In 2008, commencing with the May 31 Rules and Bylaws Committee meeting on the votes from Florida and Michigan, and concluding with the most shameful spectacle of a viable candidate who had won the popular vote being walked out onto the convention floor in order to halt a completely staged "roll call vote," Democrats have said the same thing. Not all Democrats are satisfied with the 2008 candidate who is now the incumbent candidate. The dissatisfaction was reflected in the New Hampshire primary results yesterday. Barack Obama drew in appreciably fewer votes than Mitt Romney and Ron Paul. He won 82% of the Democratic Primary vote there, was opposed by more than a dozen challengers, none of whom managed to exceed the write-in vote, which garnered a rough 10% of the total with no bankroll, public speakers, town halls, or physical presence on the ground by a declared write-in candidate.
It is time for the Democratic Party to wake up to a reality, as much as we love Hillary Clinton, and hard as she tried, she was not in 2008 and is not now able to effect unity in a party that she did not tear apart. The task of unifying the party belonged to Barack Obama who campaigned on a claim that he would unify the entire nation. He has accomplished neither, and the reason is that he did not heal the wound from which the country was bleeding four years ago. He did nothing to support homeowners facing foreclosure, unemployed Americans, and students who could not afford tuition. He responded to the BP oil disaster with paralysis, and chose to waste 18 months pushing a faulty and wanting health care bill when people were suffering from poverty and joblessness. So, in short, placing HRC on the ballot under the name of a failing and flailing candidate will not effect his reelection. We will not even entertain such a ridiculous idea which is put forth by those who assure us that it will not happen anyway. (So why even raise it?)
You have to love seniors. The very experienced who have seen so much and have lived through bad times before know what it takes to fix things. They no longer have to worry about pinks slips. They have faced so much in life that they do not care what they say. Devil-may-care, they say what is on their minds. Here are two of them.
Specter: Dump Obama for Hillary
January 10, 2012|By Tom Infield, INQUIRER STAFF WRITERShould President Obama dump Joe Biden as his running mate and replace him with Hillary Clinton?
Arlen Specter was asked that hot-potato question, circulating in some Democratic circles, in a meeting Tuesday with The Inquirer editorial board.
His answer showed that the former 30-year senator hasn't lost his knack for blunt talk - nor, perhaps, his bitterness over what he feels were slights from Obama during his failed 2010 Senate campaign.
Read more >>>>Here is another senior icon.
Another lefty celebrity says he’s heartbroken and dismayed by Obama
In a recent appearance on the “Smiley & West” radio program hosted by Tavis Smiley and Cornel West, Harry Belafonte lamented the president’s lack of a moral compass — and cautioned other discontents to be wary of the proposition that the president just needs a second term to prove himself. Said Belafonte:posted at 1:20 pm on January 11, 2012 by Tina Korbe
Read more >>>>I have, over the years of Obama's tenure, occasionally clashed with younger folks here who have been sure that older people do not "get it." I beg to differ. Guys and gals old enough to be my parents have a compendium of knowledge and experience we have yet to gain. It never hurts to listen to voices of experience. They, after all, have little to lose at this point, and the young? Their futures are on the line. It might serve them well to attend to these voices and ask themselves where their values are: in fixing what is wrong, or in continuing to prop up the failed and ineffectual candidate that thrilled them with all the texting four years ago.
It was a cheap trick, kids. I got some of those tweets too when hurricanes ravaged the Gulf Coast. All he wanted was for my Red Cross donations to go through his website. Well, I know how to find the Red Cross on my own. I did not need him to tell me how to arrive there, and he does not know how to get us back to where we need to be. If he did, surely he would have made his huge effort by now.
FDR did not win four elections by saying that he needed another term. He rolled up his sleeves, showed us what was possible, and an impressed and grateful populace gladly reelected him. No, I did not witness this history, but I learned from it nonetheless - from folks older than I. We all should.
