Political Healing

The Hippocratic Oath - FIRST DO NO HARM

Oh, Dr. Dean. You have destroyed the Democratic Party. What were you thinking telling us in Florida that we don't count? Michigan? Hail to the Conquering Hero's? No, you told them they don't matter either. I'm hoping for protests when Obama comes to campaign here. You wouldn't count our votes but you want to count our money? No thanks.

You wanted Senator Clinton to pull out to give you time to "heal" the party. Now the buzz is that Senator Clinton should stay in because it would be embarrassing for Obama if she wins Kentucky and West Virginia after pulling out. We can't have the golden child embarrassed can we?

I thought merit mattered. I thought experience mattered. You went another direction. You and Donna Brazille have pushed for Senator Obama to be the nominee and in a year where Democrats should blow the Republican nominee out of the water you've assured us another crushing defeat. Wow. I never would have thought of that.

Supposedly those of us who won't vote for Obama in the general election just feel this way because of the heat of the battle and we will come around come the fall. Good luck with that. We have been told that we are unimportant to the party. We're uneducated, we're not smart enough to see the greatness that is Obama. Yeah, it's going to take more than flowers to bring us back.

We have the most ridiculous method for choosing a nominee. Shouldn't we have a process that mirrors the general election? Might just give us an idea of who could win. If a candidate cannot win the big ones in the primary, California, New York, Florida, Texas (which I'll admit will probably be red) Massachusetts, how is he going to pull out a victory in November. Aren't most states winner take all in the general? Yet we have a convoluted "let's please everyone" system that is the equivalent of a gift bag for all at a six-year-old's birthday party. We can't have anyone's feelings be hurt. Don't get me started on Caucuses. We'll give you two hours to choose a candidate. It will be great. Oh, you can't make it because you have a job? These things happen.

I will give Obama credit for winning almost all the I's: Iowa, Illinois and Idaho. I'll give his campaign credit for being well run. We have seen that a well run campaign doesn't translate into a well run Executive Branch. Bush & Rove sure knew how to campaign; they had no idea how to govern.

I'll say to Senator Clinton - where was James Carville when you needed him? What were you thinking with Mark Penn? Why didn't you push back when it was obvious that the media was in the bag for Obama?

It's a sad day for us, as Democrats and former Democrats, that we started this process with a plethora of qualified candidates and we ended up with Obama.