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Chuck Burton: Electability -- Here's the Catch

Submitted by BuzzFlash on Tue, 04/22/2008 - 3:29pm.

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The only remaining argument that the Clinton campaign keeps rolling out is that Barack Obama is not electable and that McCain and the Republicans will wipe the floor with him. This argument has only one slight facet in its favor; it could become a self-fulfilling prophesy where significant numbers of HRC supporters refuse to vote for Obama, or God forbid, vote for McCain. Otherwise it is ludicrous.

Considering the incredible distress our nation is suffering after the most abysmal presidency in history, it is not conceivable that a majority would actually choose to stomach more of the same. And if we as a people are so ignorant as to make that choice, then that is about all that we deserve.

Lost in this specious and dishonest argument is one fact that the Obama campaign could (and perhaps should) raise, if the candidate were not so classy as he is. Hillary Clinton's negatives are so high across both parties as to assure that she is not electable.

I am a lifetime progressive Democrat, and a long-time admirer of Ms. Clinton. I am also a lifetime feminist, and have longed for a woman president. However, the Clinton campaign has been so vile that, well, there is nothing more to say. And besides, she is such a hawk that I sorrow. If we hold another election between two Republican candidates, a Republican is sure to win.

Chuck Burton
Steilacoom, WA 

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Hillary

Submitted by andyod on Wed, 04/23/2008 - 9:16am.
The only argument Hillary has for staying in the race is that she keeps winning. Is that such a bad argument?
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Yeah, great way to win a nomination

Submitted by darlenem on Tue, 04/22/2008 - 4:36pm.
"Vote for me or I'll have all my millions of supporters vote for John McCain in November."
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Which is EXACTLY the problem

Submitted by drprodny on Tue, 04/22/2008 - 4:33pm.
I was, if not exactly all for Hillary Clinton as the Democratic nominee (I live in NY, and consider her far too DLC "centrist"), perfectly willing to vote for her as an alternate to whatever the Rethugs vomited up. But given the sleazy, racist, Karl Rovian campaign she and her "surrogates" and handlers have run so far not against the deserving Repig McShame but her Democratic Challenger(!!!), I am too appalled to view her any more w/anything other than the utmost contempt. How DARE she, after repeatedly tossing Obama under the bus, praising McSame and cuddling up to the vilest parts of the NeoKon Khrister Right, two-facedly claim "We Democrats have more in common than apart" or "I've NEVER attacked praised John McCain over Barack Obama"! Her hypocrisy is positively Republican in its heaping intensity....
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