Enough Already

God I hate these racist assholes:

"I came here for the vote of every American, and our Democratic Party threw us down the tubes," New Yorker Harriet Christian said after yesterday's meeting of the Democratic Party's Rules and Bylaws Committee.

Senator Clinton is the "best nominee possible" for President, said Ms. Christian, "and the Democrats are throwing the election away. For what? An inadequate black male who would not have been running had it not been a white woman that was running for President! And I'm not going to shut my mouth anymore!" * * *

"I'm tired of it," Floridian Sharon Clark said yesterday. "I want to go and vote and know my vote is going to count."

"The right thing to do is to seat all the delegates," added delegate Beverly Battelle Weeks. "Anything less is not democratic."

"I can be called white, but you can't be called black," Christian charged. "That's not my America. It's equality for all of us; it's about time we all stood up for it.

"I'm no second-class citizen. And God damn the Democrats!"

"And they think we won't turn and vote for McCain," Christian added. She closed: "Well, I've got news for all of you: McCain will be the next President of the United States!"

Where to begin: First of all, as Martin points out so well in this excellent post, "there is no right to vote for a party nominee" and "your vote [in a primary] counts for nothing more than a suggestion." The primary process is simply the method that the political parties decided upon to choose their candidates, and Florida and Michigan violated the rules laid out by the Democratic Party. Deal with it.

And what's all this crap about Hillary Clinton being the best nominee? Are you fucking kidding me? There is a reason Rush Limbaugh and the Extreme Right wanted Hillary to get the nomination, and that is because she is the most polarizing political figure in America right now. The neo-fascists know that their only hope to win in November would be if she secured the Democratic nomination because Republicans would come out in droves just to vote against her.

Does anyone out there really believe that John McCain is going to excite Republicans enough to get them to the polls? The only people who seem excited to vote for McCain right now are the aforementioned Harriet Christian, Sharon Clark, and all the other Hillary supporters who simply cannot accept that Ms. Clinton ran a shitty campaign and deserved to lose a nomination that everyone thought she had sewn up last year. Do folks like Ms. Clark and Ms. Christian really want such an incompetent campaigner to carry the Democrats' standard into the Fall campaign?

Obama, on the other hand, ran an excellent campaign and deserves the nomination. Indeed, Obama secured the nomination by basically running a clean, straight-forward campaign. Hillary ran a dirty, race-baiting, gimmicky campaign and got her backside handed to her down the stretch.

Hillary continues to claim that she is better able to confront McCain in the Fall. Well, maybe her point would have been better taken had she not voted for the Iraq Debacle in 2002, but she did, and she has yet to apologize for such a monumental act of political cowardice.

I know that a lot of people are claiming that Iraq won't be much of an issue in the Fall given how crappy the Bush/McCain economy is right now, but I think such a view is misguided because John McCain himself is apparently planning to make a big issue out of Iraq during the run-up to the General Election, and Obama -- who opposed the war from the start -- is simply going to have a field day against McCain on this issue, given that the decision to invade Iraq is probably the biggest foreign policy blunder in American history.

Hillary can be critical all she wants with regard to Iraq now, but the bottom line is that she voted to authorize the invasion. Last year, when it looked like Hillary was going to easily secure the nomination, I couldn't believe that the Democrats were actually going to nominate a candidate who voted for Bush's Folly in Iraq. Well, it looks like that isn't going to happen.

God Damn the Democrats you say? Well, I say God Bless the Democrats because it looks like they've actually managed to pull their heads out of their asses this time around.