Superdelegates Should Endorse Obama; and Clinton Should Withdraw
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We sent this message to the Democratic leadership (listed at end of this message) today.
Please join superdelegates Joe Andrews, Bill Richardson and George McGovern in supporting Obama and urging all superdelegates to do the same.
From: Robert Kenny
To: DLCC@dlcc.org ; senator@schumer.senate.gov ; info@hoyerforcongress.com ; Pol, Rick Larsen Campaign ; Pol, Maria Cantwell Campaign ; Pol, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee ; jandrew@sonnenschein.com ; joeandrews2008@gmail.com
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 5:28 PM
Subject: Bravo To Joe Andrews, Bill Richardson and George McGovern for Endorsing Obama: Other Superdelegates Should Follow Soon
We find it refreshing and inspiring to see Democratic leaders, politicians and activists, like Joe Andrews, Bill Richardson and George McGovern, stand up for what is right and good, to reject the politics of division, attack and innuendo, and to help our country again assume its proper role of truly upholding freedom and democracy here and abroad.
Sen. Clinton is doing the Republicans' work for them, seriously harming the Democratic Party's chances of winning the general election and destroying her future in the Party. The Huffington Post recently reported: "Former journalist Sidney Blumenthal has been widely credited with coining the term 'vast right-wing conspiracy' used by Hillary Clinton in 1998 to describe the alliance of conservative media, think tanks, and political operatives that sought to destroy the Clinton White House, where he worked as a high-level aide. A decade later, and now acting as a senior campaign advisor to Senator Clinton, Blumenthal is exploiting that same right-wing network in order to attack and discredit Barack Obama. And he's not hesitating to use the same sort of guilt-by-association tactics that have been the hallmark of the political right dating back to the McCarthy era." Even Republicans are voting for her in the Democratic primaries, because they know she will be more easily defeated in November. As the campaign continues, she sounds more and more like a Republican and a conservative, using fear to scare certain segments of the voting population into voting for her and against change and reform.
Her destructive campaign is pointless, needless and incredibly wasteful: Winning the nomination is impossible. The voters clearly want Obama. He has the momentum, despite relentless attacks and negative campaigning by the Clintons, based upon race and class -- demonstrating a remarkable ability to survive even the strongest undercurrents of hate and racism.
The American people are tired of Hillary's sneaky attacks, all run through her surrogates. Her negative ratings continue to rise and nearly 60% of the voters don't trust her. She is therefore unelectable. Moreover, we don't need another Bush in the presidency -- another liar and deceiver, who believes that the ends (in this case, Hillary's election) justify any means.
Sen. Clinton has sidetracked and subverted the Democratic primary process, turning the focus of the campaign and analyst commentary from the issues and from the candidates' visions for the country, to obsessing and arguing over a small number of superdelegates, the majority of whom will likely not be won by her, and over procedures and processes. Her arguments for nomination have devolved into arcane, twisted, abstruse, unprecedented and anti-democratic ones, whereby she is trying to make up the rules -- her rules -- for how delegates are elected and candidates are nominated, rules that ignore the will and votes of the majority of Democrats. She discards the rules of the Party, and irrationally and selfishly argues that the Florida and Michigan primaries be counted, even though Obama was not even on the Michigan ballot and did not -- in honor of the agreement that both of them made with the Party -- campaign in either state. If the Party acquiesces to her demands, it will become the Anti-Democratic Party, will be perceived as grossly unfair, and will never be able to make a rule stick in the future.
You see, Hillary is acting like she doesn't belong to the Democratic Party. Rather, she and Bill are promoting the "Clinton Party." They make their own rules, which essentially means running a down-and-ugly, slash-and-burn, race- and class-based campaign, regardless of the destructive results.
If Sen. Clinton continues to divide the Party and eventually somehow manages through intimidation and seduction to steal the nomination from Sen. Obama, droves of young people, African Americans, Independents, and even long-term Democrats, like us (who have voted Democratic in every election over the past 45 years) will desert the Party, very likely for two generations or more.
