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Senator Hillary Clinton Must Concede Now
March 25th, 2008
Day of Blogging For Voter Justice
The Democratic presidential nomination is over! The VOTERS have spoken. Senator Clinton cannot win by legitimate means as Politico.com has noted.
Yet, in Hillary Clinton’s undying personal ambition she has endorsed the other party’s candidate over her own democratic teammate, and has conducted a scorched earth campaign of ‘if I can’t be the president, no Democrat will’.
We are asking our readers who do not want to see four more years of Bush/Cheney in the person of John “100 more years in Iraq” McSame to do three things
1. First, sign the petition
2. Make contact with the DNC, and even Hillary Clinton’s office to let them know your stance. It can be as simple as sending an email with a link to the petition, saying that this is your stance; or whatever you want it to be.
3. Contact superdelegates that represent you with the same message. Superdelegates include democratic congressmen and governors.
The Democratic National Committee:
Mailing Address:
Democratic National Committee
430 S. Capitol St. SE
Washington, DC 20003
Main Phone Number:
202-863-8000
For their email form, go here
For Hillary Clinton’s contact information, go here
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From the Afrosphere Action Coalition press release:
The Afrosphere Action Coalition (AAC) is circulating an online petition to the Democratic National Committee (DNC), to super-delegates, and calling upon Senator Hillary Clinton to “face the reality of the earned delegates count, concede defeat, and thereby contribute to healing a wound which is opening and continues to widen” in the Party. Therefore, the AAC is sponsor “Day of Blogging for Voter Justice.”
As the nomination contest for the Democratic nomination wears on, Senator Hillary Clinton insist on waging an increasingly divisive campaign; throwing the “kitchen sink” at Senator Barack Obama, dismissing democratic voters as in consequential in those states with large Black populations, in small states, or in what she regards as “red states”. In fact, Clinton discounts every state that she fails to win.
Behind in the earned delegate count and the popular vote, “Clinton’s desperate political tactics threaten to split the long-standing Democratic Party coalition.” “We utterly reject Senator Clinton’s endorsement of the other party’s candidate’s; an act which unprecedented.” If she cannot win enough earned delegates under the current process, “Clinton seeks self-serving rules changes or to win in a smoke-filled room.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, 2008 Democratic National Committee Convention Chair, states that “If the votes of the Super-Delegates overturn what’s happened in the elections, it would be harmful to the Democratic Party.” (New York Times)
The Afrosphere Action Coalition concurs and therefore calls upon the DNC, super-delegates and Hillary Clinton to “end her relentless war against established Party principles and constituencies and concede defeat in the nominating process.”
If Democrats are going to act like republicans and steal elections from the voters, then what’s the point of voting for democrats?
- Story behind the story: The Clinton myth
By JIM VANDEHEI & MIKE ALLEN | 3/21/08 1:32 PM EST
One big fact has largely been lost in the recent coverage of the Democratic presidential race: Hillary Rodham Clinton has virtually no chance of winning.
Her own campaign acknowledges there is no way that she will finish ahead in pledged delegates. That means the only way she wins is if Democratic superdelegates are ready to risk a backlash of historic proportions from the party’s most reliable constituency.
Unless Clinton is able to at least win the primary popular vote — which also would take nothing less than an electoral miracle — and use that achievement to pressure superdelegates, she has only one scenario for victory. An African-American opponent and his backers would be told that, even though he won the contest with voters, the prize is going to someone else.
People who think that scenario is even remotely likely are living on another planet.
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Your suggestion to contact DNC, Hillary Clinton and superdelegates is outstanding! I’ve added those suggestions to my contribution to the Day of Blogging for Voter Justice as well…
peace, Villager
Yobachi (and Francis, AAPP and the whole AfroSphere Action Coalition) —
Thanks for carrying out this campaign. Most of the political mainstream seems to be just indifferent to democracy. At best indifferent.
Glad you think so Villager
Tom, thanks for your participation in another important campaign.
Yobachi,
The DNC and Howard Dean need to set a date for super delegates to cast their votes prior to the convention. It’s time for dean to show leadership and put an end to this. That’s who we need to focus on.
I agree Shawn. I heard talk of a superdelegate convention before the convenction to make a collective decision.
Deans flim flam is not acceptable. Be a leader or resign. Justice being the head bureaucrat, keeping a seat warm isn’t helpful, and isn’t leadership.
just here to show support on our day of “Blogging for Voter Justice”
Thanks, and I added you to the list
I didn’t have time comment before I left for the office this morning. This Day of Blogging for Justice is perfectly timed with the broadcast of Hillary’s lies about her visit in Bosnia. Thanks for your leadership on this initiative. Great work, again!
I just linked to this post from my blog. I am totally behind this action.