For the Good of the Party and America, an Obama-Clinton Democratic ticket
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 (host of Democratic Talk Radio http://www.DemocraticTalkRadio.com and Editor of Mid-Atlantic Labor.com http://www.midatlanticlabor.com). Mail: 698 Old Baltimore Pike, Newark, Delaware
19702. Phone: 443-907-2367.
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