We have not had a national leader like Obama since the days of JFK, RFK and MLK. We hope the Democratic Party will demonstrate leadership and seize the moment, fully support Sen. Obama soon, and bring hope and unity back to politics. Behind Obama is a nation of people, who will continue to respond to his call for citizen involvement and action and will work together in a way that we have never seen. Both the country and the Party have a unique and rare opportunity to rediscover their spirit and soul, and to make our country once again into a place we are proud and honored to call our nation and our home.
Robert Kenny and Julia Glover
7292 Maxwelton Rd
Clinton, WA 98236-8814
Sent to:
Clinton http://www.hillaryclinton.com/help/contact/
Edwards http://www.johnedwards.com/about/contact/form/
Obama http://my.barackobama.com/page/s/contact2
Democratic National Committee (DNC) http://www.democrats.org/page/s/contact
Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) http://www.dlc.org/cobrand/contact_us.cfm
Democratic congressional committee (DCCC), Chairman, Rep. Chris Van Hollen: http://dccc.org/page/s/contact
Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee (DLCC): Chairman, Iowa Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal DLCC@dlcc.org
Although election comments should technically be placed at Harry Reid's Campaign Site Blog [You first have to register your blog at
http://www.giveemhellharry.com/page/community/register?s=http://www.giveemhellharry.com/page/community/dashboard and then post it], I'd suggest going to http://reid.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm, his Senate site.
Charles Schumer senator@schumer.senate.gov
Nancy Pelosi http://speaker.house.gov/contact/
Steny Hoyer info@hoyerforcongress.com
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee info@dscc.org [Schumer is chair]
Democratic Governors' Association http://www.democraticgovernors.org/page/s/contact
State reps:
Maria Cantwell's campaign site: comment@cantwell.com [You can reach your rep by Googling: "name" [in quotes] donate contact; or by going to the campaign site links at the bottom of the Wikipedia webpage on your rep, such as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Cantwell.]
Patty Murray http://www.pattymurray.com/contact.php
Rick Larsen rick@ricklarsen.org
Mary Margaret Haugen http://www.marymargarethaugen.com/contact
Please join superdelegates Joe Andrews, Bill Richardson and George McGovern in supporting Obama and urging all superdelegates to do the same.
From: Robert Kenny
To: DLCC@dlcc.org ; senator@schumer.senate.gov ; info@hoyerforcongress.com ; Pol, Rick Larsen Campaign ; Pol, Maria Cantwell Campaign ; Pol, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee ; jandrew@sonnenschein.com ; joeandrews2008@gmail.com
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 5:28 PM
Subject: Bravo To Joe Andrews, Bill Richardson and George McGovern for Endorsing Obama: Other Superdelegates Should Follow Soon
We find it refreshing and inspiring to see Democratic leaders, politicians and activists, like Joe Andrews, Bill Richardson and George McGovern, stand up for what is right and good, to reject the politics of division, attack and innuendo, and to help our country again assume its proper role of truly upholding freedom and democracy here and abroad.
Sen. Clinton is doing the Republicans' work for them, seriously harming the Democratic Party's chances of winning the general election and destroying her future in the Party. The Huffington Post recently reported: "Former journalist Sidney Blumenthal has been widely credited with coining the term 'vast right-wing conspiracy' used by Hillary Clinton in 1998 to describe the alliance of conservative media, think tanks, and political operatives that sought to destroy the Clinton White House, where he worked as a high-level aide. A decade later, and now acting as a senior campaign advisor to Senator Clinton, Blumenthal is exploiting that same right-wing network in order to attack and discredit Barack Obama. And he's not hesitating to use the same sort of guilt-by-association tactics that have been the hallmark of the political right dating back to the McCarthy era." Even Republicans are voting for her in the Democratic primaries, because they know she will be more easily defeated in November. As the campaign continues, she sounds more and more like a Republican and a conservative, using fear to scare certain segments of the voting population into voting for her and against change and reform.
