If Hillary Take It To The Convention, I'm With Her

As James Carville says, the dog are still barking. It all depends on whether Hillary has the testicular fortitude to withstand the barrage of criticism from the media and Obama backers, in addition to Party elders and Superdelegates who could very well "flood" to Obama's side and tip the balance in his favor. Now, having said all that, she has earned the "right" to push this as far as she cares to...and why...because she has earned it. She has campaigned for all these ungrateful men in the Party and now when she has her own shot at the Presidency, they want to bring in some young guy (Obama) and she is supposed to "train him" (support) to do a job she is imminently more qualified to perform.

The betrayal that outrages me more, even more than Kennedy, George McGovern. She worked her ass off for this man, Bill Clinton too, and this is the thanks she gets? It has occurred to me that there is more than a heavy dose of jealousy toward Hillary Clinton, remember Bill Richardson's comment: "The Clinton's think they are entitled to the Presidency. What about the rest of us?"

My outrage extends to this ridiculous system they have created that favors who has the most money and prohibits a candidate from catching up, even as the front runner falters. The Democratic Party acts as if they have "never" taken the nomination from someone they thought couldn't win. As I recall, they took the nomination from Gary Hart and gave it to Mondale. They are also practicing selective memory, especially Ted Kennedy. He took his fight to challenge Jimmy Carter, who was running for re-election, to the convention, and when he lost, refused to shake Carter's hand. Needless to say, the Party was divided and the Democrats lost to Ronald Reagan. Of course Carter had other problems, including the Hostage situation, but this played a role in his unsuccessful re-election bid.