ONE AMERICA-LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD

Well here we go again, Clinton, Clinton, and MORE CLINTON

ONE AMERICA-LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD

Hillary Clinton’s campaign is just like the Energizer bunny, it just keeps on going and going to a no win situation. Maureen Dowd New York Times Op-Ed concludes her Op-ed with this comment Hillary Clinton just go, go, GO; as in go away. Hillary Clinton’s campaign is negative, divisive, and full of race baiting and it is time for it to end. There is absolutely no way that Hillary Clinton can win this nomination short of her stealing it on the convention floor or through back room dealing. She can’t catch Obama in the pledge delegate, popular vote, or any other measurement that you want to use to argue that Hillary Clinton should be the Democratic Party’s Presidential Nominee. According to Real Clear Politics; Obama has won more states than Clinton, 27 versus 14. Obama has won twenty-two (22) states by double digit percent margin. Clinton has won only seven (7) states by double digit leads and Pennsylvania was not one of them. Obama won his home state of Illinois by 650,304 or 31.9%. Clinton won her home state of New York by only 317, 477 or 17.1%. Furthermore, the record is clear on the issue of who is more electable Obama wins, if for no other reason, Hillary Clinton’s negatives. The polls show that in a head to head match up with John McCain, Obama wins; not so with Clinton. I don’t know about the rest of you but these figures throw the more electable argument of Clinton out the window.

So why want or can’t the Clintons and America read the handwriting that is obviously on the wall. The short answer is that she wants to make the way clear for her 2012 run for president, by casting Obama as unelectable and the people of America continue to buy into Hillary Clinton’s illogical argument that she is more electable, stronger, has more experience than Barack Obama. Excuse me; the people of Pennsylvania said that these are not the issues in the campaign that swayed their votes, at least in the exit polls. Could it have been the economy or could it have been the Bradley effect? But we all know that what happens behind closed doors or in polling booths is something totally different than what we say openly. Since, Hillary Clinton is determined to win at all costs either in 2008 or 2012; including tearing down the Democratic Party; it is time the elected and appointed leaders of the Democratic Party to tell Hillary and Bill Clinton, enough is enough and endorse Barack Obama in droves. Put your allegiances to the Clintons behind you; put your allegiances to one side of history being made, a female candidate for the presidency of the United States put your fears of the Clintons behind you. There is nothing in Hillary Clinton’s campaign or the possibility of another Clinton administration that is good for America, absolutely nothing. The Clinton Campaign is all about the same old politics of destroying your competitor and winning at all costs. Frankly, Clinton’s type of politics is not capable of making America proud. We need something else. All the money in the world can not change this mind set; only you, the American People can do this. I think the New York Times Article put it best, effectively repudiating its endorsement of Clinton in its opinion, Low Road to Victory.

I believe Hillary Clinton's background got her the victory in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Texas because she appeals to the bad in everyone. She recreates herself into whatever she thinks will persuade the American People to vote for her. She lies, she deceives, and she strokes the fears, biases and prejudices of Americans. As one former campaign adviser of Bill Clinton puts it Bill is doing Hillary’s dirty work for her, Bill Clinton Rogue Co-President. Fear mongering and race-baiting is a classic republican strategy that has been very successful in the past. It got George W. Bush elected twice, didn’t it? Or should I say appointed once and elected to a second term. It got us into the Iraq war where thousands of American lives and billions of dollars have been lost, didn’t it? Remember Hillary Clinton authorized the Iraq War.

You know I hate to say it but Hillary Clinton acts like and talks like a bigot; if not an outright hypocrite. In light of Clinton’s actions in the 2008 Elections her support of Barry Goldwater, who opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, makes complete sense to me; that is the why of it. She says she is for equality, yet her actions speak differently. She was reared in a conservative republican family. Her campaign tactics are straight out of the Karl Rove playbook. There is an old saying that if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck; it is a duck. The Bible says train up a child in the way that he (or she) should go and when he (or she) is old, he (or she) will not depart from it; Proverbs 22:6. It seems that Hillary Clinton got this scripture down path and is living it.