Her destructive campaign is pointless, needless and incredibly wasteful: Winning the nomination is impossible. The voters clearly want Obama. He has the momentum, despite relentless attacks and negative campaigning by the Clintons, based upon race and class -- demonstrating a remarkable ability to survive even the strongest undercurrents of hate and racism.
The American people are tired of Hillary's sneaky attacks, all run through her surrogates. Her negative ratings continue to rise and nearly 60% of the voters don't trust her. She is therefore unelectable. Moreover, we don't need another Bush in the presidency -- another liar and deceiver, who believes that the ends (in this case, Hillary's election) justify any means.
Sen. Clinton has sidetracked and subverted the Democratic primary process, turning the focus of the campaign and analyst commentary from the issues and from the candidates' visions for the country, to obsessing and arguing over a small number of superdelegates, the majority of whom will likely not be won by her, and over procedures and processes. Her arguments for nomination have devolved into arcane, twisted, abstruse, unprecedented and anti-democratic ones, whereby she is trying to make up the rules -- her rules -- for how delegates are elected and candidates are nominated, rules that ignore the will and votes of the majority of Democrats. She discards the rules of the Party, and irrationally and selfishly argues that the Florida and Michigan primaries be counted, even though Obama was not even on the Michigan ballot and did not -- in honor of the agreement that both of them made with the Party -- campaign in either state. If the Party acquiesces to her demands, it will become the Anti-Democratic Party, will be perceived as grossly unfair, and will never be able to make a rule stick in the future.
You see, Hillary is acting like she doesn't belong to the Democratic Party. Rather, she and Bill are promoting the "Clinton Party." They make their own rules, which essentially means running a down-and-ugly, slash-and-burn, race- and class-based campaign, regardless of the destructive results.
If Sen. Clinton continues to divide the Party and eventually somehow manages through intimidation and seduction to steal the nomination from Sen. Obama, droves of young people, African Americans, Independents, and even long-term Democrats, like us (who have voted Democratic in every election over the past 45 years) will desert the Party, very likely for two generations or more.
We have not had a national leader like Obama since the days of JFK, RFK and MLK. We hope the Democratic Party will demonstrate leadership and seize the moment, fully support Sen. Obama soon, and bring hope and unity back to politics. Behind Obama is a nation of people, who will continue to respond to his call for citizen involvement and action and will work together in a way that we have never seen. Both the country and the Party have a unique and rare opportunity to rediscover their spirit and soul, and to make our country once again into a place we are proud and honored to call our nation and our home.
Robert Kenny and Julia Glover
7292 Maxwelton Rd
Clinton, WA 98236-8814
Sent to:
Clinton http://www.hillaryclinton.com/help/contact/
Edwards http://www.johnedwards.com/about/contact/form/
Obama http://my.barackobama.com/page/s/contact2
Democratic National Committee (DNC) http://www.democrats.org/page/s/contact
Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) http://www.dlc.org/cobrand/contact_us.cfm
Democratic congressional committee (DCCC), Chairman, Rep. Chris Van Hollen: http://dccc.org/page/s/contact
Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee (DLCC): Chairman, Iowa Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal DLCC@dlcc.org
Although election comments should technically be placed at Harry Reid's Campaign Site Blog [You first have to register your blog at
http://www.giveemhellharry.com/page/community/register?s=http://www.giveemhellharry.com/page/community/dashboard and then post it], I'd suggest going to http://reid.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm, his Senate site.
Charles Schumer senator@schumer.senate.gov
Nancy Pelosi http://speaker.house.gov/contact/
Steny Hoyer info@hoyerforcongress.com
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee info@dscc.org [Schumer is chair]
Democratic Governors' Association http://www.democraticgovernors.org/page/s/contact
State reps:
Maria Cantwell's campaign site: comment@cantwell.com [You can reach your rep by Googling: "name" [in quotes] donate contact; or by going to the campaign site links at the bottom of the Wikipedia webpage on your rep, such as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Cantwell.]
Patty Murray http://www.pattymurray.com/contact.php
Rick Larsen rick@ricklarsen.org
Mary Margaret Haugen http://www.marymargarethaugen.com/contact
