Saturday, February 9, 2008

From Kathy in MO:

I do plan to continue my calling with MoveOn. It is really easy if you have a computer and phone by each other. They feed you numbers of supporters to call in various states. You can make quite a few calls in a pretty short time.

I am really worried about this delegate thing in MI and FL and the whole superdelegate junk. It is all so Un-Democratic. I am afraid it is going to make people angry and split the party. I am glad there are petitions and I am glad the media is picking up on this. This delegate problem goes totally against the will of the people The fact that we might not have a nominee until late August is also very troubling. McCain can be campaigning away for months and months with Obama and Clinton still battling it out. This could be ugly. Why do we have to make things to difficult in a year when the Dems should have an easy run at the White House???? The only consolation is the more people hear from McCain, the more they don't like him!!! Conversely, the more people meet and hear Obama, the more they like him! Obama just has to do well in the next couple of rounds!
One of my big fears is that the new, young, energized voters who are supporting Obama will stay home if Clinton is the candidate. Lifelong Dems know we have to support the candidate no matter who they are because the alternative is four more years of continuing Bush's failed policies. However, I don't think these young supporters necessarily see themselves as Dems. They are following the man who inspires them. I don't think Clinton will inspire these people to stay involved. There are so many ways this could all get screwed up in the fall.
They just cannot award those delegates to Clinton from MI and FL. They may have voted, but all of the names were not on all of the ballots. How was that a fair primary election? You just cannot change the rules in the middle of the game. If they hand the nomination to Clinton, I am afraid there will be alot of angry Dems who will stay home!
I am sorry to be so negative. I have just seen the Dems blow it too many times.
Hang in there!

1 comment:

Khalil Al-Puerto Rikani said...

Yes, it may be fustrating that there is no one candidate that the Party can rally behind right now. However, the bigger picture is the if Obama wins then we have a real chance, and if Clinton wins there is much less of a chance that we can win since she alienates many.

Khalil