualifications for the job before assuming office.
06:41 PM on 01/28/2010
If we continue down the path we are on, a Republican will win in a landslide. Obama is not a leader and the presidency is not on-the-job training. We need experience, wisdom, courage of conviction, and competence in the White House, Obama has none of those. Run, Hillary, run!.
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02:55 PM on 01/30/2010
Wishful thinking. Hillary will NEVER be disloyal to her, our President. She is loyal to the office of the Presidency and President Obama. I was a Hillary Delegate and know this. It is time to get to work before the Republicans divide and conquer even more than they already have for the past year. Siding with them via Tea Party and all of the other Right-wing propagandists masquerading as pro-Hillary blogs (that have been infiltrated by Right-wing/Conservative mentality) is of no use to our country. If, indeed, you are a true Democrat, than work like hell for your country and stop being so gullible as to think that ANYTHING that the Republican Party fronting as pro-woman, pro-Hillary, pro-civil rights will ever do anything to further that agenda. Past time to stop the whining.
01:19 PM on 01/28/2010
Will, will the PUMA ever die? Although you make some relevant points, would your criticisms be directed at Madam Secretary if she resided at 1600 Penn ave rather than Mr. Obama? I believe you, more so than many of your followers, should know this. You do realize how deep the well was dug by the former occupant of that address right? You do know that this President has done quite well to keep us from the brink of further war and certain depression right? You do know that whether it was McCain (whom I think you might have closed your eyes and voted for) Clinton, or even Edwards (B. Clinton circa 1995-6 now), we would be at best slightly further along, or worse even more in peril right?

I would strongly suggest that you and your compatriots begin to formulate meaningful campaign strategies for the upcoming elections rather than to rehash 2008 or encourage a non-candidate to run in 2012. Use your enormous skill and ability to push the discourse rather than slam the current occupant because you and the other PUMAs won't let go.

I believe John Lennon said it best, "...He say, I know you, you know me. One thing I can tell you is you've got to be free. Come together right now, over me..."
05:44 PM on 01/28/2010
No, the PUMA will never die. However, they would have been disempowered if Obama had even demonstrated the intention of keeping his campaign promises or even delivered 10% of what he promised.

Obama is an unmitigated failure. As would be expected for the corrupt, unqualified candidate he was.
10:28 PM on 01/28/2010
I've heard it all before and still don't think we get anywhere going back and forth with the name calling. Until we both lay down the swords all we're going to end up with (as a few others mentioned) is a republican in office in 2012 and neither of us being happy.

I never imagined working with people who describe themselves as democrats, independents and/or progressives would be so hard. Resentment, hatred (to be blunt) and revisionist history is not going to move us forward. It would be insincere for me to say "he won, get over it" but when (as Obama said last night) does campaign mode end and the hard work of legislating begin?
12:01 PM on 01/29/2010
This comment is right on. Thoughtful and respectful to everyone who reads it.
09:55 AM on 01/28/2010
Obama seems to have used Bill Clinton's Presidency as a model and you folks think Hillary would have been different. In what way precisely? Obama has taken the approach that Bill Clinton took after 1994 when he lost Congress, Emanuel's influence is apparent. He has approached his agenda in the center to get things done rather than appearing to have a mandate like Clinton did in his first year. Obama's approach probably made sense in theory a year ago, the voters were angry at the dysfunction in Congress, the inability to get things done.

I don't believe Obama's efforts at bipartisanship are a failure in leadership, it's a symptom of the dysfunction of the opposition party that refuses to even acknowledge that we have serious problems that the majority of voters want solutions to. Clouding every single debate with countless lies and distortions when we should be hearing the facts debated and seeing problems solved. The GOP has politicized health care reform and now the public seems ready to reward them for it even though they're offering no solutions of their own. This dysfunction will only change when we continue to reject it, election after election.

Obama needs a fresh approach, that much is clear. Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan had similar difficulties in their first year in office and both saw losses at the midterm election but over the long haul they were very successful politically. Abandoning Obama will only empower the other side, this makes no sense.
10:11 AM on 01/28/2010
I should have said, it makes not sense to abandon Obama for another centrist Democrat unless you're still harboring resentment from the primaries.
05:39 PM on 01/28/2010
It is not a matter of being a centrist. Most people are at the center. It is an issue of being a competent leader.
05:33 PM on 02/16/2010
Centrism is not the issue...getting something done is the issue.
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02:15 AM on 01/28/2010
President Obama's State of the Union Address has left Americans feeling uninspired and, yes, even abandoned. He has repeatedly failed to successfully deliver on his promises at a time when the Democratic Congress held a super majority. If he is unable to bring his own party together on initiatives, then how can he ever bring bipartisanship into play?

Madame Secretary Clinton has stated that she will not run again for the office of the President, but we urge her to reconsider, to stand up once again in 2012 to challenge President Obama. Her time has come to seize the one office where she can apply her experience and leadership to secure our Nation's domestic and global prosperity.

Please join our "Hillary 2012" group at Facebook at this link to urge Madame Secretary Clinton to run against President Obama in 2012:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=140841438425&ref=ts

Respectfully submitted,
George Crawford
01:07 AM on 01/28/2010
I would love to see her run again maybe in 2016. If she is up to it. For now I am not ready to throw in the towel on our current president. All this talk is much too early to take seriously anyway
08:23 PM on 01/27/2010
Guys, we can really get this moving again. I have felt from day 1 Clinton in 2012 was possible Now the tide seems to be turning You should lend your support to my Facebook group. Hillary for President 2012! http://www.facebook.com/#/group.php?gid=13547253583&ref=ts It has not seen activity for months!
03:11 PM on 01/27/2010
So if Hillary saves us from Obama, who's going to save us from Hillary? Be careful what you wish for, PUMAs....
05:28 PM on 01/27/2010
Just what are you afraid Clinton will do to us? Turn our freedom and the countries wealth over to elitists and Banksters? Sell our health to the highest bidder? Between Bush and Obama, just how many more rotten things are there left to do? How much more is there left to steal?

