Dear Ms. Clinton, Regarding the Disenfranchisement of voters.....STOP IT!!!

Perky

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Thu Mar-27-08 10:33 AM
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Dear Ms. Clinton, Regarding the Disenfranchisement of voters.....STOP IT!!!

Edited on Thu Mar-27-08 11:03 AM by Perky

It is with considerable hubris, Hubris we have seen only from the current regime, that you have the audacity to charge your opponent with wanting to disenfranchise voters, when the words uttered repeatedly by you, your campaign and it surrogates seem to have suggested the very same thing from the start of the campaign...repeatedly

That caucuses do not matter.
Then saying that small states don't matter
Then saying that swing states don't matter
Then saying that only big blue states matter
The saying that only democratic voters matter
Then saying that only popular votes matter
Then by claiming that Michigan should count as is.
Then saying that really all that matters is a reformulation tied to electoral votes
Then by threatening and practically bullying Nancy Pelosi to keep her mouth shut or else.

But by most recently saying that pledged delegates should be free to disregard the votes of the people in the other 48 states You, not Mr. Obama are the one who repeatedly has proposed disenfranchising the voters.

Since Super Tuesday, Ms. Clinton you have

Won Two states to Mr. Obama's 14

You have garnered 4.3M (46%) votes to Mr. Obama's 5M (54%)

You have won 368 pledged delegates (43%) while your opponent has won 486 (57%)

Ms. Clinton since February you have secured the endorsement of 8 super-delegates to your opponent's gain of 52.

And yet you continue to denigrate his stature and lie about your own record of accomplishment and experience.

You ma'am, with all the respect you are entitled to at this point in the primary process, must change your tone and that of your surrogate. You must forcefully impose your control over those who speak on your behalf starting with your husband and you senior staff.

You are damaging the party, the respect you have gained through your years of public service, the electability of the Democratic nominee and risking the substantial gains we could make in both houses. In so doing you are willing to risk a more conservative Supreme Court and the continuation of this egregious debacle in Iraq which you supported. You are severely damaging yourself with new democratic voters and the most solid and reliable element of the Democratic coalition.

Ms. Clinton votes so in fact matter.. ALL Votes Matter. The Rules of the DUNC apply to everyone, everywhere all the time. They apply to you as much as they apply to Senator Obama: no more and certainly no less.

The People have spoken and they have thus far chosen someone else. There must come a point where you put party unity and the nation ahead of your own ambition. No one like to lose.....but no one likes a sore loser.

I am happy for you to stay in the race until the last vote is counted in Pierre. That is your right, but you must respect the process and you must respect the voters. To continue this battle, publicly and shamelessly after that point, when you are still 150 down in pledged delegates is not only ugly and divisive, it is disrespectful of the voters: The voters your campaign must simply ignore in order to win the nomination.

If you continue down this destructive path it is not your ambition that should disqualify you, It is your arrogance and your presumption that you know better than the nearly 30 Million voters who have voiced their opinions on you and Senator Obama in voting booths, caucus rooms and conventions across the country.

STOP IT!