Why Barack Obama MUST Be the Nominee

Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton. Is that what America is now? A pseudo-monarchy? Is that seriously what a America wishes to perpetuate? Is it logical that by some godawful coincidence that the son of a former president became president because he was the best person for the job, and now a spouse of a former president is supposed to be the next president because she is the best person for the job? I think not. I think it is unamerican. Hillary Clinton and those who rabidly support her candidacy for president are no different from those who rabidly supported George W. Bush for president. They are people who, rather than realizing that America maintains its great status in the world and its fluidity through change. Electing the same people from the same families over and over again does not by any stretch of the imagination represent change any more than hereditary assignment of regency represents change in a monarchy.

The only true change we will see in this election will come from Barack Obama. Those who believe that John McCain in all his pandering antics will be much of a change from the Bush continuum are wearing blinders. Those who believe that Hillary Clinton represents a radical change from her husband's scandal-ridden terminus are wearing even larger blinders.

Logic dictates reality clearly once we take off the blinders. The Republican Party is enjoying the fight going on between Obama and Clinton because it is tearing down the Democratic Party and giving a boost to the Republican Party. The Republicans clearly want Hillary Clinton to win the nomination of the Democrats. Rush Limbaugh exhorts his minions to vote for her. Rupert Murdoch endorses her in his newspapers and gives speeches that favor her. Richard Mellon Scaife is following the lead of Rupert Murdoch and also endorsing Clinton. Most of Fox News coverage of Hillary Clinton has a positive bent hinting that she couls and should win the nomination. While all of this is happening, we see Fox strongly attacking Obama. Newsmax, a vey right wing website, came out with the clips of Rev. Wright and now are bringing out some clips of a vote Obama took regarding gang violence. The right wing has had an eager ally in Hillary Clinton, who's latest ad with pictures of the Wall Street Crash and Osama Bin Laden and other images meant to strike fear into the hearts of Americans looks like something directly out of a Karl Rove strategy session. Hillary knows the Republicans want her to win the nomination and she has made appearances on Fox News and has met with Rupert Murdoch and Richard Mellon Scaife and has actually attacked MoveOn.org to urge the Republicans on and to relish their support. She wishes to destroy Obama just as much as the Republicans do. Her motive is that she simply wants to be the nominee. The Republicans' motive is simply that they know they can tear her apart in a general election and are drooling at the mouth with the thought of a Hillary Clinton candidacy. No single person in American politics can get Republicans and right-leaning Independents of all stripes to come out in droves to vote for the Republican candidate for president as much as Hillary Clinton. If she becomes the Democratic nominee, it will spell disaster for the Democratic Party in November and you can bet everything you own that the Republicans know this. It is pure logic. It is staring us in the face.

Conversely, the Republicans know that if Barack Obama is the nominee of the Democratic Party, they will have a very rough time of it. They have maybe one-tenth the dirt on him that they have on Hillary Clinton. He is much more of a uniting force and a force of hope and inspiration than Hillary Clinton is. He is a hugely sharp contrast with their candidate, John McCain. Independents, including right-leaning Independents such as myself (a former Republican) will vote for him over John McCain. Voters who are against the war in Iraq will see a much greater difference between Obama and McCain than they would between Clinton and McCain and they will vote for Obama. After all, those of us who are against the Iraq war clearly know that no matter how she tries to spin it, Hillary Clinton voted for the resolution to give the president the power to use military force against Iraq while Obama was against this ill-begotten war from the start. Most Americans are against the Iraq war and they who are strongly against it will vote for Obama. This will give him the swing states that Hillary Clinton apparently thinks are her exclusive territory, because while there is a great difference between Obama and Clinton regarding the Iraq war issue, there is little difference between Obama and Clinton regarding the other huge issue, the economy. This will cause swing voters to vote for Obama over McCain, but not necessarily to vote for Clinton over McCain.

Finally, the math is clear. The only way Hillary Clinton can be the nominee of the Democratic Party is if it is handed to her by the "Superdelegates". This would have one effect and only one effect: it will destroy the Democratic Party and it will cause the Democratic Party to lose not only the White House, but also not gains as many seats in the House and Senate as they could were they to have picked Obama.

The conclusion is clear: Barack Obama represents the future of the Democratic Party. They can swim with him, or they can drown with Hillary.