However, Hillary Clinton is not totally at fault in this. Some of the American People who unfortunately can’t buy into an African-American leading them in anything are equally at fault. Although the Pennsylvania exit polls indicate that for white voters race was not a factor in whom they voted for and it appears that Barack Obama has begun to cut into the solid white support behind Hillary Clinton; it is clear from the result that it was. This solidarity of support, especially amongst white females over a certain age, is keeping Hillary Clinton in this race. It is prolonging a race that has been virtually over with since Obama racked up; count them, eleven straight primary victories to none for Clinton. So once again, it appears that the people of America are saying one thing in the polls, in the open, and doing something totally different when they actually cast their vote, in secret. The main stream media realizes this and feeds into it by prognosticating, predicting and pondering what if scenarios that always offers a ray of hope to the Hillary Clinton’s candidacy at the expense of the Democratic Party and America as a whole. Remember in 2007, main stream media was anointing Hillary Clinton as the Democratic Party presidential nominee. They were wrong then and they are wrong now.

The main stream media insists upon bringing up non-issues about Barack Obama and letting real glaring lies from Hillary Clinton go unchecked or glossed over. If she or her husband apologizes for their remarks, lies and the main stream media move on. On the other hand, Barack Obama repudiates, denounces and rejects comments and acts of controversial figures that he knows and the media repeats them forever and forever. There is a double standard going on here whether you want to admit or not.

America it is time to stand up and be counted on the right side of history. Our biases, prejudices, cultural divide, and oh yes the constant fear mongering must not dictate who is our next president. Since it does not appear that any of the uncommitted delegates, the so-called super delegates, the so-called leaders of the Democratic Party, will have the guts to stand up to the Clintons like Governor Richardson did in his endorsement of Barack Obama, Richardson Endorses Obama; I call on the voters of Indiana and North Carolina, West Virginia, Guam, Montana, Oregon, Puerto Rico, and South Dakota to do what their elected leaders and Democratic Party leaders do not have the guts to do; end this thing by sending Hillary Clinton the resounding message we have been duped in the past, but not this time, not this time, NOT THIS TIME.

America I believe that you are smarter than Hillary Clinton and the media believe that you are. If you really analyze the candidates and their respective tactics, their character, their past conduct and assess for yourself who will really come through for you and not just what they say they will do; I am confident that you will conclude it is not Hillary Clinton. When you go to your respective polling places, leave behind all your biases, cultural divides and prejudices, and oh yes your fears that you may have and vote for the real change, not the sequel, to more of the same old politics as usual, that is being offered and peddled by Hillary Clinton. Yes I know for some of you this will constitute a radical departure from your upbringing, your beliefs, your ideologies, and practices. But I believe that it can be done. It must be done if the country is to survive. I don’t know about you but whenever, I go to movies and watch a sequel I like it less than the original and leave not satisfied to say the least.

Two great Americans have participated in a new direction for this country. One was named John Fitzgerald Kennedy and the other was Martin Luther King, Jr. Kennedy asked the famous question “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country”. King said he had a dream which included the premise or prophecy if you will, that one day; America would judge a man not by the color of his skin but by the content of his character. The future of this great country has reached a fork in the road; choose you this day where will history record your vote and your answer to these calls. Do we stand tall for true change or do we surrender to doing the same old thing? ? America I believe that you will do the right thing in 2008 and make history right and begin the fulfillment of the dream.

After all we are ONE AMERICA, ONE NATION, and THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and remember YES WE CAN make America better for all of its citizens if we do it for the good of our country and not ourselves. But in the end, we too will benefit by moving this country to ONE AMERICA, ONE NATION, AND ONE VOICE under GOD, indivisible, with life, liberty, justice and the pursuit of happiness for all of its citizens.

Now that is my two cents worth, Leonard.