Campaign Crap

One of the hottest stories in the blogosphere concerns a pair of desperate "Obama" supporters trying to con--er, persuade--Clinton donors and supporters to "deal with it," shut up, and get behind a candidate who did not win and was selected through fraudulent means.

For fun, and because I am bored, I will post the email for posterity's sake:

Dear Democratic Friends:

2008 is a Democratic year-at all levels in all the states. The opportunity is ours. We just have to seize it.

We experienced an exciting, intense, sometimes difficult, campaign to nominate our presidential candidate. Now it's over. Barack Obama won.

I supported Hillary Clinton and am proud and pleased that I did. But she lost. Barack Obama won. It's over.

It is time for all Democrats, supporters of Senator Clinton and all other contenders for the nomination, to stand with him to secure his election and the election of Democrats at all levels of competition.

I must confess a bit of fatigue and irritation with people who continue to carp, complain, and criticize the results of the primary and lay down conditions for their support. The Los Angeles Lakers didn't establish conditions to recognize the Boston Celtics as NBA Champions; Roger Federer did not demand concessions before recognizing that Rafael Nadal defeated him at Wimbledon.

It is time to act in a mature and resourceful fashion. It's time to put the primaries behind us. It's time to support Barack Obama without conditions or demands.

It's time to WIN for Barack Obama, the Democratic Party, America, and our future. We have an unparalleled opportunity. I hope we will all do everything we can to seize the moment.

See you at the Inauguration.

Sincerely,

Don Fowler
DNC Member At-Large, South Carolina
Former Chair of the Democratic National Committee

Alice Germond
Secretary, Democratic National Committee

If "Obama" had actually won the primaries and caucuses legitimately, without help from pressured superdelegates, crossover Republicans, and rigged caucuses, nobody would be complaining (except over the stupidity of voters to vote for somebody who clearly has no shot of winning the general election). But what happened on May 31 was the straw that broke the camel's back, and there was no going back. Many of us were never going to support "Obama" anyway, seeing that he was nothing but a ringer put in to siphon votes away from John Edwards first and then to knock off Hillary Clinton later on.

In other words, it's the fraud, stupid. Until that is dealt with, forget about unity.