If there is some problem with Hillary Clinton, the voters will need to do just what they are doing now and tell them NO DEAL. There is simply no one better qualified to get us out of this mess. Yea, somebody needs to be worried about being saved. Let her have at 'em.
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07:46 PM on 01/27/2010
Barack Obama is the set up for the return of the next Bush. Would rather have Hillary Clinton.
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01:25 PM on 01/27/2010
The media sure has a tough decision to make. Admit that things probably would have been better under a Clinton administration, and admit they were in the tank for Barack Obama, or the media can try and trivialize Hillary Clinton and get everyone to forget and move on.
11:00 PM on 01/26/2010
I doubt that Secretary Clinton could possibly approve of this kind of second guessing. Obama has three more years to serve. Unfortunately he seems willing to further the interests of the Republicans by cutting funding despite getting no support from them for his initiatives. The mid-term elections will indicate how the country feels about the performance of the Democrats. It is not up to her supporters to kick off her campaign for the office. She is our leader--she will let us know if and when she decides to become a candidate.
12:22 AM on 01/29/2010
Just keep watching for the orange pantsuit, for then it will be time.
07:48 PM on 01/26/2010
Madame Secretary,

It's 3:00 am, please answer the call because that guy won't.
07:21 PM on 01/26/2010
People tend to forget that Obama lost the popular vote in the primaries and was installed as the Democratic Party candidate by the party's rule loopholes.
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They also forget, or don't even know about, all the shenanigans that occured during the primary season, or that the Democrats created obstacles to prevent the traditional roll call vote at the 2008 Dem Convention in Denver... or that when the count was stopped, both obama and Clinton had c. 1700 votes each.... in other words, a dead heat TIE; not to mention the buying off of super delegates, those who did not represent the will of the voters of their state ... new jersey comes to mind, corizine... (now dutifully retired by the voters).
Massachusetts was teh wake up call... but the snooze alarms will continue... state by state, until politicians begin to remember who they are supposed to serve.

Hillary in 2012!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Thank you, Will.
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03:10 AM on 01/28/2010
Please join our Facebook group to urge Hillary Clinton to reconsider challenging Obama for the Office of the President in 2012.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=140841438425&ref=mf

Thank you!
12:12 AM on 01/29/2010
People forget a lot of things that aren't true.

It's called waking up.
07:04 PM on 01/26/2010
Hey Will,

Thanks for saying what everyone has been thinking.

It is pretty plain that what Americans bought was not as advertised. He just does not pack the gear to turn it around if he could not make something from what he was handed on a platter. He could have done so much good. But he bailed out the Banksters and then tried to sell our health to the highest bidder.

So how would it be different if we had a real President? Would most of the Bankster bucks have gone into education, environment, healthcare and infrastructure for the American People?

Somebody should ask Hillary Clinton.
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05:59 PM on 01/26/2010
Although I do hope Obama doesn't continue spinning his wheels and actually accomplishes something - soon. I've never been more sure I voted for the correct candidate in the 2008 California primary - where Hillary won by a decisive margin. 18,000,000 democrats nationally agreed - as she got the most votes any candidate got in a primary in the U.S., ever. People tend to forget that Obama lost the popular vote in the primaries and was installed as the Democratic Party candidate by the party's rule loopholes.
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01:29 PM on 01/27/2010
Well stated David.
05:37 PM on 01/26/2010
You are willing to judge our President after a year in office and jump to some ridiculous conclusion that all of Clinton's predictions would come true with an Obama administration? Do you think the Republicans ever doubted or parted ways on Bush until the very end of a SECOND term? All of this only feeds into a media spin of how divided our party is after we spent 8 long and grueling years trying to get it together. She lost for a reason and as much as I admire Secretary Clinton I don't believe that she would have progressed much more than Obama has right now. Am I completely content with Obama's performance right now? No. But I do have the common decency to give the man a chance to perform the last three years of his term and understand that, as every President in our history has done, Presidents all make mistakes. So instead of prematurely blaming President Obama and turning your backs on him, maybe we should focus more on the 2010 elections and support him as he needs us more than ever now. But instead, I'm sure you;ll just sit around and act like superior judges of performance and hope for things to magically change within a year after the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, two wars with fierce and bitter partisanship from the right on everything a Democratic President does no matter who they are.
06:04 PM on 01/26/2010
Charloastra, Don't sound so sad. You can't ask for loyalty and patience from those of us who never agreed with you to begin with. Obama wasn't ready for the real fight, just the popularity contest. If you had seen that to begin with you would be seeing things the way some of us ex democrats do now. Of course Obama will get more time to prove himself. THAT is the problem. It is not going to get any easier or better. Question to you! How badly do democratic ideals have to get beat down before you are willing to admit a mistake? If he had waited until he knew more and had the right experience you wouldn't have to be defending him now. Ginty.
06:33 PM on 01/26/2010
Did you vote for him in November of 2008?
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01:28 PM on 01/27/2010
The problem is Barack Obama has managed to get the support of the community activists and the Wall Street Banksters. Something is not right with that scenario.