Sunday, 11 May 2008
Wednesday, 7 May 2008
OPINION: GIVE ME THE NOMINATION OR GIVE ME DEMOCRAT HUMILIATION
The distortion of Patrick Henry's famous statement, "Give me liberty, or give me death" in 1775 shows my estimation as to the depths Hillary Rodham Clinton has gone in the race for the Democratic nomination. Last night's results in Indiana and North Carolina have killed her candidacy after a long and damaging campaign which has seen her trade principle for her own ambition. Yet still she hasn't ended her candidacy and called for the party to unite.
She has won many of the larger states and has performed admirably in debates, but Obama has won more states, more delegates and more of the popular vote and it is he who has got the the charisma and eloquence which she so badly needs and which is lacking in her political arsenal. She is the calculating politician, he simply is the great inspirer, who else but Obama could get the world watching as a nation shouts "Yes we can." Obama's campaign is built on hope, Clinton uses the Karl Rove guidebook with negativity the soup of the day, Chef's special and dessert on her menu.
Hillary has rejected all the calls from Democratic Party leaders to stand aside and allow Obama to bring much needed Progressive policies back to a White House mired in the shallow regressive Conservative ideals of the Republican Party. If she fails to stand aside soon as decides to go all the way to the convention then it will be the Democrats as a whole who suffer. She could exit the stage gracefully in defeat knowing that senior positions in the Senate or even the Administration could be hers, if she wants them and if the Democrats win big in 2008. However, sadly she seems to be blinkered like too many politicians to the allure of power and is willing to hold her party ransom, even allowing McCain to continue the neo-con agenda in the White House, just so long as Obama doesn't get the nomination. America will lose if she doesn't stand aside till the Convention as she may have been largely responsible for depriving America of possibly its greatest leader since FDR and JFK.
If she does this she may as well turn around tonight and declare to Democrats "GIVE ME THE NOMINATION OR GIVE ME DEMOCRAT HUMILIATION" for that seems to be her campaign's true slogan.
-By Adam Evans, Chief Political Correspondent
She has won many of the larger states and has performed admirably in debates, but Obama has won more states, more delegates and more of the popular vote and it is he who has got the the charisma and eloquence which she so badly needs and which is lacking in her political arsenal. She is the calculating politician, he simply is the great inspirer, who else but Obama could get the world watching as a nation shouts "Yes we can." Obama's campaign is built on hope, Clinton uses the Karl Rove guidebook with negativity the soup of the day, Chef's special and dessert on her menu.
Hillary has rejected all the calls from Democratic Party leaders to stand aside and allow Obama to bring much needed Progressive policies back to a White House mired in the shallow regressive Conservative ideals of the Republican Party. If she fails to stand aside soon as decides to go all the way to the convention then it will be the Democrats as a whole who suffer. She could exit the stage gracefully in defeat knowing that senior positions in the Senate or even the Administration could be hers, if she wants them and if the Democrats win big in 2008. However, sadly she seems to be blinkered like too many politicians to the allure of power and is willing to hold her party ransom, even allowing McCain to continue the neo-con agenda in the White House, just so long as Obama doesn't get the nomination. America will lose if she doesn't stand aside till the Convention as she may have been largely responsible for depriving America of possibly its greatest leader since FDR and JFK.
If she does this she may as well turn around tonight and declare to Democrats "GIVE ME THE NOMINATION OR GIVE ME DEMOCRAT HUMILIATION" for that seems to be her campaign's true slogan.
-By Adam Evans, Chief Political Correspondent
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
