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Sunday, April 27, 2008
For the Good of
the Party and America, an Obama-Clinton Democratic Ticket
by Stephen Crockett, co-host of
Democratic Talk Radio
Our current list of national economic
difficulties and governmental failures is a direct result of nearly 30
years of failed Republican policies. We are paying the price in many
ways for our national love affair with slick, emotionally appealing
Republican political rhetoric and candidates. We ignore the harsh
reality behind the deceitful words.
Hillary Clinton should end her bid for the White
House. Obama should offer her the Vice Presidency. Clinton should
accept the offer. It would be a bitter pill for both to swallow but it
is what both the Democratic Party and the American nation desperately
needs. Neither Clinton nor Obama should place their personal ambition,
pride or emotions ahead of the needs of the American people.
Clinton won a big victory in Pennsylvania but the
election was tainted by the highly negative campaign and by serious
election equipment and logistical flaws. At this point, she could
easily withdraw with honor. Clinton is certainly not responsible for
the defective voting equipment or the thousands of Republicans who
switched their registrations in Pennsylvania to Democratic but were
denied their right to cast even provisional ballots.
Brad Friedman of Brad Blog predicted in advance
on his website and in an interview broadcast on my Democratic Talk
Radio show that the election process in Pennsylvania was going to be a
disaster logistically. He told our listening audience in Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania (WGPA SUNNY 1100AM) and our Internet audience that after
the problems arose that the type of voting machines used in
Pennsylvania made it impossible to fix errors likely to arise. The
voting machines used made it impossible to verify the count or audit
the results. Pennsylvania election laws and processes tainted
Clinton’s victory through no fault of her own.
This writer believes she won big in Pennsylvania
but the voting process was so bad that many voters will always doubt
the size of that victory.
Regardless of the Pennsylvania win, Clinton has
almost zero chance of gaining the Democratic Presidential nomination
without changing the nominating rules to seat the delegates from
Michigan and Florida selected in unfair primary elections. Even with
those delegates counted, Clinton has very little chance of gaining the
nomination. It would take a nearly complete sweep of the remaining
election contests in places like North Carolina, Indiana, West
Virginia, Kentucky, Oregon, Montana, South Dakota, Puerto Rico, Guam
and Idaho along with gaining most of the Super Delegates. Basically,
it would take a whole series of miracles for her to gain the
nomination and place her in a very weak position in terms of defeating
McCain in the Fall.
Counting on a series of miracles to win a
nomination that would split the Democratic Party in half is a pretty
poor campaign strategy. Staying in the race would cast Clinton in a
Democratic spoiler role in the minds of the American people should it
result in a McCain victory in November. It would ruin her place in
history.
A McCain victory would be an absolute disaster
for the American nation. It would be basically a third term for Bush
Republicanism and the insane policies that have wrecked the American
economy. It would mean a foreign policy of endless, pointless, bloody
wars. Make no mistake about it, John McCain is a war-monger who has no
clue about how to run an economy.
McCain would pack our federal courts with the
same kind of partisan, ideologically driven, Far Right judges that
Bush appointed. Helping to elect McCain would gut the Bill of Rights
and essentially destroy American Democracy. McCain would be both
stubborn and inept in the White House just like Bush.
McCain is and always has been a tool of Corporate
forces in politics- just like Bush. He and his wife are likely worth
hundreds of millions of dollars although the so-called “straight
talker” has refused to expose their full family finances. McCain is
hiding his conflicts of interests and financially self-serving
political position by hiding behind his wife! It is shameful and
dishonest.
Electing McCain would mean millions more
Americans would lose their homes, their savings and their jobs. It
would mean the near collapse of the American dollar, the almost total
destruction of America as a manufacturing nation and the end of our
military dominance because of economic collapse. The destruction of
our Constitutionally guaranteed personal freedoms started under Bush
would become complete. It would be in a very real sense a third term
for George W. Bush.
McCain was a war hero in Vietnam but since then
he has been a disaster for working Americans. Read about McCain at
McCain Revealed.com
http://www.mccainrevealed.com if you think I am over stating the
case against a McCain Presidency. His record and policy positions are
about 95 % the same as George W. Bush.
The American nation cannot afford a Bush
Presidency. Clinton and Obama should make any sacrifice necessary to
spare the American nation of this impending disaster. I am calling on
their proven patriotism to work together as a Democratic ticket to
defeat Bush Republicanism in the form of John McCain. Please save the
American nation!
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Written by Stephen
Crockett (co-host of Democratic Talk Radio
http://www.DemocraticTalkRadio.com ).
Mail: P.O. Box 283, Earleville, Maryland
21919. Phone: 443-907-2367. Email:
midsouthcm@aol.com .
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