What Will A Clinton "Victory" Feel Like?

News Type: Opinion — Seeded on Fri May 2, 2008 8:59 PM EDT

Article Source: The Huffington Post

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If Clinton wins the nomination after promising--and delivering--a "kitchen-sink" campaign that appealed, from beginning to end, to the lowest and darkest of our human instincts, can that "victory" be anything but a crushing defeat for the America my kids will inherit?

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Blitzen

So, as the campaign tension ratchets up, in a week where Obama gives us more honest and adult conversation about the Reverend Wright "issue," what do we get from Hillary Clinton? An offhand threat to commit genocide in Iran, more purse-lipped and prissy insistence that Wright "wouldn't have been my pastor," and the supremely cynical act of pimping for votes by supporting this ludicrous "gas-tax holiday." And when an Indiana superdelegate and Bill Clinton-appointee at the DNC switches camps and endorses Obama, what do we get from the perfectly named Howard Wolfson and his squad of gutter-rats? "He doesn't really come from Indiana."

The hits just keep on comin'. And the scary part is: they're workin'.

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1 vote

#1 - Fri May 2, 2008 9:02 PM EDT

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Pamela Drew

What Will A Clinton "Victory" Feel Like?

Like more George Bush!

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2 votes

#1.1 - Sat May 3, 2008 12:55 AM EDT

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Cora

Should she manage to cheat herself into the nomination, I can only trust those of us who have half a brain will either abstain from voting or vote for Ralph Nader. Further, should she finagle a win to the Oval Office, we will need to build bomb shelters and remove ourselves to them forthwith.

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2 votes

#2 - Fri May 2, 2008 9:56 PM EDT

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njb

I predict a record year for Nader. I can't hold my nose long enough to vote McCain.

God help us if she does. She has already stated that within 10 years Iran would be obliterated. Bomb shelters sound like a good idea.

I am all for a woman president--just not her.

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3 votes

#3 - Fri May 2, 2008 10:22 PM EDT

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hircus

In the greater scheme of things, you might as well be voting for McCain. Even if Nader were to gain, say, 10% of the vote, or even match Ross Perot's 19% from 1992, due to the way the electoral system favours the largest two parties, it is highly improbable that it would be more than a one-off protest showing.

What we need is either a regional MMP system (parties whose FPTP performance are below their vote percentage get compensated at, say, the state level), or instant-runoff (IRV) with a mixture of single-seat and multi-seat districts.

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1 vote

#3.1 - Sat May 3, 2008 1:33 AM EDT

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headinthegame

i think it would be great if she won the Democratic Nomination; don't want her to be President, but I don't want Barack either.

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#4 - Fri May 2, 2008 10:47 PM EDT

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cecil paul

The Democratic Party created political elites of Bill and Hillary Clinton. They made this political couple semi gods. They forgave, protected and defended them from their many discretion's. The Democrats are now struggling to save the Party from the worst form of internecine warfare provoked and engineered by Hillary and Bill. The party is being embarrassed by Hillary's alliance with the racist and fundamentalist faction of the Republicans. Despite support from many loyal black Democrats,the Clintons have adopted a subtle form of racism against Obama, which disrespects the support of these black faithfuls of the Clintons. Together they have engaged in the worst form of dirty politics seen for many years. They have embarked on a witch hunt against Obama with the intention of bringing him down at all and every cost. It is now up to the Democratic Leaders to correct the historical errors made with the Clintons or face a serious division of the Democratic Party. A Party with the responsibility to overturn 8 years of the worst form of misrule by the Republicans. A party with the responsibility to set the USA back on a course of development that benefits it's people.

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5 votes

#5 - Sat May 3, 2008 12:46 AM EDT

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Pamela Drew

This is one of the times I wish I could vote for a comment twice. You nailed it cecil paul; bulls-eye!

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2 votes

#5.1 - Sat May 3, 2008 12:57 AM EDT

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